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Dr. [[Atul Gawande]], a surgeon who also writes about medicine, told NPR that end of life conversations in the health reform bill "got mutated into" being described as death panels, but that at the time, he thought it was a kind of ridiculous political exaggeration, that was "bound to happen".<ref name=Humane>{{cite news |title=Dr. Atul Gawande: Make End Of Life More Humane |newspaper=[[Fresh Air]]|format=Interview|publisher=[[NPR]] |date=July, 29 2010 |url=http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=128828629 |accessdate= November 19, 2010}}</ref>
Dr. [[Atul Gawande]], a surgeon who also writes about medicine, told NPR that end of life conversations in the health reform bill "got mutated into" being described as death panels, but that at the time, he thought it was a kind of ridiculous political exaggeration, that was "bound to happen".<ref name=Humane>{{cite news |title=Dr. Atul Gawande: Make End Of Life More Humane |newspaper=[[Fresh Air]]|format=Interview|publisher=[[NPR]] |date=July, 29 2010 |url=http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=128828629 |accessdate= November 19, 2010}}</ref>



Writing in [[JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association|''The Journal of the American Medical Association'']], geriatric psychiatrist Paul Kettl said he was not opposed to the term death panels, but would define them as the "originally proposed .... periodic discussions about advance directives that Medicare would pay for as medical visits."<ref name=Vote>{{cite journal |author=Kettl P |title=One Vote for Death Panels |journal=[[Journal of the American Medical Association|JAMA]] |volume=303 |issue=13 |pages=1234–5 |year=2010 |month=April |pmid=20371773 |doi=10.1001/jama.2010.376}}</ref>
Writing in [[JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association|''The Journal of the American Medical Association'']], geriatric psychiatrist Paul Kettl said he was not opposed to the term death panels, but would define them as the "originally proposed .... periodic discussions about advance directives that Medicare would pay for as medical visits."<ref name=Vote>{{cite journal |author=Kettl P |title=One Vote for Death Panels |journal=[[Journal of the American Medical Association|JAMA]] |volume=303 |issue=13 |pages=1234–5 |year=2010 |month=April |pmid=20371773 |doi=10.1001/jama.2010.376}}</ref>


Dr. Benjamin W. Corn, a cancer specialist and supporter of end of life doctor-patient discussions, remarked that although health care reform was being debated "thought leaders have been remarkably reticent with respect to ... end-of-life care."<ref name=phobia>{{cite journal |author=Corn BW |title=Ending end-of-life phobia — a prescription for enlightened health care reform |journal=[[N. Engl. J. Med.]] |volume=361 |issue=27 |pages=e63 |year=2009 |month=December |pmid=20018960 |doi=10.1056/NEJMp0909740 |url=http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp0909740}}</ref> He said that the death panels controversy showed that Americans were uneasy about discussing topics related to the dying process and argued that certain issues "must be confronted squarely", including whether experimental therapies should be reimbursed, the possible expansion of hospices, restoring dignity to the process of dying, and guidelines for physician assisted suicide.<ref name=phobia/>
Dr. Benjamin W. Corn, a cancer specialist and supporter of end of life doctor-patient discussions, remarked that although health care reform was being debated "thought leaders have been remarkably reticent with respect to ... end-of-life care."<ref name=phobia>{{cite journal |author=Corn BW |title=Ending end-of-life phobia — a prescription for enlightened health care reform |journal=[[N. Engl. J. Med.]] |volume=361 |issue=27 |pages=e63 |year=2009 |month=December |pmid=20018960 |doi=10.1056/NEJMp0909740 |url=http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp0909740}}</ref> He said that the death panels controversy showed that Americans were uneasy about discussing topics related to the dying process and argued that certain issues "must be confronted squarely", including whether experimental therapies should be reimbursed, the possible expansion of hospices, restoring dignity to the process of dying, and guidelines for physician assisted suicide.<ref name=phobia/>

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Annas writes that "[[Ivan Illich]] seems to have gotten it right in his 1975 ''Medical Nemesis'': 'Socially approved death happens when man [sic] becomes useless not only as a producer but as a consumer. It is at this point that [the patient] ... must be written off as a total loss. Death has become the ultimate form of consumer resistance'".<ref name=Annas/>

