Public Strongly Favors End-of-Life Conversations Between Doctors and Patients

As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services prepares to finalize a plan to pay physicians for discussing end-of-life treatment options with Medicare patients, the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds an overwhelming majority supports such coverage.

The poll finds 89 percent of the public says that doctors should discuss end of life care issues with their patients, though relatively few (17%) say that they have had such discussions with their doctor. CONT.

Kaiser Family Foundation

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