Fri Sep 29, 2023 – 11:53 am EDTFri Sep 29, 2023 – 12:04 pm EDT
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) — They say a cat has nine lives. The “Pa-Cheetah,” or Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA) certainly does.
The first version of the PCHETA was introduced in 2004. It evolved into the current version in 2015. Come 2024 that will be nine years. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition USA has been opposing PCHETA since 2017. According to the HHS Office of Inspector General:
Our reports and investigations have revealed several concerning issues, including poor – sometimes harmful – quality of care, fraud schemes that involve enrolling beneficiaries without their consent, inappropriate billing practices, limited transparency for patients and their families, a payment system that creates incentives to minimize services, and a rapid growth in the number of new hospices, often to take advantage of these conditions.
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We see the bill rewarding those who nudge people into hospice (by way of palliative care programs) where they are subjected to abuse and, in some cases, euthanasia. One reason supporters keep trying to get this bill passed, are its meaningless
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