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A discussion on political lies between Paul Waldman of ''[[The American Prospect]]'' and [[Brooke Gladstone]] on the [[NPR]] show ''[[On the Media]]''—which contrasted between policy lies and personal lies—used the death panels charge as an example.<ref name=PoliticalLies/> Waldman proposed that personal lies lead people to question a person's moral characther while policy lies do not, despite the possibility policy lies might have more real world effects.<ref name=PoliticalLies>{{cite episode |title=Political Lies and the Press |series=[[On the Media]] |network=[[NPR]] |station=[[WNYC]] |airdate=October 15, 2010 |url=http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/10/15/03}}</ref>


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In a July 2010 [[National Public Radio]] segment entitled "The Politics Of Anger", U.S. Representative [[Bob Inglis]], (Republican-South Carolina) said, "I think it's never a good strategy to travel on misinformation. Talking about death panels when there are no death panels is a disservice to the country and, long-term, to the conservative movement."<ref>{{cite news |title=The Politics Of Anger |newspaper=[[NPR]] |date=July 18, 2010 |url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128606442}}</ref>
In a July 2010 [[National Public Radio]] segment entitled "The Politics Of Anger", U.S. Representative [[Bob Inglis]], (Republican-South Carolina) said, "I think it's never a good strategy to travel on misinformation. Talking about death panels when there are no death panels is a disservice to the country and, long-term, to the conservative movement."<ref>{{cite news |title=The Politics Of Anger |newspaper=[[NPR]] |date=July 18, 2010 |url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128606442}}</ref>

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Journalist Paul Waldman of left-leaning ''[[The American Prospect]]'', characterized Palin's claim that the health care bill provided for death panels as an "extremely pernicious" political lie about a policy "that had definite effects", including the provision for end of life planning to be removed from the bill. He added that the "whole death panel argument almost brought down the whole bill".<ref name=PoliticalLies>{{cite episode |title=Political Lies and the Press |series=[[On the Media]] |network=[[NPR]] |station=[[WNYC]] |airdate=October 15, 2010 |url=http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/10/15/03}}</ref>


====Sarah Palin====
====Sarah Palin====

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Sarah Palin

"Death panels" is a term coined in August 2009 on the Facebook page of former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin suggesting that health care legislation then being debated in the U.S. Congress contained a health care rationing provision for seniors and the disabled, though there was no such term or explicit provision in the bill.[1] The term quickly gained popularity among opponents of the legislation.

PolitiFact.com called Palin's use of the death panel term the "Lie of the Year",[2] but Palin explained she had employed it as a metaphor for reduced access and diminished quality of care that she believed would follow the enactment of the federal legislation.[3]

The American Dialect Society, a group of scholars that studies the English language in North America, defined the term in January 2010 as a "supposed committee of doctors and/or bureaucrats who would decide which patients were allowed to receive treatment, ostensibly leaving the rest to die".[4] Benjamin W. Corn, a physician specializing in the treatment of cancer, wrote that controversy over the term death panel, showed that a national dialogue was needed on end of life issues so that "we may generate ideas for truly comprehensive health care reform."[5]

Background

Provision in the bill

The provision of the proposed health care legislation that supposedly enabled death panels would have allowed physicians to receive payment from Medicare for voluntary counseling with patients and family members dealing with end-of-life. The counseling would deal with considerations such as making living wills, enabling a close relative or a trusted friend to make health care decisions, hospice as an option for the terminally ill, and information about pain medications for chronic discomfort. The sessions would have been covered by Medicare every five years or more frequently for patients that became gravely ill.[6]

The controversial provision was inserted in the bill by Democratic lawmakers at the behest of LaCross Wisconsin hospitals that had created a program to get people who were not critically ill, to think about and choose the treatments they would want at the end of life.[7][8] If the counseling sessions were paid for by Medicare, it was thought that more patients would ask for this service.[7][8]

Media prelude

Betsy McCaughey

Betsy McCaughey, a health care analyst who came to political prominence after she helped defeat the Clinton health care plan of 1993,[9][10][11] "got the ball rolling" in July and August 2009 when she called the bill "a vicious assault on elderly people" that will "cut your life short".[12] McCaughey was joined in spreading the idea by other pundits and conservative media that had had helped defeat the Clinton era legislation, including The Washington Times and The American Spectator.[9] McCaughey also claimed that presidential advisor Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel believed 'medical care should be reserved for the nondisabled'", which, according to The New York Times, helped inspire Palin who is the parent of a disabled child.[13] [14]

Coining

On August 7, Palin coined the term on her Facebook page[15][5] stating:

The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.[11][16]

