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It was? From the wikipedia article

>[...] proposed legislation would create a "death panel" of bureaucrats who would carry out triage, i.e. decide whether Americans—such as her elderly parents, or children with Down syndrome—were "worthy of medical care"

I'm not sure how you got estate planning and/or medical euthanasia from that.



I’m not saying anything about medical euthanasia, but - to your question - the Wikipedia article is inaccurate:

“Governor Palin’s Facebook post was about a proposal in the ACA that would allow Medicare to pay for patients to discuss living wills and other end of life issues with their doctor. Her statements helped create a huge political and public outcry that resulted in the language being removed from the final legislation and proves the impact and relevance of her statement. “In 2011, the Obama administration even deleted all references to end-of-life planning in a new Medicare regulation when opponents interpreted the move as a back-door effort to allow such planning.”

The IPAB was even specifically limited from making recommendations around healthcare rationing:

“ The ACA also places limits on the authority of the IPAB. The ACA states, “[t]he IPAB may not recommend rationing of healthcare, raising Medicare beneficiary premiums, cost sharing, or modifying eligibility criteria.”42 This is totally contrary to the “death panels” claim made by Governor Palin and illustrates the concern and confusion over the IPAB’s statutory and regulatory role. Also, Medicare specifically “withholds the power to regulate the practice of medicine from the federal government.” The IPAB has significant limitations on the scope of its proposals. So, as per ACA law, the IPAB cannot submit any proposals that would “ration care, modify Medicare eligibility criteria, raise costs to beneficiaries, change cost sharing for covered services, or restrict benefits in any way.”

Source: https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&htt...




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