The specific legislation both Betsy McCaughey and Sarah Palin pointed at to justify "death panels" said it "would require Medicare to pay for some end-of-life p

The specific legislation both Betsy McCaughey and Sarah Palin pointed at to justify "death panels" said it "would require Medicare to pay for some end-of-life planning counseling sessions with a health care practitioner." (Section 1233) The "death panels" you're talking about have nothing to do with the legislation that it was libeling...which is probably why it was so effective to both uninformed people and educated people.