I posted this in the overnight thread:
Mickey Kaus, writing for notorius right-wing hate site slate.com, points out that Obama kinda sorta maybe endorsed the idea of a kinda sorta maybe non-binding panel that kinda sorta maybe might be construed as a death panel. By some people.

[Link: www.slate.com…]

I think the purpose of these panels is not to make death decisions, but to make the hard decisions politicians don’t want to be blamed for. Where these groups go in the future is anybody’s guess.