Most GOPers wrongly think reform will require elderly to decide how and when to die

Congratulations, conservative leaders: most Republicans believe your lies.  

The poll [by the Indiana University Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research] finds that 53% of Republicans believe that “the government will require the elderly to make decisions about how and when they will die.” By contrast, only 31% of independents and 14% of Democrats believe this, according to this poll of 600 adults nationwide.

Note the word “require.” A majority of Republicans believes that the health care reform will force old people to decide in advance “how and when they will die.” This is far more out there than anything we’ve seen polled before.

This goes even farther than Sarah Palin, who famously said that Obama’s death panels would be empowered to decide whether people “are worthy of health care.” This poll, by contrast, asked about the ultimate real fever swamp theory: That health care reform would empower government to force people to pick a date for their rendevous [sic] with destiny.

A majority of Republicans believes this. And, disturbingly, nearly a third overall, or 31%, believe it, too.

How very proud they must be.

Is now a good time to start holding our local leaders accountable for their help in propagating this junk?  Or does that pick up when the disturbing numbers listed above get a little higher?