Some Republicans and Democrats have rejected the "death panel" language, but the issue keeps coming up.
No wonder "the 'death panel' myth" has such currency among Americans who won't be doing the deciding.
It's been demonized as an actual "death panel" of unelected, unaccountable people who will ration your Medicare.
Tom Perkins, a prominent venture-capitalist, called the task-force a death panel, admittedly catchier than its real name.
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The real death panel myth is that the term ever had anything to do with something so potentially beneficial.
You know, just as we had the inheritance tax referred to as death tax, death panel is exactly like that.
Why is the death panel myth so hard to shake and why is its persistence relevant to the unfolding of Obamacare?
The death panel myth grabbed hold even though the vast majority of Americans are in favor of payment for end-of-life counseling.
The Republican death panel argument has taken on a curious double-meaning.
Only time will tell whether it survives the death panel controversy.
The measure succumbed to foolishness as the death panel cries became a staple of the August, 2009 town meetings that played on the darkest side of American politics.
Well, if we are gauging America's overall interest in the debate by the aforementioned displays of partisan yelling, screaming and death panel-ing at some town halls, no wonder we think young people don't care.
The CNN Truth Squad determined the "death panel" claim was false, along with others spread by conservative commentators and activist groups who say Democratic proposals would promote euthanizing elderly Americans and mandate free health insurance for illegal immigrants.
Given the much greater controversy likely to surround the IPAB when it is formed later this year, and the psychological resistance people have to abandoning deeply held beliefs, expect a recurrence of the death panel controversy as the ACA unfolds.
In celebration of the one- year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, Wisconsin GOP Senator Ron Johnson has taken to the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal to reinvigorate the misinformation campaign against health care reform as he continues to press the death panel narrative.
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The warning should say the drugs could increase the risk of cardiovascular problems and sudden death, the panel said.
The seven-woman, five-man panel recommended death for two of the four counts Muhammad was convicted of last week in last year's shooting death of Dean Harold Meyers: terrorism and capital murder.
On Tuesday, three Galway-based consultants were removed from the HSE panel investigating the death.
German drug giant Bayer failed to tell the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of a study that connected a controversial heart surgery drug to dangerous side effects and death, even as FDA convened a panel of experts to evaluate the drug's safety.
Sandiford, 56, from Cheltenham, was arrested on drugs charges in May 2012 and sentenced to death by firing squad last week by a panel of judges at the district court in Denpasar, Bali.
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The Ganske-Dingell bill would allow patients to sue an insurance company over any medical or administrative decision that results in injury or death, and would not require the review panel to overturn the insurer's decision.
Following her conviction, the prosecution recommended 15 years imprisonment but a panel of judges later sentenced Sandiford to death.
But they went beyond the panel's recommendations and suggested the death sentence in rape cases where the victim dies or slips into a coma.
To control costs, ObamaCare adopts the ultimate Progressive solution: an unelected, unaccountable, 15-member panel empowered to impose decisions regarding life and death upon 308 million citizen-pawns who will have no appeal.
"In the meantime, the execution of death sentence of four convicts shall remain stayed, " said a panel including Chief Justice Altamas Kabir, Justice AR Dave and Justice Vikramajit Sen.
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The panel also recommended that those found guilty of rape leading to death spend the rest of their life in prison, but it stopped short of calling for the death penalty, something which many in India had pushed for, the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder reports from Delhi.
In the case of a five-member panel, four of the members could vote guilty and impose the death penalty.
In December the original accidental death verdicts were quashed at the High Court and new inquests will be heard after the panel found that 41 of the 96 who died had the "potential to survive".
The panel had called for faster trials and longer sentences for convicted rapists, but not the death penalty.
The government-approved panel had called for faster trials and longer sentences for convicted rapists, but not the death penalty.
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