Obama Regime: On Second Thought, Maybe We Won’t Use Death Panels…
Kinda proving our point, eh?…
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, reversing course, will revise a Medicare regulation to delete references to end-of-life planning as part of the annual physical examinations covered under the new health care law, administration officials said Tuesday.
The move is an abrupt shift, coming just days after the new policy took effect on Jan. 1.
Many doctors and providers of hospice care had praised the regulation, which listed “advance care planning” as one of the services that could be offered in the “annual wellness visit” for Medicare beneficiaries.
While administration officials cited procedural reasons for changing the rule, it was clear that political concerns were also a factor. The renewed debate over advance care planning threatened to become a distraction to administration officials who were gearing up to defend the health law against attack by the new Republican majority in the House.
Although the health care bill signed into law in March did not mention end-of-life planning, the topic was included in a huge Medicare regulation setting payment rates for thousands of physician services. The final regulation was published in the Federal Register in late November. The proposed rule, published for public comment in July, did not include advance care planning.
An administration official, authorized by the White House to explain the mix-up, said Tuesday, “We realize that this should have been included in the proposed rule, so more people could have commented on it specifically.”
Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, January 5, 2011, at 11:54 am | 
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This administration is killing me!
…LMAO!
The first of many reversals. Trying in vain to keep the whole damn thing from imploding.
Revise whatever you want, dickhead. It won’t matter. We are going to REPEAL IT ALL.
“Call my travel agent, this sheets hard”
Here we go again. The Republicans (Conservatives) busy themselves with lies and non-issues so much, they don’t have time to deal with important matters.
If you want to be entertained, watch FOX, MSNBC, or CNN. If you want real news and analysis, watch LinkTV or FreeSpeechTV.
Here is what happen.. Oh freaking shit we got caught again .. crap now we have to say were taking out the death panels even if we don’t ..
Now what about the payment for the Doctors that do the deathcare special?
Just another rotten fruit off the tree of Islam
When Medicare/Medicaid recipients start bitching about their poor quality of care (even BEFORE ZeroCare kicked in), I always tell them that Zero took $500 billion out of Medicare and put it in ZeroCare so we’ll ALL be on Medicare.
I’m going to add in the fact that 47 doctors’ hospitals under construction came to a grinding halt because the Medicare payments won’t be there to pay for them since HellCare passed.
Both of the women who bitch the most are welfare queens who voted for — guess who.
There aren’t any death panels, you neokkkons!
Er, rather, you read the bill wrong, you morons!
er, rather, you just don’t understand what Obama is doing in the bill!
er, rather, they’re there in form, but it’s not like anyone would ever use them…
er, rather they’re NOT there at all!
Er, yeah, they’re there but they’re necessary.
They’re not there!
Maybe we’ll take them out to try to keep the Right from repealing the whole thing.
@Iron Maiden
Awesome!
Didn’t the dems take it out once before,After Palin brought it up?
So I ask when will the dems quietly sneek it back in again. Under
some other name or Bill?
Roaddog., we are dealing with snakes.
I will be reading the bill, bu for now I agree with you all. It is tome to come together. United We Stand…..Let’s get it together…
I agree with John Costigan and Iron Maiden. It is ‘WAY” past the time that the only thing that matters is what party you belong to; this just makes sense. As John says, “It is time to come together. United We Stand….”. As everyone knows, the quote is “United we stand; divided we fall”. Get real and TRY to remenber this. I believe that the United States of America is still the most powerful country in the world, and we that we will all have to work together to maintain our status in this country and the world. If you want to blame President Carter, Reagen, Bush’s I and II, Clinton or Obama, it doesnt matter; this is where we are as a country and no matter whether or not we believe in the current President’s agenda, we must all come together and support him. The polorazation of our country needs to stop, now. Go and read a few books about the great depression, and see if you think our country wants to do that again. I guess by then China will own us and we just won’t have to worry about it anymore.
Avonne, we do not support Communism in this country. If you want to read something maybe you should read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
What could you possibly know about the depression?
The Chineese may own you but not red blooded Patriotic Americans
If you have children and you care for their future you need to change your attitude, and learn to take a stand.