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Oregon's Health Care Plan: Just Another Medicaid Cutback |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Joseph Tiang-Yau Liu |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,101 Words, 13,543 Characters |
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Oregon's proposed Medicaid health rationing experiment has been surrounded by a storm of controversy. In August, after seeming to support the proposal, the Bush administration denied Oregon's waiver request because the experiment would violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Proponents argue that it represents the best in hard, tough thinking about the future of the health system. They say that rationing already exists and that prioritizing illnesses and treatments is a more logical approach.
In reality, the Oregon Medicaid experiment is just another in a long line of proposals to cut health benefits for the poor. Only the poor would be subjected to the crude, mechanistic, and draconian approach to prioritizing health conditions and treatments. Stripped of its pseudoscienti...
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...e, administrative costs must be reduced, and services must be reorganized to reduce health expenditures. The question is, who will feel the effects of cost containment. The answer from Oregon is that only the poorest women and children--those with the least political voice--should bear the burden. If Oregon's answer wins out, then the nation will once again fail our children and our future.
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