The Hill:
A county GOP executive in Florida on Saturday called booing attendees at a town hall “children” after he made the claim that the Affordable Care Act requires seniors seeking medical treatment go before a “death panel.”
“Here’s the problems I have with the Affordable Care Act. Number one, there is a provision in there, that anyone over the age of 74 has to go before what is effectively a death panel,” Pasco County GOP secretary Bill Akins told participants at a town hall event for Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.).
The crowd immediately began jeering Akins for the statement, which echoed a 2009 claim by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. PolitiFact named the "death panels" claim its "lie of the year" in 2009.