ObamaCare Surprise: Medicare Death Panels Kick in January 1st

All Our Palms Are Blinking Red
All Our Palms Are Blinking RedSunday, December 26th, 2010 …and LastDay is coming for us, here in the City of Domes. Soon we will participate in Carousel, and reach Sanctuary. If you try to run, the Sandmen will come for you and then you will not find Sanctuary. The fact that such a Controversial change was kept quiet for so long, and that the Obama Administration took steps to keep it quiet, is most troublesome of all. What are we talking about? The End-Of-Life counseling that was part o...

Hushed up, but coming on January1: death panels?
Ah, the finessing of the euphemisms, The new rule says Medicare will cover “voluntary advance care planning,” to discuss end-of-life treatment, as part of the annual visit. This is from a NYTimes article today, Obama Returns to End-of-Life Plan That Caused Stir (emphasis added) When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “Death Panels,” Democrats dropped it from Legislation to overhaul the Health Care system. But the Obama Administration wi

No Obamacare Death Panels Eh? An ObamaCare Surprise, They Begin Jan 1 Obama added regulation-writing process without telling an
Welcome to Logan’s Run … Barack Obama Healthcare Carosel Edition , aka Obama Healthcare You Lie, again   So America, you thought that the “end-of-life” care language was dropped from ObamaCare? If you said yes, you would be wrong. Obama and Democrats claimed that it had been dropped because of the outrage from the people. However, like most everything these people do, they snaked it in under the cloak of darkness through the Regulation-writing process without telling any

Obama death panels, advance health care directives and end of life planning
 The so-called "Obama Death Panels" are back in the news. Under new health regulations recently issued by the Obama Administration, Medicare recipients will be offered voluntary end-of-life planning, and an opportunity to issue advance Health Care directives. Democrats, lacking the courage of their convictions, dropped plans for similar measures from last year's Health Care reform Legislation. Uniformed and deliberately misleading criticism by Republicans, such as former half-term Alaska Go...

Fiat
When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “Death Panels,” Democrats dropped it from Legislation to overhaul the Health Care system. But the Obama Administration will achieve the same goal by Regulation, starting Jan. 1. 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....

Obamacare Scare * Open Thread
We hope you had a warm, loving Christmas Eve and Day … Don’t miss Larry Johnson on the radio tonight … Oh no! The “end of life” issue is being regenerated by Obama et al. … and my views on how the elderly’s medical needs should be treated, even if they’re old as the hills (or what I’ve learned from my mother, my father and my aunts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oh. My. God. Obama and his henchwoma...

Medicare regulation revives end-of-life planning
WASHINGTON—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 co...

Great News: ObamaCare Death Panels Kick in January 1
Just don't call them Death Panels. That might upset the ghouls on the left. They're now end-of-life care. To paraphrase Alan Grayson, Obama just wants you to die quickly.When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from Legislation to overhaul the Health Care system. But the Obama Administration will achieve the same goal by Regulation, starting Jan. 1. Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare Regulation, the...

Surprise! End-of-life advisory incentives return through regulation
Better get used to this process, because it’s how President Obama will be pushing his agenda on all fronts.  The New York Times reports today that the White House will create incentives for doctors to discuss “options” for end of life care through Regulation, after Congress removed the incentives from ObamaCare: 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 adva...

Medicare Will Pay for End-of-Life Talks
New Medicare guidelines allow doctors to get reimbursed for holding voluntary end-of-life consultations with patients during annual medical checkups. The inclusion of more extensive end-of-life consultations in early drafts of the Democrats' health-care Legislation last year sparked Controversy—former vice-presidential Candidate Sarah Palin characterized them as "Death Panels—and the Democrats withdrew them. The draft legislative language on what is known as advance-care planning wou...

ObamaCare: Section 1233 Is Still Alive and Kicking
Remember when Sarah Palin used the term "Death Panels" while ObamaCare was being debated and loaded-up in the Congress before it was passed? She was loudly laughed at and ridiculed ... Yet, that part of the then bill, Section 1233, was dropped. However, as with anything in the Congress in general, and the Democrats in aprticular, nothing ever is simply thrown out, but slipped up the sleeve to be played later: WASHINGTON - When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political ...

Christmas weekend news dump: Welcome back, death panels!
It's only fitting the Obama Administration waited until Christmas weekend to drop this news on us. Obviously, fewer people are paying attention, but it's the symbolic contrast between this and the message of the holiday that really stands out: When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “Death Panels,” Democrats dropped it from Legislation to overhaul the Health Care system. But the Obama Administration will achieve the same goal by Regulation...

