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- From: Joe.Chamberlain@p1.f175.n150.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Chamberlain)
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- Subject: Oregon Plan
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- Date: 12 Aug 92 18:57:54 GMT
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- In a message to All <04 Aug 92 03:27> Patricia Bregman wrote:
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- PB> The brief reports I have seen don't make sense. Apparently they
- PB> claim that it might be discriminatory because only poor people
- PB> would have rationed care.
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- The Oregon plan only effected Medicaid receipents, thus only the
- poor. The Oregon plan was designed to eliminate coverage for high
- cost and low success rate procedures. The ADA was brought into
- play because the ADA law requires that all disabled have access to
- equal medical care. Therefore, if a baby born at 22 weeks
- gestation with a birth weight of 15oz and to a poor mother will
- receive the same treatment as if she was born to a mother with the
- best health care coverage. It will allow alcoholics to receive
- kidney transplants.
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