[Innovative]

Welcome to Obamacare -- the objective is to deny people over 50 life-saving procedures and meds -- they just need to go off and die quietly.

There are no official "death panels", but that is the result of the more and more rules coming to light, sparked by Obamacare.

[Innovative]

Also see these articles which discuss that another new rule denied ALL Medicare drug payment to patients in hospices, then after an outcry, now they are “only” denying it for pain medications, expecting hospices to pick up the tab.

U.S. Medicare program scales back hospice drugs restrictions

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3182342/posts

Medicare Modifies Controversial Hospice Drug Rule (won’t pay for pain relief pills)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3182318/posts

See also:

Medicare Seeks To Stop Overpayments For Hospice Patients’ Drugs

May 1, 2014

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/stories/2014/may/01/new-medicare-procedures-seek-to-stop-overpayment-of-drugs-for-hospice-patients.aspx

“”Instead of leaving it to insurers and hospice providers to identify the drugs they are responsible for, the new rule sets up a process that requires Part D plans to reject initially any prescription from a hospice patient. The patient or doctor, with the hospice provider’s agreement, must explain to the insurer why the drug is not related to end-of-life care. The insurer may deny coverage for a number of reasons, including if the doctor or hospice did not explain sufficiently why the drug was unrelated to the terminal illness, Medicare officials told hospice organizations and insurers” “

[VanShuyten]

He sounds like one of those greedy doctors who like to amputate feet.

[Amagi]

The federal government will now fund in excess of $30,000 for citizens to house 5 disease-ridden, law-breaking, alien trespassers in the US, but utilizes the death panel to deny US Citizens access to a $30,000 health procedure for which they have had confiscatory taxes robbed from them for decades.
The federal government is totally out of control and beyond reprehensible.

[originalbuckeye]

Rationing care is what Obamacare is all about. I really wish that only those who voted for Obama would be denied care. Sadly, we all will be denied care in our later years. I have been paying into Medicare for nearly 5 decades so that the elderly would have to worry about healthcare. Now I will be denied care at the behest of this Government?? I HAVE PAID,IN ADVANCE, FOR MY MEDICAL CARE! If this Admin wants to give me back all the money I have paid into Medicare, that’s fine. I will use it to pay for my own medical care. If it runs out, fair enough. JUST GIVE IT BACK TO ME AND LET ME CHOOSE WHERE IT GOES!!

[originalbuckeye]

*wouldn’t have to worry*

[wintertime]

Can anyone spell *D*E*A*T*H***P*A*N*E*L***?

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

I work with Medicare's reimbursement rules every working day.

Under those rules, patients are welcome to get non-covered procedures provided that they pay for them with their own money.

And ya know what?? I am fine with that.