Some terminally ill patients in Oregon who turned to their state for health care were denied treatment and offered doctor-assisted suicide instead, a proposal some experts have called a "chilling" corruption of medical ethics.
Since the spread of his prostate cancer, 53-year-old Randy Stroup of Dexter, Ore., has been in a fight for his life. Uninsured and unable to pay for expensive chemotherapy, he applied to Oregon’s state-run health plan for help.
Lane Individual Practice Association (LIPA), which administers the Oregon Health Plan in Lane County, responded to Stroup’s request with a letter saying the state would not cover Stroup’s pricey treatment, but would pay for the cost of physician-assisted suicide.
What do we call this, besides immoral? Oh yeah, health care rationing. But we won’t see any of that in Obamacare will we? But in Oregon’s mind assisted suicide = hospice care.
Oregon doesn’t cover life-prolonging treatment unless there is better than a 5 percent chance it will help the patients live for five more years — but it covers doctor-assisted suicide, defining it as a means of providing comfort, no different from hospice care or pain medication.
No helping somebody kill themselves isn’t providing comfort, it is simply killing them.
Crazy.
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“What do we call this, besides immoral?”
Disgusting. Sick. Proof that it’s just about time for Western “civilization” to fall.
I hope that that helps.
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I think you’ve about covered it.
Unbelievable…yet if B.O.’s plan goes through, even suicide would be too costly for the elderly. When we have such obvious examples, how can anyone vote FOR this kind of health care?
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People who expect the government to rush in and take care of them.
This isn’t the first time, either. Last summer they refused to pay for a woman’s lung cancer treatment but offered her euthanasia: cf, Fix this medical ethics glitch.
It’s sick. It’s also predictable and just the start.
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Crazy… when they passed the referendum on making assisted suicide legal I knew they were going to have issues like these.
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