GovtSlaves
by Tami Luhby
The Obama administration wants to pay Medicare doctors who talk to their patients about death.
This highly controversial proposal to foster end-of-life planning discussions — which Sarah Palin and Republican lawmakers decried as creating “death panels” in 2009 — would pay doctors to have 30-minute meetings with patients and family members to discuss so-called advance directives. This includes specifying the patient’s wishes concerning medical care and life support measures and designating a health care proxy if the patient is unable to make decisions.
