A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has urged the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to introduce new monitoring rules to ensure that vulnerable people receiving hospice care are not discriminated against or encouraged to end their lives through assisted suicide.
“Every person has inherent worth and dignity, including those facing their final days,” Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said in a statement.
“Hospice should be a place of compassion, comfort and care, not a place where people feel quietly pressured to end their lives through assisted suicide.”
