Government Health Care Means You Aren’t The Customer And You Don’t Call The Shots
By Content Keyword RSS on Jul 29, 2008 in Health, Main Content
The Oregonian has an editorial up highlighting the fact that the state-run Oregon Health Plan won’t cover a terminal patient’s chemotherapy but will pay for them to die. Opponents of physician-assisted suicide are fired up this summer, and rightfully so, over an ethically questionable provision of the Oregon Health Plan. The conflict came to light in a recent report in The Register-Guard of Eugene. The newspaper described the sad plight of Barbara Wagner, a 64-year-old Springfield woman wi

