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Sarah Palin’s “death panel” claim has cast a long shadow: The Obama administration has dumped end-of-life planning from its Medicare regulations. The deletion comes just days after the new policies took effect, despite the fact that doctors and providers of hospice care approved of the measure. The White House, already suiting up to defend the health-care bill against GOP attempts to repeal it, apparently didn’t want to be vulnerable on this issue.