FDRs grand daughter, great granddaughter and the Brewer organ mess

[malaise]

KO is going to address this

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/News/arizona-transplant-deaths/story?id=12559369&page=2
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FDR Granddaughter Nina Roosevelt Gibson, A Transplant Recipient, Is Outraged

Among the critics is Nina Roosevelt Gibson, an Arizona psychologist and granddaughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Gibson, 68, received a heart transplant at the University of Arizona Medical Center in 2000 because of a genetic mutation that leads to heart failure.

Her daughter, who has had heart failure since surviving sudden cardiac arrest at age 28, qualifies for transplant coverage under the Medicare program for the disabled, but isn't high on the waiting list because her health is "pretty stable." Gibson worries that further cuts at the state or federal level could jeopardize her daughter's ability to get a new heart.

"I'm outraged when we have 90-something people who were promised a transplant and were told as of Oct. 1 that you can't have it because the state wants to save money," said Gibson, of Vail, Ariz., outside Tucson. "They were promised transplants and have not been given the time to raise the money that's necessary. People are going to lose their lives because they don't have the money."

Gibson, who was close to her grandmother, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, said her grandparents "would be horrified that our country has gotten to the point that people can't get health care in one of the wealthier countries in the free world. Something is wrong with this picture."

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[malaise]

7. Both of them will be on KO in a minute

:hi:

[TxVietVet]

2. The conservanazis in Arizona are a sick bunch of assholes.

[madrchsod]

3. arizona is just a few years from a third world country

i found this the other day...

http://harpers.org/archive/2010/07/0083023


my wife wanted to move to arizona in the 80`s.

[malaise]

8. Damn Nina looks like her

grandfather - they both do.

[Dappleganger]

4. This is nothing short of shameful!

[malaise]

6. Thanks for that link

:hi:

[Angry Dragon]

5. palin did promise death panels

[Ilsa]

9. Kick up for late crowd. nt

[malaise]

10. That was the first time I saw Nina and her daughter

Very touching.