“A year ago this month, the government increased control over one of the most highly personal healthcare decisions an individual can make when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began paying doctors to counsel patients about end-of-life care,” said King. “Allowing the federal government to marry its need to save dollars with the promotion of end-of-life counseling is not in the interest of millions of Americans who were promised life-sustaining care in their older years in exchange for their compelled funding of the program during their working years.
Furthermore, this exact provision was removed from the final draft of Obamacare in 2009 as a direct result of public outcry. The worldview behind the policy has not changed since then and government control over this intimate choice is still intolerable to those who respect the dignity of human life. My legislation prohibits Medicare payments for end-of-life counseling, blocking this harmful regulation before our government imposes yet another life-devaluing policy on the American people. ”
The bill would amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exclude coverage of advance care planning services under the Medicare program. Republicans have called end-of-life planning conversations “death panels” in the past.
This guy is an embarrassment to the state of Iowa and the Republican Party.
I guess you don’t like him and that makes you in the minority, because a lot of people do. He keeps getting re-elected over and over and over.
Put him in another district and his popularity would decrease dramatically. And it is dropping any way. He will implode soon.
Liberals have been saying and hoping that for years. Yet, he gets re-elected every time.
Eventually someone will come along who appeals to both the right and left and Stevie will be gone.
No where are there any laws on the books that limit the number of dumb-asses allowed to vote in a specified congressional district.
Prime example:
Iowa’s 4th congressional district
If there was people like you couldn’t and shouldn’t vote.
Got to admit one thing about you LVS, you are consistent in your ignorance & stupidity.
Thank you. Coming from a low life like you that is a compliment.
Discussing end of life care with your doctor is medically related. Where better to get the information needed to make informed decisions? For those that don’t like “Obamacare” but like the ACA, they are the same. The majority in Congress should have spent the last several years trying to improve the ACA rather than just repealing it. Many items in the ACA will remain in any new “healthcare” bill but the wealthy will benefit since it will be more “privatized” and the upper, middle, and low income earners will suffer monetary losses. Conservatives — please stay out of my healthcare decisions and personal life since you want a smaller, less controlling government.
Once again the republican’s say” Stay out of our lives unless we think your wrong then we will tell you what to do” hypocrites united
If it is requested by the patient or family it should be paid for.
Nooooo the working folk don’t need to pay for your doctor bills.
We have paid and continue to pay for medicare ourselves as well as the supplemental insurance that is needed.
Enjoy your Medicare coverage now because it will soon be history. Big Business including Insurance Giants are gonna run the Trump show and your private insurance premiums will suck you dry. Read between the lines on what King is advocating.
Bull shit. That is nothing but scare tactics from the people who raped us with Obamacare.
If you got raped you asked for it.
Yes, insurance should pay for it. And then it can be div’d up umongst the rest of us paying premiums