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[[File:RichardLevine.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Dr. Richard "Rachel" Levine]]
[[File:RichardLevine.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Dr. Richard "Rachel" Levine]]
A '''Death Panel''', also known as "Death Council", is a government agency that makes life-or-death healthcare rationing decisions based on subjective criteria of an individual or [[Demography|demographic group]]'s worth to society. While controlling cost can usually be the main factor, profit can also be used as an incentive.<ref>https://fee.org/articles/physicians-say-hospitals-are-pressuring-er-docs-to-list-covid-19-on-death-certificates-here-s-why/</ref> For example, in the Covid relief bill of 2020, hospitals were rewarded with a $13,000 payment by the federal government for each reported [[covid]] death.<ref>https://www.christianpost.com/news/cdc-director-agrees-that-hospitals-have-monetary-incentive-to-inflate-covid-19-data.html</ref>
A '''Death Panel''', also known as "Death Council", is a government agency that makes life-or-death healthcare rationing decisions based on subjective criteria of an individual or [[Demography|demographic group]]'s worth to society. While controlling cost can usually be the main factor, profit can also be used as an incentive.<ref>https://fee.org/articles/physicians-say-hospitals-are-pressuring-er-docs-to-list-covid-19-on-death-certificates-here-s-why/</ref> For example, in the Covid relief bill of 2020, hospitals were rewarded with a $13,000 payment by the [[U.S.]] federal government for each reported [[covid]] death.<ref>https://www.christianpost.com/news/cdc-director-agrees-that-hospitals-have-monetary-incentive-to-inflate-covid-19-data.html</ref>
<!--The Obamacare concept was initially bought to public attention by [[Sarah Palin]], who may have started it with [https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=113851103434&_fb_noscript=1 a post to Facebook] and reexamined during the debate over the Affordable Care Act ("[[Obamacare]]") in 2009.
<!--The Obamacare concept was initially bought to public attention by [[Sarah Palin]], who may have started it with [https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=113851103434&_fb_noscript=1 a post to Facebook] and reexamined during the debate over the Affordable Care Act ("[[Obamacare]]") in 2009.