I think it's time we all boycotted the organ donors roll

[thunder rising]

Since uninsured people are NOT going to get a transplant, why give your organs to the rich that created the situation. In fact, the rich want you dead so they can harvest. Just take your name off the rolls, until everybody has an equal chance of treatment.

[LeftyMom]

1. That's just dumb.

[NightWatcher]

2. work to help those who go without, but dont penalize others

I'm sorry for whatever has lead you to post this.

[flvegan]

3. What's the word I'm looking for here? Ummm...

stupid. VERY stupid, even. Yes, that's the one. Errr...now two.

edited to add "very" per Will's suggestion.

[WilliamPitt]

4. Shouldn't there be a "very" before that "stupid"?

[flvegan]

6. Agreed.

I'll edit.

[thunder rising]

9. To think 50 M people are donating organs to people that put them into unemployment and uninsured

Free milk and a cow.

[Joe the Revelator]

11. How idiotic and uninformed do you have to be to assume that the only people getting transplants are

rich people? I mean, before you make a fool of yourself, you'd think that you'd do some research.

[LeftyMom]

12. Yep, no person of modest means ever got a transplant.

:eyes:

[flvegan]

13. Your desire to punish people because they have insurance is suspicious at best.

And if you think everyone with insurance is some golden-spoon richie, they you're a fucking idiot.

[LeftyMom]

18. I have insurance*. It covers transplants. Excuse me while I go swim through my vault of gold coins.

:rofl:

*Yes, Virginia, state-funded insurance for the terminally broke covers transplants.

[flvegan]

22. You know that the OP's figure of 50 million potential transplants is spot on

since there are 50 million fucking billionaires awaiting organs right now. Perfect match.

[LeftyMom]

26. I encourage people to wipe the poo off when they pull statistics out of their ass

so that they don't get my screen dirty when they post them.

Nobody listens. :eyes:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

29. Can I come over to your house...

To take a short dip? I'll bring my own bucke...errm...towel. Yeah, towel. Uh-huh. Towel.

[Joe the Revelator]

5. Whoa there tough guy, this is a terrible, terrible, horrible idea

Its just beyond stupid.

[thunder rising]

7. Whatever. Uninsured people will die and organs given to insured and preferably rich

But, suit yourselves.

[Joe the Revelator]

10. I'm insured, and definetly not rich. More importantly, my dad was once on the transplant list....

while he was insured, he is not rich and couldn't "buy" a heart. How many people do you want to kill??

[LeftyMom]

16. MediCal covers transplants. I presume most local equivalents do.

Somebody I know had her pacemaker covered 100%. If she'd neeeded a heart instead, they'd have tried to get her one and covered it if one were available. And she's pretty goddamn poor, since she's too disabled to work and her partner has a rather low paying blue collar job.

[WillowTree]

24. Damned straight!

Let everyone who's lucky enough to actually get insurance die. You know, like all those greedy SOBs raising three kids on $45,000/year but who get benefits through their UNIONS. Eff 'em. They don't deserve to live because someone else has it worse than they do.

Geez!!! I thought we were supposed to be the fair minded and compassionate Americans. I must not have gotten the memo.

[flvegan]

27. Thanks for mentioning union workers. They do deserve a sound "fuck you".

Bunch of rich fuckers, with their Rolls Royce lifestyle and golden parachutes the lot of them!

[Joe the Revelator]

28. You forgot to mention their fancy schmancy insurance they were born with,

[flvegan]

30. I don't even want to talk about those pretentious whores anymore.

[thunder rising]

8. How do you put this into perspective? Like a, "free milk and a cow" thing.

[Upton]

14. I haven't been a potential organ donor since

the Mickey Mantle fiasco. My Wa state drivers license no longer carries the red heart which identifies me as an organ donor...Unfortunately, Mantle's case is far from unique.. It's become obvious those with money, power and privilege are moved to the top of the list for available organs. I choose not to participate.

[sandnsea]

19. Please change your mind

My children got to know their grandmother because of a heart donor.

[Joe the Revelator]

20. I ask you, as a son of a man who will need a transplant in the future, to please reconsider

[LeftyMom]

25. My Mom may need a liver someday.

She's hardly rich, or powerful. She's just a really nice lady who happens to be very sick.

Refusing to donate organs you'll no longer need when you die doesn't punish anybody but patients who will either suffer or die without a transplant.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

15. This is what I love about the internet.

You can come up with any kind of dumbass, batshit insane idea and post it anonymously to people you don't know.

[sandnsea]

17. My mother got a heart

Medicaid paid for her hospital stay except for the day of the transplant. The hospital donated that day, the doctor donated the transplant. Medicare and Medicaid paid for most of the rest of her medical care for ten years.

[catnhatnh]

21. The original poster has a point though he is wrong....

Only because every life is worth saving. That said, have you never seen a donation jar in a local store for normal folks thrown into destitution trying to get a son/daughter/friend enough cash to pull one off? Do you remember Andy Stephenson dying because although we raised 50K here a hospital delayed treatment when E-Bay froze his account? Personally, if one of my children was dying of an infected molar, I'd be hard pressed to provide "upscale" antibiotics...

We are approaching a class war and every tactic may need to be examined. This one I reject at this moment. But I do not reject it lightly or for all time.

[TahitiNut]

23. I'm glad to hear from the "If I Can't Take It With Me, I Ain't Going!" group.

:silly:

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

31. That's a great idea, let's let a bunch of innocent people die to prove a point.

or maybe we could go about trying to fix the problem by providing health care to the uninsured.

David

[emilyg]

32. Bad idea. I shall continue

to be an organ donor.