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ACTION ALERT: OPPOSE HEALTH CARE ASSURANCE ACT.
* Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has introduced a bill that would open the door to involuntary euthanasia by authorizing health care providers to deny life-sustaining treatment against the express will of the patient or patient's family.
*Title VI of the Health Care Assurance Act (S. 24), while requiring health care providers to withhold treatment from those who do not wish it, does not require them to provide lifesaving treatment to those who want treatment, if it is "under prevailing medical standards, either futile or otherwise not medically indicated." *Tragically, a significant shift in medical ethics has expanded the meaning of the term "futile" to include not only treatments which are physiologically ineffective, but also those which, in the health care provider's opinion, do not result in a quality of life beneficial to the patient.
*Once life-sustaining ...
- ACTION ALERT: OPPOSE HEALTH CARE ASSURANCE ACT.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News July 1, 2001 700+ words
...patient's family. Title VI of the Health Care Assurance Act (S. 24), while requiring health care providers to withhold treatment from...representatives. Urge them to oppose the Health Care Assurance Act unless amended to protect patients...
- No Assurances in The Health Care Assurance Act Specter Bill Threatens...
- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News July 1, 2001 700+ words
...paragraph in Title VI of the Health Care Assurance Act (S. 24) opens the...patient's family. The Health Care Assurance Act exposes those people...opposes the passage of the Health Care Assurance Act as part of its mission...
- KPMG'S Health Care Compliance Spokespeople Can Discuss HCFA'S Initiative on...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 7, 2000 700+ words
...Patel, senior manager, in the health care assurance-based advisory services practice...Medicare claims. KPMG's health care assurance-based advisory services practice assists hospitals and health care systems, long-term care...
- Hospitals' agreement should expedite Care Assurance funds. (Ohio hospitals;...
- Magazine article from: Crain's Cleveland Business Santiago, Raquel March 21, 1994 700+ words
...poor. To activate the Care Assurance program, the Ohio...but it can refer the Care Assurance proposal back to the...Separately, the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration...begin to receive their Care Assurance payments in early May...
- Cash transfusion: 12 area hospitals lose money under Care Assurance plan. (Ohio...
- Magazine article from: Crain's Cleveland Business Santiago, Raquel August 16, 1993 700+ words
Care Assurance program costly to 12 hospitals...Hospital Association Ohio Care Assurance checks are in the mail...regulations the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration...received some amount of Care Assurance money. The state's...
- Care Assurance Program facing deep cuts.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Crain's Cleveland Business Santiago, Raquel September 10, 2001 700+ words
...their indigent care costs from the Ohio Care Assurance Program, a $56 million reduction...million less in federal money for the Care Assurance program in 2003 and will incur another...certainly concerned about the Hospital Care Assurance Program and diminishing dollars...
- Governor's help sought to rid Care Assurance restrictions. (Ohio Hospital...
- Magazine article from: Crain's Cleveland Business Santiago, Raquel September 16, 1996 700+ words
...restrictions governing the state's Care Assurance program. Of particular concern to...Ohio's 185 hospitals lose money on Care Assurance. James R. Castle, president of the...governor that the federal restrictions on Care Assurance "are resulting in greater difficulty...
- Cutting costs and lost work time. (employee quality care assurance programs)
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) December 1, 1993 700+ words
...workers' back and knee injury costs by establishing a quality care assurance program for its 5,300 employees. Workers at the Potomac...week. An unbiased reviewer was responsible for quality care assurance and monitored the clinical course. "The treatment plan...
Source: HighBeam Research, ACTION ALERT: OPPOSE HEALTH CARE ASSURANCE ACT.