Comment by Thorrez

Barbara Wagner [1]:

>Her last hope was a $4,000-a-month drug that her doctor prescribed for her, but the insurance company refused to pay.

>What the Oregon Health Plan did agree to cover, however, were drugs for a physician-assisted death. Those drugs would cost about $50.

Randy Stroup [2]:

> Lane Individual Practice Association (LIPA), which administers the Oregon Health Plan in Lane County, responded to Stroup's request with a letter saying the state would not cover Stroup's pricey treatment, but would pay for the cost of physician-assisted suicide.

Stephanie Packer [3] (although in this case she inquired herself):

> Then her doctors suggested that switching to another chemotherapy drug might buy her time. Her medical insurance company refused to pay. She says she asked if the company covered the cost of drugs to put her to death. She was told the answer is yes — with a co-payment of $1.20.

T. Brian Callister, MD, FACP, FHM [4]:

>When I spoke with the insurance medical directors of the patients' insurance companies by telephone on separate occasions, both of the insurance medical directors told me that they would approve coverage for either hospice care or assisted suicide but would not approve the life saving treatment option.

> Neither the patients nor I had requested approval for assisted suicide, yet it was readily offered.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5517492&page=1

[2] https://www.foxnews.com/story/oregon-offers-terminal-patient...

[3] https://nypost.com/2016/10/24/terminally-ill-mom-denied-trea...

[4] https://www.cga.ct.gov/2018/phdata/tmy/2018HB-05417-R000320-...