>>>Hi Jake.
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>>>>Health care cost savings, government style.
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>>>Why "government style"? I thought it was an insurance company that rejected her.
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>>>Doug
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>>Her "insurance" is the Oregon Health Plan.
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>>btw : If you read to the end of the article you'll notice a happy ending thanks to a greedy pharmaceutical company.
>>
Meanwhile Wagner has faith in her medicine, not assisted death. Now, at the request of her doctor, the pharmaceutical company Genentech is giving her Tarceva free of charge for one year.
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>>"The doctor did say it would put a lid on the cancer and I am hopeful," she said.
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>>State-run health insurance offers her death, private company offers her life.
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>And do you really think a private insurance company would have paid for the medicine?
>
>Tamar
Yes. Mine does, although like many drugs, there are quantity limits:
http://www.aetna.com/products/rxnonmedicare/data/2009/ANEOPL2009/antineoplastics_2009.html
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