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.
We raised taxes through the roof on tabacco to pay for more perks and pork for those in the elite political class, and raises for unions all around.
There is absolutely no incentive to ever devote one dime to tabacco cessation from the tax money. Don’t worry, non-smokers they will come for you soon enough.
He just died of his cancer.
Oregon has ranked the top 500+ health procedures in order of precedence. Interestingly, smoking cessation and obesity are higher on the list than an emergency appendectomy.