Insurance Company Would Rather Stephanie Packer Die Than Pay For Her Cancer Treatment
This is what leftist medicine has wrought:
A terminally ill woman in California had coverage for her chemotherapy treatment denied by her insurance company, but they’ll gladly pay for her to commit suicide.
The new California law permits physician-assisted suicide, and as a result, it appears that insurance companies have found a great cost-saving measure: kill their sickest patients.
Stephanie Packer, a wife with four children, was diagnosed with a terminal form of scleroderma. She said her insurance company initially told her it would cover but switching to a different chemotherapy drug at the advice of her doctors, The Washington Times is reporting.
For a while, five months or so, we’ve been trying to get me on a different chemotherapy drug for the infusions, because my doctor felt that it would be less toxic than some of the other drugs that we were going to be using,” Ms. Packer said in a video distributed by The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network on Monday.
But shortly after California’s “End of Life Option Act” went into effect – authorizing doctors to diagnose a fatal dose of medication with a prognosis of six months or less to live, Packer’s insurance company quickly reversed themselves and denied the request:
“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,’” Packer said.
All of this comes as other states and areas are considering their own “assisted suicide” bills. Oregon has a “Death with Dignity” act, and the D.C. City council is considering permitting physician-assisted suicide.
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.’”
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While I believe in a person’s right to choose death with dignity I certainly don’t believe in someone else making that decision for you! It is good to know that under Obamanation care it will only cost me $1.20 when my pain becomes too much to bear any longer! This country has reached a new low!
Well they are killing people with chronic pain. If you hurt you usually have to lay down an try not to move…well you can’t move when you have so much pain. Your lungs fill up it kills you after awhile. People itch COPD die faster… Still want the same politicians you have. People will get it sooner or later. We all have family that is getting old and are sick an will have pain. It’s just what happens. Don’t help them with pain just let you politician kill them.
We all knew this to be the truth,,even as disgusting and inhumane as it is..We all knew they want us dead,,,They claim we cost too much…Well thanks to dea,,,that why we cost more now..I use to see my Doc,,1nce a year,,if that,,,,no cost to my insurance company,,ie,,deductible..Now we are all forced to go 3 or 12 times a year,,Sadly if this women is w/out her medicine,,,she may want death now,,,if they deny her ,her medicine to lessen her physical pain,,,My god,,,what has ,”our” society come to????I would love to mail this article to every parent of a adult off spring who choosed to use my medicine illegal and Klondyne,,,w/ a note attached to the article,,”’u guys got enough revenge yet???or enough justification of your own guilt yet????Your rehabs filled up enough yet???!!!!!!!!!!
This is sickening,,,but I will be putting it my ,”packet,” to the human rights council as more evidence of torture and genocide onto the medically ill!!!!Torture and genocide is exactly what the United States Government is guilty of 10000%,,,beyound a reasonable doubt!!!!!