Paul Krugman: Ryan Medicare Plan "Would Kill People, No Question"

Rich Noyes | September 25, 2011
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New York Times economic columnist Paul Krugman showed his usual class when featured as a talking head in CNN's September 25 profile of Rep. Paul Ryan, whose comprehensive budget plan calls for transforming Medicare into a voucher system in order to preserve the financially imperiled program and to trim the deficit. For his efforts, Krugman claimed that Ryan’s “voucher would kill people, no question.”

Read more here: http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110927032241.aspx

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