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11.18.09

My Near Death Panel Experience


By Earl Blumenauer
Op-Ed Contributor, The New York Times
November 15, 2009, Washington

I didn’t mean to kill Grandma. I didn’t even mean to create death panels.

But now that I and my fellow lawmakers in the House have passed a health care bill, I’m finally free to explain what I learned as the author of the now-famous end-of-life provisions. My experiences during the bizarre controversies of the...

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11.13.09

Few Americans Make End-of-Life Wishes Known

11.08.09

House Passes Bill With Advance Care Planning Provision

11.05.09

AARP Endorses Affordable Health Care for America Act

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60 Minutes Highlights Problem of Americans “Dying Badly”

Wishing to be at home, still millions die in Intensive Care Units

CBS News will broadcast a story this Sunday, Nov. 22, at 7 p.m. ET/PT on dying in America. Compassion & Choices, the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit working to expand end-of-life care and choice, today applauded the effort to highlight how many Americans meet death in contradiction to their values, beliefs and stated desires, but disagrees with the focus on cost.

“Families cannot imagine there could...

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