Advance Care Planning and Health Care Reform

August 14, 2009

Dominating the news this week was the furor over a provision in the House health reform bill for Medicare to reimburse physicians for discussing advance care planning with their patients. The uproar and misinformation were disheartening to those who work in bioethics, a field that has long supported the need for patients to have their wishes at the end of life heard and honored. (Bioethics Forum)