A Word Supporting Death Panels

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/07/death-panels-108553.html#.U7q25oXn8iG

"" A health-care system that promiscuously reimburses proton beam cancer therapies can finance a 45-minute conversation about your advanced-care directives. Some private insurers and state Medicaid programs already reimburse such consultations. So it's no surprise that the Illinois medical society, geriatricians, policymakers and advocacy groups are quietly pushing both private insurers and Medicare to reconsider the idea, this time through regulatory and administrative actions rather than new legislation. The American Medical Association—which plays an outsized role in determining how doctors are compensated—will also submit information to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services concerning the mechanics of reimbursing such services.
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First the system can't support " promiscuously reimbursing" of any kind. A political system with the ability to impose a death sentence promiscuously, is too powerful to control. We have seen the abuse of the IRS, who is to say your death sentence isn't related to your protected speech.

And why do we need death panels? If our life was limited by our finances, wouldn't that be fair? You could always purchase a health insurance with a death panel (from a trusted firm). The federal government is not trusted or trustworthy. The progressive self appointed ruling class even less so.