MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'death panels'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:54:32 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4734056&cid=t_281165_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fa_GIYYw-QrM%2F By Michael F. CannonReporters at PolitiFact.com have used me as a resource half a dozen times or so when fact-checking something someone said about health care reform. Sometimes we disagree about where the truth lies, but I’ve always been happy to help. That changed recently, and I should let PolitiFact’s reporters know why. At the end of each year, PolitiFact sifts through the many claims its reporters have deemed untrue and selects one to be their Lie of the Year. The Lie of the Year award is easily PolitiFact’s biggest publicity-generator. In 2009, they picked Sarah Palin’s “death panels” claim. In 2010, they picked the claim that the new health care law is a “government takeover” of health care. Looking at those two Lies of the Year together brought a couple of things h... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4734056 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:42:57 +0100 4734056 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4394426&cid=t_281165_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FpZrn4cfxoEc%2F By Michael F. CannonIt would appear that I am the Liar of the Year. The fact-checking journalists at PolitiFact.com gave their 2010 Lie of the Year award to the notion that ObamaCare is “a government takeover of health care,” and in 2009 gave the same award to Sarah Palin’s “death panels” claim.  But as I explain in my latest column for Kaiser Health News, the fact-checkers left out a few facts.  Read the column to find out what PolitiFact missed.  Here’s my conclusion: From my vantage point, the evidence shows that ObamaCare is a government takeover of health care, and Sarah Palin’s “death panels” claim was essentially true. If that makes me Liar of the Year, so be it. But another way to look at it is this: PolitiFact has now misap... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4394426 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:27:30 +0100 4394426 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4314001&cid=t_281165_87_f&fid=38368&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aannet.org%2Ffiles%2Fpublic%2FAAN%2520Policy%2520Brief%2520-%2520Advance%2520Care%2520Planning.pdf By Diana J. Mason, PhD, RN. I was quite distressed to read in this morning’s news that the Obama Administration had reversed the new Medicare regulation that would pay for periodic conversations between physicians and patients about preferences for end-of-life care.  According to today’s New York Times, Speaker John Boehner said that  “the provision could be a step ‘down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia.’” Sara Palin started this rhetorical myth when she declared efforts to incorporate paying for such conversations under Medicare in the House health care reform bill (not included in the final law) as creating “death panels”. This lie is undermining advances that advocates for better end-of-life care have worked on ... Disruptive Women in Health Care blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4314001 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:11:39 +0100 4314001 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4300539&cid=t_281165_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FvLJOQQm0vRE%2F By Michael F. CannonRich Lowry has the right take on the Obama administration’s decision to have Medicare cover end-of-life counseling despite Congress’ rejection of the idea. The Real Problem with Those Non-Death Panels is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4300539 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:33:27 +0100 4300539 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4253136&cid=t_281165_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Frationed-care-denied-treatment-and-%25e2%2580%259cdeath-panels%2F2010.12.13 One of the canards slung at the Affordable Care Act is that it creates “death panels” that would allow the government to deny patients lifesaving treatments, even though two independent and non-partisan fact-checking organizations found it would do no such thing. I don’t bring this up now to rehash the debate, but because the New York Times had a recent story on Arizona’s decision to deny certain transplants to Medicaid enrollees — “death by budget cuts” in the words of reporter Marc Lacey. His story profiles several patients who died when they were unable to raise money on their own to fund a transplant. Lacey quotes a physician expert on transplants who flatly states: “There’s no doubt that people aren’t going to make it because of this decision.” Arizona Medic... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4253136 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:00:00 +0100 4253136 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4205936&cid=t_281165_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fend-of-life-wishes-how-to-engage-with-grace%2F2010.11.27 As patients, as family members, as friends, as health care providers, we have all faced end-of-life issues at one time or another, and we will face them again. And again.  This weekend the “Engage With Grace” message is being broadcast virally, through a “blog rally,” at a time when many people are with family and friends over the long weekend. The point is: We all need to have the potentially uncomfortable conversation with people close to us about what kind of treatment we would want, and they would want, if incapable of making or communicating healthcare decisions. CNN ran a story on “Engage With Grace” yesterday. End-of-life decision-making has long been an issue of great personal and professional interest to me, and I am proud to have played a r... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4205936 Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:00:00 +0100 4205936 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3861999&cid=t_281165_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FfrmQO2IL3NA%2F By Michael F. Cannon An article in today’s The USA Today titled, “With Many Still in Dark, Groups Shed Light on Health Care Law,” aims to correct misinformation about ObamaCare.  Ironically, the article is itself a monument to misinformation. It begins: True or false: The new health care law will cut Medicare benefits for seniors. It will slash Medicare payments to doctors. It will ration health care. In three polls conducted last month, large percentages of Americans answered “true” to each statement. All three are false. In fact, two of the three statements are 100-percent true. First, ObamaCare will cut payments to the private health insurance companies that provide coverage to the 20 percent of Medicare enrollees who participate in the Medicare Advantage ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3861999 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:45:39 +0100 3861999 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3542577&cid=t_281165_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FsszwWtaGPKk%2F By Michael F. CannonA correspondent for The Economist, whose initials are M.S., posts this on the Democracy in America blog: [T]he new health-care-reform law passed in March is an entirely private-insurer, free-market-based reform. If someone were to refer to it as a “government takeover of the health-care sector”, that person would hold a factually incorrect ideological belief. I wonder what convinced M.S. that the new health care law is an entirely free-market-based reform.  Was it the expansion of the government’s Medicaid program to another 16 million Americans?  Was it the 19-million-plus other Americans who will receive government subsidies to purchase private health insurance? Was it the new price controls that the law imposes on health insurance?  Or the price ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3542577 Fri, 07 May 2010 01:06:29 +0100 3542577 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3420444&cid=t_281165_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fi7lTLQjYZf8%2F By Michael F. CannonAs the nation contemplates the new health care entitlements that Congress and President Obama just created, it is worth noting an article in today’s Washington Post, which reports on the performance of past efforts to eliminate fraud in another health care entitlement: More than a decade ago, Congress set out to squeeze the fraud out of Medicare billing at nursing homes, requiring more precise justifications for costs. It created new “ultra-high” billing categories intended to be used for only 5 percent of the patients needing highly specialized care and rehabilitation. But within a few years, nursing homes flooded the ultra-high categories with patients, contributing to $542 million a year in potential overpayments, federal analysts found. Since then,... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3420444 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:48:23 +0100 3420444 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2715919&cid=t_281165_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F0S-SBIpu8OY%2F Don’t believe everything you read at The Plank — including the part about Sarah Palin’s “death panel” claim being a “lie.” Palin’s claim was a tad hyperbolic, but that does not change the fact that — as I explain in the Detroit Free Press — President Obama has proposed a new government panel that would enhance Medicare’s ability to deny care to the elderly and disabled based on government bureaucrats’ arbitrary valuations of those patients’ lives. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2715919 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:50:12 +0100 2715919 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2709117&cid=t_281165_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FyIliDWHWvas%2F “Death panels” are a dominant motif in the debate over health care regulation, a fact that spins off political flares like a roman candle. Extremists on both sides have taken their extreme positions: Some literally fear President Obama and his health regulation plans; others are outraged that anyone could possibly feel that way. Charges of special-interest organizing meet counter-charges of unfairness and false accusation. Good video from town hall meetings and volleys of “Nazi” and “socialist” give cable news networks another short reprieve from their long slow decline. It’s all manna for the writers at Comedy Central. But let’s talk substance: Health care is a scarce good, so it will always be rationed. The core question is whether governm... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2709117 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:22:54 +0100 2709117