It is biased by failing to point out the mocking tone and sarcasm Krugman intended to convey. You made it appear as if he had endorsed death panels and that he was okay with that nomenclature and its implications. That he had to reclarify his position was probably because others, like you, eager to denigrate his position, also misreported his true meaning. That you included the link is not sufficient to undo the bias - not everyone reads the links.
You can look at the reduced Medicare coverage as death panels or you can consider such guidelines as will be implemented as a rational approach to fiscal management in hard times. If in her final moments grandma wants to be kept technically alive, but comatose with no reasonable chance for improvement, only by use of a machine then such a procedure could be paid for by private coverage - if she or her kin chose to have purchased it. Their choice. Using such a machine to prolong life in a vegitative state just to profit a large corp health provider/ hospital is not a wise use of limited public money.
To call reduced medicare coverage a death panel is the equivalent of calling a increase in retirement age cruel and mean treatment of the elderly. While we all wish the government could pay lavishly for all our needs and desires without further sacrifice on our part, it doesn't have the money to do so.
In my opinion it is stupid to describe reduced Medicare benefits as death panels. If you post messages hoping simply to provoke others (as your previous post stated prior to an apparent edit) as opposed to presenting ideas, then don't be offended when you are called names.
You can look at the reduced Medicare coverage as death panels or you can consider such guidelines as will be implemented as a rational approach to fiscal management in hard times. If in her final moments grandma wants to be kept technically alive, but comatose with no reasonable chance for improvement, only by use of a machine then such a procedure could be paid for by private coverage - if she or her kin chose to have purchased it. Their choice. Using such a machine to prolong life in a vegitative state just to profit a large corp health provider/ hospital is not a wise use of limited public money.
To call reduced medicare coverage a death panel is the equivalent of calling a increase in retirement age cruel and mean treatment of the elderly. While we all wish the government could pay lavishly for all our needs and desires without further sacrifice on our part, it doesn't have the money to do so.
In my opinion it is stupid to describe reduced Medicare benefits as death panels. If you post messages hoping simply to provoke others (as your previous post stated prior to an apparent edit) as opposed to presenting ideas, then don't be offended when you are called names.
