Sarah Palin once again defended her “death panels” claim on her Facebook page last night, accusing the Democrats of protecting a “rationing ‘death panel,'” and hitting back against “Nancy Pelosi and friends” who “have tried to call ‘death panels’ the ‘lie of the year.'”
Palin’s Facebook note reiterates her earlier claim that the health care bill contains “death panels” that will decide who gets health care and who doesn’t.
She cited a part of the bill that describes the Independent Medicare Advisory Board, which Palin says “is a panel of bureaucrats charged with cutting health care costs on the backs of patients – also known as rationing.”
She continues:
In other words, Democrats are protecting this rationing “death panel” from future change with a procedural hurdle. You have to ask why they’re so concerned about protecting this particular provision. Could it be because bureaucratic rationing is one important way Democrats want to “bend the cost curve” and keep health care spending down?
She also addresses Politifact’s recent “Lie Of The Year” competition, which concluded that “of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest. ‘Death panels.'”
Palin, of course, attributes the “Lie Of The Year” distinction to “Nancy Pelosi and friends,” and says that “this type of rationing – what the CBO calls ‘reduc[ed] access to care’ and ‘diminish[ed] quality of care’ – is precisely what I meant when I used that metaphor.”
