tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4535513719591998412024-03-07T20:41:52.141-08:00Robert Powell Center for Medical EthicsRobert Powell Center for Medical Ethicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14726005483353185080noreply@blogger.comBlogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-453551371959199841.post-19304969759755465562015-08-24T12:47:00.000-07:002015-08-24T12:47:33.599-07:00DEEP DESIRE TO REDUCE HEALTH CARE SPENDING USING ADVANCE CARE PLANNING CAN MEAN PREMATURE DEATH<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Gundersen
Lutheran Health System, a physician-led, not-for-profit integrated delivery
system serving more than 550,000 people in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota,
implemented a program promoting advance care planning. According to an analysis
done by the Commonwealth Fund, Medicare spends $8,000 less per patients treated
at Gundersen Lutheran than the national average—and roughly $10,000 less at
Gundersen Lutheran during the last six months of life than at other area
hospitals. The analysis specifically attributed these lower costs to the
completion of advance directives associated with the health system’s promotion
of advance care planning. [1]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How does Gunderson save
this money?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A group of national and local
disability rights groups had pointed words regarding <span style="background: white;">Gundersen
Health Care System Respecting Choices advance care planning documents entitled “</span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.hospiceofcincinnati.org/downloads/Tube%20Feeding%20-%20What%20You%20Should%20Know.pdf" style="font-stretch: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Tube
Feeding: What You Should Know</span></a><span style="background: white;">” and “</span><a href="http://www.hospiceofcincinnati.org/downloads/BiPaP%20and%20Ventilators%20-%20What%20You%20Should%20Know.pdf" style="font-stretch: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Help With
Breathing: What You Should Know</span></a><span style="background: white;">.” In a letter to
Bernard Hammes, Ph.D.</span>, the Director of Medical Humanities and Respecting
</span>Choices, the groups wrote,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, using frequently identical
language, both documents reflect a strong bias against using these medical
devices for any purpose other than short-term recovery. The documents
describe long-term use of these devices as fraught with discomfort and
unpleasant side effects, and actively discourage individuals from even trying
them despite the certainty that they will die as a result....Many of the
undersigned individuals are among the tens of thousands of people with
disabilities who use these medical technologies on a long-term basis and are
therefore able to enjoy meaningful, productive and fulfilling lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The groups asked Gunderson to make
specific changes including, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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marketing and distributing “<u>Tube Feeding: What You Should Know</u>”
and “<u>Help With Breathing: What You Should Know</u>.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Send a formal notice to all known purchasers and
users of these documents directing that they no longer be used due to their
misleading nature and offering to refund any related payments received for
their purchase.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">The full letter can be found </span><a href="http://www.notdeadyet.org/national-disability-letter-of-living-with-feeding-tubes-and-breathing-support" style="color: #222222;">here.</a><br />
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Information on how even more advance care planning materials already in
widespread use are suffused with vivid, emotional, and distorted presentations
designed to persuade individuals to forego life-preserving medical treatment
can be found</span><span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.nrlc.org/medethics/nofundsprematuredeath/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">here</span></a>.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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What is worse, this summer, the Obama Administration has proposed a regulation
using its executive power to pay doctors to conduct advance care planning
conversations with seniors, to take effect January 1, 2016.But Rep. Steve King
(R-IA) has introduced a bill, H.R. 3251, to prevent the Administration from
implementing that funding.</span><br />
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You may ask Your Representative to Co-Sponsor H.R. 3251 against Biased
“Advance Care Planning” Under Medicare by</span><span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/issues/alert/?alertid=67470626&type=CO"><span style="text-decoration: none;">clicking here</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[1]
S. Klein & D. McCarthy, “McCarthy D. Gundersen Lutheran health system:
Performance improvement through partnership Case study: Organized health care
delivery system 2009,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">” http:// <a href="http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Case%20Study/2009/Aug/1307_McCarthy_%20Gundersen_Lutheran_case_study_v2.pdf">www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Case%20Study/2009/Aug/1307_McCarthy_
Gundersen_Lutheran_case_study_v2.pdf</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14726005483353185080noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-453551371959199841.post-41836820370386778232015-08-18T12:05:00.000-07:002015-08-18T12:08:34.232-07:00“FALSE PREMISE” OF OVERTREATMENT IS PARTLY TO BLAME IN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION PUSH TO REIMBURSE DOCS FOR ADVANCE CARE PLANNING<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What is driving the current major nation-wide push, both
in the private and public spheres, to promote “Advance Care Planning”? One major disability rights group points to a
very important reason, the “false premise” that there is widespread
overtreatment.</span></div>
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In her presentation to the 3rd International Society
of Advance Care Planning and End of Life Care Conference, Diane Coleman, JD,
CEO of disability rights group Not Dead Yet pointed to a major flaw in the
thinking of those promoting advance care planning, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I call the
Disability Perspective a Quest for Balance because advance care planning has
developed under the false premise that the primary or only problem is
overtreatment of dying people. A balanced approach would also address the
problem of undertreatment of people who may or may not be terminally ill. I
want to emphasize that while the disability community may be most sensitive to
this problem, it affects everyone who may find themselves on the patient end of
the health care system.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ms. Coleman highlighted one shocking example of Terrie, 19 year old who was in an accident
and was initially on a ventilator. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“While I
was lying in the hospital bed . . ., the doctors would come in and ask my mom
if she was ready to pull the plug on me. ‘Why would I want to do that?’ she
would ask? The doctors answered, ‘What kind of life will she have— she won’t.
