Rep Snyder on Palliative Care Council

back in 2017 I first put this bill forward and some outside group pretty much killed it because of Scar Tactics that it was going to lead to a death panel and people would be pretty much killed uh if uh they had palet of care it was terrible well I didn't have a lot of knowledge or at least maybe firsthand experience but then came the summer of 2017 later that summer it was my niece's wedding out in Cincinnati my parents were there and my mom was in a wheelchair they're in their 80s and my dad looked white as a ghost breathing heavy and we went to him my brothers and I and said what's going on and he said he's just short of breath and everything so we urged him to go see the cardiologist in Omaha Nebraska where he was living with Mom he did in in October and the cardiologist at kraton University Medical Center said to him that you have congestive heart failure get your Affairs in order you have 3 to 6 months to live well my brother in Cincinnati talked to us and said listen we've got pretty good heart specialist out here plus we have a pallet of care system so they moved him out there in the uh early part of 2018 he got there he got the proper treatment he got a heart monitor cardiologist did a great job but then palet of care kicked in now both of my parents at this time had do not resuscitate bands on if something happened to them so they made that decision already on their own but they still wanted to have some type of quality of life to be able to Joy kids and grandkids so they were able to get my father down in pounds and he actually got to go out and golf again before the congestive heart disease started coming back but that was in 2018 and in that time period six great grandchildren were born so he finally did he what the palet of care did was it brought together social worker which coordinated with my brother which got dialysis into it Physical Therapy into it and other aspects all instead of the individual having to reach out themselves palet of care is in my town Wasa and Aspirus in Green Bay Area it's excellent pallet of care it's not a death panel my father finally in June of 2022 where dialysis couldn't work anymore because of his blood pressure transitioned into hospice and died in June but again quality time and he got to meet some great grand grandkids in the meantime so it's not some death panel there's not some operation where people are going to overdose these patients I don't know where that comes from that group basically the bridge is burned with me so don't ever come back to me for anything because this is not that this is something that is good especially when we're growing in a older Dem graphic so the vote is yes