Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The Portland state senator and family physician said doctors would still have enough discretion to recommend daily testing for individual diabetics, despite a state board?s ruling that the Oregon Health Plan should only pay for weekly testing strips in most cases. But Republican Jim Weidner labeled the bureaucratic body a nefarious ?death panel? in limiting the ability to test blood sugar levels.
Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, D-Portland, defended the Health Evidence Review Commission Wednesday under charges by a Republican legislator that the group had become a ?death panel? in its recent decision to restrict the number of test strips doled out to some diabetes patients on Medicaid.
?This seems like the beginning of death panels,? said Rep. Jim Weidner, R-McMinnville, who is known for making charged statements. ?The doctor needs to come to this decision. It doesn?t need to be coming from this board.?
http://www.thelundreport.org/resour...herc_against_death_panel_charge_over_diabetes
Not just here then
From reading this it seems that the people making the recommendation have NO idea about diabetes or the reasons for testing. For their information, people who are not on insulin can change things according to the test results they see - they can change what they are eating! No mention of hypoglycaemic drugs like gliclazide.
Such ignorance is always worrying
Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, D-Portland, defended the Health Evidence Review Commission Wednesday under charges by a Republican legislator that the group had become a ?death panel? in its recent decision to restrict the number of test strips doled out to some diabetes patients on Medicaid.
?This seems like the beginning of death panels,? said Rep. Jim Weidner, R-McMinnville, who is known for making charged statements. ?The doctor needs to come to this decision. It doesn?t need to be coming from this board.?
http://www.thelundreport.org/resour...herc_against_death_panel_charge_over_diabetes
Not just here then
From reading this it seems that the people making the recommendation have NO idea about diabetes or the reasons for testing. For their information, people who are not on insulin can change things according to the test results they see - they can change what they are eating! No mention of hypoglycaemic drugs like gliclazide. Such ignorance is always worrying
