Healthcare Triage: Planning for the End. Advance Directives or Death Panels?

Aaron Carroll

August 31, 2015

Death Panels! Got your attention, right? Well, although we’re going to discuss death panels a little, they’re not real. What are real are advance directives, and those are the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage.

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Health Policy
ACA, advanced directives, death panels

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

Healthcare Triage: Planning for the End. Advance Directives or Death Panels?

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