Paul Ryan Tries To Revive the “Death Panel” Canard

Ryan Revives "Death Panels" Canard - Jesse Singal, The Daily Beast

"Ryan, the presumptive Republican vice-presidential candidate, told an audience at Florida's largest retirement development that Obama's health care law "puts a board of 15 unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats in charge of Medicare who are required to cut Medicare in ways that will lead to denied care for current seniors.""

"It's a wonkier variation of Sarah Palin's 2009 assault, which she's returned to since, on Obama's "death panels,""

"Of course, it's not true."  If that is not true, what do they do?

I looked in vain for some support for the "not true" conclusion. Is the author saying there is not some kind of 15 person panel.  And is that panel not supposed to lower health care costs. Were I to argue on the side of "not true", my argument would be that while restricting medical treatment will indeed result in some deaths, this has always been the case.  The only change is who does the deciding. Native Americans left there old to die when they became a burden on the community (but with the old persons agreement). I must not have my heart in it because that sounds lame to me, even. How much lamer is the "of course" assertion.

I assert there is in fact a law passed that in fact sets up a 15 person panel, whose ruling cannot be overruled.  A group that can't be overruled might well assign you to "end of Life" (if the "death" word is to harsh.)