False ‘Death Panel’ Rumor Has Some Familiar Roots

New York Times by Jim Rutenberg, Jackie Calmes | Aug. 14, 2009 (News Report)

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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Oliver Jones
3.7
 by Oliver Jones - Aug. 17, 2009

This brief story attempts, without much success, to put the accusations of mandatory euthanasia into context. Every day in any hospitals there are questions about whether a dying patient should be put on a respirator, or not. This story might have done better if it dealt with those situations, not just crude Nazi-era eugenics.

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