{"id":2517,"date":"2009-11-16T00:29:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T04:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2009-11-16T00:29:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T04:29:14","slug":"my-near-death-panel-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/11\/16\/my-near-death-panel-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"My Near Death Panel Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earl Blumenauer has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/15\/opinion\/15blumenauer.html\">a great piece<\/a> in the New York Times right now, entitled <em>My Near Death Panel Experience<\/em>. He&#8217;s a Democrat representing Oregon in the House of Representatives, and helped to push for a provision to ensure that Medicare would cover the cost of one voluntary visit to discuss end-of-life issues, like living wills and such. Medicare currently does not cover this, but doctors on both sides of the aisle have said it&#8217;s really important.<\/p>\n<p>If this sounds vaguely familiar, it&#8217;s because this provision would turn into a giant controversy about death panels and forced euthanasia of the elderly, neither of which are even tangentially related to the text&#8217;s actual purpose. The article is a neat perspective into what also happened, but also leaves me worried about where things will go from here.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earl Blumenauer has a great piece in the New York Times right now, entitled My Near Death Panel Experience. He&#8217;s a Democrat representing Oregon in the House of Representatives, and helped to push for a provision to ensure that Medicare &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/11\/16\/my-near-death-panel-experience\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}