 Sarah Palin is standing by her claim that Democratic-authored health care legislation includes the infamous "death panels" -- even after the assertion was labeled the "lie of the year" by a prize-winning fact checking organization. COMMENTS COME ABOUT SEVEN MINUTES IN: 
 
 The remarks come roughly two weeks after Palin took to her Facebook page to re-assert the validity of the much-criticized (and thoroughly debunked) death panel. "If the health care bill goes the way Obama wants it, we're gonna have something very much like foreign countries' systems of health care like the British, and it's the American people -- if we have our health care paid for by the bureaucracy, by government -- depending on our health condition, depending on our age -- we're gonna be subject to bureaucrats deciding, panels and commissions deciding -- just like they do overseas -- who will be worthy of receiving the health care that government is going to provide." The former Alaska governor told Sean Hannity, in a taping of the conservative firebrand's radio program on Wednesday, that she was "not gonna back off" the criticism that the health care bill would pursue cost saving measures by rationing end of life care.
– Sarah Palin yesterday vehemently reiterated her controversial criticism of "death panels" that she is convinced are part of health reform, reports Huffington Post. "If we have our health care paid for by the bureaucracy, depending on our health condition, depending on our age, we're going to be subject to bureaucrats deciding, in panels and commissions—just like they do overseas—who will be worthy of receiving the health care that government is going to provide," Palin says in the first of a two-part interview with Sean Hannity. "That is the death panel that I've referred to, and I won't back off on criticizing that aspect of the health care bill. It's a scary situation for us to be in. We can't give up. We have to be more vigilant than ever." Palin surmised the existence of "death panels"—a phrase coined by her—from optional end-of-life counseling to be paid for by Medicare mentioned in versions of the health care bill. The creation of death panels was recently named the No. 1 lie of the year by the St. Petersburg Times.