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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 18:58:21 GMT
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- In a message to Patricia Bregman <06 Aug 92 10:22> Earl Appleby wrote:
-
- EA> of the choices and, more profoundly, the basis of the choices
- EA> that the Oregon TABs propose that CURE and other disability
- EA> rights advocates object to.
-
- The Oregon Plan will pay $250,000 for the liver/kidney transplant
- procedure for a non-alcoholic. They will not pay the same amount
- for a new born with a gestation period of only 22 weeks and a 15oz
- birth weight.
-
- EA> Robert Pear, a veteran reporter on medical issues for the New
- EA> York Times, describes the Oregon plan as assigning a higher
- EA> priority to medical services that improve quality of life than to
- EA> those that safeguard life.
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- First, let me make it perfectly clear that I am a supporter of the
- Medicare and Medicaid programs. However, I do not believe that we
- should fund every procedure and medical cure that comes down the
- pike.
-
- The obvious reason is that our country is in the midst of an
- economic crisis. It not only can not afford to fully fund every
- medical procedure, but it also cannot afford to fund many of the
- thinggs which it is already funding. The government must stop
- spending more than it takes in if our country is to retain
- autonomy. Therefore, without raising taxes significantly, it
- absolutely must find ways to cut things that are already being
- funded.
-
- Aside from being financially impossible, I believe that Oregon is
- better suited to determine the level of services available at the
- state level. At least they have a plan to curtail their soaring
- medical costs.
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