OREGON FAVORS SUICIDE AGAIN — Oregon’s government-supported culture of death has informed another cancer patient it would not cover chemotherapy but would underwrite death by physician-assisted suicide.

Randy Stroup, 53, of Dexter, Ore., requested the Oregon Health Plan pay for his chemotherapy but was informed it would provide for assisted suicide but not an expensive cancer treatment.

“It dropped my chin to the floor,” Stroup said of the letter of notification, according to FOX News. “[How could they] not pay for medication that would help my life, and yet offer to pay to end my life?”

Earlier this year, The Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard reported Barbara Wagner, 64, was informed that the Oregon Health Plan would not cover a drug to combat her recurring lung cancer but would provide for assisted suicide.

Stroup and Wagner both eventually received good news regarding their plights. Stroup resisted the state’s refusal, and eventually Oregon agreed to underwrite his chemotherapy, FOX News reported. In early June, Wagner received notification that the pharmaceutical firm marketing the drug she had been prescribed would provide it without charge, according to The Register-Guard.

The Oregon Health Plan provides coverage for about 380,000 low-income residents monthly.