An Institute for Southern Studies article speculated that Palin got her information on the bill from from talking points composed by the Liberty Counsel, a conservative Christian group.[14][17] When asked exactly what part of the proposed legislation[18] mandated death panels, Palin's spokeperson pointed to H.R. 3200 Advance Care Planning Consultation page 425.[19]

Use

A death panel sign with a Nazi reference at a Rep. Carol Shea-Porter town hall meeting

Health law and bioethics expert George J. Annas wrote that "Make believe 'death panels' that would 'pull the plug on grandma' were used as a rhetorical device" to oppose health care reform in 2009 and to block rational discussion of end of life medical care.[20]Paul Kettl, MD, MHA, opined that that death panels was an attention-catching phrase that became a lightening rod for several objections to the health care bill.[21] The Economist said that the phrase death panels was used as an "outrageous allegation" to confront politicians at town hall meetings, during the August 2009 congressional recess.[22]

The term became a standard slogan among many conservatives opposed to the Obama administration’s health care overhaul, according to The New York Times.[15] The British paper, The Telegraph noted that the term was used by some critics of the reform to reference Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which uses cost-effectiveness analysis in coverage decisions.[23]

Reactions

Physicians

David Casarett, a physician and bioethicist who focuses on the care of dying patients[24] was mystified by the talk about death panels and pulling the plug on grandma. Casarett told NPR, "It bears really no resemblance to what's in the provision of the health-care reform bill. What's in the health-care reform bill is in general, text that I think most Americans and certainly all of my patients would support."[25]

Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon who also writes about medicine, told NPR that end of life conversations in the health reform bill "got mutated into" being described as death panels, but that at the time, he thought it was a kind of ridiculous political exaggeration, that was "bound to happen".[26]

Writing in The Journal of the American Medical Association, geriatric psychiatrist Paul Kettl said he was not opposed to the term death panels, but would define them as the "originally proposed .... periodic discussions about advance directives that Medicare would pay for as medical visits."[21]

Dr. Benjamin W. Corn, a cancer specialist and supporter of end of life doctor-patient discussions, remarked that although health care reform was being debated "thought leaders have been remarkably reticent with respect to ... end-of-life care."[5] He said that the death panels controversy showed that Americans were uneasy about discussing topics related to the dying process and argued that certain issues "must be confronted squarely", including whether experimental therapies should be reimbursed, the possible expansion of hospices, restoring dignity to the process of dying, and guidelines for physician assisted suicide.[5]

Politicians

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (Republican-Alaska) told a crowd in Anchorage in August 2009, "It does us no good to incite fear in people by saying that there's these end-of-life provisions, these death panels". She added, "There is no reason to gin up fear in the American public by saying things that are not included in the bill".[27]

In a July 2010 National Public Radio segment entitled "The Politics Of Anger", U.S. Representative Bob Inglis, (Republican-South Carolina) said, "I think it's never a good strategy to travel on misinformation. Talking about death panels when there are no death panels is a disservice to the country and, long-term, to the conservative movement."[28]

Others

Journalist Paul Waldman of left-leaning The American Prospect, characterized Palin's claim that the health care bill provided for death panels as an "extremely pernicious" political lie about a policy "that had definite effects", including the provision for end of life planning to be removed from the bill. He added that the "whole death panel argument almost brought down the whole bill".[29]

Sarah Palin

In a September 2009 Hong Kong speech, Palin said the term was "intended to sound a warning about the rationing that is sure to follow if big government tries to simultaneously increase health care coverage while also claiming to decrease costs".[30]

In an interview with Barbara Walters, Palin acknowledged that none of the health care bills included the actual word pair; "No, death panel isn't there."[31] In November 2009, Palin said that "[t]he term I used to describe the panel making these decisions should not be taken literally."[32] In an Newsmax interview published online in October 2010 Palin defended using the term saying

I personally spoke a lot about the rationing of care that was going to be a part of Obamacare, and, you know, I was about laughed out of town for bringing to light what I call death panels, because there's going to be faceless bureaucrats who will—based on cost analysis and some subjective idea on somebody's level of productivity in life—somebody is going to call the shots as to whether your loved one will be able to receive health care or not. To me, death panel. I called it like I saw it, and people didn't like it.[33]

Rationing and defense of the term

The Christian Science Monitor reported that some Republicans used the term to discuss government rationing of health care services.[34] Newt Gingrich wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times stating that Palin's "language was explosive, but her premise about rationing was not".[35] Gingrich admitted that while there was nothing proposed that would institute government rationing of health care, the proposed bill was "all but certain to lead to rationing".[35] The Chattanooga Times Free Press writes that "[w]hile there will be no federal board that will vote to kill patients, there will be extensive rationing that will, inevitably, lead to the same result".[36]

