Monday, January 3, 2011

Those Awful Death Panels Are Back

Despite the fact that their original death panel provision within the ObamaCare system was "repealed," President Obama and his administration have quietly reinstated the very same provision in the form of regulations. How? Under a Medicare regulation, doctors will advise patients on options for end-of-life care, which may include advanced directives to forgo life-sustaining treatment.  These consultations are supposedly voluntary, which is why the Obama administration has been able to justify them. However, they're actually not completely voluntary.  While patients are given the option to say, "no," they will still be approached by doctors with these options, whether or not they asked for them in the first place.  Thus, the government will try to recruit doctors to sell living wills and hospice care to unsuspecting elderly patients.  Unless ObamaCare is repealed, these "voluntary" consultations will start to look more and more like death panels in the near future. 
Read more at The New American.

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