Obamacare allows ‘death panels’ with nice names for local beaurocrats, who take over from your STATE agency (DSS) who controls the person, if even one complaint is filed against a caretaker, DPOA, or child... They appoint a Guardian of the Estate, and then they can fleece the person. Once the money is gone and no money left for nursing home, then that person is transferred from ‘DSS guardianship of the person” to” ‘local group (name?) guardian of the person’ by a court hearing. Then decisions for their care is made by that panel.
They counsel them in ‘end of life’ decisions.
Sarah Palin termed it ‘death panels’ as suicide is part of that ‘end of life’ decision. Dementia patients will sign anything.
That's all true. It's also true that between the screwed up coverage and the screwed up reimbursements, both doctors and patients could easily find some common ground in their private conversations.