Hospitals will be rated for the number of deceased patients they "convert" into donorsWow.
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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.
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How incredibly gracious of them.
1 posted on
01/12/2008 1:45:35 PM PST by
Stoat
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To: Stoat
That’s the merit of Euro-healthcare... LOL.
2 posted on
01/12/2008 1:47:35 PM PST by
SolidWood
(Al Gore: "I have never heard of this, but I think it is a very good idea,")
To: Stoat
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.
To: Stoat
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.
To: Stoat
"So. Can we 'ave your liver then?"
6 posted on
01/12/2008 1:55:15 PM PST by
pogo101
To: Stoat
8 posted on
01/12/2008 1:56:06 PM PST by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: Stoat
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.
9 posted on
01/12/2008 1:56:26 PM PST by
Max in Utah
(A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
To: Stoat
You can have my organ when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
10 posted on
01/12/2008 1:56:33 PM PST by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich!)
To: wagglebee; little jeremiah; cpforlife.org; Coleus; cgk; narses; MHGinTN
12 posted on
01/12/2008 1:57:28 PM PST by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
Having personally seen the ghouls in the hospitals of the USA, it is going to be a nightmare in england.
13 posted on
01/12/2008 1:58:55 PM PST by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: UKTory
Ping— Organs to be taken without consent (UK)
18 posted on
01/12/2008 2:00:51 PM PST by
Max in Utah
(A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
To: Stoat
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?
19 posted on
01/12/2008 2:01:41 PM PST by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Stoat
To: Stoat
"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
29 posted on
01/12/2008 2:20:00 PM PST by
matt1234
To: theDentist
Even though this isn’t necessarily pertaining to Dentistry, I thought that you might be interested. :-)
30 posted on
01/12/2008 2:21:33 PM PST by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
What’s next, rolling back the speedometer?
31 posted on
01/12/2008 2:23:42 PM PST by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Stoat
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!!”
34 posted on
01/12/2008 2:29:25 PM PST by
tcrlaf
(VOTE DEMOCRAT-You'll look great in a Burka!)
To: Stoat
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.
36 posted on
01/12/2008 2:33:24 PM PST by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
To: Stoat
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
39 posted on
01/12/2008 2:41:41 PM PST by
NonValueAdded
(Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
To: Stoat
"We're here for your liver"
Mark
41 posted on
01/12/2008 2:45:16 PM PST by
MarkL
To: Stoat
England is the native land of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of “Frankenstein”, so this story makes macabre sense.
44 posted on
01/12/2008 2:54:55 PM PST by
devere
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