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“Grandma got run over by Socialized Healthcare” might be a song there
$4000 a month drug, and we wonder why socialism is taking root.
TFA says the woman was a lifelong smoker. Hmmm. Didn’t we raise cigarette taxes to pay for their treatment?
Still, wowsers — pretty lame treatment of her by the bureaucracy. In any event, get ready for the ObamaCare “DMV agent” making decisions on when you may die. After all, this bill has been lobbyist approved.
Insurance is not a birthright, nor is any drug in particular. But most of all the issue of cost is device that derails the issue from its moral essentials.
The best cure is euthanasia?
This is creepy. On a scale of one to ten, it rates about a twelve or thirteen.
This is not even hospice care, it is move the animals through the kill chute.
And who knows, the cancer may go into remission on its own even WITHOUT the $4,000 a month drug regimen. I understand some of the alternative medicines are reporting pretty surprising results.
But when you take away all hope, what is there?
Evidently, the drug company ponied up free medication for this woman. But I have a question. She is a great-grandmother. To me, that means she has an extensive family. Why are they not helping out with the costs? Part of being a proponent of subsidiarity (which I assume most Freepers are—it just means having the smallest human unit possible responsible for processes and activities) is having people rely on their families first, before they turn to their neighbors and then to total strangers.
I suspect that the woman’s family, along with a church community, could have handled a large part of the expense of this treatment. But they are never confronted with that question, because we have indeed “socialized” our minds to expect the government/large corporations to take care of us.
OTOH, we do need to have conversations about the marginal costs of care. $16,000 for a projected best-case scenario of six extra months of life. Would we spend $160,000?
At what point is a payer of any kind (government or insurance company) justified in denying payment for unproven treatment or very small increments of benefit? Just askin...
I wonder if they want the $50 up front? maybe they take checks.........
She still has an option at this point. In another 10 years, the ‘medical team’ will make the decision for folks like this so they don’t have to worry about their options.
Involuntary euthanasia is already being carried out in Europe.
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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.
If Oregon is trying to cut costs - why didn’t they offer her a 35-cent bullet ???
Way cheaper than $50 drugs ...
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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