Healthcare by Lottery

If the choice is ultimately between socialism or barbarism, Oregon is evidently trying, as a poster to LBOtalk mentioned, to "make barbarism entertaining."

With some 45 million Americans uninsured, how to pay for medical treatment is a big issue in this year's presidential election. Now officials in Oregon say they have come up with a fair way of providing coverage for some of those who cannot afford it. [. . . . ] More than 90,000 in Oregon are vying for a maximum of 10,000 places in the state's healthcare plan. Yet it is a drop in the ocean. There are some 600,000 uninsured in Oregon. At the Outside In community clinic in downtown Portland, doctors see 7,000 different patients a year, 90% of whom have no health insurance.

Now if they will just contract with ABC to do a show about some of the winners that would follow the format of Extreme Makeover.