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    Insurance Wouldn't Pay for Treatments - Offered Assisted Suicide


    Doctor: Insurance Wouldn't Pay for Patients' Treatments, but Offered Assisted Suicide
    By Kelsey Harkness Published on June 29, 2017
    https://stream.org/doctor-insurance-...isted-suicide/

    Dr. Brian Callister, a physician in Reno, Nevada, says two recent patients both needed life-saving treatments. "Not palliative care, not hospice, these would have been curative procedures," Callister recalls.

    One patient was from California and the other was from Oregon, both states that passed physician-assisted suicide laws. Instead of offering to pay for their treatments, Callister says, the insurance medical directors in both states offered to cover his patients' assisted suicide.

    Watch the video to hear more about these cases, and why Callister, who says he's taken care of "somewhere in four figures worth of terminally ill patients," now opposes assisted suicide.


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    Senior Member Colonel's Avatar
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    Not sure whether to be angry or euphoric from that. Completely unhuman. When was the last time patients were told "no we won't pay to save your life but we will be happy to kill you free of charge" ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    Not sure whether to be angry or euphoric from that. Completely unhuman. When was the last time patients were told "no we won't pay to save your life but we will be happy to kill you free of charge" ?
    Amazing!

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    I didn't read the whole article so I don't know if they mention that California has had around 115 assisted suicides since the beginning of the year

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