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Sebelius: I can’t suspend the lung-transplant rules for a dying 10-year-old
Hotair ^ | 06/04/2013 | AllahPundit

Posted on 06/04/2013 6:35:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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The question is, does Sebelius have the authority to suspend those age limitations and make the girl, Sarah Murnaghan, eligible for an adult transplant?

Given that neither healthcare or euthanasia are listed among the limited powers which the states have delegated to the feds via the Constitution, most of those power listed in Section 8 of Article I, nobody in the federal government has the authority to address such issues imo.

21 posted on 06/04/2013 6:52:33 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: chris37

Fruit Cake.


22 posted on 06/04/2013 6:53:00 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They won’t call them “Death Panels” but that’s what they are. In Newspeak, they’ll be “Quality of Life Boards” or something.


23 posted on 06/04/2013 6:54:32 PM PDT by informavoracious (We're being "punished" with Stanley Ann's baby. Obamacare: shovel-ready healthcare.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I just don’t get this. Does the government now have power over the donor program? The criteria in the past for heart and lung transplants have been compatibility, blood type, weight, height, and emergency priority.


24 posted on 06/04/2013 6:55:49 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: central_va

Can’t agree.

Fruit cakes, at least most of the time, do not result in the death of children.

In this case, it seems that Death Panel Sebelius will.


25 posted on 06/04/2013 6:55:59 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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What a freaky looking bitch. I'd bet her grandchildren are alive and well. Why should she care about an individual case? My hatred of these people is confirmed every day.

PS -- nice looking teeth, scumbag. This little girl just wants to live. You think your re-made teeth make you more attractive. It didn't.

26 posted on 06/04/2013 6:56:12 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: nascarnation

Obviously an eeeeevil one-percenter.


27 posted on 06/04/2013 6:58:18 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sebelius is evil. God’s judgement cannot come too soon for her.


28 posted on 06/04/2013 6:58:36 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
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To: SeekAndFind

You gotta remember that bureaucrats make the rules for one-size-fits-all. So what if a kid dies? Think of it as a late-late term abortion. Heartless bastards.


29 posted on 06/04/2013 6:58:59 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: central_va

You are talking out of your butt.


30 posted on 06/04/2013 7:00:08 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: PistolPaknMama

If this little girl dies, she is going to be the first victim of Obamacare, and I suspect that there will be many, many others.

You know what really bothers me. The man who murdered the soldier in Britain and then gave a little speech on camera after said your government don’t care about you -paraphrase.

He’s right.

They do not care at all.

I do not know what to make of this considering who said that, but I cannot think of a way to argue against it :(


31 posted on 06/04/2013 7:03:00 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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NO! This is what Doctor Mengele’s daughter looks like!

Like the top Nazi doctor did at Auschwitz (my friend and her sister were almost chosen for his experiments, the older sister later being killed there with her mother), it was “To the Left” (to live for a while as laborers) and “To the Right” (to die in the gas chambers), so too did Sebelius just do it to young children today.

It is now “Under 12 to the Right” (to die) and “Over 12 to the Left (to live a little longer).

Seig Heil Katherine. You missed your place in history by a few years but at least you are trying to make up for it.

Cancer would be too kind a death for you! You are PURE EVIL, but then, again, you serve Obama, which explains it all. Sold your soul for some power, Just another “Good German”.


32 posted on 06/04/2013 7:04:39 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: chris37

FUKS


33 posted on 06/04/2013 7:07:19 PM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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Sebelius must have found out this family votes Republican, otherwise they would do everything in their power to save this child..welcome to Death Panels, gee guess Sarah Palin was right all along, yet she was called every name in the book for being RIGHT


34 posted on 06/04/2013 7:08:34 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: SeekAndFind

So, what if the people who are in the chain involved with transplant decisions simply ignored Sebelius and went ahead with transplanting when an adult set of lungs became available? Would Sebelius show up to remove those lungs?


35 posted on 06/04/2013 7:10:08 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: nascarnation

Maybe there is another place to look, not every Republican or Democrat contributes money to a particular party, but there must be a place to find out how this family votes..the Obama Administration already knows how they vote, which makes me believe that is why they are refusing to help this child


36 posted on 06/04/2013 7:11:38 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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All day I have been reading post after post on this subject. I am so embarrassed and disgusted by so called response. I have pulmonary fibrosis. Terminal unless transplanted. I know more about lung transplants than I ever dreamed possible. Protocol has to be followed if the procedure is to be successful. I know many people that are waiting for the call. Some have small children. Shaving adult lungs is an iffy procedure and even then it would have to be a small adult for the lungs to fit in this child. I understand her family grabbing at any straw to keep her alive. Even with a tx she is trading one disease for another.
37 posted on 06/04/2013 7:11:49 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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How very sad that a terminally ill child is dying from natural causes.
But the government can fix this sad situation with new “rules” (as opposed to laws) regarding mandatory human organ donations!
They could just write it in as a rule under the ACA, aka Obomacare!
How many kidneys and lungs do you really need to survive?

Too bad they decided to execute Terri Schiavo, to prove a point.
Death with dignity,is the goal right?

38 posted on 06/04/2013 7:22:27 PM PDT by sarasmom (The obvious takes longer to discover for the obtuse.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

The child hasn’t received a transplant because there hasn’t been a set of lungs available to fit. People are just assuming that any old lungs will do. I know people that have been on the table all set to get a tx and for one reason or another donor lungs were no acceptable.


39 posted on 06/04/2013 7:23:25 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: goodnesswins

It’s a good thing Chris Kringle didn’t make this statement.


40 posted on 06/04/2013 7:25:09 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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