Who said death panel first

In a Facebook post on August 7, , Palin wrote. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course.

Earl Blumenauer, the Oregon Democrat who promoted the provision that allowed Medicare to pay for doctor appointments about end-of-life counseling, said he sees both positives and negatives from the controversy. On the positive side, he said he's optimistic the Medicare provision will make it into the final version of health care reform, which is still pending in the Senate, and people had more conversations about making their wishes known for things like living wills or do-not-resuscitate orders.

On the other hand, he said, the episode suggests that political distortions need to be confronted faster and more forcefully. That doesn't bode well for keeping average citizens involved in the political process, especially those who are independent or not particularly partisan. That gives me pause. As for Palin, she told the conservative National Review in an interview on Nov. PolitiFact's calls and e-mail to Palin were not returned.

That leads, of course, to death. The phrase is "a lot like when President Reagan used to refer to the Soviet Union as the 'evil empire. He got people thinking and researching what he was talking about.

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