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[/caption]Carol Forsloff - Removing end-of-life counseling from health care legislation to make appeasement to the opposition is not just poor care for seniors, but according to the AARP amounts to cruel and inhuman treatment.
Five days after the year 2011 began, rules allowing physicians to voluntarily provide end-of-life counseling for those with terminal illnesses or seniors of advanced age and get paid for doing it was removed from the regulations. Those claiming that this type of counseling is part of a plot of death panels has, according to both the AARP and the AMA created a serious problem for routine medical care.
Within the past few days, the leader of the AMA wrote about this, reporting the facts about what this counseling entails and the fact that it is regulated and provided for as voluntary, but important, for patients.
Both organizations maintain the lack of end-of-life care is a problem in the routine care of patients, that the counseling reduces rather than increases fear, and calls the lack of it "cruel and inhuman treatment."
