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(Newser) - Sarah Palin has returned to her Facebook soapbox to reinvigorate the "death panels" meme she helped popularize. "We had been told there were no 'death panels' in the bill," says an essay posted to the former Alaska governor's page. "But look closely at the provision mandating... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Alaska • Republican • House of Representatives • health care reform • House Democrats • Bart Stupak • speaker of the House • House Republicans • Sarah Palin • death panel

Palin Warns Again of 'Rationed' Care

Abortion mindset could be applied to elderly and disabled, she says

Nov 7, 09 2:12 PM CST
(Newser) - She didn't use the term "death panel," but Sarah Palin kept up her criticism of "rationed" care for the elderly and disabled last night. In a speech to abortion opponents, Palin warned that the same philosophy that allows abortions could be applied to those two groups with... More »

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abortion • conservative • health care reform • Sarah Palin • death panel

VIDEO

 Coulter, Behar Spar Over Palin 

On Joy's new show, pundit is still defending ex-gov and railing on Obama

Oct 1, 09 9:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Joy Behar broke out the big guns for the premiere of her new CNN interview show: Ann Coulter. The two sparred over the so-called “death panels” and Sarah Palin’s level of coherence before finding common ground: The UN should be moved to Libya. Highlights:
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Ann Coulter • The View • conservative • talk show • Joy Behar • liberal • Sarah Palin • death panel

Flu Plan Directs Docs to Take Sickest Off Life Support 

Plan could grant legal exemption to extreme rationing in case of disaster pandemic

Sep 24, 09 7:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities planning for a severe flu outbreak are drawing up rules for life-saving ventilators that instruct doctors to take severely ill patients off life support and give the equipment to those with a better chance of survival. The plan, to be used in an outbreak comparable to the pandemic that... More »

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doctor • hospital • rationing • outbreak • influenza • flu • 1918 pandemic • death panel

OPINION

 America 
 Needs to 
 Embrace 
 Death 

Lowering health care costs means cutting unnecessary end-of-life treatment

Sep 13, 09 1:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nobody wants to talk about rationing health care, but “the need to spend less money on the elderly at the end of life is the elephant in the room in the health-reform debate,” Evan Thomas writes in Newsweek. To expand coverage and lower costs, Americans must overcome their... More »

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health care • health care costs • death • rationing • health care reform • death panel • end-of-life care

ANALYSIS

 Fresh-Faced Prez 
 Scores His Jimmy 
 Stewart Moment 

Mr. Obama goes to Washington 

Sep 10, 09 4:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - A joint session of Congress might not have been the perfect setting for Barack Obama's health care reform speech last night, writes Washington Post critic Tom Shales. All that "pomp, circumstance, and folderol," including 16 minutes just to get to the lectern, may have led voters to change... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Congress • health insurance • health care reform • speech • Obama administration • Jimmy Stewart • death panel

ANALYSIS

Obama Takes Shot at Palin's 'Lie' on Death Panels

President takes partisan tone in denouncing 'cynical and irresponsible' opponents

Sep 9, 09 9:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama took a shot at Sarah Palin, among others, in calling out those who say his plan for health-care reform would create so-called “death panels” to decide on end-of-life care, Brian Beutler writes for Talking Points Memo. “It is a lie, plain and simple,” Obama said... More »

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health care reform • speech • Sarah Palin • President Obama • death panel

OPINION

 Obamacare Will 
 Make Us Poorer, 
 Palin Writes 

Former Alaska governor says in op-ed she won the debate on  'death panels'

Sep 9, 09 5:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ahead of Barack Obama's clutch address to Congress tonight, Sarah Palin writes in the Wall Street Journal that the president's health reform plan "will increase our deficit, decrease our paychecks, and increase the power of unaccountable government technocrats." In a surprisingly wonky op-ed, the former Alaska governor lambastes... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • health care reform • Sarah Palin • death panel

OPINION

Populist Rage Fades With Hardee's 'French Dip'

Ergo, you won't be hearing about 'death panels,' say, 10 minutes from now

Sep 5, 09 3:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - How soon America—“a toadying zombie mob with a terrible memory”—forgets, Abe Sauer writes on the Awl. Take the new offering from Hardee’s, “one of the nation’s largest, most popular purveys of food-like substances": the French Dip Thickburger. “What do maids, toast, kisses... More »

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France • fast food • health care reform • freedom fries • populist • Iraq war • death panel • Hardee's • French Dip • outrage

Rush to Obama: Hands Off
My Private Parts

Limbaugh makes leap from CDC advisory to mandatory circumcision

Aug 28, 09 7:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh says President Obama is out to get his foreskin. Seriously. Or at least semi-seriously. It all started when the the Centers for Disease Control reported that it's thinking of issuing an advisory touting the health beneifits of male circumcision in infancy, writes Gabriel Winant for Salon. Conservative blogger... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • parenting • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • Rush Limbaugh • circumcision • President Obama • death panel

