Public Comment: Disability Related Concerns About POLST

…r Life-Sustaining Treatment (“POLST”), Problems and Recommendations http://www.canhr.org/reports/2010/POLST_WhitePaper.pdf [5] See, e.g., www.adapt.org. [6] Delaware Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health, Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments (MOLST) Form, November 14, 2012, http://www.medsocdel.org/Portals/1/In%20the%20News/MOLST%20Form%20Letter%20111412.pdf [7] POLST: Honoring Patients’ Wishes for Treatment, Part 3: Havin…

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

…Euthanasia/Assisted-Suicide in the United States, Patients Rights Council, www.patientsrightscouncil.org/site/failed-attempts-usa/ (accessed March 23, 2015) Dr. Katrina Hedberg, DHS news release, “No authority to investigate Death with Dignity case, DHS says,” March 4, 2005. Oregon Death with Dignity Act Annual Reports, Oregon Health Authority Public Health Division, https://public.health.oregon.gov/ProviderPartnerResources/EvaluationResearch/Deat…

NDY’s Public Comment on Affordable Care Act’s Nondiscrimination Regulations

November 9, 2015 Via online submission to www.regulations.gov U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights Attention: 1557 RFI (RIN 0945-AA02) Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 509F 200 Independence Avenue SW Washington, DC 20201 Re: 1557 NPRM (RIN 0945–AA02) Not Dead Yet is a national disability rights group, which advocates for non-discrimination against people with disabilities in the context of what is often referred…

NDY Public Comment To Virginia Joint Commission on Health Care Opposing Assisted Suicide Legislation

…ORT OF THE COUNCIL ON ETHICAL AND JUDICIAL AFFAIRS 5-A-18, Page 2, https://www.ama-assn.org/sites/default/files/media-browser/public/hod/a18-ceja5.pdf [2] Stahle, Fabian, Hidden problems with the Oregon assisted suicide law uncovered, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xOZfLFrvuQcazZfFudEncpzp2b18NrUo/view; Diabetics eligible for physician-assisted suicide in Oregon, state officials say, Jan 11, 2018, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/…

Not Dead Yet’s Public Comment to U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services on Affordable Care Act’s Nondiscrimination Regulations

September 30, 2013 Via online submission to www.regulations.gov U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights Attention: 1557 RFI (RIN 0945-AA02), Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 509F, 200 Independence Avenue SW. Washington, DC 20201 Re: Docket No. HHS-OCR-2013-0007 (Request for Information Regarding Nondiscrimination in Certain Health Programs or Activities) Not Dead Yet is a national disability rights group, which…