Mr. Orszag recommended, “the disability insurance program itself must be reformed.”
The notion that this is all just the product of some Fox News or “billionaire-financed right-wing think tanks”-produced “intellectual bubble” is just flat-out wrong. It suggests that Professor Krugman himself is living in a left-wing intellectual bubble. It suggests that Professor Krugman himself is guilty of what he accused Republicans of, being “blissfully unaware both of contrary evidence and of how their positions sound to outsiders.”