Paul Krugman Suggests Death Panels as a Method of Reducing the Deficit

He might even be willing to run the condemned over with his Mercedes and save us another buck or two.

I am confident he was being snarky when he suggested death panels along with increased sales taxes as a way to reduce the deficit, considering George F. Will immediately responded with the (Democrat controlled) Senate's unwillingness to create a VAT while ignoring the death panel comment, but since he is an elitist jackass, I am not going to let Paul Krugman slide on it.

Krugman has said before, if I am not mistaken on the same news show, that we need to have the courage to deny healthcare to some in order to keep costs down, so while he may have been deriding critics of ObamaCare like Sarah Palin for using the term death panel, but it is clear he believes in the sentiment. If you are of advanced age and/or are a drain on Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security, expensive medical procedures to extend your life are not going to be allowed for you.

One assumes there is an exception for progressive intellectuals like, Nobel prize winning economists, because of the valuable service they provide deciding when it is time for you to die, but no one has pressed Krugman on that, so it is just a hunch on my part.

I hope his Nobel prize winds up a KY blob on a colon x-ray. It would be even sweeter if his healthcare provider would not pay to have it removed.