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.
Did they not give the woman a kidney transplant because of age or due to a high likelihood her body will reject it? Not everybody actually qualifies to remain on the cadaver list and you have to be “tested” once a year to prove you’re medically fit to receive an organ. It’s not some morbid conspiracy because sometimes a transplant just doesn’t make sense.
At the hospital where I am listed on the cadaver list, they won’t give me a kidney from someone over 60 years old. It just won’t function well enough for my body. They also have better matching for senior citizens because that age group will receive a kidney from a cadaver in that age group even though the lifespan is lower for those kidneys.
So, I am just curious about the reason why the person you know can’t get a transplant.