NDY Files Public Comment On Federal Healthcare Interim Final Rule In Response To COVID

January 6, 2021COVID-19, healthcare rationing, HHS, long term services and supports, Medicaid, Medicare, Our News & Commentary Blog, public commentCOVID-19, Interim Final Rule, Medicaid, Medicare, public commentDiane Coleman

…er the Supreme Court’s Olmstead Decision (June 2014), available at https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/olmsteads-role-in-community-integration-for-people-with-disabilities-under-medicaid-15-years-after-the-supreme-courts-olmstead-decision/. [4] As of December 4, 2020, the New York Times reported that 38% of coronavirus-related deaths in the U.S. are linked to nursing facilities. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-nursing-…

John Kelly’s Testimony Opposing New Hampshire “Death with Dignity Act” HB 1659

…ossible provision of a lethal prescription.” (Emphasis in the original) Jeanette Hall, Jeanette Hall, “She pushed for legal right to die, and – thankfully – was rebuffed,” letter to the editor, Boston Globe, October 4, 2011: http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2011/10/04/she_pushed_for_legal_right_to_die_and___thankfully___was_rebuffed/ Ira Byock quote Ira Byock, “Vermont: Testimony of Ira Byock, MD to Vermont…

Stephanie Woodward’s Testimony for ADAPT Opposing NY Assisted Suicide Bills

…nuary 2018 Rochester, NY [1]Report and Recommendations of the Olmstead Cabinet, page 14, available at https://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/governor.ny.gov/files/archive/assets/documents/olmstead-cabinet-report101013.pdf [2] D. Humphrey and M. Clement, Freedom to Die: People, Politics, and the Right-to-Die Movement (St. Martin’s Press 1998). [3] Video of Ann Bell on her 101st Birthday, available at: https://www.instagram.com/p/BdqeIXJlFpb/?taken-by=st…

NDY Response to NY Dept. of Health Advance Care Planning Request for Information

…document and in the context of clinical scenarios . . .. This was an Internet survey-based … study … of members of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians … When shown only a POLST document denoting DNR/full treatment, 59% selected DNR, 14% selected full code, and 27% were unsure of the code status…. Approximately half of the respondents construed DNR as comfort care/end-of-life care. … This supports our mounting…

Testimony of Stephanie Woodward Opposing New York Assisted Suicide Bill A2383A

…ts/documents/olmstead-cabinet-report101013.pdf [2] D. Humphrey and M. Clement, Freedom to Die: People, Politics, and the Right-to-Die Movement (St. Martin’s Press 1998). [3] Watch the video here: https://www.instagram.com/p/BdqeIXJlFpb/?taken-by=stepfunny426 [4] http://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/PROVIDERPARTNERRESOURCES/EVALUATIONRESEARCH/DEATHWITHDIGNITYACT/Documents/year20.pdf (page 10)…