Posted on 04/06/2012 7:06:43 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
When restaurant customers learned that the waiter they called Angel was in the hospital with kidney failure, they stuffed bills into a collection jar to help support his family. His brother offered something more precious: a healthy kidney to restore his life. But for two years, the obstacles to the transplant seemed insuperable. Angel, the father of two American-born children, is an illegal immigrant. And a maze of conflicting health care and immigration policies meant that while the government would pay for a lifetime of dialysis, costing $75,000 yearly, it would not pay for a $100,000 transplant that would make dialysis unnecessary.
Yet Tuesday morning, he and his brother were undergoing the surgery in adjacent operating rooms at Mount Sinai Medical Center. And all the other barriers receded in importance as doctors swabbed bare skin with antiseptic and prepared to cut.
The brothers had hugged when they met at 4 a.m. at a subway station in Brooklyn for the trip to Mount Sinai, in Upper Manhattan. Now, under the cool green lights of one operating room, the healthy brother was covered with blue sterile drapes, and his flesh was pierced with the tools of laparoscopic surgery, computer monitors showing an inner human landscape of pulsing blood vessels and vital organs.
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TRANSLATION: If ObamaCare was in effect now and we passed Amnesty, we could help these poor brothers; however, the evil Republicans and Conservatives are against these things.
This is the same guy who could had this operation in Mexico I believe is was like $ 50,000 but they rejected that saying Mexico could not do as good of job as U.S.
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