furious about Cheneys heart

[riverwalker]

As of August 31st, 2011, there are 121,264 patients on wait lists at U.S. Transplant Centers. Of those 121,264 patients, 3,202 persons are awaiting heart transplants while an additional 69 patients are awaiting a heart/lung transplant.
Numbers from:
http://www.myhearttransplant.net/wait-list/new-wait-list-statistics.html

In Virginia, where the filthy buzzard got his heart transplant today, there were 370 people on the waiting list for a heart. In the US, there were 3202 on the list waiting for heart today.
Fathers, mothers, children, real people, actual humans who are not a sadistic murderering asshole like Cheney. I do not believe that he would have had medical priority. This stinks to hell.
Yet this 71 year old stinking road kill half dead walking corpse of a "man" bumps them all and buys his way to the top of the list. This miserable war criminal is the one that gets the beeper to go off, while the others will wait and many will die.
I am so furious I could SPIT. I pity the staff that has to care for the pig.

[pinboy3niner]

1. News reports say Cheney was on the waiting list for 20 months

http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/24/10847614-former-vice-president-dick-cheney-recovering-after-heart-transplant

[Zalatix]

23. BWAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

and they expect people to believe that?

[cstanleytech]

71. His heart condition was well known. nt

[backscatter712]

34. Probably used the same dirty tricks Steve Jobs used...

In order to get his heart implant, Cheney probably got not just on one, but a dozen transplant lists across the country. That's how the one percenters cut in line when they need fresh organs.

[frazzled]

37. Um, Jobs never got a heart transplant

It was a liver transplant.

[LuvLoogie]

43. Comparing Steve Jobs to Dick Cheney...

...makes you look silly.

[originalpckelly]

51. No, the poster means that Jobs...

used a thing called multiple listing where you go to many states and are on their transplant lists to up the likelihood of getting an organ. It only works if the patient can get there in time, which is what happens with private jet types.

[backscatter712]

52. Bingo. That's exactly what I'm talking about. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

59. Oh my fracking god

There is ONE registry... But go on and make facts as you go.

[FailureToCommunicate]

72. There may be one list, but there are ways for the wealthy to improve their chances...

"For most people, the ability to pay is a precondition for acceptance at more than one transplant center. Wealthy people who are, in effect, financially "pre-approved" for a liver transplant, can shop around and identify the transplant centers that will give them the best chance of receiving a new organ."


http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/24/liver.transplant.priority.lists/index.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

73. Yes, he went into the priority list in December

At the time his condition got worse. Not that I wish this on you, but if you had the same condition and were at end stage, guess what? You'd be put in the priority list.

Some folks even "jump" further ahead by being so sick, they are in the Emergency list.

This is one of the few blind systems, by design by the way.

People should really get informed, on the off chance they might chose to sign a donor card, or worst, qualify for the system.

The only advantage, which is ironic actually, that dick has, is that he a poster child for single payor.

I don't know about you, but I really do not want medical decisions made on political party, or religious believes, or skin color.

We have been there as a country...is there where you want to go back?

[Cleita]

66. I don't think you can accuse Cheney of this because, since he left

the White House, he has been a resident of Virginia. Now if he had gotten it in Wyoming or another state, then I would cry foul.

[crunch60]

2. Thanks for Purging for me. I agree with you.

[malaise]

3. And paid for by the government no less

We're all pissed

[barbtries]

4. i pity the family whose loved ones' heart

went into him. i would be absolutely horrified.

[MADem]

9. Have there been any federal executions lately....?

[progressoid]

14. Makes one wonder where the found someone evil enough for a match?

[lastlib]

22. We better do an all-out search for Mr. Spock--it had to be a Vulcan heart with green blood.

[dixiegrrrrl]

53. The heart was in a jar marked

AB Normal.

[Botany]

19. I would bet that China came up w/ a heart

n/t

[Zalatix]

24. True that. That may be likely than people realize.

[Botany]

25. Hey executions happen all the time there

.... and they do harvest the organs.

[Zalatix]

50. But haven't you heard? China promises to put an end to that.

[Generic Other]

46. Why did he need to go to Canada last week?

I think you are right. He planned to buy a Chinese heart.

