Posted on 11/08/2013 5:43:25 PM PST by xzins
As I have discussed here previously, the first state to explicitly ration Medicaid–an integral feature of all single payer systems–tightened the screws against terminal cancer patients a few months ago. Now, the issues is gaining wider discussion in Oregon. From an opinion column published in the Statesman Journal by Peter J. Pitts:
In August, Oregon’s Health Evidence Review Commission issued an update to its guidelines for providing cancer treatment to low-income individuals covered by the state Medicaid program. These new guidelines require that Medicaid deny coverage for certain cancer treatments for patients that have been deemed “too” sick, haven’t responded well to previous treatments, or can’t care for themselves.Through these new rules, Oregon state bureaucrats are severely restricting access to care and dooming potentially thousands of local patients to a premature death…It’s true that for some late-stage cancer patients, the odds are long than any additional treatment can help. But without access to the latest that medical science has to offer, a patient’s survival rate simply drops to zero.
These guidelines dictate that Medicaid only provide “palliative” care – painkillers, acupuncture treatments, wheelchairs, drugs for nausea, and the like.
It’s death panel time!
In the new USA, these kind of death maneuvers will always be done in the bowels of the deep bureaucracy without direct representational democratic involvement.
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Depends, do foreign doctors coming into this country have to take it? That might be your answer.
The same way Obama, Progressives (and many politicians in general) reconcile with the Constitution ......
I pray that you’ll succeed.
Thank you. I’m calling a natural doctor on Monday.
just wonder how the gub’mint will deal with alzheimer’s patients. more and more baby boomers are reaching retirement age and not enough youth to deal with the number of people to support the crazy spending.
i have my mother living with me now, 77 diagnosed with alzheimers and the medical field has already changed in two years. care is getting sketchy, 4 physicians have left the area and only 1 nurse practitioner has been hired, medical appointments more spread out, when seeing the physician excellent care being given, no need for nursing home placement. Only 2 nursing homes in the county (of 14,000 people, yet the county consists of area of 532 miles) where I live in. 2 year waiting list. no hospice, adult day care services closed doors a year ago. services virtually non existent.
The government is not interested in the well-being of its citizens except in terms of power seekers having workers to enable them to maintain and expand their power.
Therefore, the weak are really of no interest to them at all. To the extent that the weak cost them money, they will do what they can to rid themselves of those weak members.
Any pretensions about caring for people are simply the means by which they gain control over vast sums of wealth and additional power over the lives of the underlings.
They will cut them off from the land of the living without qualm and for the slightest of reasons.
Well, you can’t put a value on human life etc. etc., if it saves just one life even though it costs a billion dollars it’s worth it, blah, blah, blah. People who have said this and believed it are about to find out just how quickly the federal government CAN AND WILL “Put a value on human life.” The value that government will put on your life is far lower than most could ever imagine.
This takes the most personal of decisions out of the hands of the doctor, patient, family relationship and puts it in the hands of people who really don’t give a damn about any of the three.
So true. People themselves do have to place limits on the value of a human life or anything that requires money. People do not have unlimited resources. If there was not insurance and people had to pay all their medical care out of their pockets families would impose such limits themselves. Grandpa might not get a heart transplant depending on the situation but that would be decided by the family not some faceless bureaucrat. Maybe if government confiscated less from people then maybe they might have a fighting chance to pay more of their own care
The zero info-bots think this Obamacare is Big Government at its best. To have a few terminal cancer patients denied further treatment is the price to pay for the wonderful government trough. They would sell their mother and send this nation down the river to get their free stuff.
Just like Logan's Run and some other dystopian sci-fi films.
bfl
“The value that government will put on your life is far lower than most could ever imagine.”
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Check it out.
This is the ugly side of “Greed”.
That’s one way to eliminate welfare!
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