I’m glad you’re not sitting on the death panel. Who’s to say which person would do the best with a liver transplant? You know, they keep saying that a reliable cure is getting close. A liver transplant now might allow someone to live long enough to receive a real cure (as opposed to the torture that now passes for “treatment”).
And please note—they are also denying a lot of other treatments for a lot of other conditions, if you read the whole story. A lot of people will be hurt by this.
Doctors make decisions as to treatment based on likely prognosis all the time.
My point is not that patient A, Hep-C positive, should be denied a liver transplant. It's whether he should receive the liver that 9 other people also need, all of whom have a better likelihood of the transplant being successful.
I thought this was a very large factor in the difference between liberals and conservatives. We recognize there are no solutions, only tradeoffs, whereas liberals insist there are no hard choices that have to be made. They believe we can have zero pollution, total sexual freedom, a booming economy and social justice all at the same time, without any negative side effects.
If George gets the liver, Sally won't. We don't have the choice of giving a liver to each of them, we only have one liver.