I have an idea!!
Posted on 06/11/2012 8:46:29 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
Brothers Elfego and Lorenzo Arroyo each suffers from a deadly liver disease. But despite the urgency of their situation, the Chicago residents have struggled to receive organ transplants.
The Arroyo brothers are undocumented immigrants and lack insurance, friends and relatives say. Like others in their situation, they have been denied care that could increase their chances of survival due to their residency status.
"We know there are thousands of Latinos and (non-)Latinos with no documents who are facing the same situation," Rev. Jose Landaverde said Monday during a news conference at Our Lady of Guadalupe Angelican Catholic Mission in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
They should return to their home country to get on THAT "life saving liver transplant" waiting list.
Send them back where they came from, let the socialist in their own country take care of them.
Undocumented = Illegal = Criminal.
If I were really feeling intolerant I might suggest rounding them up for the harvest, Organ Harvest that is! ;-)
Plenty of Americans suffering from a shortage of donor organs.
I think this is meant to be a sob story that garners sympathy for the plight of people who are "undocumented". But it just infuriates me and makes me want to deport every single one of the SOBs. I see them as an invading army which fights to conquer this nation without actually wearing a military uniform. Such people, under the Geneva Convention, do not deserve kind treatment.
sick? Needs a liver? Here illegally?
(start cold hearted SOB)
stabilize him... Ship back to home country to deal with.
(end cold hearted SOB)
Hey.. I didn’t say let him die in the streets.
I am sorry they are sick. To solve the problem go back to their home country and take advantage of their free health care.
equals dead americans equals deal legal residents.
Wiki on the clergy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_S._Landaverde
One word -—— China.
I am ambivalent on the matter. On the one hand, I wish they could get the transplants. On the other, it would be grossly unfair and a miscarriage of justice for them to get ahead of legal residents on the waiting list.
I have an idea!!
I like it! Ship the hosers up to the Great White North, eh?
How dare their native homelands deny them basic coverage in their Socialist utopian hellholes.
But it sounds like this is Boosh’s fault.
They think it is free, and they deserve it. It’s not free: the average cost is over half a million dollars for a liver transplant. The fact that an American citizen or legal immigrant who has insurance loses that liver is another issue. With a limited supply of health care resources, the system of prioritizing who gets what will get more contentious.
Indeed. Mexico has socialized medicine. If that’s where they illegally migrated from, why not go home for treatment?
Yes, David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young got a liver transplant, possibly jumping ahead of others in line to get it, and I know it gave him a "new lease on life," albeit he will have to be on immune-suppressant drugs for the rest of his life.
But why did Mr. Crosby need a liver transplant in the first place? In large part because of his lifestyle of boozing and drug-taking, which is hard on your body.
You would think that the recipients of such expensive treatment ought to pay at least a part of the cost of that treatment (or perhaps take up a collection for voluntary donations). It certainly does not come for free, even if the family of the organ donor isn't allowed to receive compensation.
Frankly, I'm going to try to live a clean enough life that I can avoid having to get on a transplant list. IMO it's kind of a Faustian bargain anyway, because even if you are lucky enough to get a needed organ, you must thereafter stay on immune-suppressant drugs to reduce the chance of your body rejecting the transplanted organ. Many of these people are in and out of the hospital for the rest of their lives on a regular basis, for however long that is. I for one don't have that kind of money, nor do I wish to become that familiar with hospitals.
Yes, David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young got a liver transplant, possibly jumping ahead of others in line to get it, and I know it gave him a "new lease on life," albeit he will have to be on immune-suppressant drugs for the rest of his life.
But why did Mr. Crosby need a liver transplant in the first place? In large part because of his lifestyle of boozing and drug-taking, which is hard on your body.
You would think that the recipients of such expensive treatment ought to pay at least a part of the cost of that treatment (or perhaps take up a collection for voluntary donations). It certainly does not come for free, even if the family of the organ donor isn't allowed to receive compensation.
Frankly, I'm going to try to live a clean enough life that I can avoid having to get on a transplant list. IMO it's kind of a Faustian bargain anyway, because even if you are lucky enough to get a needed organ, you must thereafter stay on immune-suppressant drugs to reduce the chance of your body rejecting the transplanted organ. Many of these people are in and out of the hospital for the rest of their lives on a regular basis, for however long that is. I for one don't have that kind of money, nor do I wish to become that familiar with hospitals.
Hey, no problem. Hop back over the border, third Maytag box on the left. Pedro’s All Night Bar, Grill and Transplant Shop.
Ask for the clean surgical instruments. A few pesos more, but worth it. If he’s out of livers, I recommend the spleen.
The headline brought the image to my mind of two Mexicans knife-fighting in an arena to win a new liver.
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