Obama To Enact End-Of-Life Planning For Medicare
WASHINGTON — When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Jan. 1.
Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare regulation, the government will pay doctors who advise patients on options for end-of-life care, which may include advance directives to forgo aggressive life-sustaining treatment.
Medicaid Bonuses To Reward States For Insuring More Children
The Obama administration plans to announce Monday that it will make $206 million in bonus Medicaidpayments to 15 states — with more than a fourth of the total going to Alabama — for signing up children who are eligible for public health insurance but had previously failed to enroll.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/27/health/policy/27medicaid.html?tntemail1=y&emc=tnt&pagewanted=print
Can Congress Make You Buy Broccoli? And Why That’s A Hard Question
Wendy K. Mariner, J.D., M.P.H., George J. Annas, J.D., M.P.H., and Leonard H. Glantz, J.D.
The continuing uncertainty over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), illustrated by conflicting trial court rulings and scholarly commentaries, raises the question of why this constitutional question is so hard to answer. There are at least four reasons.
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