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During the 2009 debate about health care reform, Sarah Palin coined the term “death panels” when she claimed that the legislation proposed by President Obama would create a “death panel” of bureaucrats who would decide whether Americans — such as her elderly parents, or children with Down syndrome — were “worthy of medical care.”
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