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We have to make it clear to everybody that this provision does one single factor: it allows physicians to be compensated for having these discussions. These discussions occur anyway – compensated or not. However they should occur more. And maybe one of many reasons they don’ occur sufficient is that there is regularly no manner for physicians to be reimbursed for them.

OUR nation is now engaged in an ideal debate about the way forward for health care in America. And over the past few weeks, much of the media attention has been targeted on the loudest voices. What we have not heard are the voices of the millions upon thousands and thousands of Americans who quietly battle daily with a system that always works better for the …