Hey, remember when Sarah Palin said that Obamacare had "Death Panels" in it and everyone on the Left thought she'd really lost her mind? Well, she didn't and now the Left are suddenly very quiet about the fact that the death panel verbiage that was once yanked out of the Healthcare Law is being written back in, only under the new name, "end of life planning," to be added into the new law...... quietly coming soon to a hospital near you. Here's the tricky part. No one is supposed to know, mainly you.
"Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare regulation, the government will pay doctors who advise patients on options for end-of-life care, which may include advance directives to forgo aggressive life-sustaining treatment.
Congressional supporters of the new policy, though pleased, have kept quiet. They fear provoking another furor like the one in 2009 when Republicans seized on the idea of end-of-life counseling to argue that the Democrats’ bill would allow the government to cut off care for the critically ill."
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"Several Democratic members of Congress, led by Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, had urged the administration to cover end-of-life planning as a service offered under the Medicare wellness benefit. A national organization of hospice care providers made the same recommendation.
Mr. Blumenauer, the author of the original end-of-life proposal, praised the rule as “a step in the right direction.” "
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