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That’s a question millions are asking after seeing the results of a Kaiser Family Foundation poll that showed that 41 percent of the public believes the Affordable Care Act created
“a government panel to make decisions about end-of-life care for people on Medicare.”
An equal number knew that no such panel existed and the rest didn’t know. If we assume that support for Obamacare among the 41 percent who believe in death panels is in the single digits, then support among the people who know that the ACA did not create death panels must be well over 70 percent.