[nadinbrzezinski]

74. How long does it take to fly this mythical heart

To the US? How long is the organ viable?

You said corneas, I might be willing to walk that way...kidneys, borderline. Hearts, math don't quite work.

[loudsue]

11. It's enough to make me re-think my donor status.

Not really, but, well, really.

[barbtries]

13. consider that

for every cheney there are a million or so worthy recipients.

[golfguru]

68. May be the heart was from a democrat

and now Cheney could switch parties!

[DURHAM D]

5. Don't worry -

if its a good heart it will reject the asshole.

[pinboy3niner]

7. *snort*

[RBInMaine]

6. It's probably a shark's heart. Any human heart would be rejected.

[Logical]

67. LOL...+1

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. The match, aka the identity of the recipient

And the donor is not known to the matching team. He was on the list for 20 months...

By law none in the matching procedures can know those identities to avoid exactly what you suggest.

[sarge43]

56. Sorry nadin, but Darth Cheney et al haven't been exactly law abidding.

If you can start an illegal war based on a lie and get away with it, jumping the donor line is a piece of cake.

[nadinbrzezinski]

57. It is easier to start an Ilegal war actually

I know people luuuve their conspiracy theories, but on this...it is simply not that easy. Two years is average for people to remain on the list, why people die before getting organs.

[Lint Head]

10. Can you spell reject?

I knew you could. R. E. J. E. C. T. That's it.

[samplegirl]

12. Yeah well

As Cyndi Lauper said.........Money changes everything!

[KG]

15. rec.

[riverwalker]

16. he shouldn't have even been on the list

not with all his other medical problems, at age 71.
20 months or 20 years, he did not meet the criteria to even be considered to be on the list in the first place.
Some people who DID meet the criteria will probably die.

[Botany]

17. pisses me of too

I know a young man who is dying from brain cancer he got
from fighting in Iraq thanx to KBR burn pits ...... he is just
one of many many people who have this type of brain cancer
who served in Iraq.


71, former smoker, drinker, 3 or 4 previous heart attacks he gets
a ticker? Well maybe he can stay healthy enough to be put on
trial for war crimes.

[Auntie Bush]

18. Well said riverwalker!

Especially your description of Cheney.

[xloadiex]

20. I hope it rejects him n/m

[lunatica]

21. Cheney is obviously terrified of dying

He deserves to have nightmares every night of BEING those he has been responsible for killing during the last minutes of their lives.

[rppper]

29. if i had the flames of hell.....

licking at my wrinkled old ass i'd be scared too.....

[lunatica]

35. Maybe he's trying to stave off the day of reckoning when

the Devil comes to collect his soul.

[LuvLoogie]

44. Soul?

Dick Cheney has a soul?

[SammyWinstonJack]

26. rec

[Nancy Waterman]

27. Well said!!

xx

[Orrex]

28. If only the heart were truly the seat of compassion

It would be quite something to see Cheney, with his new pumper, turn into a human being so late in life.

[Volaris]

49. For many of us to believe that had actually happened,

he would have to buy himself a one-way airline ticket to The Hague.

Damn-right he's scared to die. Many of the truly IMMORAL are. Part of me hopes like hell that he lives a LOOOOOONNNNGGG fucking time, and every minute of it with that fear.

[Paladin]

30. A Good Friend Of Mine In Austin TX Is One Of Those 3202 Patients.

My friend is a hell of a lot more worthy than Cheney is for a heart transplant......

[Rosa Luxemburg]

31. I guess he's been shopping around for his heart? In Virginia?

Thought he lives in Maryland?

[sellitman]

32. The real question no one here has addressed is

Did they give him a human heart?

[penndragon69]

33. I guess that in Texas,

they must have executed a sadistic butcher of children
in order to acquire a heart that was as vile and corrupted
as the one that rejected that demonic spawn of Satan.

May his filthy soul suffer in agony for as long as his rotting corpse
walks the face of the earth.

[ohheckyeah]

36. This can't be possible

because I was told in another thread on organ donation that it was impossible to buy your way to the top of the list. So, obviously this didn't happen.

