{"id":23236,"date":"2024-08-20T08:24:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T12:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23236"},"modified":"2024-08-20T08:25:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T12:25:23","slug":"traveling-to-die-the-latest-form-of-medical-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23236","title":{"rendered":"Traveling To Die: The Latest Form of Medical Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Debby Waldman for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 18 months after Francine Milano was diagnosed with a recurrence of the ovarian cancer she thought she\u2019d beaten 20 years ago, she traveled twice from her home in Pennsylvania to Vermont. She went not to ski, hike, or leaf-peep, but to arrange to die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI really wanted to take control over how I left this world,\u201d said the 61-year-old who lives in Lancaster. \u201cI decided that this was an option for me.\u201d  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/aid-in-dying-travel-medical-tourism-vermont-oregon-state-legislation\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/aid-in-dying-travel-medical-tourism-vermont-oregon-state-legislation\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Debby Waldman for KFF Health News) In the 18 months after Francine Milano was diagnosed with a recurrence of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,10],"tags":[1490,316,1489],"class_list":["post-23236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-end-of-life","category-legislative-update","tag-aid-in-dying","tag-end-of-life","tag-medical-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23238,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23236\/revisions\/23238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}