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Question by kill_yr_television: Don’t people know that “end of life counseling” is already an ordinary part of health care?
If you’ve ever gone for surgery, then someone spoke to you about having a Living Will, about appointing a Health Care Surrogate, about a Medical Power of Attorney. Why are tightie righties acting as if this is some unheard of and sinister lefty plot? What’s wrong with advising people to have their affairs in order, just in case?

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Answer by a Swirling Mass of Contradiction
nothing at all. ur spot on.

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NEED TO KNOW | Atul Gawande on end-of-life counseling | PBS – www.pbs.org As the Health Care Reform Act is attacked in courts and Congress, Need to Know discusses the quiet removal of one controversial provision, funding for end-of-life counseling (so-called “Death Panels”) with Dr. Atul Gawande, author and medical writer for The New Yorker. Need to Know airs Fridays on PBS. Watch full-length episodes of Need to Know at video.pbs.org