Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Right on cue....step one to death panels Date:   7/9/2015 9:10:42 AM

So dear leader has imperially decided to have Medicare pay for end of life counseling.  Sounds reasonable, right?  Pay for doctors and counselors to give seniors advice on end of life options.  No problem there.  But wait, of course we must make sure the counselors are properly "trained".  Said training will initially be benign and mostly helpful.  Over time, the ACA panel will modify the training to direct people to avoid costly and "unnecessary" treatment that might extend their lives.  Then the final evolution to the counselors telling seniors what treatment they can and cannot have based on the guidance.   Take the blue pill Grandma............

Mark this announcement as the first step to death panels under the guise of end of life counseling.  All evil is wrapped in the veneer of some good.  How quickly this happens depends on who our next president is.  If it is Hillary, before the end of her first (and hopefully last) term the counseling will evolve into mandating what level of care and treatment seniors can get.  And that my friends is the death panel.  And then our final negative prediction about Obamacare (to go along with the dozens of others that have already happened) will too become a reality.  Repeal and replace before it is too late.