Please contact your congressional representative and voice your support for this resolution. Palliative care is much more than pain management, and is specific to end-stage disease.
Doctors never get liaining.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology just now making this a clinical requirement. Patients do not expect much. They know to expect pain. They do not have reasonable assurances from their medical system that these issues will be addressed or solved. The current reimbursement system rewards giving chemotherapy rather than helping these patients with difficult and time consuming problems.