Ad Campaign Takes Death Panel Fight
to Facebook

Targets Palin fans;
'tell her to stop lying'

Aug 24, 09 1:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - A pro-health reform group is hitting Sarah Palin where she lives, the Plum Line reports—Facebook. Americans United for Change is running ads on the social networking site, where “death panels” got their start. The missives, targeted specifically at Palin followers of every stripe, ask users to “send... More »

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social networking • Facebook • health care reform • Internet advertising • Americans United for Change • Sarah Palin • Obama administration • death panel

(Newser) - Edward Kennedy’s terminal illness has become a powerful symbol in the health care debate, Politico reports, though not necessarily in the way the Massachusetts senator would like. Although Kennedy recently wrote that he wants all Americans “to get the same treatment that US senators are entitled to,”... More »

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health care • health care costs • Ted Kennedy • health care reform • death panel

McCain Kinda Defends Palin's 'Death Panel' Remark

Provision in health care bill opened the door to end-of-life rationing: McCain

Aug 23, 09 12:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain offered qualified support for Sarah Palin’s notorious “death panel” comment—defending, at least, the substance of his former running mate’s remarks in an interview with George Stephanapoulos for ABC News: “Look, I don't think they were called death panels, don't get me wrong,”... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Republican • health care reform • Sarah Palin • Obama administration • death panel

Jon Stewart Takes On Death Panel Lady

'I don't know how your brain works,' he tells McCaughey

Aug 21, 09 10:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jon Stewart devoted most of his show yesterday to sparring with Betsy McCaughey, whose articles helped start the “death panel” rumor—and kill the Clinton health care plan in 1994. McCaughey strode onstage carrying a massive binder containing the first half of the House bill. “This bill is... More »

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rationing • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • health care reform • death panel • Betsy McCaughey

 Inside the Real World  
 of End-of-Life Care  

End-of-life specialists are 'psychoanalysts,' 'detectives'

Aug 20, 09 5:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - With so many up in arms about “death panel” rumors, the New York Times paints a picture of real-life palliative care providers, or end-of-life consultants. The Times follows one specialist in a field that requires its doctors to be “part psychoanalyst, part detective,” writes Anemona Hartocollis: He’... More »

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doctor • health care reform • death panel • end-of-life care • palliative care

opinion

 McCarthyism? 
 Try 'Palinism' 


Aug 17, 09 8:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - If Sarah Palin echoes a figure in American politics, it's Joseph McCarthy—so "try this on for size: Palinism," writes Richard Cohen in the Washington Post. Like McCarthy, she has a lefty "menace" to invent facts about, and she's succeeding in wounding health reform with... More »

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health care reform • Joe McCarthy • Sarah Palin • death panel

OPINION

 Right-Wing Crazy 
 Is All-American 

Birthers, tea parties—it's nothing new

Aug 16, 09 8:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the left back in power, we’re seeing right-wing "crazies"—the “birthers, tea-partiers, town hall hecklers”—getting louder. But that’s nothing new, writes Rick Perlstein in the Washington Post. In America, “the crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy, and elites... More »

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media • American media • town hall meeting • conservatism • right-wing attacks • tea parties • right-wing extremism • American history • birther • death panel

(AP) - Now it's personal. President Barack Obama invoked his own anguish over the death of his grandmother as he challenged the notion that Democratic efforts to overhaul the nation's health care would include so-called death panels. "I just lost my grandmother last year. I know what it's like to watch... More »

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Colorado • health care reform • town hall meeting • Madelyn Dunham • President Obama • death panel • deathers

 Senators Tweet It Out 
 Over 'Death Panels' 

Specter accuses Grassley of spreading false info

Aug 14, 09 4:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Arlen Specter and Chuck Grassley engaged in a very 21st-century sniping match today, ABC's Jake Tapper reports. The 79-year-old Pennsylvania Democrat took to Twitter to accuse the 75-year-old Iowa Republican of spreading "myths about health care reform and imaginary ‘death panels.' " He was referring to comments... More »

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health care • social networking • Iowa • Senate • Arlen Specter • Pennsylvania • Charles Grassley • health care reform • medical care • Twitter • death panel

analysis

 GOP Backed 
 'Death Panels' 
 ...in 2003 

End-of-life counseling provided in Medicare bill

Aug 14, 09 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - They’re up in arms against it now, but Republicans voted for a measure providing end-of-life counseling in 2003, Amy Sullivan writes for Time. That year’s Medicare prescription drug bill, which boasted support from 204 GOP representatives and 42 senators, offered funding for “counseling the beneficiary with respect... More »

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health care • Congress • Senate Republicans • Charles Grassley • health care reform • medical care • House Republicans • Congressional Republicans • death panel • end-of-life care

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