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69. Does Death Have to Be a Death Sentence?

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Death Panels - Are You Not Insanely Frustrated and Anxious?

Rep. bloomenhouera had dared to make this the suggestion that health insurance, once every five years, pay for a doctor's visit for that doctor to discuss advance care planning with their patients. That suggestion at the political level turned into an accusation of a death panel. Are you not insanely frustrated and angry about the inability asystem to do what is so obviously right? Yes, yes, i am. This is a daily heartache. We humans are revealing ourselves to be not entirely driven by rational decision making. But a larger view of humanity, our exquisite intelligence and our incredible folly all wrapped together. So yes, absolutely. It's frustrating, steve, and get used to it

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