The top Republican on the House committee charged with health care oversight is planning an investigation of the inclusion and subsequent removal of the controversial “death panels” from the Obamacare health care law.
Under the regulations the Obama administration put in place in December, doctors would instruct patients in the annual “voluntary” exams to write “advance directives listing the kind of treatment they wish to receive or not receive if they are unable to make their own medical decisions. After considerable pro-life backlash from those who worried physicians would pressure or persuade patients to make decisions that would ration care or withdraw lifesaving medical treatment, the Obama administration removed them from the regulations implementing Obamacare.
Though Obama administration officials cited procedural reasons for the decision, the New York Times indicated political considerations — the enormous outpouring of opposition — played a role.
Now, according to a new report in the Daily Caller, Rep. Fred Upton and three members of the Energy and Commerce Committee are investigating the situation. They wrote a letter on March 14 to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius saying her decision to add the panels
“without notice or public comment” shows “there appear to be no limits to [Sebelius’s] power” under Obamacare.
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