Death Panels, Cont.

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Time‘s Kate Pickert, picking up on this post, writes that the end-of-life counseling provision in Obamacare “was the root of the ‘death panels’ lie.”

Not quite. Sarah Palin’s first use of the phrase “death panel” in a August 7, 2009 blog post was a reference to rationing care:

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