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Related: About this forumPaul Ryan Tells Florida Seniors That Obamacare Includes Death Panels
Paul Ryan likened a mechanism to control health care spending to death panels, during a town hall at the University of Central Florida in Orlando on Saturday.
After listening to Ryan repeatedly call for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, an elderly man asked the Republican vice presidential nominee about the death panels. Rather than dissuading the man from what PolitiFact named 2009?s Lie of the Year, Ryan laughed and responded, thats not the word Id choose to use to describe it. Its actually called
.the Independent Payment Advisory Board:
QUESTION: We love you Paul. But Im getting long in years. Will you address the death panels that were going to have?
RYAN: The death panels, well! Thats not the word Id choose to use to describe it. Its actually called. Its actually called, so in Medicare, what I refer to as this board of 15 bureaucrats. Its called the Independent Payment Advisory Board. It sounds fairly innocuous.
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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/09/22/893761/paul-ryan-tells-florida-seniors-that-obamacare-includes-death-panels/
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Paul Ryan Tells Florida Seniors That Obamacare Includes Death Panels (Original Post)
DonViejo
Sep 2012
OP
Oooohhhh, scary! Of course, the saintly insurance companies have nothing like that.
kestrel91316
Sep 2012
#3
Faygo Kid
(21,477 posts)1. Scare seniors. That's all they've got left.
So now Paul Ryan morphs into Sarah Palin completely.
frazee
(61 posts)2. Every time Romney or Ryan speak, they lose potential voters.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)3. Oooohhhh, scary! Of course, the saintly insurance companies have nothing like that.