Cancer Patient Offered Gov’t Suicide Funds But Not Medical Care
-By Warner Todd Huston
Doctor C.L. Gray and his Physicians for Reform group tell us of the horror story of Oregon’s government run healthcare plan that offered a cancer patient named Barbara all the suicide assisted funding she wanted, but not one penny for the medical care that could save her life.
As Doctor Gray put it, Barbara was no longer thought of by government as a patient but instead had become a “negative economic unit.” Oregon’s government run healthcare system wanted Barbara dead because keeping her alive was simply too costly.
It’s bad enough that a handful of states have taken up these uncaring, cut-rate medical plans, but at least patients in Oregon or Massachusetts can go to another state to find the proper care. But once Obamacare becomes a nationwide plague, there simply won’t be any other place to go.
If you want a government that feels that assisted suicide is better because it’s cheaper, then a vote for Obamacare is just the ticket. But if you want a system that cares about patients, then keeping government out of healthcare is what you want.
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on August 3, 2009 7:01 am
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This is a complete misrepresentation of the story. Barbara Wagner was provided with thousands of dollars of chemotherapy and treatment by the OHP. The plan would not pay for an experimental drug that had not been proven to improve survival. By the way, Wagner was on OHP because her private insurance dumped her. OHP covering assisted suicide was voted on by the people of Oregon, and it was never offered to Wagner by any doctor. Physician assisted suicide is only discussed if the patient brings it up. But, I guess, why let facts get in the way of a good story?
Bill,
Do you have proof of this? Links to these facts? And don’t bother with socialist websites like MSNBC or CNN.