Monday, August 24, 2015

DEEP DESIRE TO REDUCE HEALTH CARE SPENDING USING ADVANCE CARE PLANNING CAN MEAN PREMATURE DEATH

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Gundersen Lutheran Health System, a physician-led, not-for-profit integrated delivery system serving more than 550,000 people in Wisconsin,...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

“FALSE PREMISE” OF OVERTREATMENT IS PARTLY TO BLAME IN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION PUSH TO REIMBURSE DOCS FOR ADVANCE CARE PLANNING

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What is driving the current major nation-wide push, both in the private and public spheres, to promote “Advance Care Planning”?  One major ...
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Thursday, August 13, 2015

“FEAR OF LIVING WITH A DISABILITY” PUSHES REJECTION OF TREATMENT IN ADVANCE CARE PLANNING

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There is currently a major nation-wide push, both in the private and public spheres, to promote “Advance Care Planning”. There is strong rea...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Tax dollars could be spent to “nudge” older people to agree to premature death under Senate bill

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By Burke J. Balch, J.D., director, Powell Center for Medical Ethics at the National Right to Life Committee Last week, U.S. Senators Mark R....
Monday, May 18, 2015

Obamacare Rationing “Excess Benefits” tax threatens health care plans of state and city workers

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by Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics Most state and city government health care plans, as well as many other pla...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

New Study shows preemies can survive at earlier ages, but hospital attitude can mean life or death

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By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics A study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstr...
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Friday, April 17, 2015

Serious Obamacare Rationing Provision Again Under Fire

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By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics A renewed pushback is underway against one of the most serious of the multipl...
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