Which of These Is TRUE About Recent Developments in Oregon

question 10

Multiple Choice

Which of these is TRUE about recent developments in Oregon?

• A) At the present time, comatose patients like Karen Quinlan, can be legally given a lethal overdose by a physician in Oregon.
• B) A patient need not be judged terminal, with less than six months to live, before he can legally request physician-assisted dying.
• C) Far fewer terminal patients in Oregon requested physician-assisted dying than critics predicted before legalization, and of these, only about half or less actually carried it out.
• D) Most people in Oregon who resort to physician-assisted dying do so because they do not have medical insurance, and because they worried about the costs of staying alive.
• E) Many thousands more people have sought physicians' help in dying than had been predicted. Oregon physicians have been swamped by their demands and this puts the medical system there in acute crisis.

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Minimum-wage Laws

A law defining the minimum hourly compensation that employers are required to pay their workers.

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