She won’t be able to dance, walk, work, have a social life, or be
independent.'...Terrie’s parents argued with the doctor, who “responded that
any good mother would pull the plug instead of seeing their baby suffer. . . .”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[Terrie] had a rough time medically for about five months, but eventually,
she said “I was spending hours a day off the ventilator and the doctors were
still asking if I wanted to live the rest of my life with this condition. If I
chose no, they would keep me off the ventilator and I would die. I could get
injected with Morphine so I couldn’t feel it.”...”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When she returned a year
later, with a power chair like mine and no ventilator, the doctors’ “jaws
dropped to the floor and their eyes began to fill with tears.” Their reaction
suggests that the doctors always meant well and thought they had been doing the
right thing.”</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The full story can be found <a href="http://www.notdeadyet.org/disability-perspectives-on-public-policy-in-advance-care-planning">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Information on how advance care planning materials
already in widespread use are suffused with vivid, emotional, and distorted
presentations designed to persuade individuals to forego life-preserving
medical treatment can be found </span><a href="http://www.nrlc.org/medethics/nofundsprematuredeath/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span></div>
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What is worse, this summer, the Obama Administration has proposed a regulation
using its executive power to pay doctors to conduct advance care planning
conversations with seniors, to take effect January 1, 2016.But Rep. Steve King
(R-IA) has introduced a bill, H.R. 3251, to prevent the Administration from
implementing that funding.<br />
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You may ask Your Representative to Co-Sponsor H.R. 3251 against Biased
“Advance Care Planning” Under Medicare by <a href="http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/issues/alert/?alertid=67470626&type=CO"><span style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">clicking here</span></a></span></div>
Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14726005483353185080noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-453551371959199841.post-58553524512996432022015-08-13T14:09:00.000-07:002015-08-13T14:12:52.729-07:00“FEAR OF LIVING WITH A DISABILITY” PUSHES REJECTION OF TREATMENT IN ADVANCE CARE PLANNINGThere is currently a major nation-wide push, both in the private and public spheres, to promote “Advance Care Planning”. There is strong reason for concern that, motivated by cost concerns, promotion of advance directives and advance care planning frequently deviates from a neutral effort to elicit and implement patients’ genuine wishes in the direction of influencing them, subtly or not too subtly, to reject life-preserving treatment.
