Changes

Prior to ObamaCare, uninsured indigent patients would be subject to rationing of care dictated by the limited amount of charity funding available at local hospitals.  Insurance companies also rationed care by declining to authorize and reimburse procedures and treatments that they considered wasteful or experimental.

Prior to ObamaCare, uninsured indigent patients would be subject to rationing of care dictated by the limited amount of charity funding available at local hospitals.  Insurance companies also rationed care by declining to authorize and reimburse procedures and treatments that they considered wasteful or experimental.

===Eutanasia couched as "end of life planning"===

===Euthanasia couched as "end of life planning"===

:{{See also|Euthanasia}}

:{{See also|Euthanasia}}

The issue arose from the belief that, under [[Obamacare]], doctors are required to discuss end-of-life options with elderly patients, perhaps encouraging them to end their lives.  The claim, by Betsy McCaughey on a radio talk show in July, 2009, was that "Congress would make it mandatory ... That every five years, people in [[medicare]] have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner, how to decline [[nutrition]]."  What actually happened was that doctors would be compensated for giving advice, to patients that request it, about end-of-life planning.

The issue arose from the belief that, under [[Obamacare]], doctors are required to discuss end-of-life options with elderly patients, perhaps encouraging them to end their lives.  The claim, by Betsy McCaughey on a radio talk show in July, 2009, was that "Congress would make it mandatory ... That every five years, people in [[medicare]] have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner, how to decline [[nutrition]]."  What actually happened was that doctors would be compensated for giving advice, to patients that request it, about end-of-life planning.