services(CMS), health care expenditures grew 6.5 percent per year from 1991 to 2001, and in 2001, the expenditures had grown to $1.4 trillion. The CMS predicts that these expenditures will grow by 7.3 percent annually and estimates that the U.S. will spend $3.1 trillion on health care in...
or any other form of “directive” or document. To assist families in these situations, where there is an immediate need for decision making, the Health Care Surrogate Act provides the needed guidance. The medical provider can look to the statute and determine who should be the decision maker...
You use an MPOA to designate your agent or attorney-in-fact, sometimes also called “proxy,”“surrogate,” or simply “representative.” Your medical agent does not need to be a family member, but they should be someone who knows you well and understands your health care preferences. ...
These days I’m studiously careful about whom I consider Family. Because these days, more than most days, all Cubans need FE to survive. And I can’t be a surrogate FE for all these people in need. The need is great indeed. Everyone is suffering from the COVID-induced paralysis of di...