death panel
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First used in a 2009 Facebook note by U.S. politician Sarah Palin: "... my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."
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death panel (plural death panels)
- (US, derogatory) A supposed government committee responsible for choosing which patients receive healthcare, ostensibly witholding life-saving treatment from the others, in order to reduce costs.[1]
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- ^ "'Tweet' 2009 Word of the Year, 'Google' Word of the Decade, as voted by American Dialect Society". American Dialect Society: January 8, 2010. URL accessed on October 8, 2010.
