Choices, formerly known as the Hemlock Society. is also says it had a hand in crafting
Section 1233, writing July 27:
Compassion & Choices has worked tirelessly with supportive members of congress to include in proposed reform legislation a provision requiring Medicare to cover patient consultation with their doctors about end-of-life choice (section 1233 of House Bill 3200).Compassion & Choices calls itself part of the
"aid-in-dying movement." About itself Compassion & Choices writes:
... An organization dedicated to care of terminally ill patients, including those seeking a hastened death....
Compassion & Choices... improves care and expands choice at the end of life....
Our professional staff and trained volunteers help thousands of clients each year by... guiding their search for a peaceful, humane death....
We offer information on self-determined dying....
Our team of litigators and legislative experts fights bills that would force patients to endure futile, invasive treatment....
Fight eh. Let the "death panel" know!!!
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