Beyond resistance: Improving end-of-life care
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It is the sixth day of my email series, "Beyond Resistance: The things we should do to make us safer, healthier, and more economically secure." Today's topic: improving end-of-life care.
Every patient should be empowered to receive health care consistent with their values, goals, and informed preferences and to have those care decisions honored by their family and providers.
During passage of Affordable Care Act, I saw an opportunity to apply lessons learned in
After years of advocacy, Medicare finally designed a benefit allowing doctors to receive reimbursement for voluntary advance care planning conversations with their patients. Last year, for the first time, Medicare paid for these critical doctor-patient discussions in the same way it pays for any other medical service.
My work to improve end-of-life care, however, is far from over. This year I introduced the bipartisan
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I welcome your thoughts, ideas, and opinions. You can connect with me at: https://blumenauerforms.house.gov/components/redirect/r.aspx'ID=608-569941.
Courage,
Congressman
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