[DallasBiff]

Sarah Palin's prediction coming to fruition.

[Andyman]

How about giving preference to people who have been on the donor lists for a long time? I’ve been on the organ donor list for over 30 years. Shouldn’t that give me a preference should I need one?

[fella]

Don’t forget “We’ve got to pass the law before we find out what’s in it”.

[JRandomFreeper]

Kidneys are a prime candidate for a "grow from your own adult stem-cell" approach. Hopefully, in the near future, donations, and the lifetime of anti-rejection medication will be a moot point.

Assuming, of course, that research can continue under Obamacare.

/johnny

[Gay State Conservative]

Having worked for 20 years at the hospital where the very first kidney transplant was performed I know something about organ transplantation.*This* story,at least,reflects a debate that's been occurring in medicine for years.There are many,*many* factors involved in organ transplantation including age,tissue typing,location of the organ in relation to the patient's location,condition of the organ,overall condition of the potential recipient,etc.

"Death panels" will very probably come into existence if OsamaObamaCare ever comes into force but *this* difficult dilemma existed long before Osama Obama snorted his first line of cocaine.

[csmusaret]

Obamacare: Srewed without a kiss.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3CWLCoQu7c

[KevinDavis]

I wonder under Obamacare they are going to determine who can and can’t have kids??

[1010RD]

researchers used a computer model to test the proposal, and they believe it would significantly reduce the number of kidneys donated but not ever used.

How did computer modeling work out on the climate change issue? GIGO.

[GeronL]

bureaucrats making health care decisions, who’d have thunk it?

[Secret Agent Man]

And if you die waiting for a kidney that’s in your age group, even though there’s another one in a different age group, too effing bad.

This is sick crap.

[GeronL]

My sister is on the transplant waiting list

[informavoracious]

Soon enough your political affiliation will be a factor in whether you receive a transplant.

[musicman]

[napscoordinator]

It is happening already and has been for years. I know a 95 year old woman who needs a kidney transplant and they won’t give it to her. It is horrible. In 2002, I knew a man who was 88 who was turned down for a liver transplant. Our country is awful when it comes to the elderly.

[cherry]

its happening and it won't be pretty but it was heading this way anyway....

we can't keep millions of 85 yros alive with one on one care/tube feedings/tpn/oxygen and breathing treatments/ etc....we can't afford heart transplants or VAD devices for everybody that needs it....

lets face....our longevity has not been taken into consideration in our society...

in other societies, people don't "retire" and start drawing pensions in their late 30's or 40's or 5O's all the while having paid for health care...in other countries, everyone contributes in some way, even if its just taking care of grandbabies in the home...

but not America...no, we have to give 50 yrs the right to act like their 90...they don't have to work, they don't have to worry about health care....and they get all the senior goodies....

we need to change the plan...

work longer....maybe work forever with lots of time off (like teachers0 and then maybe we can afford to have health care for everybody their entire lives...