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One recent example can be found in New York State “Conversation Ready” Project materials uses the heavy-handed description, <i>“Are there circumstances that you would consider worse than death? (Long-term need of a breathing machine or feeding tube, not being able to recognize your loved ones)” </i><br />
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The shocking thing is that materials leave out basic information including the fact that many studies show that it is difficult for doctors to predict whether these interventions will be either short-term or permanent. What about those who would want these interventions for a short-term? There is no separate question posed in that manner. What about the thousands of people living full and long with the use of assisted feeding, breathing machines, and so forth? Where are their stories?<br />
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A recent <a href="http://www.notdeadyet.org/ndy-and-center-for-disability-rights-comment-letter-to-new-york-medicaid-opposing-conversation-ready-project-as-a-way-to-save-money"> letter</a> from the disability rights groups Not Dead Yet and the Center for Disability Rights opposing the “Conversation Ready” Project protested its negative framing of life with disabilities:<br />
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Understandably, individuals do not want to lose their abilities due to an accident, illness, or age. Yet disability is a natural part of the human experience and it is unacceptable that a government program will encourage people to choose death over disability... Though this site also refers to individuals coping with advanced and untreatable diseases, The Conversation Project makes it clear that the fear of living with a disability is what drives the seemingly innocuous decision-making process designed to steer people away from receiving care. </blockquote>
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More info on how advance care planning materials already in widespread use are suffused with vivid, emotional, and distorted presentations designed to persuade individuals to forego life-preserving medical treatment can be found <a href="http://www.nrlc.org/medethics/nofundsprematuredeath/">here</a>.<br />
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This problem will not be limited to New York State. This summer, the Obama Administration has proposed a regulation using its executive power to pay doctors to conduct advance care planning conversations with seniors, to take effect January 1, 2016.But Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has introduced a bill, H.R. 3251, to prevent the Administration from implementing that funding.<br />
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You may ask Your Representative to Co-Sponsor H.R. 3251 against Biased “Advance Care Planning” Under Medicare by <a href="http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/issues/alert/?alertid=67470626&type=CO">clicking here</a>
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Most state and city government health care plans, as well as many other plans, are soon to be undermined by one of the most serious of the multiple rationing....<a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2015/05/obamacare-rationing-excess-benefits-tax-threatens-health-care-plans-of-state-and-city-workers/#.VYw7rxtViko">MORE</a>Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14726005483353185080noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-453551371959199841.post-31489862707536631072015-05-12T10:37:00.000-07:002015-06-25T10:38:01.523-07:00New Study shows preemies can survive at earlier ages, but hospital attitude can mean life or deathBy Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics
A study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates widespread discriminatory denial of life-preserving medical treatment to premature infants based on fear that if assisted to....<a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2015/05/new-study-shows-preemies-can-survive-at-earlier-ages-but-hospital-attitude-can-mean-life-or-death/#.VYw8URtViko">MORE</a>Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14726005483353185080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-453551371959199841.post-72982210122762356412015-04-17T10:39:00.000-07:002015-06-25T10:39:36.310-07:00Serious Obamacare Rationing Provision Again Under FireBy Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics A renewed pushback is underway against one of the most serious of the multiple rationing provisions of the five-year old Obama Health Care law — the “excess benefits tax.” .....<a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2015/04/serious-obamacare-rationing-provision-again-under-fire/#.VYw8tRtViko">MORE</a>Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14726005483353185080noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-453551371959199841.post-77454675587637890462015-03-19T10:52:00.000-07:002015-06-25T10:53:06.123-07:00Report Examines Bias Against Life-Preserving Treatment in Advance Care PlanningWASHINGTON – In advance of a Friday Institute of Medicine conference in Washington, DC involving policymakers in implementation of its September 2014 report that urged promotion of “advance care planning,” the Powell Center for Medical Ethics at the National Right...<a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2015/03/report-examines-bias-against-life-preserving-treatment-in-advance-care-planning/#.VYw_2htViko">MORE</a>Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14726005483353185080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-453551371959199841.post-43407917241153532562015-01-19T10:41:00.000-08:002015-06-25T10:41:50.651-07:00In Obamacare Omen, British Hospitals Report Drastic Delays in Emergency CareBy Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics
As Obamacare apologists continue to defend the law’s constraints on health care spending with claims that European health care systems provide better health care with less spending than the....<a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2015/01/in-obamacare-omen-british-hospitals-report-drastic-delays-in-emergency-care/#.VYw9HRtViko">MORE</a>Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14726005483353185080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-453551371959199841.post-39901566173219898492014-12-15T08:34:00.000-08:002014-12-31T08:35:23.165-08:00Disappointing government report shows declining health care spending; Obamacare partly to blameBy Jennifer Popik, JD
The resources being devoted to life-saving and health-preserving health care in the United States are at a near-record low, according to a newly issued annual spending report from the federal government’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services ...<a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2014/12/disappointing-government-report-shows-declining-health-care-spending-obamacare-partly-to-blame/#.VKQlRMkXxFs">MORE</a>.
