Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin repeated for the umpteenth time her thoroughly debunked claim that the health care reform bill includes “death panels.”
On Sean Hannity’s Fox News radio show yesterday, Palin said she “won’t back off” her claim, even though it was dubbed “Lie of the Year” by Politifact.com.
If the health care bill goes the way Obama wants it, we’re gonna have something very much like foreign countries’ systems of health care like the British, and it’s the American people — if we have our health care paid for by the bureaucracy, by government — depending on our health condition, depending on our age — we’re gonna be subject to bureaucrats deciding, panels and commissions deciding — just like they do overseas — who will be worthy of receiving the health care that government is going to provide.
So that is the death panel that I referred to, and I won’t back off on criticizing that aspect of the health care bill.
Every time her claim has been debunked, she doubles down on it. After being called out for Politifact’s “Lie of the Year,” she posted to her Facebook page defending the phrase.
Though Nancy Pelosi and friends have tried to call “death panels” the “lie of the year,” 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.
