Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act of 2007

A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act and title III of the Public Health Service Act to improve access to information about individuals' health care options and legal rights for care near the end of life, to promote advance care planning and decisionmaking so that individuals' wishes are known should they become unable to speak for themselves, to engage health care providers in disseminating information about and assisting in the preparation of advance directives, which include living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care, and for other purposes.

1/31/2007--Introduced.
Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide for Medicare coverage of end-of-life planning and consultations as part of an initial preventive physical examination. Requires a service provider, Medicare Advantage organization, or prepaid or eligible organization to give effect to an advance directive executed outside the state in which it is presented, even one that does not appear to meet the formalities of execution, form, or language required by the state in which it is presented, to the same extent as such provider or organization would give effect to an advanced directive that meets such requirements. Permits a provider or organization to decline to honor such a directive if it can be reasonably demonstrated that it is not an authentic expression of the individual's wishes concerning his or her health care. Makes such advance directive requirements applicable under SSA title XIX (Medicaid). Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, directly or through grants, to:
(1) conduct a national education campaign to raise public awareness of the importance of planning for care near the end of life; and
(2) provide for a national, toll-free information clearinghouse, as well as clearinghouses that the public may access to find out about state-specific information regarding advance directives and end-of-life decisions. Requires the General Accounting Office to study and report to Congress on the feasibility of a national registry for advanced directives.

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Sponsor

• Sen. Bill Nelson [D, FL]
• and 10 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D, NM]
  • Sen. Susan Collins [R, ME]
  • Sen. Richard Durbin [D, IL]
  • Sen. John Isakson [R, GA]
  • Sen. Edward Kennedy [D, MA]
  • Sen. Blanche Lincoln [D, AR]
  • Sen. Richard Lugar [R, IN]
  • Sen. John Rockefeller [D, WV]
  • Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI]
  • Sen. Ron Wyden [D, OR]
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Committees

• Senate Finance

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.465

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January 31, 2007

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• Introduced on Jan 31, 2007.
• Jan 31, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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Related Bills:

• S.466

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• Medicine
• Aged
• Budgets
• Civil liberties
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• Congress
• Congressional investigations
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Data banks
• Federal preemption
• Government information
• Government publicity
• Grants-in-aid
• Health counseling
• Health education
• Health information systems
• Health maintenance organizations
• Health policy
• Law
• Living wills
• Managed care
• Medicaid
• Medical care
• Medicare
• Pain
• Physical examinations
• Physicians
• Power of attorney
• Preventive medicine
• Right of privacy
• Right to die
• State and local government
• State laws
• Technology
• Telecommunication
• Telephone
• Terminal care
• Welfare

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November 17, 2008 H-Net Reviews

Nach seiner Ansicht wird durch den Milieuansatz „der Anfangs- und der Endpunkt einer bestimmten Form von katholischer Vergesellschaftung prägnant erkennbar“ (S. 465). Auf das Seraphische Liebeswerk bezogen, lassen sich so die ...

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Nach seiner Ansicht wird durch den Milieuansatz „der Anfangs- und der Endpunkt einer bestimmten Form von katholischer Vergesellschaftung prägnant erkennbar“ (S. 465). Auf das Seraphische Liebeswerk bezogen, lassen sich so die ...

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In den fünfziger Jahren habe sich eine Theologie durchgesetzt, der es gelungen sei, die „beiden bislang konträr gedachten Pole Kirche und Welt zusammenzubringen“ (S. 465). Da dieser Denkansatz im Zweiten Vatikanum zur amtskirchlichen ...

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