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These days, as for some time past, much outrage is directed at pricey drugs, and both the government and insurance companies... <a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2014/10/even-bigoted-study-finds-high-cost-drugs-worth-it/#.VEkjGmfSmDE">MORE</a>
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In a recent Politico Magazine article titled, “Let’s Talk About Death Panels,” Harold Pollack urges reviving one of the most notorious proposals that did not make it into the Obama Health Car Law – “advance planning consultations.” ...<a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2014/07/they-may-not-be-death-panels-but-they-are-death-advocates-and-they-are-back/#.VAiGgMVdW-8">MORE</a>Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14726005483353185080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-453551371959199841.post-20984024588103135492014-07-02T08:33:00.000-07:002014-09-04T08:34:01.032-07:00Limited Access to Top Health Care Providers in California Obamacare ExchangesBy Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics
Californians are finding themselves paying large amounts of cash or being turned away when they seek out many top health care specialists and hospitals, according to a Los Angeles...<a href="http://">MORE</a>Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14726005483353185080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-453551371959199841.post-78840650677398219712014-06-24T08:31:00.000-07:002014-09-04T08:32:15.037-07:00Report claiming US health care worse than abroad distorts facts but ObamaCare may soon make it a realityBy Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics
A report released June 16, 2014, by the Commonwealth Fund think tank claims that although the U.S. spends more on health care, we underperform relative to other countries. This....<a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2014/06/report-claiming-us-health-care-worse-than-abroad-distorts-facts-but-obamacare-may-soon-make-it-a-reality/#.VAiFtsVdW-8">MORE</a>Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14726005483353185080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-453551371959199841.post-41587335724890232292014-05-22T08:29:00.000-07:002014-09-04T08:30:30.893-07:00Obamacare’s “Reference Pricing” threatens to ration Americans’ health careBy Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics
Under the Obama Health Care law, the Administration’s stated mission is to limit not only the overall level of healthcare spending but also what Americans may choose to spend... <a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2014/05/obamacares-reference-pricing-threatens-to-ration-americans-health-care/#.VAiFOsVdW-8">MORE</a>Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14726005483353185080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-453551371959199841.post-45370904192976362392014-05-21T13:58:00.001-07:002014-05-21T13:58:38.599-07:00Healthcare spiraling downwards as ObamaCare takes hold, worse yet to comeby Burke Balch, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics
While critical access to top health...<a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2014/05/healthcare-spiraling-downwards-as-obamacare-takes-hold-worse-yet-to-come/#.U30TLnJdW-8">MORE</a>
Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14726005483353185080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-453551371959199841.post-18787922816322833052014-04-01T10:34:00.000-07:002014-04-08T10:35:34.751-07:00National Right to Life Commends Senator Pat Roberts for Bill to Repeal Rationing in ObamacareWASHINGTON – Senator Pat Roberts (R-Ks) today introduced the “Repeal Rationing in Support of Life Act,” which targets the four key rationing components of Obamacare identified in a March 6, 2014, report by the National Right to Life Committee’s ...<a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2014/04/national-right-to-life-commends-senator-pat-roberts-for-bill-to-repeal-rationing-in-obamacare/">MORE</a>Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14726005483353185080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-453551371959199841.post-25897771228510218482014-03-06T10:36:00.000-08:002014-04-08T10:36:39.718-07:00“THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT AND HEALTH CARE ACCESS IN THE UNITED STATES” National Right to Life Releases New Report Examining the Effect of the Affordable Care Act in the United States WASHINGTON – With a March 31, 2014, deadline impending for open enrollment in the insurance exchanges established by “The Patient Protection...<a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2014/03/the-affordable-care-act-and-health-care-access-in-the-united-states/#.U0Qzb6hdW-8">MORE</a>Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14726005483353185080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-453551371959199841.post-13024017840525463112014-03-01T08:05:00.000-08:002014-03-03T08:06:10.661-08:00For one woman with cancer, Obamacare means loss of coverage for an essential drugBy Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics
As millions of Americans are attempting to start using their new Obamacare exchange health insurance plans, stories about denial of payment keep piling up. All throughout the debate leading...<a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2014/03/for-one-woman-with-cancer-obamacare-means-loss-of-coverage-for-an-essential-drug/#.UxSn_eNdW-8">MORE</a>. Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14726005483353185080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-453551371959199841.post-86376451455863757712014-02-05T07:55:00.000-08:002014-02-06T07:55:45.200-08:00More Obamacare Rationing FalloutBy Burke Balch, JD & Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics Two new reports highlight the growing evidence that, thanks to Obamacare, the quality of many Americans’ current healthcare is gradually declining. New Obamacare exchange plans...<a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2014/02/more-obamacare-rationing-fallout/#.UvOwLGJdW-8">MORE</a>.
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