Times Turnaround? Concerns Over "Death Panels" Suddenly Not So Outlandish: "A turnaround on Obama-care at the Times? Not quite, but health reporter Robert Pear's corrective story from last Friday, 'A Basis Is Seen for Some Health Plan Fears Among the Elderly,' did make some surprising concessions to conservative concerns about rationing of health care for the elderly under an Obama plan. Might those horror stories about 'death panels,' declared 'false' by the Times just a week before, actually have some credence?
A week previous, the Times had dismissing such concerns on its front page as fringe conservative conspiracy, akin to campaign rumors Obama was a Muslim. But Pear found the questioning of one of the central premises of Obama-care -- rationing -- more widespread:
White House officials and Democrats in Congress say the fears of older Americans about possible rationing of health care are based on myths and falsehoods. But Medicare beneficiaries and insurance counselors say the concerns are not entirely irrational."
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