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Posted on 08/09/2009 2:39:50 PM PDT by WhiteCastle
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I think the money went to the general fund in Michigan. From there it likely went to programs to “blow us away” such as Cool Cities. I think “blown away” means death spiral.
If they say no, then the answer is no. That I do not find unreasonable.
The euthanasia offer, to anyone, is horrifying.
People with no hope have nothing left to lose. The politicians would do well to remember that.
haha
THAT is very very good!!
If I was her doctor I would not have presented her the option.
But, that'd be between doc a patient...not the government.
although this makes the insurance companies really bad, it needs to be pointed out. (I hate giving Obama ammo to make ins companies look worse, but a spade is a spade)
yet in comparison, this woman does have alternatives and can take these people to court.
That is something that she Can never do with Obamacare. It is outlawed in HR 3200, govt word is law, no opinions, no arbitration, no courts. Nothing.
The 64-year-old Oregon woman, whose lung cancer had been in remission, learned the disease had returned and would likely kill her. Her last hope was a $4,000-a-month drug that her doctor prescribed for her, but the insurance company refused to pay.
Notice how the LYING BASTARDS at ABC News try to make you believe it was a heartless private insurance company that denied this treatment.
The woman is enrolled in a Oregon State health program which is a public program just like ObamaCare! It is a government bureaucrat who denied the coverage, not a private insurance company. This will be the fate of all of us under ObamaCare
The government will not allow drug companies to sell drugs at their market price. Prices will be fixed by the government. Yes innovation will plummet and inventions and research will slow down to a crawl. Another reason we don’t want what the Democrats are trying to sell.
If Oregon is trying to cut costs - why didn’t they offer her a 35-cent bullet ???
Way cheaper than $50 drugs ...
WAIT A MINUTE. This was from Medicaid?
Not private insurance????
I FEEL LIKE SUCH AN A$$.
It is right there in black and white and I completely glossed over it.
Thank you for making me wake up and read it through again.
Oregon Health Program is an Oregon mini-version of ObamaCare. It is a public agency. The people who administer it are state employees.
If you look at the comments on the ABC site you will see how many people were mislead by the article into thinking this was private insurance. Obama’s minions in the MSM have NO shame and spread his lies around.
It looks like the comments posted on the ABC site were too hot to handle. Viewing comments is currently disabled for the article on the ABC website.
What Europe does is get cheap drugs while US citizens pay the full price of R&D.
We should allow re-importation and the prices in Canada and Europe would rise and our prices would come down. We are subsidizing socialized medicine in Europe and Canada.
Where does the wholly preventable, extremely expensive disease AIDS stand on the priority list?
Note that they don't mention that Oregon Health Plan is a government-run health plan until well into the article.
Based on the ABC article on this, the Oregon public health insurance this woman has is only for those under the poverty line, ostensively those unable to get any other form of insurance. Clearly, any effort to ever extend this kind of plan to everyone should be fought tooth and nail.
However, given that this is essentially “tax payer funded basic insurance for poor people,” I’m not sure it’s wrong to deny a $4k per month drug that might only add a couple of months to ones life.
Is it?
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