Narrative Matters Health AffairsVol. 30, No. 8: New Perspectives On Substance Abuse Hospice And The ‘End Game’Eleanor Clift Affiliations Eleanor Clift ( [email protected] ) is a contributor to Newsweek and Daily Beast ; a panelist on the public affairs show, The McLaughlin Group ; and the author of Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics (Basic Books, 2008). She joined the National Hospice Foundation board as an advocate in 2006. PUBLISHED:August 2011No Accesshttps://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0197AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextView PDFPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions View articleAbstractAfter her husband’s death from cancer, a veteran reporter concludes that hospice “should be front and center in the debate over the kind of health care future that we want.”TOPICSHospiceCancerPalliative careDiseasesSurgeryCancer patientsMedicare savings programsMedicareClinicsNurses Loading Comments... Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. DetailsExhibitsReferencesRelated Article MetricsCitations: Crossref 1 History Published online 1 August 2011 Information Project HOPE—The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. PDF downloadCited byA Literature Review on Care at the End-of-Life in the Emergency DepartmentEmergency Medicine International, Vol. 2012