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A Q&A on Medicare end-of-life-care talk

 

 

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 “Young Man with a Skull,” by Frans Hall.

Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer  talks about his longterm effort to get Medicare to reimburse physicians for talking with patients and their families about their wishes for end-of-life care.

Amid assertions by some Republican foes that this talk constituted “death panels,” the provision has been held up for years, but the Obama administration is now implementing it.

Congressman Blumenauer here talks about his belated victory and why he believes that people need to talk about, and decide on, end-of-life care long before they need it.

 

 


But not ‘death panels’

 

Medicare plans  to reimburse doctors for conversations with patients about if and how they would want to be kept alive if they became too sick to speak for themselves.

The proposal, similar to ones that led some Republicans to label them “death panels”  during the height of their angry attacks on the Affordable Care Act, is expected to be approved.


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