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Affordable Care, Death Panels, and Personal Freedom

Dan K. Morhaim, M.D. | Posted 09.16.2012 | Healthy Living
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Dan K. Morhaim, M.D.

The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA) still leaves some big issues unresolved. One of the most significant is care at the end of life.

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10 Conversations to Plan for Aging with Dignity and Independence

Dr. Bruce A. Chernof, MD | Posted 07.10.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Aging, Personal Health, Dignity, Advance Care Directive, Health, Long-Term Care, Independence, Financial Planning, Retirement Planning, Long-Term Services and Supports, Family, Fifty News
Dr. Bruce A. Chernof, MD

Aging with dignity and independence is the ability to live life to its fullest in the place you call home regardless of age, illness or disability. Wh...

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Gingrich's 'Death Panel' Hypocrisy

The New Republic | Alec MacGillis | Posted 12.18.2011 | Politics
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As one admirer put it in a July 2009 blog post, "If Gundersen's approach was used to care for the approximately 4.5 million Medicare beneficiaries who...

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