How to Activate Your Most Important Health Care Option !

Every  adult  in  the  USA
should  be made  aware  of

HIPAA Privacy Rules,
{ click highlighted text to learn details },

and how they affect
one's personal health care.  

It would be a lie to claim
that these lengthy and complicated laws
were only created to protect
an individual's medical information
from becoming public.  

There's a great deal more to it
than meets the immediate eye.

There is a very real danger
to every adult US Citizen,


of  being  victimized  by
Medical  decisions  made  by  strangers, 
some based  on  Federal Law,
as  opposed  to  personal  medical  choices.

The HIPAA Privacy Rules
make  it  impossible  for
even  your  nearest  and  dearest
to  know  anything  about  your  Medical  condition
and  certainly  prevents  anyone,
except  those  in  the  Medical  Community,
from  making  decisions  regarding  your  medical  treatment,
should  it  be  determined  that  you  are  incapable !

It's  simple  and  inexpensive to
protect  yourself  against  becoming  vulnerable  to  this  danger.

You'll need
  a  few  sheets  of  paper  and
a  dollar  as  payment  to  a  Notary,
{ easily found at most Banks },
to  create  a  legal  document
that  will  name  one,  { or  more }, 
of  your chosen  trusted  individuals
who can act as  a  Health  Care  Agent  on  your  behalf,
to carry out your health care decisions,
in the event you become incapable of doing so yourself.

This legal document is called a
HEALTH  CARE  PROXY 
or 
HEALTH  CARE  DIRECTIVE. 

Each State has it's own
HEALTH CARE PROXY or  DIRECTIVE FORM requirements,
but, mostly they are the same. 
I suggest you GOOGLE SEARCH your particular State.

New Yorkers  can  copy, paste and print  the  following  form:

Fill in the form as you desire,
BUTT,
SIGN  IT  ONLY  WHEN  THE  NOTARY  IS  READY  !!!

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Click to ENLARGE. Right Click to COPY.

Keep your original document 
safe at home and
carry a copy in your wallet or handbag. 

Be certain to have all your Doctors,
{ including the Dentist !!! },
make a copy
and
request to have it
stapled to the inside cover of
your personal folder. 

Supply your chosen Health Care Agents with a few copies too.

The following
real life situation
could have been avoided with this simple
one page document:

Susan and James Smith have
been happily married for ten years.  One unfortunate morning,
Susan was in a car accident
on the way to work.  
Unconscious, but still alive, 
the ambulance takes her to a local Hospital for emergency treatment.

Lucky for Susan,
a neighbor witnesses the accident
and tells her husband. 



James rushes to the Hospital and identifies himself at the Emergency Room Reception Window
where he  learns that the HIPAA Privacy Rules prevent the staff from
divulging ANY information regarding the medical treatment of his beloved wife, Susan !!!

THE  NIGHTMARE  HAS  JUST  BEGUN !
It has now been determined that Susan Smith has suffered irreversible brain and body trauma. 
She is in horrible pain and incoherent. 
The medical staff injects her with morphine and,
because of Federal Law,
they place Susan on Life Support. 

Every  three hours the morphine wears off
and Susan writhes in horrible pain for fifteen minutes
as nurses run to hold her down and administer another dose of morphine. 

There is no hope for Susan's recovery,
but Life Support can keep her in this state for several months...
perhaps several years.

James is distraught
and has absolutely NO legal right
to make any decision regarding the Medical care of his beloved wife. 

He knows she was against having her life prolonged with
artificial respiration, feeding and hydration tubes and
is, himself, traumatized  by  the  fact 
that  he  has  no  ability  to  honour  her  health  care  wishes 
and  alleviate  her  unnecessary  suffering. 

Will  he  be  able  to  find  a  Lawyer  who  can  help  them ?


Dear  Reader:

I  would  love  to  read 
and  respond  to 
your  input  and  comments !

Just  CLICK  on  the  word  "Comments"  to  get  started.

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