Death panelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

"Death panel" is a political term coined by former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin in August 2009 on her Facebook page. She said that the health care legislation then being debated in the House of Representatives would require Americans such as her parents or her child with Down syndrome, "to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care." However, there was "no panel in any version of the health care bills" that judged "a person's 'level of productivity in society' to determine whether they are 'worthy' of health care." The trigger for the "death panel" claim was a provision in the House of Representatives Bill 3200 (2009) that would have reimbursed physicians for counseling Medicare patients about living wills, advance directives and other end-of-life issues.