Brendan Nyhan writes that "[w]hile efforts to reduce growth in health care costs under Obama's plan might lead to more restrictive rationing than already occurs under the current health care system, that hardly justifies suggestions that reform legislation would create a 'death panel' that would deny care to individual seniors or disabled people".[11] Michael F. Cannon of the Cato Institute writes that "[p]aying doctors to help seniors sort out their preferences for end-of-life care is consumer-directed rationing, not bureaucratic rationing".[37]

Impact

Atul Gawande, MD, writes in The New Yorker that the Affordable Care Act "was to have added Medicare coverage for [end of life] conversations, until it was deemed funding for 'death panels' and stripped out of the legislation".[38] While investigating for The New Yorker article "Letting Go: What should medicine do when it can't save your life?", Gawande talked to several palliative care doctors who requested he not write the article.[39] The doctors were concerned the article might be manipulated to create a political controversy—as happened with the "death panels" criticism—and as a result, hurt their profession.[39]

James Morone says that the term played a role in Democrats losing control of the public debate. "The right-wing populists, selfstyled Tea Party activists, roared into the health policy discussion with fury over supposed 'government death panels.' The claims—a variation on the old cry of 'socialized medicine'—were pungent, memorable, simple, and effective", writes Morone.[40] Nyhan writes that "opponents of reform became inflamed by the claim".[11]

In response to the charges, Morone writes that "[a]s in the days of Truman and Clinton, the Democrats tried to deny charges, bypassing the underlying fears of big government and focusing on the facts. They pointed out that the proposed reforms didn’t constitute a government takeover of the health system".[40] "The administration also was seemingly unprepared for the intense opposition and fury that erupted during town-hall meetings in the summer of 2009. The Democrats' focus group–tested mantra of 'quality, affordable health care' was drowned out by Republicans' false warnings of 'death panels' and a 'government takeover'",[41] writes Johnathan Oberlander, a professor of Social Medicine and Health Policy & Management at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.[42] Meanwhile, the White House was not able to offer a "persuasive narrative to counter the Tea Party percussion", and "struggled to recapture public attention", contributing to Scott Brown's election, writes Morone.[40] A TIME article wrote that "a single phrase—'death panels'—nearly derailed health care reform".[43]

By mid-August 2009, the Pew Research Center reported that 86% of Americans had heard of the "death panels" charge.[11] Out of those who had heard the charge, 30% of people thought it was true while 20% did not know.[11] For Republicans, 47% thought it was true while 23% did not know.[11] In September 2010, six months after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, a BBC article stated that among the "sticky charges" that had stuck against the bill was the false charge of "government 'death panels' deciding who can get what sort of care".[44]

Bishop et al. authored "Reviving the conversation around CPR/DNR" published in the January 2010 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics.[45] Scripko and Greer commented that while

Bishop and colleagues accurately describe the strength of the American culture that drives fighting death ... they fail to emphasize the resistance that is likely to be met should we present our efforts for change as trying to overhaul policies regarding end of life decisions.[46]

Bishop et al. replied that this was cautioning them

to be very careful in how we address the quest for immortality implicit in US culture, a culture of 'life-at-all costs' that medical technology has advanced. They seem to suggest, without saying so, that land mines of 'death panels' await us.[47]

Lie and word of the year

PolitiFact.com gave Palin's term its highest rating—"Pants on Fire!"—on August 10[48] and on December 19 it was named "Lie of the Year" for 2009.[2][49][50] "Death panel" was named the most outrageous word of 2009 by the American Dialect Society.[51] The definition was given as "A supposed committee of doctors and/or bureaucrats who would decide which patients were allowed to receive treatment, ostensibly leaving the rest to die".[4][51]

Continued use

Palin used the term in a joke while speaking at the 2009 Gridiron Club dinner, saying "It is good to be here and in front of this audience of leading journalists and intellectuals. Or, as I call it, a death panel."[52][53]

In September 2010, Palin reused the term in a strongly worded Facebook posting.[54]

In October 2010, The Philadelphia Inquirer highlighted the term in its "The Week in Words" article[55] after Barney Frank said the only death panels created by congressional Democrats were for troubled financial institutions under the authority of the Dodd–Frank Bill.[56] In the same month, Palin defended using the term in its original context.[33]

In November 2010, Paul Krugman used the term on This Week, and later opined about his comments.[57]

See also

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