An excellent article in the Wall Street Journal about the Death Panels.  h/t Charlie Sykes writes.

I thought there was some hyperbole about “Death Panels.”  Liberals are wrongly thinking that conservatives are objecting to the specific provisions in the health care reform that make everyone have a conversation with their doctor about “end of life” issues.  That’s probably a good provision–people should have a will and a healthcare power of attorney to make sure that their loved ones know their wishes and can make the right decisions and feel as though they carried out the wishes of their loved ones.

But I don’t think that is what conservatives who are showing up at townhall meetings are all ticked off about when they shout they don’t want “death panels.”  They are using this phrase to refer to all of the collective government decisionmaking in our healthcare that Obamacare will bring.  Those provisions may not even be in the bills, but they are might as well be–they are created by the logic of a situation where the government is trying to dramatically cut costs, increase the number of people who are covered, and, to do so, take more control over all of our healthcare.  You can’t do all of those things without government making rationing decisions; whether they are as organized as “death panels” is yet to be seen.