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When President Barack Obama passed the Affordable Care Act, opponents accused the new bill of including \u201cdeath panels.\u201d Now President Donald Trump is including measures that by the same logic could also be considered death panels \u2014 and, according to a conservative commentator, those same critics are quiet.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA new regulatory proposal from the Trump administration, first reported by Maya Goldman in Axios, would instruct hospitals to record end-of-life preferences in patient electronic health records\u2014and then, potentially, include compliance as one of the factors for adjusting Medicare\u2019s \u2018value-based\u2019 payments in the future,\u201d opined The Bulwark\u2019s Jonathan Cohn on Sunday. \u201c\u2018The goal of this measure is to establish advance care planning as a normalized, routine part of care regardless of health status and age,\u2019 the proposal says, according to the Axios report.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cohn added, \u201cOn the merits, encouraging end-of-life planning makes as much sense in 2026 as it did back in 2009\u2014which is to say, it makes a lot of sense. Only about one-third of American adults under the age of 60 currently have written versions of such arrangements, according to Pew, even though studies suggest the vast majority would prefer to have these conversations in advance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet Cohn noted that when Obama adviser Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel advocated similar policies during the Affordable Care Act debate, he was viciously attacked by conservatives for backing so-called death panels.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEmanuel was the object of repeated personal attacks in 2009, with some critics calling him \u2018Doctor Death,\u2019\u201d Cohn wrote. \u201cI asked if Trump\u2019s embrace of the proposal means that the title now belongs to Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician who is also administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). \u2018Not at all,\u2019 Emanuel responded. \u2018I respect the fact that he\u2019s trying to figure out how he can facilitate and incentivize these conversations. He\u2019s a docto,r and he understands the kind of incentive structure out there. And I think it\u2019s pretty bold of him.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Cohn closed with the observation, \u201cThat is a lot more magnanimity than Emanuel\u2019s critics showed him back in the day. It\u2019s also a reminder of what trying to govern in good faith looks like\u2014a reminder that is all too necessary now, for reasons Oz made clear when he recently made news in another way.\u201d<\/p>\n

In December, Trump\u2019s Republican Party continued to struggle in Congress to figure out if, and if so how, to extend Obamacare subsidies, after during the previous month a bill that would have extended subsidies fell apart reportedly due to House Republicans feeling left out of the process.<\/p>\n

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