A '''Death Panel''', also known as "Death Council", is a group of people that would purportedly make life-or-death healthcare rationing decisions based on subjective criteria of a person's worth to society. The concept reexamined during the debate over the Affordable Care Act ("[[Obamacare]]") in 2009. Its foremost champion at the time was Sarah Palin, who may have started it with [https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=113851103434&_fb_noscript=1 this post to Facebook]. | A '''Death Panel''', also known as "Death Council", is a group of people that would purportedly make life-or-death healthcare rationing decisions based on subjective criteria of a person's worth to society. The concept reexamined during the debate over the Affordable Care Act ("[[Obamacare]]") in 2009. Its foremost champion at the time was Sarah Palin, who may have started it with [https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=113851103434&_fb_noscript=1 this post to Facebook]. |