No wonder she had to quit being governor. She had no idea what she was signing, what she was doing, or what any of those little squiggly things called letters meant.
H/T to my cousin for posting this on her Facebook wall. And then H/T to Blue Armadillo who quoted it in a comment here which I found searching for a similar diary.
WHEREAS, Healthcare Decisions Day is designed to raise public awareness of the need to plan ahead for healthcare decisions, related to end of life care and medical decision-making whenever patients are unable to speak for themselves and to encourage the specific use of advance directives to communicate these important healthcare decisions. WHEREAS, in Alaska, Alaska Statute 13.52 provides the specifics of the advance directives law and offers a model form for patient use.
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Can anyone say IRONY???
WHEREAS, it is likely that a significant reason for these low percentages is that there is both a lack of knowledge and considerable confusion in the public about Advance Directives.
Did she use this paragraph against Americans, seeing how so few currently have knowledge enough to understand what advanced directives are OR is she counted in that category?
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Sarah Palin, Governor of the state of Alaska, do hereby proclaim April 16, 2008, as: Healthcare Decisions Day in Alaska, and I call this observance to the attention of all our citizens.
The statute in question:
Alaska Statutes.
Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, and Trusts.
Chapter 52. Health Care Decisions Act (39 sections in total)
previous: Section 190. Definitions.
next: Section 10. Advance Health Care Directives.
Chapter 52. Health Care Decisions Act
Section 10. Advance Health Care Directives.
Section 20. Revocation of Advance Health Care Directive.
It is so apparent that the problem isn't that Sarah Palin disagrees with SEC. 1233 of H.R. 3200:, but that she lacks any comprehension of end-life-care, advanced directives, hospice, etc. The HR uses some pretty big "big girl" words that anyone with an iota of medical knowledge can decipher as pretty standard care for surgeries, health care facilities, and hospice. And the language about changes, mental status, etc., are protections again, FOR the patient.
Poor dear, it really was too big a job for her.