Rationing of Care

Government run healthcare is rationing of care in any form. Oregon has a "Universal Healthcare" plan in their state. They are also a state that allows assisted suicides. What is essentially going on there is that instead of providing treatment to certain people they are directing them to assisted suicides. See here. (Article by Jeff Emanuel on Pajamas Media)

The insanity of their plan can be summed up with just this:

A brief look at the state’s rationing policy demonstrates how out of whack the Oregon Health Services Commission’s medical priorities are. For example, under the OHSC directive, a person in need of an emergency appendectomy (prioritized 84^th) would be denied that treatment before an individual in need of treatment for “tobacco dependence” (ranked 6th).

A closer look reveals still more examples of absurd prioritization. The state rationing board ranked abortion 41^st overall in state-funding priority, meaning the bureaucrats who designed the priority structure in this “public option” program determined that the use of taxpayer funds for abortion is more important (and more medically necessary) than covering injuries to major blood vessels (ranked 86^th), surgery to repair injured internal organs (88), a “deep wound to the neck” or open fracture of the larynx or trachea (91), or a ruptured aortic aneurysm (306).

Also of note is the fact that treatments for esophageal, liver, and pancreatic cancers take up priority slots 337 through 339, with treatment for stroke at 340 — all over 300 places behind obesity (8), depression (9), and asthma (11).

So basically if you are depressed, addicted to smoking cigarettes, or want to kill your unborn child you have more value than someone who has had an aneurysm, cancer, or a stroke.