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Oregon Hospitals Didn't Have Shortages. So Why Were Disabled People Denied Care?
NPR ^ | December 21, 2020 | Joseph Shapiro

Posted on 12/24/2020 11:48:23 AM PST by CheshireTheCat

At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, a small group of disability rights advocates found itself in a race against time to save the life of a woman with an intellectual disability.

The woman was taken to the hospital with COVID-19. But the hospital, in a small Oregon town, denied the ventilator she needed. Instead, a doctor, citing her "low quality of life," wanted her to sign a legal form to allow the hospital to deny her care.

Out of that quiet fight in early spring, the advocates — staff at a disability rights legal group, a state lawmaker and a few others — discovered something disturbing: There were many cases in Oregon of health care being rationed to people with disabilities.

At the same moment, across the United States, disability groups and even a civil rights office of the U.S. government were raising a similar warning: that behind closed doors, people with disabilities, as well as elderly people, were in danger of being denied health care.

NPR was looking for cases, too, and heard about the woman in Pendleton while she was in the hospital.

There's no reason that these examples would occur more frequently in Oregon than in other states. But the fight for that anonymous woman with an intellectual disability peeled back the curtain on health care decision-making in Oregon in a way that did not happen in other states.

That activism led to change in Oregon — including anti-discrimination legislation and new statewide policies...

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: eugenics; hcq; plandemic
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Yeah, so it's NPR. But on this one they might actually be right. I can actually see Oregon doing something like this.
1 posted on 12/24/2020 11:48:23 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

There must be bodies everywhere.


2 posted on 12/24/2020 11:51:53 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: CheshireTheCat

That activism led to change in Oregon — including anti-discrimination legislation and new statewide policies...

Anyone, who believes in the above B$ will be sharing cookies and hot chocolate with a fat bearded guy tonight.

Oregone has been whacking people for about a decade.


3 posted on 12/24/2020 11:54:05 AM PST by Grampa Dave (If voting could change anything, they would not let us do it...!!! Posted by glasseye, 12/19/2020!! )
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To: PROCON; Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; bray; 1malumprohibitum; ...
If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.
4 posted on 12/24/2020 11:54:28 AM PST by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Where euthanasia becomes an option, it soon becomes mandatory.


5 posted on 12/24/2020 11:55:05 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (White Privilege does NOT begin with Being White but when you ACT "WHITE"! So, -- ACT "WHITE"!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Rationing care


6 posted on 12/24/2020 11:55:31 AM PST by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Call it ethnic cleansing, Bill Gates and Fraud Fauchi style


7 posted on 12/24/2020 11:55:34 AM PST by MagUSNRET ((" I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of he night"))
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To: CheshireTheCat

It’s oregon! They started with “assisted suicide.” The next logical step is for the healthcare system to decide for you who gets killed or doesn’t.

Nobody did anything to stop the first step, so here’s the second step.


8 posted on 12/24/2020 11:58:12 AM PST by I want the USA back (I fear my government much much much much much much much much much much more than a virus from china.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Liberals are afraid of the future.

There might be too many people.

So, they start to triage.....everyone.


9 posted on 12/24/2020 11:59:27 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: CheshireTheCat

This happened in New York and elsewhere with governors and mayors ordering young infected patients into nursing homes.

There are many people liberals enjoy killing for fun.


10 posted on 12/24/2020 12:00:01 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: CheshireTheCat
For zose whose Liebensqualität is zo schrecklich, we must give zem an injection, nicht wahr?
11 posted on 12/24/2020 12:01:50 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Reno89519

The four Horsemen...ABORTION,BIRTH CONTROL,WAR,EUTHANASIA.....How to control population....


12 posted on 12/24/2020 12:05:10 PM PST by Hambone 1934 (We all know President Trump....A fighter to the end......)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Oregon is trying out the Cuban system. Caring for the disabled just creates more of them since they don’t die off quickly.


13 posted on 12/24/2020 12:07:04 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Donald J. Trump is the rightful President of the USA and his own party won't admit that.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

NPR: And there’s hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut....”


14 posted on 12/24/2020 12:13:13 PM PST by llevrok (At the end of the day, it's night. )
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To: CheshireTheCat

NPR = NAZI Propaganda Radio that would make Josef Goebbels proud.


15 posted on 12/24/2020 12:15:11 PM PST by newfreep (The Communist/DNC VOTER FRAUD is Trump's ONLY opponent in 2020 election.)
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To: blueunicorn6

Pretty soon the Leftist tyrants that run Oregon will simply shoot these people because they are a resource consuming inconvenience.


16 posted on 12/24/2020 12:15:48 PM PST by Bayan
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To: Bayan

Yep.

But, pretty soon, the Liberals come up as an inconvenience.


17 posted on 12/24/2020 12:19:35 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Grampa Dave
That activism led to change in Oregon — including anti-discrimination legislation and new statewide policies...

Big deal, they have legislation and policies

Does anyone believe that laws and policies are being followed these days?

In the real world the politicians will go to the head of any line and the elderly and disabled will be at the very end.

18 posted on 12/24/2020 12:20:37 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

Oregon Death With Dignity Act might be in play here!

Oregon Health Authority : Frequently Asked Questions : Death ...www.oregon.gov › deathwithdignityact › pages › faqs
Frequently asked questions about Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act. ... Oregon statute specifies that participation under the DWDA is not suicide, and should not ...

Oregon Death With Dignity Actwww.oregon.gov › oha › Documents › requirements

The Death with Dignity Act (DWDA) allows terminally ill Oregon residents to ... suicide. The DWDA specifically prohibits euthanasia, where a physician or other.

OREGON’S ASSISTED SUICIDE LAWwww.cga.ct.gov › rpt
Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act allows terminally ill Oregon residents to obtain and use prescriptions from their physicians for self-administered, lethal medications ...

Assisted suicide law in Oregon - NCBI - NIHwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articles › PMC1115860
Editor—In his balanced editorial Brody noted that during the first year of Oregon’s physician assisted suicide law 15 terminally ill patients had received ...
by M Irwin · ‎1999 · ‎Related articles

How to Access and Use Death with Dignity Lawswww.deathwithdignity.org › learn › access
Jump to Oregon — Legal state residency is a requirement for accessing death with dignity laws. In California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington, you ...
‎Overview of Physician ... · ‎Going Through the Process ... · ‎Implementation Resources

FAQs - Physician-Hastened Death - Death With Dignitywww.deathwithdignity.org › faqs
Death with dignity is a term originating in the title of the Oregon statute ... For example, your death may be ruled a suicide under another state’s law, with resulting ...


19 posted on 12/24/2020 12:27:31 PM PST by Grampa Dave (If voting could change anything, they would not let us do it...!!! Posted by glasseye, 12/19/2020!! )
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To: CheshireTheCat

NPR dare not call it Death Squads, but they know it is....


20 posted on 12/24/2020 12:28:45 PM PST by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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