Happy New Year: Obamacare Death Counseling Will Begin On January 1st
When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “Death Panels,” Democrats dropped it from Legislation to overhaul the Health Care system. But the Obama Administration will achieve the same goal by Regulation, starting Jan. 1. 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...

HCR -- Advance Directives Again
By John Ballard Heads up.  The provision excised from PPACA thanks to the "Death Panels" furor has been reinstated via an executive rule change. And yes, the noise machine is back in action as a quick check at Memeorandum will attest. Here is a link to the story. When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from Legislation to overhaul the Health Care system. But the Obama Administration will achie...

Obama administration installing "death panels."
- Jennifer of Cubachi After all the criticisms against Sarah Palin for calling out the Death Panels in ObamaCare, turns out she was right after all. The Obama Administration is planning to install "end of life counseling" into the Healthcare Bill. ...

Upcoming Obama Regulation Will Likely Revive Death Panels Rhetoric
Get ready to hear Talk Show hosts and others charge the Obama Administration with ushering in “Death Panels.” You betchya: When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from Legislation to overhaul the Health Care system. But the Obama Administration will achieve the same goal by Regulation, starting Jan. 1. Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare Regulation, the government will pay doctors who advi...

Uh Oh, Death Panel "Myth" That "Died" - Not So "Mythical" After All
Coming on one of the slowest news days of the year and a day when most aren't paying attention, comes news that the terms of Controversial section 1233 of the House version of ObamaCare are to return by regulatory fiat. In other words, it indeed appears that Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer... And Obama, after all. It's high time that people realize that the Obami talk about government panels recommending end-of-life treatments with one eye on efficacy - and the other on expense ... and more l...

US 'Death panels' could be reintroduced
A Controversial proposal that was dropped from President Barack Obama's Health Care reform after it led to claims of 'Death Panels' being set up is to be introduced using a new United States government Regulation....

Under the Christmas Tree This Year? The Return of 'Death Panels'
HADDONFIELD, N.J., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A New Jersey collector said he bought a rare Honus Wagner Baseball card from . . . Go Some ObamaCare cheerleaders (including the president) insist that Governor Romney's 2006 Massachusetts "reform" was the forerunner of ObamaCare (and Gov. Romney . . . Go ...

End of Life Care Revived
End of life care, known as "Death Panels" to the irrational and manipulative, will be alive and well under a new Medicare Regulation: 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 ...

Obama, Dems impose back door death panels
Image by Getty Images via @daylife NY Times: When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “Death Panels,” Democrats dropped it from Legislation to overhaul the Health Care system. But the Obama Administration will achieve the same goal by Regulation, starting Jan. 1. 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 directive...

Death Panel By Obama Regulation Hidden From The Public Deliberately
"If you have another Heart Attack and your heart stops beating, would you want us to try to restart it? Do you want to go on a breathing machine for the rest of your life? When the time comes, do you want us to use technology to try and delay your death?"--- Dr. Maria J. Silveira via NYT article. The New York Times reports that the end-of-life planning portion of ObamaCare which was dropped from the Health Care bill when a firestorm was created after Sarah Palin pointed out the likelihood of "...

This time they'll call it government over-reach
I always thought one of the stupidest battles in the Health Care reform fight was over the so-called "Death Panels" which was ultimately named "The Lie of 2009." It appears this very useful counseling will survive after all. It couldn't be enacted by law, but end of life counseling will be enabled by Regulation starting January 1, 2010. 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 includ...

Obama-Care Death Panels Return January 1st
Just when you thought it was safe to get old, the Obama-Care ‘Death Panels’ have returned and will take effect on January 1st, 2011. Under a new Medicare Regulation, the Federal Government will pay doctors who consult and advise Medicare patients on ‘end-of-life-care’. Translated, this means establishing criteria for ‘do-not-resuscitate’ or DNR guidelines for each patient. Mind you, that’s not a bad thing to have, but the question looming is just how volunt...

No death panels in ObamaCARE? Not until January 1st when end-of-life care begins anyway
No Death Panels in ObamaCare? Not until January 1st when end-of-life care begins anyway Remember all those in the lame stream media including the New York Times laughed off Sarah Palin’s claim that ObamaCARE would lead to Death Panels like they have in England with NHS? Remember when Palin was called dumb and stupid for such a statement that it lead to Democrats to remove the “end of life” care being dropped from the original ObamaCARE bill? Well guess what, It’s baaack...