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If a resolution cannot be agreed upon, what contingency plan has the Department of Veterans Administration looked at to ensure that Veterans' health care is not adversely impacted by the change in the scoring policy of the leases?
Ensuring that the Department of Veterans Affairs has the proper infrastructure and facilities to provide safe, effective, quality health care to our veterans is a priority of mine.
I think it is really sad when this important discussion degenerates into slogans and demagoguery, such as death panels.
Thanks to the Retirement Research Foundation, Maine's coalition received a three-year grant to develop their POLST Program in accordance with the national standards.
These issues also have long been of personal interest to me.
About one-quarter of Medicare funds are spent on care at the end of life that is geared toward expensive high-tech interventions.
But, in fact, they also, as your Five Wishes document shows, can be used to direct the kind of care that they do want to receive.
Patients and their families should not have to fear that the process of dying will be marked by preventable pain.
Patients and their families should be able to trust that the care that they receive in their final days is not only of high quality, but also consistent with their values, their wishes, and desire for autonomy and dignity.
We should be respecting individuals' wishes.
We have to make sure that everyone understands their options.
I do not know that we should be encouraging college students to fill out advance directives and POLST orders.
Americans are the only people on earth who believe that death is negotiable.
If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:15 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at 10 a.m.
There will be up to four rollcall votes at 3 p.m. in relation to the amendments to the immigration bill tomorrow. ____________________
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the Highway Trust Fund will become insolvent in fiscal year 2015.
But I must say that I was disappointed that the President's plan is not supported by a serious proposal to finance it.