Sentences with phrase «death panels»

Drawing upon evidence from the debates over healthcare reform in both the U.S. and the U.K., where Palin's propagation of the idea of death panels and Labour's insistence that Gove's reforms constituted privatisation «pure and simple» served only to confuse and scare the wider public, Thompson argued that misleading and emotive language is making political reform and compromise harder to achieve.

Some sources I've seen say that Democrats took it out of the bill, just to try to stop the lie about Death Panels.

This is akin to Sarah Palin's death panel fear — and if it is true, it is a huge lesson for us as we discuss health care reform.

They CAN say, «I hate Obama because he is for death panels, he rammed a health care bill down our throats, he is incompetent, he is socialist, he was not born here, he was born in Kenya, he is for welfare bums (Black ones in particular) and against hard - working Americans (White ones in particular)» etc..

Would Jesus support death panels?

No, I'm not suggesting death panels.

They grandstand with phony claims about nonexistent death panels.

No one used the term «granny death panel,» but people in their ninth and 10th decades of life were seen as too fragile for treatment.

The exhibition is accompanied by a «Death Panel Discussion,» held at the Hammer Wednesday night, Jan. 19, at 7 pm, in which the members of My Barbarian reflect on «hysterical public discourse and private insecurities amplified by the recession through hair - raising, brain - teasing song and dance routines.»

Doubtosphere, never alarmed: «Alarmists say we must all become vegans, submit to death panel judgement.

Obamacare went into effect and we were all worried about death panels.

This, along with certain other parts of the law, eventually got heaped under the «death panels» slur that former half - term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin famously used to criticize the Affordable Care Act (and which was subsequently named PolitiFact's Lie of the Year in 2009).

If this is a health issue then I guess the church can convene a death panel and those who aren't catholic don't get treatment.

Sarah Palin and others have started rumors of an Obama «death panel» in which the elderly and mentally handicapped will be sentenced to death as a result of a public option, rumors that every reputable news organization and independent analysis group has denounced as ridiculous.

So the doctor can do you in and put down the cause of death as «natural,» and only the Death Panel will know.

It's like «pro-life» and «death panels».

That's why we have birthers, and death panels, and accusations of socialism and all that.

With cost containment becoming the new buzzword in medicine — particularly given the much - ridiculed but far from unreasonable apprehension that the Affordable Care Act could lead to «death panels» — a reader may worry that Gawande recommends forcing the weakest and most vulnerable out of the lifeboat if they refuse to jump themselves.

On Morning Joe a few minutes ago, Pat Buchanan described the fear behind the death panel debate as the fear that old people without anyone around who loves them will be steered in their final years toward elective euthanasia.

Doctors and hospital bioethics committees are empowered to refuse to provide wanted life - sustaining treatment, based on their perception of the patient's quality of life and / or cost - of - care considerations — a true «death panel.»

I still disapprove of her «death panel» and «evil» comments.

Death panels are in there.

To wit, look at the level of political debate... long forms and death panels.

First, if you didn't catch Sarah Palin's actual Facebook note about Obama's «Death Panels,» be sure to straight to the source.

2) The Republicans claim that Obamacare will set up death panels to euthanize the Americans who are very sick.

For instance, search for «death panels» and you might find something like this:

For one thing, the actual bill makes changes that are far less scary than the «death panels» and «health care rationing» that dominated conservative discourse last year, leaving Republicans little to yell «boo» over.

The debate in the us about healthcare seems to be getting increasingly insane, with Obama being compared to Hitler, Sarah Palin spreading lies about «death panels» and assorted nonsense.

Also recall the brouhaha over the «death panels» argument.

It is a process opponents of President Obama's reforms equate to «death panels».

Somehow that was twisted by opponents of the bill into a claim that there were Death Panels, government boards that would choose whether you live or die.

For the record, the Death Panels idea was mostly due to the simple logical conclusion that Obamacare will lead to health care rationing.

Palin managed to use the words Down Syndrome and «death panel» in the same sentence when speaking about Obama's healthcare plan.

blah blah blah, unless you're getting Medicaid this isn't affordable for anyone and none of that crap you claim is happening but Death Panels?

Good thing he's not sick or Obama would be saying he's at the end of his life and the death panel wishes he would die with «dignity».

Despite an unbelievable torrent of mistakes, criticisms, deceptive ads, and outright lies (remember the claims of so - called «death panels»?)

Remember, this is the person who coined the term «Death Panels» - and opened the flood gates for months of false attacks by special interests and partisan extremists.

Take one of the biggest political fibs of recent years: the claim that US healthcare reforms would include «death panels», groups of bureaucrats that would rule on the fate of patients.

Politicians debate the best way to curb rising health care costs and shun «death panels.»

The analyzed studies, published from 1994 to 2015, focused on false social and political news accounts, including misinformation in reports of robberies; investigations of a warehouse fire and traffic accident; the supposed existence of «death panels» in the 2010 Affordable Care Act; positions of political candidates on Medicaid; and a report on whether a candidate had received donations from a convicted felon.

It was in this regard that I expressed contempt for both right - wing fanatic radio hosts (if I knew of any really left - wing fanatic radio hosts I might respond equally negatively) and ex-politicians who fabricate claims about «death panels.»

It deserves a place alongside «death panels» in the trash bin of worn and misleading phrases.

Talents such as Walter Mosley, Robert Silverberg and Kate Flora start with the right - wing delusions that Barack Obama was a closet Muslim, a Kenyan, a socialist or just the creator of death panels — and spin them out to their (illogical) conclusions.

Will you get the death panel?

«So instead of leaving the middle - ground public to be caught in these cross-pressures as the issue gains more salience for them, instead of it just being a «he said, she said» - type echo chamber, they're sending a very strong message:... Just like the birther claims were wrong and morally outrageous, and «death panels» were wrong and morally outrageous, so are climate [deniers wrong] when people's health and safety are at risk.»

We were subject to ridiculous predictions about «death panels,» skyrocketing premiums, predictions of no fall in the uninsured, horror stories that weren't, and of course the ever - popular «job killing» meme.

Lies about «death panels.»