When there's a reasonable prospect of treatment giving someone years of healthy life, it's important that the treatment happens. But there are a lot of patients

When there's a reasonable prospect of treatment giving someone years of healthy life, it's important that the treatment happens. But there are a lot of patients where that's not a possibility, everyone knows it's not a possibility, in some cases they sign orders refusing care because they know that any extra time it would add to their life would be torture, and... hospitals do it to them anyways. Because they get paid to. Hospitals should not be able to bill for care given in violation of a DNR that they knew about. If hospitals give care in violation of an advance directive, and the effect is to keep someone barely-alive in a state of terrible pain for a short time before they die anyways, then they should be liable for the pain and suffering they inflicted.