--- title: Sarah Palin Won’t Let ‘Death Panels’ Die description: Sarah Palin clearly feels vindicated. In a video posted online Tuesday, the former vice presidential candidate suggests she was right when she predicted that the... canonical: https://time.com/archive/7181331/sarah-palin-wont-let-death-panels-die/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2013-09-10T13:30:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-18T06:42:05.864Z article:section: Politics og:title: Sarah Palin Won’t Let ‘Death Panels’ Die og:description: Sarah Palin clearly feels vindicated. 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REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR2XOJY Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin speaks to the American Conservative Union's annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington February 11, 2012\. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR2XOJY REUTERS by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) Sep 10, 2013 1:30 PM UTC Sarah Palin clearly feels vindicated. In a video posted online Tuesday, the former vice presidential candidate suggests she was right when she predicted that the Affordable Care Act would lead to “death panels” of bureaucrats deciding who’s worthy of health care and who’s not. Set to electric guitar riffs and featuring granny being pushed off a clip and a roaring grizzly bear apparently just as outraged as the former Alaska governor, the video includes short news clips sewn together to prove that the “death panels” lie has turned out to be true. The problem, of course, is that it’s not. As has been explained [here](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/dec/18/politifact-lie-year-death-panels/), [here](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/health/policy/14panel.html), [here](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/sarah-palin-death-panels-and-obamacare/2012/06/27/gJQAysUP7V%5Fblog.html), [here](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/09/why-talk-of-non-existent-obamacare-death-panels-wont-die/), [here](http://nation.time.com/2013/07/25/the-health-care-proposal-that-spawned-the-death-panels-lie-is-back/) and [here](http://swampland.time.com/2011/06/02/gop-to-obama-end-the-mediscare-strategy/), the new health care law contains no death panels. The Independent Payment Advisory Board, a government panel that may determine some Medicare payments rates, is expressly banned from rationing care. 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