Posted on 06/05/2013 2:34:10 PM PDT by blueyon
Edited on 06/05/2013 2:46:14 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary to suspend existing organ allocation rules to give a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl a better chance at a life-saving lung transplant.
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Baylson told Kathleen Sebelius to direct the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, or OPTN, to make an exception to the so-called "Under-12" rule as it applies to Sarah Murnaghan, who has end-stage cystic fibrosis, for at least 10 days, until a hearing on June 14. That move means that the girl can be considered more quickly for organs as an adult, instead of being limited to the pediatric transplant list.
The ruling, which grants a temporary restraining order, applies only to Sarah, although Baylson indicated that he would consider a similar move for another child in Sarah's circumstances, if a family presented the case in court.
We are dealing with a limited supply of human organs. Are you saying they should be allocated by the market? By supply and demand at whatever price the market will bear?
Is that what you are saying?
It’s the parents that brought in the government, courts and elected officials by pitching their media circus and filing a lawsuit.
Exactly how do you plan to have a market in human organs without government involvement and oversight?
Have you thought about what an unregulated market in human organs would look like? I suspect it would look a lot like the human trafficking, but bloodier, with human chop shops.
It’s not like we are dealing with a manufactured product. If we were, they’d grow them to order and their would be no controversy.
You might want to jump in on this one....
Do you not get that the government didn’t have the power to decide until the parents sued???
The OPTN was “independent” until this controversy was created. Now they are under court order. This is not an improvement.
My apologies for the snark, then.
Would you rather the lungs decay or be cremated with the deceased?
If anything, this should be a State issue, not the feds.
Life is not fair, this issue brings up some very complicated questions to be sure, but my view is it is better solved in a ways that is closer to the people then unaccountable DC bureaucrats.
I don't know about you, but Sebelius(sp?) and her commie friends making decisions about what coverage I get sends chill up my spine.
There is an adult out there in need of lungs that more than likely have a family to support. Doesn’t make the pain of a child dying any less.........
I just glad I never did that, for shame!!
LOL....just kidding!!
I am not sure about top vs bottom on transplant lists. I don’t think it’s one size fits all. I would think with all the blood type and tissue matching,,the lists get very unique. It’s hard to say exactly who would get bumped. If they have a match to the tissue and blood type, then the person on that list goes first,,all other things being equal. If you throw in diabetes, or other issues, who knows how it works?
It will have to be a DEAD person.
You get it. Really, it means the media is who is in control, which is even worse. Another slippery slope.
Look at the silver lining in the cloud. Maybe just maybe more people will see the need to be a donor. Small children do not drive so no one knows if they would be listed as a donor. Maybe this is what should change.
Well....some adult who smoked 3 packs of cigs per day won’t get it....some illegal alien or foreign organ shopper won’t get it....and these folks would have been getting that lung instead of a sick child
1600 is waiting for the call. I have Pulmonary Fibrosis.
You are right again!
It’s generally illegal to buy and sell human organs for obvious reasons.
It is a federal issue, because most organs cross state lines to get to their recipient.
I suppose states could set up their own in state systems, with 50 sets of criteria and dramatically reducing the donor pool since they’d be restricted to their state list instead of a national database.
I’m not at all sure that organ transplants should be allowed at all, since it creates a market for exploitation of the poor, if not outright murder and theft of organs in countries with less developed (or more corrupt) rule of law.
It has many more moral and ethical dilemmas that general medical care.
Actually, there is not a top or bottom of transplant list. Recipients are given grades based on several criteria. The highest grade is A1 which is emergency status, and the patient must meet additional health requirements to be given that grade. A hospital or doctor does not maintain a list. After a battery of testing a hospital board submits results along with recommendations to the national donor organization which can accept or reject them for the list, if accepted they are then graded, it then becomes very complicated.
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