New bill in Congress would improve end-of-life care

New bill in Congress would improve end-of-life care
Public News Service; Suzanne Potter; 8/23/24
A bill just introduced in Congress would raise public awareness of issues surrounding the end of life, including palliative care, and hospice. The Compassionate Care Act [co-sponsored by Rep. Nanette Barragán, D-CA, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-CT] would establish guidelines for advance care planning between health providers and patients... The bill would direct the government to develop education resources for providers, expand telehealth options and facilitate a study of a national advance care planning registry, which would allow patients to transfer their advance directives from state to state.