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2. Patient Self-Determination Act - Wikipedia

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   The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) was passed by the United States Congress in 1990 as an amendment to the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990.Effective on December 1, 1991, this legislation required many hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, hospice providers, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and other health care institutions to provide information about ...

3. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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   The public's response was to press for further legislative support. The most recent result was the Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990, [21] which attempted to address this awareness problem by requiring health care institutions to better promote and support the use of advance directives. [22] [23]

4. Surrogate decision-maker - Wikipedia

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   The patient self-determination act states that hospitals and health care facilities must provide information about advance directives and DPA/HC. Also, a proxy or surrogate decision-maker can provide these final wishes to the doctor or care team if a DPA/HC or AD is not present.

5. Right to die - Wikipedia

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   The 1991 Patient Self-Determination Act passed by the US Congress at the request of the financial arm of Medicare does permit elderly Medicare/Medicaid patients (and by implication, all "terminal" patients) to prepare an advance directive in which they elect or choose to refuse life-extending and/or life-saving treatments as a means of ...

6. RFK Jr.'s lawyer and top ally asked FDA to revoke approval of ...

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   Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s personal attorney previously lobbied the Food and Drug Administration to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, highlighting an influential Kennedy ally who, sources ...

7. Healthcare proxy - Wikipedia

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   In the field of medicine, a healthcare proxy (commonly referred to as HCP) is a document (legal instrument) with which a patient (primary individual) appoints an agent to legally make healthcare decisions on behalf of the patient, when the patient is incapable of making and executing the healthcare decisions stipulated in the proxy. [1]

8. Tariff-happy presidents are not what the Constitution envisioned

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   A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.. Anyone who had any doubt that Donald Trump’s love of tariffs is true should ...

9. Obesity Rates in the U.S. Drop for the First Time in a Decade ...

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   The study followed nearly 17 million people, the majority of whom were in the 26-75 age range, and found that after climbing steadily since 2013, rates of obesity in the U.S. fell 0.15% in 2023 ...