…to Improve Patient Care’s Rapid Response Workgroup challenging the use of QALYs (Quality Adjusted Life Years) in health insurance coverage decisions. NDY supported Mass. H.201/S.753, An Act Advancing Health Care Research and Decision-Making Centered on Patients and People with Disabilities to ban QALYs, as well as advocated for a federal ban. Court Cases: NDY and MA affiliate Second Thoughts opposed the Massachusetts Kligler court action seeking a…
…sabilities. Farrar believes the measure, in essence, tells people, “we are all cheaper dead, we are all less expensive if we need no treatment at all.” Farrar said instead, lawmakers should consider ways of expanding health care and assisted living for vulnerable people. “That makes living with a terminal illness very frightening if you don’t have access to the services you need,” she said. For information on disability opposition to assisted suic…
…who request assisted suicide were referred for a psychiatric or psychological evaluation (and only 3 patients in 2022), despite studies showing the prevalence of depression in such patients. Conclusion The Oregon assisted suicide data demonstrates that people who were not actually terminal received lethal prescriptions in all 25 reported years except the first, and that there is little or no substantive protection against coercion and abuse. Mor…
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…aid in dying. Someone who’s disabled and has end-stage cancer could potentially qualify, and they would have to step through all of the safeguards that are set out in the law. SHAPIRO: Fairman says there are plenty of those safeguards to prevent abuse. Two doctors need to confirm that someone is terminally ill and mentally competent to choose to die. A spokesperson for the California Department of Public Health said it does not comment on litigati…
