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To: Perdogg

How the heck does Kathleen Sibelius have the authority to say whether or not anyone gets a transplant?


2 posted on 06/12/2013 9:51:27 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Rummyfan
How the heck does Kathleen Sibelius have the authority to say whether or not anyone gets a transplant?

By refusing to overturn an HHS policy that had been in place for years that said children under 12 should not be considered as recipients for adult lungs. Apparently when the policy was enacted there was no procedure for adapting the larger lungs for a smaller childs body. Now supposedly there is.

7 posted on 06/12/2013 9:56:32 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: Rummyfan
“How the heck does Kathleen Sibelius have the authority to say whether or not anyone gets a transplant?”

Because under obamacare - you know the one that Congress and musklims are exempt from - you only get care if you're deemed useful to the state.

Going forward I'm sure the litmus test for future judges will be whether or not they're willing to put the NWO above justice and common decency.

11 posted on 06/12/2013 10:00:41 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Rummyfan

if it were an abortion that were needed to save her life. no question, she’d have issued a waiver.


13 posted on 06/12/2013 10:02:24 AM PDT by sappy (criminaldems)
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To: Rummyfan

Her parents probably went and registered Democrat and took an oath to never question those in power again, hence saving her daughter from Obama’s death panels.


24 posted on 06/12/2013 10:13:00 AM PDT by corlorde (forWARD of the state)
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To: Rummyfan

“...How the heck does Kathleen Sibelius have the authority to say whether or not anyone gets a transplant?....”

Because this silver-haired murderous rat beoch is the newly appointed “Joseph Mengele” of the rat communist party that has literally overthrown our republic...that’s why. She’s so special, doncha know?


28 posted on 06/12/2013 10:20:00 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Rummyfan

You think that’s bad wait till Obamacommiecare goes into effect. Judging whether a kid lives or dies will be a daily occurance. My father already got a letter from his doctor that due to Obamacommiecare he can now only get a colonoscopy every 10 years. He’s 73, so in other words he will never get a colonoscopy I assume unless he pays for it out of pocket. In other words health insurance no longer exists. Sort of like the government taking over car insurance and never paying out when you get into an accident.


36 posted on 06/12/2013 10:25:49 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: Rummyfan

First, a group of Doctors set the guidelines for transplants that H&S must follow....

Second, After asking the doctor’s panel to review the policy, KS has the H&S attorney’s stand down and not challenge in Federal Court the parent’s request effectively allowing the ruling to go in favor of the child.

Given her legal and authority constraints, she did the right thing and walked a thin line...

Not a fan of hers but in this case she did the right thing....


60 posted on 06/12/2013 11:18:02 AM PDT by nevergore
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She doesn't. What has been missing in this story is that the organization that makes the rules and runs the transplant operations is a Private-Non Profit, not a government organization.
Most people missed that.
Also the man reason there was apprehension in granting this 10 year old an exemption to get an adult lung is that the success rate for this is very very low, main reason kids 12 and under try to get a pediatric lung as opposed to an adult. Only time will tell if this is successful at all.
75 posted on 06/12/2013 11:51:21 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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