Now when you context this with the government takeover of Healthcare and the push for computerized medical records it gets extremely scary and not very far-fetched to imagine a future that when one of our elite masters needs an organ transplant a quick database search for DNA and blood type match will result in an untimely accident (wink) for an Obamacare patient?
Will the citizens of New York State be justly compensated for the state seizing their organs?
If the government knows your medical life, they can ORDER you to donate “non vital” parts.
The government now owns your body too.
Think about this question:
Now that there will be no “organ shortage” what will their excuse be when they start denying transplants to all those on the lists?
Because the money is NOT there. That is why there are lists in the first place.
You will be able to opt out, supposedly.
“To fix that, Brodsky introduced a new bill in Albany that would enroll all New Yorkers as an organ donor, unless they actually opt out of organ donation. It would be the first law of its kind in the United States.”
Leave it to polititians to take a good idea and turn it into an immoral fiasco like this.
Open the organ donation program to free enterprise, and pay the survivors for the organs. The market will be flooded.
The statists have put on market controls and set the price for organs (to the donor) of $0, and guess what they created-—a shortage!
Not too hard to figure out a real solution.
This is VERY clever.
Once we have socialized medicine, it will be a good thing that more people are being denied treatment and dying, because we’ll always have a piping hot pile of fresh organs or other people to (think they’re going to) get.
Next step, remove the opt out.
Third step, implement the Chinese model, condemned prisoners are mandatory donors, just like the citizens.
And like China, hate speech is a capital offense.
The bidness of organlegging:
“Organlegging is the name of a fictional crime in the Known Space universe created by Larry Niven. It is the illicit trade of black market human organs for transplant. The term organlegging is a portmanteau combining the words “organ” and “bootlegging”, literally the piracy and smuggling of organs.[1]
The crime developed as a response to the Organ Bank Problem, a concept featured prominently in the early Known Space stories, particularly those set in the twenty first and twenty second century. The Organ Bank Problem is a central theme in the novel A Gift from Earth, as well as the Gil Hamilton detective stories. As speculative fiction, the concept is a prime example of a gedanken experiment. It is an examination of the consequences to society of a new technology (in this case, the perfection of organ transplants) and an existing problem (organ shortage), carried to a logical conclusion.
The effect of technology on society is a recurring theme in Niven’s stories.”
from wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organlegging
“I’m not dead yet!”
“Don’t be silly. You’ll be stone cold in a minute!”
“I’m getting better. I feel happy.”
THWACK!
That's exactly the system China has right now, they just use prisoners condemned for serial jaywalking.
Oh, and if your just filthy rich but not connected to the government, well, your money's good too!
I could just see the Death Panel now: “Psst, Joe, y’know, if he dies, we could really use that liver...”
This is not organ donation, it’s organ confiscation.
My plan is to make my organs useless to the confiscators due to high fat content: bratwursts and beer. If they come for my organs before that’s successful, then it’s Winchesters and Colts.
The initial testing that's required in order for a patient to be placed on the waiting list for a transplant can cost tens of thousands of dollars, even if the patient is not hospitalized.
It is not uncommon for the cost of the transplant surgery and following hospitalization to result in a bill that exceeds $500,000. Unfortunately, the expenses do not end with surgery; the cost of medications in the year after surgery typically exceeds $30,000 a year.
Ideally, a patient will have primary insurance to pay the majority of the transplant expenses and a secondary form of insurance to pay the remaining expenses. Even with excellent insurance coverage that pays 80% of the total bill, the remaining 20% can exceed $100,000 from the surgery alone. With secondary or supplemental insurance coverage, the remaining 20% may be paid by the insurance company rather than the patient.
Time to enjoy each day to its fullest. Time to party like there's no tomorrow... or move to another State. NYS is a hazard to ones health.
