DEATH AND DYING

Addresses

Hospice—Past, Present, Future: Sandol Stoddard, 1774-1779 [7FE]

Articles and editorials

Act of Mercy, 674 [25JA]

GAO Finds No Evidence VA Medical Official Acted Improperly, 11664 [14JN]

Heroin for the Terminally Ill, 675 [25JA]

In Defense of Reintroduction of Heroin Into American Medical Practice and H.R. 5290—Compassionate Pain Relief Act, 675 [25JA]

Relief for Terminally Ill, 674 [25JA]

Unnamed Sources, 11665 [14JN]

Why Not Heroin? Controversy Surrounding Legalization of Heroin for Therapeutic Purposes, 677-683 [25JA]

Bills and resolutions

Congressional Medal of Honor: funeral and remains transportation of recipients (see H.R. 541)

Medicaid: hospice coverage (see H.R. 1259)

Medicare: psychologist services in hospice program (see S. 121)

National Hospice Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 194)

Peace Corps: drape a U.S. flag over the caskets of deceased volunteers (see H.R. 3475)

Social Security: benefit payments not made to deceased individuals (see H.R. 251, 252)

———payment terms upon death of recipient (see H.R. 936)

Taxation: treatment of payments under life insurance contracts to terminally ill individuals (see H.R. 3734)

Veterans: allowance for burial plots (see H.R. 685, 2014)

Commentaries

Assessment of the VA's methods of analyzing its hospital mortality rates: VA Chief Medical Director, 11665 [14JN]

Letters

Assessment of the VA's methods of analyzing its hospital mortality rates: Edward J. Derwinski, Sec. of Veterans Affairs, 11665 [14JN]

———John Gibbons, 11665 [14JN]

———Senator Cranston, 11665 [14JN]

Papers

Life-Sustaining Treatment: John C. Fletcher, 24885-24887 [17OC]

Remarks in House

Children: reduce infant mortality rate, 28277 [9NO]

Medicaid: hospice coverage (H.R. 1259), 3392 [2MR]

National Hospice Month: designate (H.J. Res. 194), 4140 [14MR]

Nursing homes: medicaid/medicare benefits for terminally ill, 31120 [11DE]

Social Security Lump-Sum Death Benefits Act: enact (H.R. 411), 162 [3JA]

Taxation: treatment of payments under life insurance contracts to terminally ill individuals (H.R. 3734), 30213 [19NO]

Remarks in Senate

Connecticut: hospice anniversary, 2010 [8FE]

Diseases: spending on research, prevention, and education relative to the 20 most fatal illnesses, 21274 [21SE]

Dying: care, 1774 [7FE]

Medicare: psychologist services in hospice program (S. 121), 736 [25JA]

National Hospice Month: designate (S.J. Res. 78), 4402 [15MR]

VA: GAO and OTA survey of hospital mortality rates, 11664, 11668 [14JN]

Reports

VA Health Care—Allegations Concerning VA's Patient Mortality Study: David P. Baine, GAO, 11665 [14JN]

———GAO (excerpt), 11664 [14JN]

———OTA (excerpt), 11664 [14JN]

Statements

Patient Self-Determination Act, 24890 [17OC]

———Barbara Mishkin, 24891 [17OC]

———Bernard M. Zlotowitz, 24890 [17OC]

———Dayle A. Friedman, 24889 [17OC]

———Dennis Brodeur, 24888 [17OC]

———John C. Fletcher, 24885 [17OC]

———Myra J. Christopher, 24891 [17OC]

———Rav A. Soloff, 24889 [17OC]

Rollin/Shapiro To Aid NCTIP, National Committee on the Treatment of Intractable Pain, 677 [25JA]

Tables

Leading causes of death in U.S., 29612 [16NO]

VA health care facility mortality rates, 11668 [14JN]

Texts of

H.R. 411, Social Security Lump-Sum Death Benefits Act, 162 [3JA]

H.R. 1259, medicaid coverage of hospice, 3393 [2MR]

S. 121, medicare psychologist services in hospice program, 736 [25JA]

S.J. Res. 78, National Hospice Month, 4402 [15MR], 11438 [9JN]