Once upon a time, doctors were held to doctrines such as “do no harm.” Their efforts were exclusively to be focused on healing the patient, regardless of the seriousness of the illness or the prognosis. Certainly, as medical science developed, some earlier procedures were found to harm patients or at least were unhelpful, and were repudiated and discarded. But that’s beside the point. The goal was not to kill people.
The adoption of physician-assisted suicide laws in California stands traditional medical doctrine on its head, and results in terrifying stories like this one:
A terminally ill California woman says her insurance company denied her coverage for chemotherapy treatment but offered to pay for her to kill herself, shortly after California passed a law permitting physician-assisted suicide.
Wow. Just with that information the California legislature needs to repeal that law immediately. But that’s unlikely to happen. Anyway, here are some more details.
Stephanie Packer, a wife and mother of four who was diagnosed with a terminal form of scleroderma, said her insurance company initially indicated it would pay for her to switch to a different chemotherapy drug at the recommendation of her doctors.
So what happened to the doctors’ recommendation?
But shortly after California’s End of Life Option Act, which authorizes physicians to diagnose a life-ending dose of medication to patients with a prognosis of six months or less to live, went into effect, Ms. Packer’s insurance company had a change of heart.
“And when the law was passed, it was a week later I received a letter in the mail saying they were going to deny coverage for the chemotherapy that we were asking for,” Ms. Packer said.
She said she called her insurance company to find out why her coverage had been denied. On the call, she also asked whether suicide pills were covered under her plan.
“And she says, ‘Yes, we do provide that to our patients, and you would only have to pay $1.20 for the medication,’” Ms. Packer said.
And here’s the insidious nature of assisted-suicide laws as they impact more than just the patients.
After the right-to-die movement began garnering national attention, Ms. Packer said she noticed a change in tone at her support groups for terminally ill patients. While the meetings were formerly positive and encouraging, she said the specter of suicide now hangs above them like a dark cloud.
“And people, once they became depressed, it became negative, and it started consuming people,” she said in the video. “And then they said, ‘You know what? I wish I could just end it.’”
As if all of this isn’t enough, perhaps here is the most frightening conclusion.
“As soon as this law was passed — and you see it everywhere when these laws are passed — patients fighting for a longer life end up getting denied treatment, because this will always be the cheapest option,” she said.
You’re getting “the cheapest option.” Just what a critically ill person and his or her family want to hear.
Source: Washington Times
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