…ncy. Excerpts are below and, to read the whole comment, go here. January 4, 2021 Seema Verma, Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services Attention: CMS-9912-IFC P.O. Box 8016 Baltimore, MD 21244-8016 RE: Comments on CMS-9912-IFC Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Interim Final Rule: Additional Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Dear Administ…
January 4, 2021 Seema Verma, Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services Attention: CMS-9912-IFC P.O. Box 8016 Baltimore, MD 21244-8016 RE: Comments on CMS-9912-IFC Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Interim Final Rule: Additional Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Dear Administrator Verma: Not Dead Yet appreciates the opportunity to submit…
…g society’s failures. A similar eligibility expansion occurred in Canada in 2021. Canadian press has since reported on disabled individuals getting euthanasia by lethal injection when they want to die because they can’t get housing or otherwise can’t afford to live on government payments. Moreover, reported data from Oregon shows that the top five reasons doctors give for their patients’ assisted suicide requests are not pain or fear of future pai…
United Spinal Association www.unitedspinal.org October 1, 2021 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Joint Committee on Public Health State House Boston, MA 02133-1054 Re: An act relative to end-of-life options – H2381/S1384 I am writing on behalf of United Spinal Association in strong opposition to H2381/S.1384, introduced by Representative James O’Day and Senator Joanne Comerford respectively. Since being founded by paralyzed veterans in 1946, Unit…
…reads falsehoods to promote systemic ableism by Stephen Mendelsohn March 8, 2021 Proponents of assisted suicide repeatedly spread falsehoods to promote their lethal and ableist agenda. The February 8 op-ed, “Aid in dying is not assisted suicide” is no exception. Suicide is defined as the act of taking one’s life intentionally. The person who intentionally ingests a prescribed lethal overdose more closely fits the dictionary definition of suicide t…
