"so why is the gummint FINANCING stuff that any doc will do as part of regular services NOW!"

I call bullshit. My GF is a nurse, in a long term nursing care facility. Most of the doctors she works with NEVER speak about such things, they avoid it like the the plague. And attempt to control other people's conversations. She's seen a lot of people die, poorly, painfully, in agony, because the Dr delayed these types of discussions.

This is daily issue. One that hits home. Find something you actually know about to whine about please.

But there is now an incentive for the parent corporation to setup a few specialists that can come in when requested. Which the nurses will do. It gets the staff Dr. off the hook, lets them deal with the day to day, while giving those people a chance of dying without being in agony.

Of course, you don't care about them, you are so sure it is merely a way for the feds to councel suicide.

Asshole.