The good death: the people of Missoula, Montana, open a dialogue on better ways to die

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Missoula, MT, has embarked on the Quality of Life's End Missoula Demonstration Project. Dying is seen as a natural part of life not the inability of a health care system. There will be programs and volunteer services for dying people, oral history projects in the community and discussion groups on the topic. A fifth vital sign, pain, will be added to pulse, respiratory rate, body temperature and blood pressure.

Health Programs-Local, Psychological aspects, Death, Health policy, Missoula, Montana

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The incumbent

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Pres. Bill Clinton is adopting a gradualist tack to instituting health care reform following the defeat of his comprehensive health care reform plan. Clinton feels that small-scale changes in the health care system will gradually lead to its integral transformation. Clinton points to the passage of the Kassebaum-Kennedy health insurance reform law as proof of the effectiveness of his new incremental approach.

Health Programs, Clinton, Bill, Political aspects, Public health, Health care reform

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