NDY Public Comment on HHS/OCR Proposed Section 504 Healthcare Regulations

…v/sites/default/files/NCD_Medical_Futility_Report_508.pdf https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/advance-care-planning-palliative-care-experts-paradigm-shift/ https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/can-ambien-wake-minimally-conscious.html https://endassistedsuicide.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Complaint_Accessible.pdf https://ncd.gov/sites/default/files/NCD_Medical_Futility_Report_508.pdf https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/in-the-fac…

Can people on Medicaid sue states to stop budget cuts?

…y, practically, legally and politically unfeasible.” For links to 11 major news outlets’ coverage of the Supreme Court arguments, the Kaiser Health News is a useful source. For legal nerds (like me) who want to look at the various briefs filed in the case, several are posted at http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/maxwell-jolly-v-independent-living-center-of-southern-california/ . Democratic lawmakers are divided on the case. As reported in…

Miracles, recovery and “rush-to-judgment” revisited

…a regional hospital and then, this week, to her parents’ home. (Hawkes Bay Today) This last weekend he briefly reported Kimberly McNeill is “scheduled to enroll full-time at Auckland University.” The news link included in this update provides more details: But dad James McNeill and mum Jackie Kiddle, both trained acupuncturists, refused to accept the prognosis and enlisted the help of a senior Chinese medical practitioner specialising in neurology…

Latest Pro-Euthanasia Research Makes Headlines by Redefining Slippery Slope and Use of Soft Data

…trols there, you can check out our archived copy of “Euthanasia is Out of Control in the Netherlands” which was published as in the “Perspectives” section of the Hastings Center Report in 2005. –Stephen Drake Addendum: Coincidentally, Beth Haller has written about Not Dead Yet today on the Society for Professional Journalists’ Diversity Blog. Check out what she’s telling reporters about us in “Activist group, Not Dead Yet, can be a significant new…

DREDF Testimony by Marilyn Golden, Senate Health Committee 3-25-2015 re SB 128

…later that very month. Thomas Middleton had named Tami Sawyer his estate trustee and put his home in her trust. Two days after he died, Tami Sawyer listed the property for sale and deposited $90,000 into her own account. It took a federal investigation into real estate fraud to expose this abuse. Tami Sawyer was indicted for first- degree criminal mistreatment and first-degree aggravated theft, partly over criminal mistreatment of Thomas Middleto…