Letter noting assisted suicide raises questions
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. - Barbara Wagner has one wish - for more time."I'm not ready, I'm not ready to die," the Springfield woman said. "I've got things I'd still like to do."
Her doctor offered hope in the new chemotherapy drug Tarceva, but the Oregon Health Plan sent her a letter telling her the cancer treatment was not approved.
Instead, the letter said, the plan would pay for comfort care, including "physician aid in dying," better known as assisted suicide.
"I told them, I said, 'Who do you guys think you are?' You know, to say that you'll pay for my dying, but you won't pay to help me possibly live longer?' " Wagner said.
But one critic of assisted suicide calls the message disturbing nonetheless. "People deserve relief of their suffering, not giving them an overdose," said Dr. William Toffler.
He said the state has a financial incentive to offer death instead of life: Chemotherapy drugs such as Tarceva cost $4,000 a month while drugs for assisted suicide cost less than $100.
Oregon Health Plan Denies Chemo Medicine- Assisted Suicide Offered Instead
Have they offered the same help to the US Congress and the Administration and their thug Army?
Sometimes the pharmaceutical manufacturers themselves will offer a steep discount or even free medication in tragic cases like this. It wouldn’t hurt for these people to ask.
This is how other countries spend so much less on healthcare
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Didn’t Kevorkian go to jail and permanent disgrace for just this kind of behavior?
I’d suggest to the panel making this disgusting decision that they take advantage of the suicide services and with the money saved by them not demanding health care services anymore they can pay for the medicines that I need.
Wouldn’t that be more in line with their (allegedly) sincere interest in public service than killing the people you are paid to serve?
Reading this literally turned my stomach.
Sounds like the citizens of Oregon have a little house cleaning to do.
I hope someone here with far more knowledge than I about PhotoShop can put the Marxist's Pigs head on this picture.