Posted on 01/12/2008 1:45:31 PM PST by Stoat
Who defines *possible*??
Skip the public information campaign and change the system so organ donors get priority if they need transplants. There should be plenty of volunteers.
Next step: why not let the EU sell organs of citizens,
to compete with China’s prisons’ organ sales,
from hospitals in countries failing their carbon credit payments?
imagine if they start to say you have a kidney donor draft.
YOU MUST donate a kidney if your are compatable. no choice.
Well, it's always a matter of being able to demonstrate unencumbered clear title to the asset one is offering for sale. After all, you can only sell your liver once and not to a succession of people like in some cheesy Florida land swindle.
But in principle I like the idea. Kind of a kidney-carbon offset thingy.
We can bundle the principal and interest streams separately and sell them to CALPERS. I'm in!
"It admits to a possible "conflict of interest" between medical staff, trying to save lives and those keen to ensure every possible organ is harvested. "
Whew! I'm so relieved to learn that it's only a "possible" conflict of interest.
Surely nothing will come of it then. After all, when hospitals are 'rated' as to their "donated" organ output, there certainly is not any particular motivation to push things along, is there?
We already have one. It's called teenage drivers.
"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
Even though this isn’t necessarily pertaining to Dentistry, I thought that you might be interested. :-)
What’s next, rolling back the speedometer?
Sounds a little like our own Hillary. :)
And you working folks are gonna have to pay for the transplant surgery, too.
Just a natural progression of Socialized Medicine...
And it’s not a very bg jump to go from there, to LIVING donors without thier consent..
After all, it’ll be “For The CHILDREN!!”
It is only a small step from taking organs from the dead without permission to taking them from people in an unrecoverable coma.
As far a I am concerned, the entire transplant industry is continuing criminal enterprise.
The quality of life of recipients is usually quite low, plus they are usually bankrupt from all the hospital bills, plus they can't get health insurance any more, much less jobs.
A liver transplant costs $314,600 the first year, and $21,900 per year every year afterwards.
Financial Matters: Liver Transplant Costs
I don't see where there is a right to a transplant, but that's where socialized medicine will take us, and it will eventually make us all slaves to the health care system.
The same people who inform you that you are not allowed to receive kidney dialysis treatment because statistics show that a person in your specific condition may only be benefited by this treatment "somewhat" and it may only extend your life by a very few years, perhaps less than two decades.
I refuse to donate any of my organs unless my family is compensated by a hefty sum.
Ah, tissue-typing patients ... will that change the level of care a patient receives? Shades of Coma
That’s alright ...none of us want your “organ”, especially after its been in your cold dead hands for a while!
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