by APFLI | Mar 29, 2016 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive, Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Comment: Note this quote from the article: “‘Aggregator cap’. Health care providers do not necessarily make more money for longer hospice stays. That’s because hospices are subject to an ‘aggregator cap’, which limits Medicare and Medicaid payments based...
by APFLI | Dec 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
This February [2015], The Supreme Court of Canada ruled unanimously that the Canadian law that makes it illegal for anyone to help people end their own lives should be amended to allow doctors to help in specific situations. The court gave federal and provincial...
by APFLI | Sep 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
On September 16, the American College of Physicians sent the following letter to California Governor Jerry Brown asking him to veto the End of Life Option Act (ABX2-15), which would legalize physician-assisted suicide. Dear Governor Brown, The American College of...
by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
As of July 2005, 14% of Medicare hospice providers were overdue for certification, according to an HHS Office of Inspector General report released 24Apr. [AP/Houston Chronicle]. The report used data from a 2005 survey of 2,537 active hospices. According to the report,...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
We hear often from assisted suicide advocates that most who die by doctor prescribed death in Oregon were in hospice–as if that makes it okay. I have indicated here and elsewhere, that this merely means assisted suicide facilitators have interfered with proper medical...
