My Life Preferences™

Reduce Employer Health Care Costs by Offering
Personnel This Low Cost/No Cost Benefit

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Only 2% of Americans have advance directives on file with their physician. That means 98% of those facing life threatening or terminal conditions through accident or illness lose control of medical decisions should they become unable to speak for themselves.

Every year, thousands end up in nursing homes in a vegetative state, an outcome they would never have chosen. After family funds are exhausted, Medicaid takes over, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

Without an advance directive, employee health plans incur costs of $100,000 and more for unwanted and often futile medical procedures as physician and families struggle to determine the right course of action. End-of-life care is a major contributor to the double digit increases in the cost of employee health plans.

Only the patient can make decisions regarding their health care options.

When the patient's wishes are unknown, physicians are ethically bound to use all available means to keep the patient alive irrespective of outcome. However, the outcome can readily be something the patient would never have wanted.

My Life Preferences™MLP) is designed for individuals who are in the active workforce. Personnel often have clear views of what outcomes they want for themselves, but delay writing directives because of cost concerns and many other factors. MLP makes it easier for users to express their thoughts and wishes by employing many features not found in standard advance directives/living wills. My Life Preferences™ is a "state of the art" approach accepted within the field of bioethics as a best practice standard.

How employees and their families benefit from using My Life Preferences™

  1. Employees readily purchase life insurance as a way of caring for their loved ones should something happen to them.
  2. Advanced medical technology has resulted in a paradoxical effect. It decreases the probability of death while increasing the chances of surviving with a permanent disability. The family of a permanently and totally disabled individual cannot receive death benefits. In addition, to losing a source of income and health care benefits, they take on physical and financial responsibilities. Breadwinners who are mindful of this possibility much prefer setting their own parameters of when to "let go, let God."
  3. The choices one makes in an advance directive are obviously very personal. The only "right" answer is what users considers best for them and their families.
  4. A clear advance directive spares both physician and family the agonized and often guilt-ridden debate of trying to determine patient wants. Physicians and families are less compelled to undertake every conceivable last-ditch effort when they know the result would be exactly what the patient would not want.
  5. Advance directives empower families. When families know their loved one’s wants, they can direct their energy toward meeting those wants. They go from feeling helpless to becoming active helpers. This is a profound emotional shift. While the pain of loss will not go away, it is softened by having been a helper to the end.
  6. Studies have shown that individuals provided hospice care live about as long as those who spend their last days in a hospital under active treatment. Hospice care allows patients to share precious moments with family and friends in the familiar surroundings of their home, be at peace and free of pain.

How Employers Benefit

  1. Employers make a one-time purchase of a license. This license grants the employer the ongoing right to reproduce My Life Preferences™ in whatever numbers are needed by employees and members of their immediate families.
  2. When employees or family members use this instrument, there will be shorter hospital stays and fewer costly procedures that are often unwanted/unnecessary and painful.
  3. Employers, especially those that are self-funded, will save hundreds of thousands in catastrophic health care costs compared to what they now spend.
  4. When a family member covered under the employee health plan has an advance directive, the employee experiences less emotional trauma. That leads to better recovery and more rapid return to full productivity.

Your purchase includes:

  1. CD containing the instrument in Excel 2007 and PDF format.
  2. License number unique to your organization affirming your right to reproduce this instrument.
  3. Tips for low cost/no cost ways of incentivizing employees to use this instrument.
  4. Two years of free upgrades. (Regular upgrades will be made based on user feedback. You will receive automatic free upgrades of this instrument for two years following date of purchase.)

Introductory Price: US $1500

(Wisconsin organizations, unless tax exempt, pay a 5.5% Wisconsin Sales Tax. If tax-exempt, you must provide your tax exemption number.)

To obtain a sample and overview of the complete document click here

to download the Intellectual Property Agreement. Then fax the signed agreement to 608-563-0973. When the fax copy received, you will promptly receive 1) a sample copy for evaluation purposes and 2) an overview of how the instrument works. When you order a sample document, you are guaranteed the introductory price for 30 days after the regular price goes into effect. You will receive an email at that time notifying you of the price change and confirming your 30-day eligibility to obtain a license at the introductory price.

To Purchase a license, click here to obtain an order form.

The order form provides specifics about the organization to which a license for unlimited reproduction rights is issued along with payment arrangements.

Purchases for Inclusion in Commercial Packages

Prices are based on type and scope of use. Email info@mylifepreferences.com with your inquiries.

Distributorship Applications

Are you interested in commissioned sales of My Life Preferences™ ? If so, send queries and qualifications statement to info@mylifepreferences.com. Sales representatives work under contract detailing specific provisions.

Individual Purchases

Cost US $40. (During checkout a 5.5% Wisconsin sales tax will be added for Wisconsin purchasers.)

During checkout those making an individual purchase will be asked for their name and mailing address. Individuals are given a choice of receiving the instrument either as an email pdf attachment or print copy. (Print copies are sent free by first class mail if within the continental United States.) Purchasers from outside the United States will receive a pdf file by email

Individual purchases are not a license. The product will come with the name of the family purchasing the instrument. Individual purchasers are permitted to reproduce as many copies as needed for use by members of the immediate family. Sharing this instrument outside the purchaser’s immediate family is a violation of copyright law and subject to enforcement.

Individual purchases do not include free upgrades.

Protection of Intellectual Property Agreement

Statement of Conditions

  1. Only authorized purchasers may use this instrument.
  2. Purchases by individuals will be issued in the name of the individual. It will read "This instrument is issued to the John Doe family for exclusive use by John Doe and members of John Doe’s immediate family."
  3. Only the John Doe family has right to use this instrument.
  4. If a the purchaser makes this intellectual property available to an outside party, it will be subject to damages plus court costs.
  5. Any party using this instrument without a valid license is subject to damages as determined by a court of law.
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