How Did Steve Jobs Get His Liver?

slate.com ^ | Jan. 19, 2011 | William Saletan

[silverleaf]

so what.

shall we publish the name of every liver transplant patient who dies within 2 years as an organ thief??

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

if he’s gaming the system he’s surely out of touch.
you can find livers online if you match w/the donor

[stuartcr]

Probably by being incredibly rich.

[dangus]

Wasn’t Slate founded by MicroSoft/NBC?

[LearnsFromMistakes]

Steve Jobs ping.

[brownsfan]

Money buys good doctors and good advice. Is that a problem?

[lonestar]

Just because he has a lot of money doesn’t mean he shouldn’t do everything he can legally do to live longer.

[Joe 6-pack]

"you can find livers online if you match w/the donor"

Maybe the liver app wasn't available yet.

[demshateGod]

Shouldn’t there be some benefit for being rich? Should he have said, “Nah, I’ll just die like everyone else.”

[bboop]

So what? Gad, such bottom feeding.

[econjack]

At the time, skeptics doubted that he should have received the organ, since he'd been treated for pancreatic cancer—in fact, he may have sought the liver because of the cancer—and the likelihood of the cancer's recurrence made him a bad bet for putting the liver to best use.

Best use? Who gets to make that determination? The author of this article? A panel of doctors? This edges on the Death Panel issues surrounding Obamacare. Personally, I'd still rather have an unfettered market make the decision than some bureaucrat. If you're argument is: But then the rich live and the poor die! really doesn't cut it for me. If I make a list of what the rich do (e.g., job creation, capital investing, support for charities, etc.) and compare it to the list of the things the poor do for me (e.g., ...damn, I can't think of a thing), I have a hard time voting for the poor guy.

[Leo Farnsworth]

It's an OS XII Liver.

Very reliable platform, much more reliable than any MS 7 liver.

/s>

[dangerdoc]

As Mel Brooks once stated, “It’s GOOD to the the king.”

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well if its legal whats the problem? Anybody can get on multiple lists.

[Cyclone59]

He “Cut and Pasted” one using his iPad....

[dangerdoc]

Not enough caffeine.

It’s Good to be the King.

I’m sorry Mel, you deserve better.

[silverleaf]

every liver transplant costs a lot of money

he just happens to have enough to pay for it himself

at least he didn’t order one from China and cause a political prisoner to be executed to get it

[ozark hilljilly]

Anybody can get on multiple lists.

Only if you're smart enough to ask, apparently. My husband died waiting for a liver. We had no idea that there were multiple lists one could be on.

Oh well, too late now.

[demshateGod]

I’d almost guarantee all the people who’ve stolen things from me were poor people. When you read the news and hear about rapes and murders, most of the people committing those crimes are poor.