Posted on 06/05/2013 4:54:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A federal judge in Philadelphia has made a dying 10-year-old eligible to seek donor lungs from an adult transplant list.
U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson says he is granting the temporary request because of the severity of Sarah Murnaghan's condition.
Her mother, Janet Murnaghan, says the family is thrilled by the ruling. It's in effect until a June 14 court hearing.
The family is challenging organ transplant rules that say children under age 12 must wait for pediatric lungs to become available. The Murnaghans say that rarely happens.
Sarah's doctors believe they can perform a successful transplant with adult lungs.
Sarah has been hospitalized at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for three months with end-stage cystic fibrosis.
On Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius declined to intervene.
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” You do understand that people wait for years for organs, right?
So why do you believe that this little girl is more deserving than the people who have been waiting for years and that she should be put in the front of the line?
People die every day because they couldn’t get an organ, but because you know about this one you think it makes you holy to want her to go first? “
None of that is relevant to my point. My point is that thousands of lawsuits will be filed against the death panels as people desperately seek medical care that is being arbitrarily denied to them by the death panels. The arbitrary decisions by the courts will then make a further hash of Obamacare rules.
BTW, the lawsuit had nothing to do with getting her in the front of the line. The Obamacare death panels had arbitrarily said she couldn’t get in line at all.
Sure it is. If priority is based on condition then she should be moved up. Otherwise most of the kids may as well just be euthanized now since so few pediatric lungs become available.
If the science is good and they can do the transplant then why have two lists?
Hear today that a Death Row prisoner got a heart transplant. Seems to go against the purpose of Death Row.
I'm on the mend; but it will take 6 months to a year.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
Not likely because of the extra bad publicity and fear it would generate about Zero care. Probably a prelude to the new system thought: all care will have to go through a litigation process and instead of small claims courts, etc., it will start at the bottom end with bad-cold court, move to pneumonia court, then broken bone court, etc.
Who was taken off?
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