I heard someone just the other day scoff at the "mythical death panels" but they are real. What is a myth is the image that the Left has built up in their own mind -- a "death panel" consists of some number of doctors and bureaucrats sitting at a long table, reviewing medical files and sorting them into Life and Death piles. That's a myth. That will never happen.
But what is already happening are financial decisions at insurance companies, with pressure applied at hospitals, about medical choices and payments that will (or will not) be made. It's quiet and it's deniable. But it's a death panel.
Not a myth. It's here. Right now.