For those who want to save time on checking an IQ score, here’s a simple solution: Ask someone if they believe anything that Sarah Palin has ever said. If they say “yes,” their IQ score is obviously in the low 50s range. This is why it’s so insane that Palin’s coined term “death panels” ever gained any traction. Sadly, it did. Even worse is the fact that a case attacking the non-existent panels just made its way to the Supreme Court, with amazing results.
The Death Panel Lie
Sarah Palin coined the term “death panel” back in 2009. Of course, anyone with any common sense whatsoever immediately knew she was full of it, mostly because her mouth was moving. It received Politifact’s “Lie of the Year” award in 2009, was ranked by the American Dialect Society as the “most outrageous term” and marked as a “whopper” of a lie by FactCheck.
Even in the face of all of this criticism, Nick Coons, a business owner from Arizona, and Eric Novack, who earned the title of “doctor,” but isn’t going to be given it here, brought forth a lawsuit challenging one of the many aspects of the Affordable Care Act that conservatives have labeled a “death panel.”
The targeted aspect of the law was the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). This government panel’s job is to look at projected cost growth in Medicare and figure out a way to reduce these costs if they exceed a certain amount. Does that not sound like the original death panel story to you? That’s because it’s not.
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