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I heard that the Veterans Affairs Department has already distributed a book pressuring our elderly veterans to choose to die, is that not a slippery slope to “death panels”?

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I heard that the Veterans Affairs Department has already distributed a book pressuring our elderly veterans to choose to die, is that not a slippery slope to “death panels”?

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Recently a partisan op-ed in the Wall Street Journal distorted the purpose of an important Veterans Affairs planning tool called “Your Life, Your Choices.” The booklet is designed to help Veterans deal with excruciating questions about what kind of health care they would like to receive if they are unable to make decisions for themselves. It is viewed in the field of advance care planning as a groundbreaking tool. It was developed in the 1990s. In 2007, the Bush White House received a complaint about the planning tool from Jim Towey, the author of the op-ed. Towey developed and markets a competing advance care planning product called Five Wishes. VA was asked to respond to the complaint that the product was biased against the right-to-life viewpoint. Veterans Health Administration convened an outside panel of experts to review the tool and assess its merits. Overwhelmingly, panel experts praised “Your Life, Your Choices” and endorsed its use in VHA. They also provided a range of excell

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