…egulations for Section 1557, including a Request for Information, proposed rule, and final rule.[1] HHS considered more than 24,875 public comments submitted for the 2016 rule.[2] There is no reason to reopen this rule and ignore the reasoned process HHS has already undertaken. We request that HHS retain the current definition of a “covered entity.” The proposed rule seeks to radically narrow the scope and applicability of Section 1557, contrary t…
…it at 90 MME. [Citations omitted.] Diederik Lohman, Director of Health and Human Rights for the widely respected non-profit Human Rights Watch has stated “the right balance needs to be found between keeping opioids off the street and making sure medications are still available to legitimate patients.” In many third world countries, opioid medications like morphine are nearly impossible to obtain. Lohman, in describing how Human Rights Watch came t…
…y Wolinsky [1] Joiner, T. E., Pettit, J. W., Walker, R. L., Voelz, Z. R., Cruz, J., Rudd, M. D., & Lester, D. (2002). Perceived burdensomeness and suicidality: Two studies on the suicide notes of those attempting and those completing suicide. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 21(5), 531-545. [2] W. Breitbart, “Cancer Pain and Suicide,” in Advances in Pain Research and Therapy, ed. K. M. Foley et al., vol (New York: Raven Press, 1990), 399…
…t Dead Yet [1] Joiner, T. E., Pettit, J. W., Walker, R. L., Voelz, Z. R., Cruz, J., Rudd, M. D., & Lester, D. (2002). Perceived burdensomeness and suicidality: Two studies on the suicide notes of those attempting and those completing suicide. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 21(5), 531-545. [2] W. Breitbart, “Cancer Pain and Suicide,” in Advances in Pain Research and Therapy, ed. K. M. Foley et al., vol (New York: Raven Press, 1990), 399…
…ide bill that was the subject of the July 10th hearing before the Health & Human Services Committee. John’s testimony on behalf of Second Thoughts Massachusetts focused on the common disability experience of misdiagnosis and grim prognosis, sharing John Norton’s personal story: Doctors misdiagnose and give incorrect prognoses, frequently. In the disability community, we have many members who have been given a terminal diagnosis, some since birth,…
