All it is, and was meant to be is a transfer of power. Communism is some sick stuff, and health care issued by the state, and death panels are all part of communism. Death panels are real under government health care. The UK has them, and they are coming here. In the UK they use secret do not resuscitate orders. They delay treatment for cancer. Age of a patient is looked at before anything else, and the fact is a government health care system does not have the money to treat the elderly, and many of them have their life deemed worthless.
This evilness will start out subtle, until the protocol is to just give you a magic pill or shot, without the family even being notified. It will be common for government criminals to hurt your family to feed theirs. The reason its kept quiet, and the reason for it to start out subtle is to not get the masses in an uproar, because that would damage their plan. They have to get the masses to slowly accept it, and agree that death panels are needed so there is health care for you and your children. I figure it will be accomplished rather easy without much fuss. People are easily duped into governments plan. Just look where we are now. Many already believe that government is the answer, and provider for everything.