Death panel is a political term that originated during the 2009 debate about federal health care legislation to cover the uninsured in the United States. Sarah Palin, former Republican Governor of Alaska, coined the term when she charged that proposed legislation would create a "death panel" of bureaucrats who would ...
Oct 30, 2015 ... An early version of the healthcare reform law called for paying physicians under Medicare for ACP — that is, discussing advance directives, hospice care, and other end-of-life issues with patients. Supporters of the idea said it would address the problem of physicians not taking the time for such important ...
Jul 23, 2009 ... The health care reform bill "would make it mandatory — absolutely require — that every five years people in Medicare have a required counseling session ... Care Organization, which supports the provision, said the bill doesn't encourage seniors to end their lives, it just allows some important counseling for ...
Aug 14, 2009 ... Unsurprisingly, the phrase "death panel" does not appear in the health care bill that passed House committees last month. And Palin's post did not make entirely clear what she might interpret as a "death panel. ... And it's this provision on end-of-life counseling that's the primary basis for Palin's remarks.
Sep 1, 2009 ... The 40 million–member advocacy group, after all, signed on early as a key supporter of President Obama's health-care-reform plan, and now it finds itself on the defensive, ... (This is not true — the House bill includes a provision to reimburse doctors who provide voluntary end-of-life counseling to patients.) ...
A provision in the health care reform bill for end-of-life counseling for seniors is not "entirely voluntary."