2005 Idaho Code - 39-4514 — GENERAL PROVISIONS

                                  TITLE  39
                              HEALTH AND SAFETY
                                  CHAPTER 45
                  THE MEDICAL CONSENT AND NATURAL DEATH ACT
    39-4514.  GENERAL PROVISIONS. (1) This chapter shall have no effect or be
in any manner construed to apply to persons not executing a "Living Will and
Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care" pursuant to this chapter nor shall
it in any manner affect the rights of any such persons or of others acting for
or on behalf of such persons to give or refuse to give consent or withhold
consent for any medical care, neither shall this chapter be construed to
affect chapter 3, title 66, Idaho Code, in any manner.
    (2)  The making of a "Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Health
Care" pursuant to this chapter shall not restrict, inhibit or impair in any
manner the sale, procurement or issuance of any policy of life insurance, nor
shall it be deemed to modify the terms of an existing policy of life
insurance. No policy of life insurance shall be legally impaired or
invalidated in any manner by the withholding or withdrawal of artificial
life-sustaining procedures from an insured patient, notwithstanding any term
of the policy to the contrary.
    (3)  No physician, health facility or other health care provider and no
health care service plan, insurer issuing disability insurance, self-insured
employee plan, welfare benefit plan or nonprofit hospital service plan shall
require any person to execute a "Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for
Health Care" as a condition for being insured for, or receiving, health care
services.