To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (144682 ) 10/3/2012 12:15:46 AM From: Paul V. Read Replies (3) | Respond to Kennedy, have you noticed how ridicules that some on this site are, just plainly lie, and are so anti OBama that they would not know what the truth would be. en.wikipedia.org to see who introduced the Death Squad concept - Sarah PalinDeath panel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Death panel" is a political term that originated during a 2009 debate about federal health care legislation to cover the uninsured in the United States. The term was first used in August 2009 by Sarah Palin, the former Republican Governor of Alaska, when she charged that the proposed legislation would create a "death panel" of bureaucrats who would decide whether Americans—such as her elderly parents or child with Down syndrome—were worthy of medical care. Palin specified that she was referring to Section 1233 of bill HR 3200 which would have paid physicians for providing voluntary counseling to Medicare patients about living wills, advance directives, and end-of-life care options. Palin's claim was criticized as false by mainstream news media, fact-checkers, academics, physicians, Democrats, and some Republicans. Other prominent Republicans, mainstream news media, academics, physicians, conservative talk radio hosts, and some Democrats supported Gov. Palin's statement. One poll showed that after it spread, about 85% of Americans were familiar with the charge and of those who were familiar with it, about 30% thought it was true.[1] Due to public concern and in direct refutation of the criticism directed at then Gov. Palin, the provision was removed from the Senate bill and was not included in the law that was enacted, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In spite of this, in 2009 the term "death panel" was named as PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year", one of FactCheck's "whoppers", and deemed the most outrageous term by the American Dialect Society.
