SR: Medicare Made Right Decision

It’s perhaps fitting that in the same week Sarah Palin shut down her subscriber-based online channel, Medicare announced it will reimburse health care providers for talking with patients about what care they want after they become too ill to speak for themselves. The wise and too-long-delayed decision to pay doctors for engaging patients in discussions about end-of-life care was a feature of the proposed Affordable Care Act before the former vice presidential candidate took to Facebook and denounced the policy as the formation of “death panels.” The fact-checking website of the St. Petersburg Times, Politifact.com , dubbed the death-panel claim its “Lie of the Year for 2009,” but the damage was done. Congress removed the proposal from the bill/ Spokesman-Review Editorial Board . More here .

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