The benefits of Socialized Medicine
Recently, citizens from the liberal state of Oregon voted for a type of socialized medicine. When an individual cannot pay for his own coverage, the state run program steps in and foots the bill. How nice. But that can be expensive; especially when the illness is chronic or worse, terminal. And in spite of a couple of commercial giants like NIKE, Oregon is not a cash cow. Remember a few years ago when Oregon citizens also voted to legalize Physician assisted suicide?
Oregon Offers Terminal Patients Doctor-Assisted Suicide Instead of Medical Care
Monday, July 28, 2008
PORTLAND, Ore. — Some terminally ill patients in Oregon who turned to their state for health care were denied treatment and offered doctor-assisted suicide instead, a proposal some experts have called a “chilling” corruption of medical ethics.
Since the spread of his prostate cancer, 53-year-old Randy Stroup of Dexter, Ore., has been in a fight for his life. Uninsured and unable to pay for expensive chemotherapy, he applied to Oregon’s state-run health plan for help.
Lane Individual Practice Association (LIPA), which administers the Oregon Health Plan in Lane County, responded to Stroup’s request with a letter saying the state would not cover Stroup’s pricey treatment, but would pay for the cost of physician-assisted suicide.
“It dropped my chin to the floor,” Stroup told FOX News. “[How could they] not pay for medication that would help my life, and yet offer to pay to end my life?”
The letter, which has been sent to other terminal patients throughout Oregon, follows guidelines established by the state legislature…”
Though this is eerie and hints of Soylent Green, it should have been expected. With the business of infanticide known as abortion thriving in this country, why shouldn’t the legalized murder of terminally ill patients be offered by the state?
The more enlightened we become, the further from the Truth we grow.
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Tags: Bad Policies, Physician Assisted Suicide, Socialized Medicine, Soylent Green, Truth
Comments
Comment from Bloviating Zeppelin
Time August 12, 2008 at 10:18 am
If children are not important, what makes anyone think that the elderly are important? There are already more dogs in San Francisco and Seattle than there are children.
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Comment from Samantha West
Time August 13, 2008 at 7:37 am
BZ – dogs don’t talk back that why SFites like them. They won’t grow up to question mommie & mommie’s BS.
These actions of offering assisted suicide at a state level are far more heinous than Jack Kevorkian who offered his services to people when they asked.
This is nothing more than murder. There will be persons who might have a very dark moment and accept the choice of suicide because it’s easy and right there in front of them, but if the option hadn’t been easy, they may have made it through the rough spot and found healing.
I personally know 3 people who have beaten terminally ill status.
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Comment from Just John
Time August 14, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Looks like that state run health care isn’t the blessed miracle that the libtards thought it would be…what a shock!
This is really very simple. When any aspect of society is handed over to government control, it becomes bloated, corrupt, inefficient, and impotent. The current mess in Oregon is just another example.
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Comment from Gawfer
Time August 14, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Yep,
well said John. the bigger the Gov’t, the wors our existance becomes.
Comment from Ambulance Nurse
Time October 22, 2008 at 4:08 am
That’s terrible!!! Even the goverment are willing to pay for the murder. I don’t want to believe that this happens in our country.
Comment from …….
Time December 15, 2008 at 6:52 pm
idiots… fox is appealing to the ignorant people who they can lie to and the religious people who don’t care, as long as it’s “for christ”. just like “joe the plumber” wasn’t even certified and didn’t pay his taxes. a big government may be bad, but a big insurance company which only benefits the rich is certainly worse
Comment from …….
Time December 15, 2008 at 6:55 pm
oh, your monitering this??? guess i should go to some place which allows a little something called “free speech”. id actually like to give you my real email so you could respond, but i don’t want to be monitered by some republican christain company. peace
Comment from Gawfer
Time December 15, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Interesting comments anonymous. I’m not sure why you call me an idiot, go after Fox News or the ‘religious people’ but let me see if I can dissuade your angst.
First of all, my colleague’s sister is Chief of Staff for an Oregon State Senator who has more than one case in their office regarding this issue, so it’s not an anomaly;
2nd you libbers love to go after the great media pariah Fox News assuming that Fox has a dominant role in news dissemination when in fact the hold 54% of “Cable news” which in its entirety holds a mere 10% of the News market;
3rd, I’m not sure what religion has to do with a State who has adopted a version of socialized medicine denying medical benefits yet offer to cover the cost of physician assisted suicide.
As far as monitoring this site, yes, I moderate and freedom of speech is a constitutional right, not a Gawfer blog right and is determined by yours truly. If you behave poorly again, you will be redirected to another site that will more likely suit your interests.
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Comment from zK
Time September 11, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Oregon medicine used to be tops. They destroyed it like they did care for the mentally handicapped.. to skim money. To create problems to solve.
We were conservatives! We were overrun by libiots who ALWAYS make a bee-line for government to install their gummint programs.
America. We need a loyalty test to vote. PRINCIPLES must be inside tolerances of what defines this country.
Even an illegal couldn’t pass that. They have no clue.
No need for any Joe McCarthy, just a minimum standard o protect the Constitution from the outside when our oath-betraying politicians defect to Russia and the PRC, tear down the firewalls and ignore the Constitution entirely.
Just raising the voting age in this education crisis would help. Youd never see another libiot voting, let alone winning, but that’s not enough.
If we want the Constitutional Republic to survive at all, we have to demand drastic measures, not hope for slightly better losers than these obamanoid fascists.
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Comment from Shoprat
Time August 12, 2008 at 9:35 am
This must have happened more than once. If so it’s a serious problem.
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