Oregon Legislates Guaranteed Basic Health Care for the Uninsured
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Medicine, Health, Economics
- Subcategories: Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Laws, Acts, Legislation, Human Rights
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: Oregon
- Date: 1989
Article abstract: The Oregon Health Plan was a blueprint for providing health care to uninsured Oregonians who did not fit into categories covered by federal health programs.
Summary of Event
In his 1990 book What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress, Daniel Callahan explores the values of United States citizens that have led to a greatly inconsistent allocation of funding for basic health care from state to state. He begins with the moving case of Adam “Coby” Howard, a seven-year-old Oregonian who died while awaiting a bone-marrow...
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