To: jerod
This has nothing to do with socialized medicine - the same thing would have happened here. Transplant organs are in very short supply, and transplant patients are prioritized in any system, socialized or not. Transplant clinics (and insurance companies) here in the U.S. generally will not perform (or pay for) liver transplants without a period of sobriety of 6 months to a year (and many locations/insurers will not perform/cover any liver transplant that results from alcohol abuse.
To: Conscience of a Conservative
This has nothing to do with socialized medicine - the same thing would have happened here. Transplant organs are in very short supply, and transplant patients are prioritized in any system, socialized or not. Transplant clinics (and insurance companies) here in the U.S. generally will not perform (or pay for) liver transplants without a period of sobriety of 6 months to a year (and many locations/insurers will not perform/cover any liver transplant that results from alcohol abuse
I was going to say the EXACT same thing only you beat me to it. Excellent Post. I think some on this post are commenting on this story without thinking about what they are writing.
45 posted on
07/20/2009 10:54:27 AM PDT by
truthguy
(Good intentions are not enough!)
To: Conscience of a Conservative
“This has nothing to do with socialized medicine - the same thing would have happened here. Transplant organs are in very short supply, and transplant patients are prioritized in any system, socialized or not. Transplant clinics (and insurance companies) here in the U.S. generally will not perform (or pay for) liver transplants without a period of sobriety of 6 months to a year (and many locations/insurers will not perform/cover any liver transplant that results from alcohol abuse”
David Crosby?
47 posted on
07/20/2009 11:38:20 AM PDT by
Cyman
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