Sep 7, 2008

Salem on History | 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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Salem on History | Oregon Legislates Guaranteed Basic Health Care for the Uninsured

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