[WCGreen]

40. That is the case unless he went outside the system to get his heart, on the private market...

but I believe it is against the law for a vital organ. Plus if it was on the private market, we would have never heard about it.

When I was first onsidered to be a candidate for a lung transplant, I was told I would not be able to get a new set of lungs after I hit 60. About three years ago, they told me that age is no longer a factor and that they are now transplanting people up to 75 - 80.

There are a lot more people donating now and they also have developed drugs that will allow for a little fudging in the match up so it isn't as hard to find a match.

[Maine-ah]

55. yup, age is no longer a factor.

my Mom is 67 years old, and she needs a lung transplant. It was an option at one point. Problem now, is that her disease is so far progressed she can't meet the requirements. Back in December she was given 2-6 months. She is finally home, and we're taking care of her and making her as comfortable as possible until the inevitable happens.

[WCGreen]

76. I am heading toward a lung transplant but am trying to avoid it until I have

run out of treatment options.

I have kept my health pretty good otherwise and have to have a rigorous round of tests about my over all health condition.

Going for more testing and evaluation at the end of next month...

[Nye Bevan]

38. That's a very serious allegation against the folks running the organ donor program.

If Cheney did indeed "buy his way to the top of the list", these folks have committed multiple felonies; fraud, conspiracy, money laundering, tax evasion, etc. And if this turns out to be true it will strike a huge blow against the program as many people will tear up their donor cards in disgust.

Please forward whatever evidence you have to the authorities ASAP.

[shoreline]

39. Here's the surgeon now...

[Sarah Ibarruri]

41. Makes me sick that this pig got a heart before good people did nt

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

42. In 2007 a heart transplant cost $658,800

Average heart transplant cost in 2007 was $658,800. source

In Virginia, Medicare will cover a heart transplant. source

The Affordable Care Act prohibits health plans from putting a lifetime dollar limit on most benefits you receive. The law also restricts and phases out the annual dollar limits a health plan can place on most of your benefits — and does away with these limits entirely in 2014. source

As a retired government retiree, Cheney is eligible to continue the same medical program he had as Vice President. source

I don't know whether the taxpayers paid for Cheney's new heart, but wouldn't it be ironic if a Republican relied on the government for the procedure?

Damn that government healthcare!

[LuvLoogie]

45. This story is a ruse.

Technology has advanced to where they have perfected the artificial heart. Dick Cheney has access to this technology along with regenerative drugs and therapy designed to rejuvenate his body. He will die soon, "due to complications."

But in fact, he will have gone underground, and he will stay there for fifty years while he manages his interests via proxies. He will return when we have forgotten. His histories will have been scrubbed. He will arise again to wreak havoc upon our children's children.

[Kablooie]

47. If the donor was Democratic he'd be wheeling in his grave.

[Dont call me Shirley]

63. The Democratic heart would show him the folly of his ways and haunt him from the inside out

for the rest of Ole Dick's days. Oh, the terror

[Raine]

48. Totally agree, this is infuriating!

[alterfurz]

54. "Just hours after surgery, Cheney was alert, talking with his doctors...

...and shooting people in the face." -- Andy Borowitz

[Rex]

58. Plutocracy. It is what it is.

And until adults in power decide to change it, that is what America stands for now.

[eppur_se_muova]

60. One of my professors had liver cancer ... he DECLINED to be put on the transplant list.

He knew there were not enough organs available for everyone on the waiting list and thought it would make more sense if someone who had more years to live was the recipient. It shocked some people that he would do that.

I think Cheney should have been offered a heart-lung machine in The Hague as his only option. If he doesn't go to trial, this gift was not just wasted, but misspent.

[stonecutter357]

61. K&R...

[Voice for Peace]

62. maybe the heart will reject him.

[Vinca]

64. There's an "up" side to everything.

[tclambert]

65. How many people did he have to shoot in the face before he found a suitable donor?

[JEB]

69. I hope

they put a big bag of depleted uranium in the IV while doing the transplant.

[Logical]

70. This needs more Recs!!

[Special Prosciuto]

75. Death. Nothing less than death to the DICK.