Death Panels in action

From John Goodman's health blog at NCPA" Avoiding the Cure

Fact 1: “[A] molecule, called a peptide, blocks the metastasis of melanoma to the lungs and other organs…[and] also blocks angiogenesis, the creation of blood vessels that sustain metastatic tumors,…at least in lab animals.”

Fact 2: “Metastatic cancers…account for some 90 percent of all [human] cancer deaths.”

Fact 3: No one is trying to develop a version that humans can take.

Fact 4: “The chance of FDA approval for a newly discovered molecule, targeting a newly discovered disease mechanism, is a dismal 0.6 percent.”

Source: Newsweek

I'd say it's more like "Aborting the cure". In this case, the "death panel" doesn't tell people they can't have this or that treatment, it decrees this or that new treatment stillborn. And if the odds are long enough, people don't try.