Oregon's denial: disabilities and quality of life. (rationing health services)(includes related article)

From: The Hastings Center Report | Date: November 1, 1992| Author: Menzel, Paul T. | Copyright information

In using quality of life as a guide to rationing health services, Oregon laid itself open to charges of bias against the disabled--charges that cannot be dismissed out of hand.

Many observers were surprised, even stunned, by the Department of Health and Human Services' 3 August denial of Oregon's request for approval of its demonstration health plan for Medicaid. Admittedly the plan was gutsy and, for the United States, groundbreaking. To expand Medicaid coverage to mo...

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