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This 6-page paper discusses advanced directives, living wills and the responsibility of health care providers in these initiatives. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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and myths have sprung up. These have been widely reported on, and include "pulling the plug on granny" (because, apparently, caring for "granny" might become too expensive). Another has been
former Alaska Governor Sarah Palins "death panels," by which under the new health care act, the government would decide which elderly person would die, based on medical conditions.
While none of these are part of the current act, they do speak to the difficulty we have in the United States when it
comes to a patients right to die versus the issue of keeping that patient alive at all costs. If a patient takes steps to put advanced directives and a living
will in print, much of the anguish of "what to do" can be taken away from the family. The Patient Self-Determination Act/Death with Dignity
The irony over the brouhaha over the current health care scenario is that the idea of counseling or information patients on Medicare or Medicaid about their rights
under state laws is part and parcel of the Patient Self-Determination Act (or PSDA), which was passed back in 1990 (PSDA, 2009). The PSDA has required Medicare and Medicaid providers
to provide adult individuals, at the time of inpatient admission (or enrollment) information about state laws rights concerning advanced directives, which well explore in the next section (PSDA, 2009). This
information includes the right to direct their own health care decision, the right to accept/refuse medical or surgical treatment, the right to prepare an advance directive and information on the
providers policies governing those rights (PSDA, 2009). The PSDA focuses on the patients right to privacy and to not having medically invasive means of survival if not desired.
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