[Stoat]

Hospitals will be rated for the number of deceased patients they "convert" into donors

Wow.

• But Chris Rudge, of UK Transplant, the authority in charge of organ donation and transplant, insisted patients would not be considered as donors at any point where survival was possible.

How incredibly gracious of them.

 

[SolidWood]

That’s the merit of Euro-healthcare... LOL.

[Continental Soldier]

What the hell ever happened to England? Every time I read a posted story from England, I am amazed that this is the country that I thought I knew so well, but now don’t know at all.

[SeafoodGumbo]

How scary is it that they would rather go this route instead of having a public information campaign on being a donor. Instead of even trying the non-totalitarian route first, they go straight to the STATE KNOWS mode as their default.

Double ungood.

[pogo101]

"So. Can we 'ave your liver then?"

[Diogenesis]

[Max in Utah]

What happens when the medical schools need more cadavers, will the government just take your carcass? I think they're pushing imminent domain a little far.

"We OWN you!" --British government

PS-- we're next if we don't stand up to the statists.

[RichInOC]

You can have my organ when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

[Stoat]

Ping

[longtermmemmory]

Having personally seen the ghouls in the hospitals of the USA, it is going to be a nightmare in england.

[Max in Utah]

Ping— Organs to be taken without consent (UK)

[billorites]

Now if people could only sell their own organs then the market would take care of this.

Elderly people are able to obtain "reverse mortgages" and so realize during their lifetimes the equity in their homes.

Why not be able to sell your kidneys in advance at a price discounted to your current age?

[reformedliberal]

Who defines *possible*??

[matt1234]

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

[Stoat]

Even though this isn’t necessarily pertaining to Dentistry, I thought that you might be interested. :-)

[Old Professer]

What’s next, rolling back the speedometer?

[tcrlaf]

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!!”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

There is far too much money to be made in the organ transplant business to allow something as trifling as the consent of the harvestees to stand in the way.

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.

[NonValueAdded]

To solve this, the organ taskforce plans measures to boost donation, including putting pressure on doctors to identify patients as potential donors before they have died.

Ah, tissue-typing patients ... will that change the level of care a patient receives? Shades of Coma

[MarkL]

"We're here for your liver"

Mark

[devere]

England is the native land of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of “Frankenstein”, so this story makes macabre sense.