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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on July 29, 2008, 02:21:06 PM
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Fix this medical ethics glitch
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 The Oregonian
O pponents of physician-assisted suicide are fired up this summer, and rightfully so, over an ethically questionable provision of the Oregon Health Plan.
The conflict came to light in a recent report in The Register-Guard of Eugene. The newspaper described the sad plight of Barbara Wagner, a 64-year-old Springfield woman with lung cancer.
After her oncologist prescribed a cancer drug that would cost $4,000 a month, the newspaper reported, "Wagner was notified that the Oregon Health Plan wouldn't cover the treatment, but that it would cover palliative, or comfort, care, including, if she chose, doctor-assisted suicide."
That presents an unacceptable conflict. The state health program should not be in the position of denying chemotherapy to terminally ill patients while offering to pay the cost of helping them die.
The dust-up over this conflict comes at a poor time for backers of a Washington state initiative that mirrors Oregon's aid-in-dying law. That's too bad, as Wagner's story could cloud what Washington voters really ought to know about Oregon's 10 years of experience with the law.
http://www.oregonlive.com/editorials/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1217289319150190.xml&coll=7
Yep, I'm really looking forward to socialized healthcare. :banghead:
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From each according to his ability to pay to each according to his remaining ROI potential for the State.
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From each according to his ability to pay to each according to his remaining ROI potential for the State.
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sick but hillarious
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What was that movie from the 70s where everybody had to die at 31 or around that age ?? That's where we're headed.
What disturbs me more is the fact that we Americans pay premium dollars for medications, whereas the rest of the world gets a price break.
As far as terminal illnesses, like cancer, I feel that a person should be able to CHOOSE if they want to live or die, not die due to neglect or support in dying by the State.
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Logan's Run
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Logan's Run
Wild in the Streets was based on a kind of similar idea, too.
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What was that movie from the 70s where everybody had to die at 31 or around that age ?? That's where we're headed.
Soylent Green?