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tazzygirl -> RE: Palin's Latest Health Care Lie (3/22/2010 10:01:10 PM)
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this is where your ignorance is showing. Those counseling sessions included health care power of attorney discussions, living wills, what steps to take to protect your children from having to make the decision for you. Or, in other words, Advanced Directives.
The oldest is the living will, dating back to 1969. Shocking!
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A living will usually provides specific directives about the course of treatment that is to be followed by health care providers and caregivers. In some cases a living will may forbid the use of various kinds of burdensome medical treatment. It may also be used to express wishes about the use or foregoing of food and water, if supplied via tubes or other medical devices. The living will is used only if the individual has become unable to give informed consent or refusal due to incapacity. A living will can be very specific or very general. An example of a statement sometimes found in a living will is: “If I suffer an incurable, irreversible illness, disease, or condition and my attending physician determines that my condition is terminal, I direct that life-sustaining measures that would serve only to prolong my dying be withheld or discontinued.”
More specific living wills may include information regarding an individual's desire for such services such as analgesia (pain relief), antibiotics, hydration, feeding, and the use of ventilators or cardiopulmonary resuscitation. However, studies have also shown that adults are more likely to complete these documents if they are written in everyday language and less focused on technical treatments.[21]
Living wills proved to be very popular, and by 2007, 41% of Americans had completed a living will.[22] In response to public needs, state legislatures soon passed laws in support of living wills in virtually every state in the union.[23]
However, by the late 1980s public advocacy groups became aware that many people remained unaware of advance directives[24] and even fewer actually completed them.[25][26] In part, this was seen as a failure of health care providers and medical organizations to promote and support the use of these documents.[27] The public’s response was to press for further legislative support. The most recent result was the Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990,[28] which attempted to address this awareness problem by requiring health care institutions to better promote and support the use of advance directives.[23][29]
However, as living wills began to be better recognized, key deficits were soon discovered. Most living wills tended to be limited in scope[30] and often failed to fully address presenting problems and needs.[31][32] Further, many individuals wrote out their wishes in ways that might conflict with quality medical practice.[33] Ultimately, it was determined that a living will alone might be insufficient to address many important health care decisions. This led to the development of what some have called “second generation” advance directives[30] – the “health care proxy appointment” or “medical power of attorney.”
The HORROR!!!
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United States
In the United States, most states recognize living wills or the designation of a health care proxy.[97] For example California does not recognize a living will but instead uses an Advanced Health Care Directive.[98] However, a "report card" issued by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2002 concluded that only seven states deserved an "A" for meeting the standards of the model Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act.[99] Surveys show that one-third of Americans say they've had to make decisions about end-of-life care for a loved one.[100]
In Pennsylvania on Nov. 30, 2006, Governor Edward Rendell signed into law Act 169, which provides a comprehensive statutory framework governing advance health care directives and health care decision-making for incompetent patients.[101] As a result, health care organizations make available a "Combined Living Will & Health Care Power of Attorney Example Form from Pennsylvania Act 169 of 2006."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_health_care_directive
All the bill did was provide an avenue for Physicians to set aside time to talk to their patients without having to rush through an exam... and for the Drs to actually get paid for that consultation. My god!!! with the way the republican party has been screaming about Drs losing money, you would think this one part would make you happy!
Amazing how all these directives and legal paperwork was all in effect long before Obama took office, yet you are just NOW screaming about death panels?
Shit or get off the pot. you cant have it both ways.
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