Old Rocks
Diamond Member
Exactly. And again, this can also clarify that you want everything done, or specifically what you want done.Types of services ARE coverage. Quality is less quantifiable except with respect to what is covered. The end of life counseling would be considered a consultation whereby you are informed of your situation and what options are available to you, just like any other information you would receive from your doctor about other things like diet and exercise and medications and potential procedures.
So given that then why not offer taxpayer funded cousel on abortion, or perhaps taxpayer funding on botox, or breast enhancements, because if you open the door under a healthcare bill to fund counsel matters for personal preference then you must open it for everything. The fact remains that this issue at best when legislation is invloved belongs in the hands of the states and the people that make it and not in the hands of the Federal govt. and especially not in a healthcare reform bill.
You have a choice as to whether or not you have an abortion, botox, ect. For each and every one of us, death is not a choice. It is what we all will experiance eventually. Given the medical communities abilities to keep the body alive far after the psyche has died, there are many of us that wish no part of that. Nor do we wish to have extroidinery measures taken to bring us back to live completely crippled after a stroke.
There are many on Social Security and Medicare that recieve so little that the cost, out of pocket, for the advice on how to put their wishes into legally binding means lack of medicine, food, or heat.
Each and every one of us, as we approach our final years, should put what we want down in legally binding terms, whether it is no extroidinery measures taken, or all measure taken, to ease the burden on our loved ones.