I didn’t say anything about Doctors being forced. My point was that I agree that families should prepare, and if they want to consult their doctor fine.
Our family has prepared and was prepared, and I’ll be darned if I want anyone I didn’t ask forcing me to discuss it or justify it. I didn’t need to discuss it with every Tom, Dick, and Mary that happened to be on duty during my Dad’s hospital stay. And further more, my Dad got well, and lived for another 3 years.
I may not be a doctor, but I read numerous medical books, and made sure I not only understood my Dad’s issues, but also that I could communicate with the proper language, and know the proper language. Any questions I had I asked.
Nor did I suggest that any and all procedures forever and a day should be employed. But the decision is up to the family and no one else. Medical people may know medicine, but they don’t know the person, and what their philosophy of life is, nor what quality of life they want, etc.
And it especially egregious for the Government to be dictating it, and yet they are. They are permeating every aspect of our lives, including our medical care. Our freedoms are being stripped away, and stripped away.
Do you even bother to read what I write???? I did not say you said doctors would be forced. I have no idea where you even get that.
The government is dictating nothing. Goodness what a jump you make. In order for a doctor to be reimbursed for their time spent with a patient either the patient needs to pay out of pocket OR have a second party pay (insurance, Ocare, medicare, medicaid....essentially insurance). ALL forms of insurance (regardless of origination) have CODES for time the doctor has spent with the patient.
What about providing CODING for reimbursement do you not understand????