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Oregon Tightens Duty to Die on Cancer Patients
National Review Online ^ | November 8, 2013 | Wesley J. Smith

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: abortion; cancer; deathpanels; medicaid; obamacare; oregon; oregonmedicaid; restrictivemedicaid; zerocare
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Agree with your post.

It’s a failure of logic to demand unlimited funding of medicaid life support AND reasonable costs to those taxpayers funding it.


21 posted on 11/08/2013 6:15:18 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: TexasFreeper2009

22 posted on 11/08/2013 6:24:11 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: Ezekiel
It is in the best interest of beast.gov to silence those voices

And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch (Mk 13:37)

23 posted on 11/08/2013 6:27:16 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: MrsFlyingEagle

Ping


24 posted on 11/08/2013 6:29:47 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: hinckley buzzard

When I hear the term “palliative care” I think of George Soros and the “third path”. Here’s a little history.

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/archived-articles/../2011/04/teflon_liberals.html


25 posted on 11/08/2013 6:30:48 PM PST by chickenlips (Karl Rove: The Donut Whisperer)
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To: xzins

The point is that under a pay-your-own-way system, they were free to have whatever kind of insurance they wanted, so their death decision was their own.

Under a government-pays system, the government makes death decisions.

Whatever those who voted this in were thinking doesn’t really matter. Their stupidity affects me and my family, and I did NOT vote for this, but it will be imposed on me and mine eventually.


Well said


26 posted on 11/08/2013 6:32:21 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
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.

It is the "can't care for themselves" rationale that scares the heck out of me. The other situations can be seen rationally -- in some cases -- as not throwing money down a hole, but the latter is merely an issue of inconvenience for the state (sound familiar?).

27 posted on 11/08/2013 6:35:21 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: chickenlips

28 posted on 11/08/2013 6:35:57 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins; All


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29 posted on 11/08/2013 6:46:24 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: xzins

Just buried my husband today with full military honors. He fought cancer for years and I treasure every additional minute that he was able to live and spend time with his children, grandchildren and me. Life is precious but in today’s world of moral decay...little matters.


30 posted on 11/08/2013 6:54:17 PM PST by katiedidit1
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To: katiedidit1

Our prayers are with you and your family, katiedidit1, and our thoughts with those who served. We have been privileged to live alongside of patriots of our day. May the price they paid for freedom remind us of our own duty. And may their struggle remind us to continue the fight. Faith.


31 posted on 11/08/2013 7:00:16 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Operation Eastbourne. Nod to Red Dwarf.


32 posted on 11/08/2013 7:05:40 PM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: xzins
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.

DEATH PANELS ARE HERE, ALL YOU @$$HOLES THAT SAID SARAH PALIN WAS CRAZY.

Yes, I'm shouting. As if liberals can possibly be made to hear.

33 posted on 11/08/2013 7:06:51 PM PST by Hardastarboard (You can keep your doctor - if you lock him in your basement.)
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To: xzins

bump


34 posted on 11/08/2013 7:06:53 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: Hardastarboard

Sometimes we need to shout. Whispering when there’s danger is cowardice, so that makes it a low-level form of betrayal.


35 posted on 11/08/2013 7:12:28 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: Tired of Taxes

We can’t rely on doctors who consider a cured, healthy patient as a lost customer. It’s true that for some late-stage cancer patients, the odds are long than any of the traditional treatments can help but in many cases alternative care treatments are the answer to recovery.


36 posted on 11/08/2013 7:39:06 PM PST by B4Ranch (Name the illness that you have and Google it with hydrogen peroxide. Do it and be surprised.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Wow, how could have possibly foreseen this happening...


37 posted on 11/08/2013 7:44:52 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: xzins

“... deemed ...”.

Probably best to get a job as a “deemer” .... just a precaution.


38 posted on 11/08/2013 7:50:04 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (An Administration of communists, incompetents, and the corrupt ...reminds one of FDR's brain trust.)
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To: katiedidit1
Just buried my husband today with full military honors. He fought cancer for years and I treasure every additional minute that he was able to live and spend time with his children, grandchildren and me. Life is precious but in today’s world of moral decay...little matters.

My mother is dying from her inflammatory breast cancer. My condolences go out to you and it is very hard to see and go through it. I treasure every minute I can get with my mothers and it hurts me to be away from her but now I have to go out and get a job, I stayed home to be her caregiver and it is hard.
39 posted on 11/08/2013 9:20:13 PM PST by Nowhere Man (I miss you, Whitey! (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012) It has been a year, rest in peace, pretty girl!)
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To: B4Ranch
We can’t rely on doctors who consider a cured, healthy patient as a lost customer. It’s true that for some late-stage cancer patients, the odds are long than any of the traditional treatments can help but in many cases alternative care treatments are the answer to recovery.

I'm trying to do that with my mother as we speak.
40 posted on 11/08/2013 9:21:31 PM PST by Nowhere Man (I miss you, Whitey! (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012) It has been a year, rest in peace, pretty girl!)
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