This is a story that has apparently been around for a while, but I just heard about. Barbara Wagner was covered by the Oregon Health Plan, the health insurance plan offered by the state. Her doctor prescribed a drug in an attempt to treat her lung cancer. However, the state health plan refused to pay for it. They did; however, offer to buy her some poison for a physician assisted death. Nice.
Hopefully, this is not a picture of the future of health care in America.
p.s. Here is the video with the "take a pill" comment by President Obama.
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