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By Michael McCarthy on December 27th, 2009
Health stories in the news
NYTs on end-of-life care and the career of UW researcher Dr. Walter Stamm
Tag: "Euthanasia"
By LocalHealthGuide on August 14th, 2009
What The House Health Bill Says About End-Of-Life Care
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.
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Doctors Providing End of Life Counseling See Benefit in Current Controversy
That language would amend the Social Security Act, which also governs Medicare, the federal program for the [...]
By LocalHealthGuide on August 14th, 2009
Doctors Providing End of Life Counseling See Benefit in Current Controversy
By Jessica Marcy
August 14, 2009
Photo Credit: Kaiser Health News
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 [...]
By LocalHealthGuide on October 24th, 2008
Op-ed Writers Debate “Death with Dignity” Initiative in the P-I
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.
Aida Kouyoumjian and Dr John H. Lindberg collaborated in a [...]
By LocalHealthGuide on September 16th, 2008
Washington’s Death with Dignity Act “not a slippery slope,” P-I op-ed
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 will lead [...]
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