Obama administration reverses on end-of-life counseling

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WASHINGTON -- Reversing a potentially controversial decision, the Obama administration will drop references to end-of-life counseling from the ground rules for Medicare's new annual checkup, a White House official said Wednesday. The Times-Picayune/Eliot KamenitzPresident Barack Obama speaks at Xavier University...


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