Just a Word of Explanation.

From the Christian Science Monitor (CSMonitor.com)

"Old rumors die hard.

Not a month ago, some conservatives were stoking fears that President Barack Obama planned to 'pull the plug on grandma' — a gross distortion of the healthcare reform proposal backed by the White House.

The 'death panel' myths were eventually debunked. But a poll conducted by Pew Research at the end of August found that 86 percent of respondents had heard of the 'death panel' controversy. Of those people, 30 percent said it was true.
Now, on the eve of Obama’s historic speech to a joint session of congress — and in the midst of a heated national debate on healthcare — Sarah Palin is again raising the specter of 'death panels.'

Keep in mind that it was Palin who is credited with coining the term. Writing on her Facebook account in August, Palin argued that President Obama’s version of healthcare would let bureaucrats 'decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether [patients] are worthy of health care.'”