SEATTLE - The health care debate is having unintended consequences for a local attorney, who says he's receiving threats - even though he has nothing to do with any of the legislation.

The attorney, Rajiv Nagaich, blames the confusion over the health care debate.

He deals with living wills, which help people make life-or-death decisions beforehand - in case they are ever put on life support.

But somehow, he says, confused people believe he's promoting the violence and confrontations at recent town hall meetings about health care reform.

The arguments flared anew this week in Everett as Democratic Congressman Rick Larsen tried to explain what's on Congress' table at a town hall meeting there.

"If people have (health) insurance and a physician they like, they shouldn't have to change it," Larsen explained at the forum.

But in the parking lot outside the town hall meeting, people on opposite sides of the debate were shouting and waving signs. Some even hurled insults at each other.

And those are the kinds of shots that make the news, prompting President Obama to appeal for calm over the issue in his weekly address.

Now the heated debate is having a spillover effect on Nagaich, a law attorney and radio talk show host. He deals with living wills, estate planning and Medicare advice - not health care reform.

"And they are ignorantly, some people are, saying you talk about the same thing that the administration is talking about - so you must be part of the whole gestapo regime, which is not the case," Nagaich told KOMO News.

He's been critical of the president's health care package, but has not said whether he's for it or against it.

Nevertheless, this week he got a threatening message recorded on his office voice mail.

The anonymous caller said, "People like you need to be stopped because you are enabling a person who is planning to cause violence in our country. And your organization will be protested this weekend and we are going to go after you."

Says Nagaich: "This is nonsense. My wife looks at it, and she's afraid for our safety now."

No protest actually materialized at his seminar in Bellevue. And although Nagaich considers himself an outside player in the health care debate, the phone call has shaken his life.

"What we need to be doing is coming together to help people age better and live better," he says. "I have no skin in the game as to whether the administration does with the health care plan. It will be what it will be."

There is one element of Obama's plan that's like a living will - it lets you decide your own fate if you're incapacitated.

Opponents say the plan calls for "death panels" that would make that decision, but today the president denied again that there is such a thing in place.