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.
Feds want to pay Medicare doctors who talk about death - Jul. 8, 2015
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