Alternate title: State of Oregon kills woman because she costs too much
After weeks of bad news, things turned Barbara Wagner’s way this week.
Last month her lung cancer, in remission for about two years, was back. After her oncologist prescribed a cancer drug that could slow the cancer growth and extend her life, Wagner was notified that the Oregon Health Plan wouldn’t cover it.
It would cover comfort and care, including, if she chose, doctor-assisted suicide.
Then on Monday a representative of the pharmaceutical company Genentech called Wagner and offered the medicine for free.
Wagner said she didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, so she did both.
Government said that since she was going to die anyway, they’ll pay for someone to help her kill herself.
The eevviill pharmaceutical companies, on the other hand, saw her needs and met them.
Damn capitalists!
Just more proof that what happens in Canada soon makes its way to the US in short order.
A Filipino nanny with terminal cancer in Toronto has been ordered back to her native country because of healthcare costs to the Canadian government.
Juana Tejada, 38, was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2006 after arriving on a federal three-year work permit as a live-in caregiver in 2003, but the disease has spread to her lungs, and she is now diagnosed as a terminal Stage Four cancer patient, the Toronto Star reported Monday.
Tejada asked Citizenship and Immigration Canada to reconsider her visa renewal but a letter from the agency denied the request.
Sorry, but if the person didn’t know they were sick when they entered the country, and if you are going to promise government run “free” heath care to all, and not let private industry offer comparable services, and then tax the person’s wages to pay for the government run “free” health care, you cannot deny them services because they cost too much.
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