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In reply to the discussion: Health Insurance Rate Shock-California Obamacare Insurance Exchange Announces Premium Rates [View all]Squinch
(50,949 posts)I recently went through the end of life care fiasco with my mother. They kept throwing expensive and unnecessary procedures at her, even though we begged them to stop. (And just to be clear, she DID have the DNR and all the requisite paperwork that should have made that unnecessary, but we learned that those are not sufficient to override the almighty need for unnecessary medical procedures.)
We decided to transfer her to Hospice so we could take her off the machines and end the procedures. But in the ultimate catch 22, they needed a portable version of the machine she was hooked up to so we could transfer her to Hospice to take her off that very machine. But it wasn't readily available, so for 24 hours, they kept her on the machines and continued the painful procedures so they could locate a portable machine that she could be hooked up to in the ambulance to take her to Hospice so we could discontinue the machines and procedures.
One of the most frustrating and eye opening experiences of my life.