Sunday, December 26, 2010

Medicare Revives End-of-life Planning

From the Associated Press:

A new health regulation issued this month offers Medicare recipients voluntary end-of-life planning, which Democrats dropped from the monumental health care overhaul last year.

The provision allows Medicare to pay for voluntary counseling to help beneficiaries deal with the complex and painful decisions families face when a loved one is approaching death.

But the practice was heavily criticized by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and some other Republicans who have likened the counseling to “death panels.”

The “voluntary advance care planning” is included in a Medicare regulation issued Dec. 3 that covers annual checkups, known as wellness visits. It goes into effect Jan. 1.

Read the whole thing here. Expect the Obama Administration to push the outer bounds of enacting policies by regulations and executive orders. Oversight of the federal bureaucracy should be jobs 1, 2, and 3 of the incoming Congress.

Source: "Big Government" via Glen in Google Reader

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