Of those who received prescriptions, 72 have died — 51 after taking the medications. Of those who died most had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
NYTs on end-of-life care and the career of UW researcher Dr. Walter Stamm
By Kate Steadman August 14, 2009 The furious controversy over Medicare payments for end-of-life care counseling stems from Section 1233 in the health bill passed by three House committees. Related article: Doctors Providing End of Life Counseling See Benefit in Current Controversy That language would amend the Social Security Act, which also governs Medicare, the [...]
By Jessica Marcy August 14, 2009 The paragraphs, buried deep in the 1,000-page House health reform bill, appear innocuous, but they have ignited a firestorm among critics predicting government-sponsored euthanasia. The controversy, over proposed Medicare funding of end-of-life counseling, has come to epitomize some of people’s deepest fears about the government’s role in health care. [...]
By Julie Rovner, NPR News August 13, 2009 This story is from KHN partner NPR The story has spread so fast even President Obama got asked about it at one of his town hall meetings. But no, the health care overhaul bill now working its way through Congress would not require seniors to learn how [...]
Today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer features two op-ed piece taking opposing sides on Initiative 1000. If passed, the measure, which is on this Nov. 4 ballot, would allow physicians to write prescriptions for a lethal dose of medication for terminally ill adults who wish to take their own lives.
Both Seattle papers today have run features on Initiative 1000, the November ballot measure that would allow terminally ill adults who wish to end their own lives to obtain lethal prescriptions from physicians. One article looks at the role religious groups are playing in the Washington debate; the other at the impact a similar “Death [...]
The Seattle Times has run a two-article series on the debate over Initiative 1000, which, if passed by voters this Nov. 4, will allow doctors to write prescriptions for a lethal dose of medication to competent adults with a terminal illnesses so they can end their lives if they wish.
This November Washingtonian state voters will vote on whether to allow terminally ill adults to obtain a prescription for a lethal dose of medications to end their lives. Supporters of the ”Death with Dignity” initiative, designated I-1000, say the measure will give the terminally ill some control over how they die. But opponents say passage of initiative [...]
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