There you go again..spreading ‘fishy’ information. You said:
“No they are not making every veteran answer those questions. This is a pamphlet that is given to someone. The vet doesn’t have to take it if they don’t want to.”
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You obviously have not even bothered to read the WSJ link which states:
“Worse, a July 2009 VA directive instructs its primary care physicians to raise advance care planning with all VA patients and to refer them to “Your Life, Your Choices.” Not just those of advanced age and debilitated condition—all patients. America’s 24 million veterans deserve better.”
READ IT!..ALL PATIENTS! You tell me how many patients are going to ‘refuse’ to have this conversation or take the stupid pamphlet when the doctor brings it up and shoves it in their face because he is ordered to by the government?
Not many...especially our active duty military and veterans, who are conditioned to obey ‘authority’ figures. Please don’t ever go into the patient advocacy field...I’m begging you.
I read it. it says it is offered to the vet. moreover, i actually know folks who work in the VA who actually are involved in gerontology and taking care of our vets who are in fact getting closer to the end of their lives. No one at the VA is forcing anything onto to the vet.
But that isn’t really the point. whether one offers a patient information is of no concern to me. You and I both agree the government should stay out of it and there should be NO mandates.