When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Jan. 1.

The Obama REGIME has been able to achieve its policy goal through the regulation-writing process, a strategy that will become more prevalent in the next two years as the REGIME deals with a strengthened Republican opposition in Congress.

Congressional supporters of the new policy, though pleased, have kept quiet. They fear provoking another furor like the one in 2009.


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