Are death panels on the rebound? Obamacare envisioned Medicare paying physicians to discuss end-of-life-care with their patients. When this sparked fierce blowback from citizens who feared that death panels would ration care to elderly patients, the Administration backed off.
The Return of Death Panels? Government-Funded End-of-Life Planning Is Morally Questionable
Also published in Forbes Wed. September 24, 2014
John R. Graham is a former Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute.
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