Sentences with phrase «of 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.

Time magazine called Sarah Palin's talk of death panels the # 1 lie of 2009.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON, March 20 - A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday will ask automakers and regulators why tens of millions of vehicles with faulty Takata air bag inflators remain on the road years after deaths prompted the largest auto safety recall in history.

WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters)- A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday will ask automakers and regulators why tens of millions of vehicles with faulty Takata air bag inflators remain on the road years after deaths prompted the largest auto safety recall in history.

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).

Lots of little gems in this book, including the fact that a spouse must be married at least nine months before being eligible for survivor benefits (unless the death is ruled «accidental» by a faceless panel of S.S. bureaucrats).

The threat, often referred to as the «utility death spiral,» goes like this: as customers choose to install solar panels or adopt energy efficiency measures, a utility will sell fewer units of energy and has to increase what it charges for electricity to ensure that it can still cover its fixed costs, such as grid maintenance and labor.

When Hocker introduced the panel, she stated that «on matters of life and death, we can not be wrong.»

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 death as «natural,» and only the Death Panel will Death Panel will know.

He is a sampling of their programs: systematic study of Dorothy Baruch New Ways in Discipline, (New York: McGraw - Hill Book Company, 1949) a mental health film entitled «Angry Boy,» a talk by a pediatrician, a trip with their children to a zoo, a talk by the minister on «Handling a Child's Fear of Death,» an a panel of members on «Sex Education of Young Children.»

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.

I was a panel member at the Free Grace Alliance National Conference today on the subject of the death and resurrection of Jesus in relation to the gospel.

The reason I do not understand the pertinence of the first part of the comment about Corinthians «who turned away» is because nobody on the panel argued that a Christian needs to keep on believing the death and resurrection of Christ to stay saved (perseverance).

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.

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

Accompanying the exposition are a picture and paragraph devoted to architecture (Solomon's Temple), a lithograph of the Jerusalem temple, a pictorial representation of Solomon and Queen Sheba from Ethiopia, a painting by Cornelis de Vos of Solomon offering sacrifices to idols, a map of the divided kingdoms, a contemporary Chinese painting of Elijah, another painting of Elijah by Peter Paul Rubens, a 17th - century needlepoint rendition of Jezebel's death, a sidebar devoted to the term «Jezebel,» and a picture of a panel showing King Jehu offering tribute to the Assyrians.

Panel A shows a composite neonatal outcome (fetal death, infant death, a 5 - minute Apgar score of less than 4, or neonatal seizures) in subgroups defined according to maternal characteristics.

A panel of experts convened by the National Institutes of Health in 1986 recommended that home monitors not be used for babies who do not have an increased risk of sudden unexpected death.

Defining the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS): deliberations of an expert panel convened by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

In April, the Cabinet Office made it mandatory for municipalities to set up a third - party panel of experts to investigate deaths and serious accidents at nurseries through interviews with family members and nursery staff as well as SIDS experts.

Questions — talks with EU partners on economic and financial issues, Available funds for Police and Crime panels to cover start - up and first - year running costs, Promoting lower electricity bills through the uptake of voltage optimisation, The effect the lack of a public inquiry into the death of Pat Finucane may have on British — Irish relations and on the Finucane family.

The nomination, from a slate of 10 candidates released last week by a screening panel, would fill the vacancy left by the death in April of Judge Sheila Abdus - Salaam.

The deaths of two workers were preventable because there were «simple and practical steps» the trucking company, Axedale Holdings, could have taken to ensure the panels were secure, the deputy chief magistrate says.

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

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.

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»?)

Her death creates a vacancy at the top of the Democratic side of the Rules panel, which sets the terms of House floor debates.

THE RECENT PLATYPUS PANEL on the «Death of Social Democracy» raised the prospect of a socialist left whose approach is not focused on taking power in capitalist national states, whether through the electoral reformism of traditional Social Democracy or a Bolshevik - style armed seizure, but on building a grassroots - democratic, confederal, and internationalist counterpower that can replace capitalist nation - states with a truly democratic socialism.

One key figure in the ongoing efforts to reform the city's Department of Correction amid several high - profile deaths and lawsuits, Correction Officers Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook, is not on the panel.

Authorities of the Nigerian Army said yesterday that the review panel put in place by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai to re-investigate and review death sentences, life imprisonment, and dismissals meted out -LSB-...]

However, the state has set up a panel to investigate the cause of the death and clear the doubt minds as the state continues to mourn the demise of the Senator.

Her death creates a vacancy at the top of the Democratic side of the rules panel, which sets the terms of House floor debates.

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.

Ms. Mark - Viverito labeled the 23 - member civilian panel's decision of no reasonable cause for arrest «terribly disappointing» and «not reflective of the events that led to Eric Garner's death.

Under the deal, the panels would have two years after the death of the politician to wind down operations and distribute their funds.

The panel was charged with guiding the optimal treatment of blood cholesterol to address the rising rate of cardiovascular disease, currently the leading cause of death and disability in the U.S.

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.

Many U.S. adults consume more added sugar (added in processing or preparing of foods, not naturally occurring as in fruits and fruit juices) than expert panels recommend for a healthy diet, and consumption of added sugar was associated with increased risk for death from cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication.

The second part of the sum concerned nonfatal health problems, weighting each on a scale from 0 (perfect health) to 1 (death)-- blindness being worse than deafness, moderate dementia being worse than autism, neck pain being worse than infertility and so on, as rated originally by a panel of experts and now by statistically representative surveys of the general public around the world.

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.

The technology could «block any unintended access to weapons in the home, could prevent accidental deaths from mishandled weapons, eliminate the possibility of officers being killed by their own weapon, and potentially reduce the trafficking of stolen weapons,» says panel member Donald Sebastian, a chemical engineer at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.

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.»

The outcomes of interest were also a priori determined by the Panel and included prostate cancer incidence, mortality, quality of life, the diagnostic performance of each of the tests and the harms of testing (premature death and complications from testing and biopsy).

By preventing death, vaccination greatly increased the infectious period of the most virulent strains, increasing the total amount of virus shed by several orders of magnitude, and increasing it above that of the least virulent strain (Fig 1, bottom panels).

The potential peril of, say, eating microwave popcorn pales in comparison to smoking, which is directly responsible for 30 percent of cancer deaths, says Margaret Kripke, PhD, professor emerita at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and co-author of the President's Cancer Panel report on environmental cancer risk.

At the time, the FDA advisory panel rejected a more stringent black - box warning about the possible risk of sudden unexplained death.