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Gonzales V. Oregon And Physician-Assisted Suicide: Ethical And Policy Issues, Ken Levy
Gonzales V. Oregon And Physician-Assisted Suicide: Ethical And Policy Issues, Ken Levy
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Managed Care, Assisted Suicide, And Vulnerable Populations, M. Cathleen Kaveny
Managed Care, Assisted Suicide, And Vulnerable Populations, M. Cathleen Kaveny
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While advocates of physician assisted suicide consider it a core aspect of individual autonomy legalizing the practice is extremely dangerous and puts the most vulnerable members of our society at risk. Legalized physician assisted suicide takes away the autonomy of the decision to die and makes it an option in a flawed healthcare system, where patients are often denied coverage for medical expenses by employer-sponsored benefit plans and medical insurers are concerned primarily with cutting costs spent on each patient. Complexities in the way that physicians are compensated under the current system of managed care is also eroding their responsibility …