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Health Update - August 2016 | Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP - JDSupra
Stephanie Anthony, Joel Ario, Anne O'Hagen Karl, Richard Lawson, John LeBlanc, Lydia Mendoza, Helen Pfister, Randi Seigel, Ian Spatz, Shoshana Speiser, Andrew Struve
1. Only "qualified individuals"—meaning those who have the capacity to make medical decisions, who are residents of California and who are able to satisfy all of the statute's requirements—may make the request. The person must have a terminal disease, defined as "an incurable and irreversible disease that has been medically confirmed and will, within reasonable medical judgment, result in death within six months." In addition, the person must have the "capacity to make medical decisions," must make the request on their own behalf and have the "physical and mental ability to self-administer" the drug. Health & Saf. Code § 443.1(q).
2. Health & Saf. Code § 443.18.
4. According to a poll conducted in August 2015 by the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley, 76% of respondents supported the proposed legislation. https://igs.berkeley.edu/news/igs-poll-californians-support-medical-aid-in-dying-for-terminally-ill. Similarly, a statewide Field Poll of registered voters in which respondents were read a summary of the law showed that 65% of voters favored the law, 27% opposed and 8% had no opinion. http://www.field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2512.pdf. These findings are echoed nationwide: a May 2015 Gallup Poll found that 68% of Americans support physician-assisted "suicide" of terminally ill patients. http://www.gallup.com/poll/183425/support-doctor-assisted-suicide.aspx.
5. The Act does not authorize a physician or any other person to perform a mercy killing or active euthanasia—physicians are only authorized to prescribe the drugs that must be self-administered. Health & Saf. Code § 443.18.
6. Soumya Karlamangla, "As California's End of Life act goes into effect, some doctors question where to draw the line," L.A. Times, June 6, 2016.
7. Tracy Seipel, "California's right-to-die law: Why some doctors will refuse to prescribe lethal drugs," Mercury News, May 13, 2016.
9. Soumya Karlamangla, "As California's End of Life act goes into effect, some doctors question where to draw the line," L.A. Times, June 6, 2016.
10. Tracy Seipel, "California's right-to-die law: Why some doctors will refuse to prescribe lethal drugs," Mercury News, May 13, 2016.
11. Soumya Karlamangla, "As California's End of Life act goes into effect, some doctors question where to draw the line," L.A. Times, June 6, 2016.
12. http://www.cmanet.org/news/detail/?article=cma-changes-stance-on-physician-aid-in-dying.
13. https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/ABX2_15_Signing_Message.pdf.
14. Health & Saf. Code § 443.15(a)-(b).
15. Health & Saf. Code § 443.15(a).
16. Health & Saf. Code § 443.15(b).
17. Health & Saf. Code § 443.15(c).
18. Health & Saf. Code § 443.15(d).
19. Melody Gutierrez, "California beginning era with new options to end life," San Francisco Chronicle, June 4, 2016.
20. https://www.dignityhealth.org/sacramento/about-us/end-of-life-options-act.
21. Emily Bazar, "A guide to California's new End of Life Option Act for patients and families," LA Daily News, June 4, 2016.
22. Soumya Karlamangla, "How California's Aid-in-Dying Law Will Work," L.A. Times, May 12, 2016. However, the Act prohibits Medi-Cal, insurance companies and health care service plans from notifying individuals about the availability of an aid-in-dying drug, unless an individual (or his or her physician acting on behalf of the individual) specifically requests such information. Health & Saf. Code § 443.13(c).
23. http://www.ucconsortium.org/portfolio-view/end-of-life-care-act-fact-sheet/.
24. David Lazarus, "Huntington Hospital accepts California's end-of-life law," Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2016.
26. Health & Saf. Code § 443.13(a)(1).
27. Health & Saf. Code § 443.13(a)(2), (b).
28. Health & Saf. Code § 443.13(a)(2).
29. Tracy Seipel, "California's right-to-die law: Why some doctors will refuse to prescribe lethal drugs," Mercury News, May 13, 2016.
1. 81 FR 26127.
2. 42 USC § 1396a(a)(68).
4. If an employer does not have an employee handbook, it is not required to create one under the DRA; however, if an employee handbook does exist, then it must include the DRA policies and procedures.
5. CMS letter to the State Medicaid Directors, dated December 13, 2005,available at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/smdl/downloads/SMD121306.pdf.
1. Eisai Inc. v. Sanofi-Aventis U.S., LLC et al., No. 14-2017 (3d Cir. May 4, 2016), reh'g denied (3d Cir. May 4, 2016).
3. Eisai Inc. v. Sanofi-Aventis U.S., LLC, No. 08-4168 (D.N.J. Mar. 28, 2014).
Eisai Inc. v. Sanofi-Aventis U.S., LLC , CIVIL ACTION NO. 08-4168 (MLC) (D.N.J. Mar. 28, 2014)