False ‘Death Panel’ Rumor Has Some Familiar Roots

The stubborn yet false rumor that President Obama’s health care proposals would create government-sponsored “death panels” to decide which patients were worthy of living seemed to arise from nowhere in recent weeks. Full Story »

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by Judy Plapinger - Aug. 17, 2009

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