NRLC resources on rationing

This past November, Obama Administration official Donald M. Berwick, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, quietly issued a regulation that would have been used to nudge elderly patients to reject lifesaving treatments. NRLC has strongly opposed this controversial provision, known as Section 1223, and the provision did not end up in the final version of Obamacare. When the Obama Administration was unsuccessful in enacting this dangerous provision Donald Berwick, whom NRLC has called a "one-man death panel," used a regulation to do what Congress would not.

But late last night, an abrupt reversal by the Obama administration came when they decided to drop this dangerous "end-of-life care" provision which would have been used to nudge or pressure older people to agree to less and less expensive treatments. The sudden change shows that pro-life opposition can and will make a difference! Stay informed!