Posted on 08/07/2012 4:19:39 PM PDT by george76
CRANSTON, R.I. -- An inmate at the Adult Correctional Institutions received a liver transplant at a Boston hospital last week, making him the first Rhode Island prisoner to undergo an organ transplant
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Liver transplant operation costs can top $1 million. The state will be required, by court precedent, to pay 40 percent of the expenses, with the remaining 60 percent covered by Medicare.
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Just out of curiousity, what did the guy do to land in prison and how long will he be there?
Need an organ transplant but can’t pay? Rob a liquor store and go to prison, problem solved!
That is what they are doing when they want a sex change operation but don’t want to pay for it. Some states have made deemed it a ‘medical necessity’.
More evidence that this country has gone insane.
Jail it and they will come!
Now you kniw what you have to do if you need a transplant STAT.
Rob a bank
Now you kniw what you have to do if you need a transplant STAT.
Rob a bank
Now you kniw what you have to do if you need a transplant STAT.
Rob a bank
Medical care is not a "right" under the Constitution, and while you are in prison, you don't get any. It's bad enough that prison is "three hots and cot" for social reprobates, it certainly should not be "all you can eat" health care too.
Happened here in Washington state.
Mitchel Rupe, a coldhearted fat f**k pos walks into a bank in Olympia and shoots two tellers.
Guy comes to take his wife, one of the tellers to lunch, and she dies in his arms.
Rupe is convicted and sentenced to death by hanging, but sues up to the Supreme Court calling it cruel and unusual because he’s such a fat slob he might be decapitated.
Wins the suit, his sentence is commuted, a few years later this pig gets a kidney? transplant courtesy of the State of Washington.
Dies in prison way, way too late.
ZERO justice in that case! ZERO!!
robbery, possession of stolen car parts and conspiracy.
Since 2006, he has also been sentenced multiple times on assorted drug-possession charges, including possession of and intent to deliver cocaine.
Sent a note to an editor asking for them to run a correction.
This is paid for by TAXPAYERS, NOT by the “state” or the “federal government”!
We can’t win this battle if we cede the terms of the debate to the other side.
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