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Bullshit! rfranklin Mar 2012 #1
+1 unkachuck Mar 2012 #4
Plus a zillion & then some ... CountAllVotes Mar 2012 #45
Age isn't the only criteria. (nt) jeff47 Mar 2012 #9
Apart from revealing that you don't know how these decisions are made onenote Mar 2012 #16
Odds are, Onenote, that I am absolutely correct.... rfranklin Mar 2012 #31
No one doubts that there are people of all ages on the waiting list onenote Mar 2012 #34
RFranklin, You are SO RIGHT it isn't funny.. I just remind people who doubt this of Ecumenist Mar 2012 #26
Organ transplants didn't work out so well for Mickey Mantle or Steve Jobs tularetom Mar 2012 #2
so how do you explain the 20 month wait? onenote Mar 2012 #17
More like a 20 hour wait. Is that less credible ? russspeakeasy Mar 2012 #19
Romulan organ donors only come along so often in this century..... lastlib Mar 2012 #41
And I doubt the doctor MaineDem Mar 2012 #3
I doubt the doctor too Liberalynn Mar 2012 #6
Helps if you have a Learjet and a bank account with nine or ten figures in it... backscatter712 Mar 2012 #5
No need to "squeeze" Medicaid or similar jeff47 Mar 2012 #10
Just like the corporate-owned media doubted Bush and Cheney stole the 2000 election deutsey Mar 2012 #7
Doctors doubt favoritism... lib2DaBone Mar 2012 #8
My friend, a 67-year-old retired school janitor, received a heart transplant 18 months ago. . . Journeyman Mar 2012 #14
Away with your pesky facts and reality! They undermine the narrative! (nt) Posteritatis Mar 2012 #28
Odds are that War Criminal Cheney got a Democrat heart. Doubt ass-hat Republicans are rhett o rick Mar 2012 #11
It's heavily policed so that those with the most money and greatest fist of threat to swing AllyCat Mar 2012 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author Jamaal510 Mar 2012 #13
IDK if he did. I don't care. This doesn't mean the larger system is income neutral. freshwest Mar 2012 #15
The key here is "people were also in the same line" yet he got it, despite his age. crunch60 Mar 2012 #18
Wow, Sounds like they need to block..... Grassy Knoll Mar 2012 #20
"Let's just kill the old people" a2liberal Mar 2012 #21
One criterion for organ transplant is general state of health otherwise. Bette Noir Mar 2012 #22
Are you one of his doctors? If not, how do you know what the state of his health was? onenote Mar 2012 #23
valid point a2liberal Mar 2012 #24
Yep. (nt) Posteritatis Mar 2012 #29
A bioethicist weighs in..... Lugnut Mar 2012 #25
why did the other 332? onenote Mar 2012 #35
Given his history of heart problems NICO9000 Mar 2012 #27
Which people getting heart transplants don't have a history of heart problems? onenote Mar 2012 #37
What is "a heart attack behind his knee"? muriel_volestrangler Mar 2012 #39
I think that is a reference to the arterial aneurysms onenote Mar 2012 #40
Thanks; nothing like a heart attack, then (nt) muriel_volestrangler Mar 2012 #42
So we need to save donor hearts for people who have no history of heart problems? jeff47 Mar 2012 #46
A suitcase full of money can easily buy silence GreydeeThos Mar 2012 #30
Is there any corner of American society that has NOT been corrupted by money and greed? fasttense Mar 2012 #32
Sure and Ohio 2004 was not stolen, Iraq had WMDs, and Dick Cheney's energy task force Botany Mar 2012 #33
Was he holding a gun on them when they said it? 6000eliot Mar 2012 #36
They mean implant? nt Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2012 #38
"Professionals who are silent about forced vaginal ultrasounds doubt favoritism in Cheney transplant Kolesar Mar 2012 #43
What about the criteria that you should be almost at death's door............. Smilo Mar 2012 #44
It isn't fair because the other people on the list had a heart to begin with... olddad56 Mar 2012 #47
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