As health care reform continues to be debated, some interesting pieces on end-of-life care have appeared in the past couple weeks on. Here are a few:
- Eleanor Clift wrote in Newsweek that we need to address end of life issues head on as part of health care reform. Clift is a hospice supporter, she joined the board of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organziation four years ago, after her husband died at home with hospice care.
- On the wowOwow website, Joan Larsen interviews Jane Brody, a health reporter for The New York Times and the author of The Guide to the Great Beyond, about her book and death and dying in the United States.
- Judy Bachrach writes in Obit magazine about the advance care planning section of the House bill on health care reform, referencing Charles Lane's recent column from the Washington Post.
- Dr. Byock, the author of Dying Well and director of palliative medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, guest blogs at the New Health Dialog about the health care reform debate.
- Ezra Klein interviews Republican Senator Johnny Isakson (GA) in the Washington Post. Isakson believes advance care planning coverage should be included as part of health care reform.
- James Clement writes an editorial about the health care debate in the Culpepper Star-Exponent (VA) and mentions HFA.
