>Back in 1993, the 61 year old governor of Pennsylvania needed a heart and liver transplant. There was some discussion at the time as to whether his position caused him to go to the front of the line.
No, it does not. “Position” is a poor excuse for those who wish to impose some system upon others and not abide by that same system. (Like Congress and Laws.)
>In any event, it made me skittish about being in a situation where I was in a hospital and an organ match for a VIP.
No kidding. The scary thing those stories where someone is denied treatment due to being an organ-donor or has their organs harvested w/o being a donor, here in the US, is that all it would take for those slimeballs to go from being ostracized and prosecuted to being “outstanding, proactive, & patriotic” doctors is the sanction/endorsement of the state.
Much like women suddenly getting the right to murder their child twenty years ago, government could ‘invent’ the right for governors, congressmen, justices, etc to have organs-for-transplant.
The Gov Casey transplant case is an interesting case.
Gov Casey needed both a heart and a liver transplant. At the time, the average wait for a liver was 67 days, for a heart it was 198 days.
Gov Casey was put on the waiting list for a combined heart/liver transplant, and got his transplant organs within a day of being put on the list. The donor, William Michael Lucas, was beaten to death by a drug gang.