Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Medicare

The Obama, reverse, a regulation of insurance, revise references to the end of family planning as part of annual physical examination by the Bill of health, administration, delete covered has said on Tuesday.
The movement is a sudden change comes just days after the new policy came into force on 1 January.
Many doctors and providers of palliative care, the settlement, including "Advance Care Planning", praised as one of the services could be offered in the "annual welfare check" for Medicare beneficiaries.
Although officials cited procedural reasons for the amendment of the standard, it is clear that political considerations were also a factor. Resuming debate on advance care planning threatened a distraction for the administration officials in preparing for the right of health of the attack by the new Republican majority will defend in the House.
Although the bill does not mention the health adopted in March at the end of life planning, the theme was included in a Grand disease to determine the rate of payment of thousands of medical services. The final regulations were published in the Federal Register in late November. The proposed rule for public comment was published in July, does not advance care planning.
A government official in the White House the right to explain the confusion, said on Tuesday: "We are aware that it would have in the proposed rule must be made so that more people could have made specific comments."
"We will change the rules in order to have a voluntary plan of care before," the official said. "This should not affect the ability of recipients to volunteer to have these discussions with their doctors."
The regulation was published in November by Dr. Donald M. Berwick, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and a longtime advocate for better care at the end of his life. White House on health seems to work, not on the part of the standard focus, dealing with Advance Care Planning.
The decision to refer to the end of life retreat angered some officials of theDepartment of Health and Human Services, the government should encourage discussion of health care, said. These discussions help ensure that patient care, you want to receive them, according to authorities.
During the debate on the bill fell Democrats have a similar proposal to the end of life planning after triggering a political storm encouraged. Republicans, incorrectly said that the House version of the Act, a body of government can make decisions about care at the end of life of people with Medicare.
Sarah Palin, 2008 Republican candidate for vice president, said in summer 2009 that decide to 'the jury Obama death, "who was worthy of health care. Representative John A. Boehner, Ohio, the House Republican leader who is the President, on Wednesday, said that provision could be a step on a slippery slope toward euthanasia promoted by the government. "
The bill of health by the House in 2009 approved allowing Medicare to physicians for the discussion of management, are paying at the end of his life, including living wills, in which patients specify whether they want to give or receive aggressive treatment to support life.
The provision for Advance Care Planning was adopted not included in the reform of health care ultimately by President Obama. Health experts believe that the proposed policy had been canceled - was presented to a similar idea in the regulations of Medicare final in November.

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