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Oregon Health Plan: An Overview
The Oregon Health Plan (OHP) operates under a waiver from the federal government that allows us to serve more low-income people using federal Medicaid money.
We do this through an innovative system that prioritizes health care, using a list of hundreds of conditions and their treatments. Higher priority is given to conditions that can be successfully treated, and to avoiding illness through preventive care.
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Oregon Offers to Pay to Kill, but Not to Treat Cancer Patient
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By Tim Waggoner
SALEM, Oregon, June 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Lung cancer patient, Barbara Wagner, was recently notified that her oncologist-prescribed medication that would slow the growth of cancer would not be covered by the Oregon Health Plan; the plan, however, she was informed, would cover doctor-assisted suicide should she wish to kill herself.
"Treatment of advanced cancer that is meant to prolong life, or change the course of this disease, is not a covered benefit of the Oregon Health Plan," read the letter notifying Wagner of the health plan's decision.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08060402.html
Oregon Health Plan: An Overview
The Oregon Health Plan (OHP) operates under a waiver from the federal government that allows us to serve more low-income people using federal Medicaid money.
We do this through an innovative system that prioritizes health care, using a list of hundreds of conditions and their treatments. Higher priority is given to conditions that can be successfully treated, and to avoiding illness through preventive care.
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Oregon Offers to Pay to Kill, but Not to Treat Cancer Patient
LSNTODAY'S HEADLINES * SEND NEWS TIPS * DONATE
SHARE: E-mail E-MAIL Print PRINT
By Tim Waggoner
SALEM, Oregon, June 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Lung cancer patient, Barbara Wagner, was recently notified that her oncologist-prescribed medication that would slow the growth of cancer would not be covered by the Oregon Health Plan; the plan, however, she was informed, would cover doctor-assisted suicide should she wish to kill herself.
"Treatment of advanced cancer that is meant to prolong life, or change the course of this disease, is not a covered benefit of the Oregon Health Plan," read the letter notifying Wagner of the health plan's decision.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08060402.html