Posted on 04/28/2017 10:07:32 AM PDT by bgill
At one time parents had to give permission for their kids to attend or be instructed in controversial subject matter like the joys of homosexuality. Not many parents would opt in to this cr@p so they came up with an opt out policy on these things and parents only find out after the fact, if their kids even choose to tell them.
Want to bet? If they know about it they won't but it will come back again and again in different forms until it passes. Schools have been doing it to your kids for decades and you likely didn't even know it.
Livers now go mostly to chronic alcoholics with cirrhosis, OR, even better, people with Hep C, who in all likelihood got it from IV drug use or sex with someone who uses IV drugs.
I see a lot of super-aggressive organ procurers who are WAY too motivated for it to be a labor of love.
Big medicine makes a ton of money doing it, because the Feds subsidize it.
The people who get new organs are usually not terribly productive afterward. Absolutely not productive enough to justify the million or so spent on their transplant. How could they be? And are they so valuable to society that the investment should be made? Of course not.
If someone with normal renal function donates a kidney, nobody mentions that a significant fraction of the donors will themselves go on to complete renal failure.
I would say the money Big Medicine spends on the transplantation racket would be better spent on researching the underlying diseases (or behaviors in the case of alkies or drug addicts) that caused the loss of organ function in the first place.
And silly old-fashioned me, I believe that people should lead morally acceptable lives and prepare themselves for their inevitable demise, in an active, ongoing, faith-based manner.
They should NOT try to buy time cheating death by grabbing organs from young trauma victims and gullible donors.
The whole "I can live forever owing to all these medical advances" frame of mind breeds a population of infantile patients and family members who are utterly unrealistic when the inevitable arrives for themselves or their relatives: They want EVERYTHING done, regardless of futility, and regardless of the advanced age of the patient.
This infantile behavior at the end of life happens whether the therapies involve transplantation, or other expensive high-tech measures, like ECMO, hemodialysis, exotic chemotherapy and biologics, etc.
It needlessly increases national expenditures for medical care by 40 or 50 percent. It IS the reason health care costs in the US are off the scale ridiculously astronomical.
Alas living well and dying when you are supposed to, doesn't pay Big Medicine's people, or have the dramatic hype, sentimental slogans and medical-TV-show drama and pseudoheroism that organ transplantation has, so, no one is holding his breath for anything to change anytime soon.
Flame away people! But remember, what I am saying is the stone truth.
It is all based on a promise. And we all know how politicians and those higher up the food chain are with promises.
Reminds me of a scene from a Monty Python movie where they come to take a guy’s liver.
I’ve got good news and bad news for your.
The good news is that your beloved relative suffered only minor injuries in the car wreck.
The bad news is that when he got to the hospital, they found he was a perfect match for a billionaire who needed a new liver.
We’ve kept your relative on life support long enough for you to say your good byes.
I’ve had to tell more than one person who should have known better, loans are assets, deposits are liabilities.
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