Seeing how rationing will be taking place on how to cut costs. End of Life care (see, there is that phrase again) for the elderly and infirmed will come down to How Much It Will Cost Per Day. Is it that much of a stretch to wonder if Obamacare will want to pull the plug on patients sooner rather than later?

I've seen Death Panels elsewhere on the nets too, before Gov. Palin used it. But I'm sure a thorough researcher would have found that out.

Nice quibble about the usage of the lexicon, however.

I'm not surprised at all. I've long contended that about 85% of the American public is comprised of imbeciles. Palin's fans and supporters come entirely from this large segment of society. They like Palin because she is like them, and she gives a loud, proud voice to their stupidity.

The rest of these ignoramuses either didn't vote, or voted for Obama, despite his intelligence and learning. Luckily, some morons want someone smarter than them to be their leader.

As Maureen Dowd put it in today's column: “…she [Palin] put up a demented, fact-free Facebook rant trashing the president’s health care plan….”.

“Fact-free” seems so non-confrontational, yet snarky.

This woman is beyond clueless. And proud of it.

Yeah. And Obama is Disraeli.

If you're amazed now, you might start taking preemptive measures to minimize your vertigo after Roger Ailes gets a year or so to do his Henry Higgins job on her.

Google it.

Looking at the actual proposal to pay for end-of-life counseling (assuming this is what Palin is talking about – who knows), I am a little surprised it's even in the bill. Normally the AMA and Medicare revise CPT codes annually, and this is the kind of thing that usually gets done at the yearly revision. If it had been done that way I doubt anyone would have noticed.

If I understand it correctly it essentially formalizes a way for doctors to get reimbursed for end-of-life counseling, which generally is talking about living will topics like whether people want to be on a ventilator, do they want feeding tubes, etc. Actually doctors can already get reimbursed for this sort of thing, they just have to code the visit based on time and link it to any disease diagnosis the patient might have, such as diabetes, heart disease, whatever.