Rep. John Mica (R-FL) is soldiering on with the right wing claims that health care reform legislation would include provisions for “death counselors.”
Mica told a local radio station, “There are death counselors. There is authorization for reimbursement for those counselors for Medicare. You have a whole new cottage industry.”
Mica is presumably referring to a provision in the House bill which would allow Medicare to reimburse doctors for counseling sessions in which they discuss end of life care, living wills and the like with patients.
