arizona man denied liver.

[DesertFlower]

http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/2010/11/16/20101116phoenix-man-denied-liver-state-cuts.html

i am disgusted an appalled.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Get a load of the criteria for a transplant:

There are at least 23 AHCCCS patients at Banner Good Samaritan waiting for transplants, hospital spokesman Bill Byron said.

Byron said patients must meet three criteria before receiving transplants: they must be healthy enough for a transplant procedure, they must have a network of people who can support them after surgery and they must be able to afford the surgery.

Patients who can't afford the surgery after finding a match are placed on a hold list until they can pay for it.


Again...this is the United States of America in 2010. WTF?

[DesertFlower]

3. this sucks.

just because a person is poor, they can't have life saving surgery.

i'm so disgusted with the whole country.

the rich and the corporations run everything.

[prolesunited]

6. There's the real Death Panel!

[musette_sf]

2. And the liver was from a family friend!

AND someone ELSE got it.

:grr:

Arizona: "Hurry up and die"

[DesertFlower]

4. now i'm really angry.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. Can't his liver pick itself up by its boot-straps?

[Monique1]

7. That is corporate America

[Posteritatis]

9. That seems to be the concensus in the article comments.. ugh. (nt)

[EmeraldCityGrl]

8. Even more disgusting...

Az. is spending 10 million to defend Sheriff Joe. while transplant recipients die.
What a fucked up place Az. is.

[PBS Poll-435]

10. I Won MY Free Rascal!!!

And I got my Diabeetez under control!

[donheld]

11. It's called a death panel.

[krispos42]

12. Thank god it was a privately-run death panel

Otherwise this would be a bad, anti-life thing.

[DesertFlower]

13. when my husband came home and i

told him the story, he got really angry -- not like him. he actually was slamming his hand up and down on the coffee table.

[Desertrose]

14. Thank you Jan Brewer. You miserable excuse for a human being.

I just pray I don't get seriously ill...no health insurance here & not eligible for AHCCS...hanging on for a few more years for Medicare...if its still around.

[area51]

15. This would never happen in a first-world,

civilized country. This is a third-world, barbaric country to let someone die due to lack of money.

Each day, 273 people die due to lack of health care in the U.S.; that's 100,000 deaths per year.

We need single-payer health care, not a welfare bailout for the serial-killer insurance agencies.

We don't need the GingrichCare of mandated, unregulated, for-profit insurance that is still too expensive, only pays parts of medical bills, denies claims, bankrupts and kills people.

Republinazi '93 plan:

"Subtitle F: Universal Coverage - Requires each citizen or lawful permanent resident to be covered under a qualified health plan or equivalent health care program by January 1, 2005."

"We will never have real reform until people's health stops being treated as a financial opportunity for corporations."

"Any proposal that sticks with our current dependence on for-profit private insurers ... will not be sustainable. And the new law will not get us to universal coverage ...." -- T.R. Reid, The Healing of America

[DesertFlower]

21. i agree. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. This IS a death pannel

but to many of the easily influenced this don't matter until it affects THEM.

[Tx4obama]

17. Here's a link to HuffPo's article regarding the budget cuts & transplants

Arizona Budget Cuts Kill Money For Organ Transplants
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/17/arizona-budget-cuts-organ-transplants_n_785107.html

[Dyler Turden]

18. What is wrong with us to let this sort of thing happen.

[xchrom]

19. oh senator grassely!?!? -- isn't THIS your death panel in action? nt

[ProgressiveLiberal]

20. The good news is that when he dies he can donate his organs to the wealthy ....

who do have health care.