In another story in the California Political News and Views we noted that the drug company that makes the lethal drug for assisted suicide is charging $3,000 for a dose—that is if you buy it privately. If you are government, the Medi-Cal system will pay $5400 for the dose to kill. That is money meant to save the lives of childs and the elderly, instead it will be used to kill people.Read more here.
“California would pay an estimated $5,400 per patient just for the drugs yet Medi-Cal patients still have no access to palliative care (designed to improve the quality of life for patients and their family facing serious illnesses.) Even more incredibly, a recent study has shown that Medi-Cal recipients have only a one in three chance of even getting cancer treatments under the system and often cannot obtain second opinions.
Proponents of the assisted-suicide law insisted during last year’s debate that the lethal dose of drugs was not intended to save Medi-Cal costs yet lawmakers passed the legislation in a special session called specifically to address a Medi-Cal deficit.
So, by NOT allowing people on Medi-Cal cancer doctors, you assure their death—and by using the $5400 lethal dose, taxpayers save money. Is this unethical, immoral or just good business by government? This is the same government that spends tens of millions of dollars to keep murderers alive on death row. Confused?
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Medi-Cal to pay for assisted suicide, but not for palliative care
Stephen Frank reports for California Political Review,
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I read what was being written in medical ethics in the early 1990s and wrote many letters to medical journals warning what was coming.
It is about killing the expensive.
And it won't be limited to the dying, as the propaganda insists.
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