Are you comfortable with federal death panels?
Of course not, but that is a false analogy. General medical care is not the same as donor organs.
The OPTB is not rationing care, it is allocating a finite and very scarce resource so as to ensure the greatest benefit for the greatest number of recipients.
It does no good to allocate organs based on media representations and photo ops with cute kids. The criteria have to be medically based on success rates.
The desperate parents have used the media to create a firestorm of sympathetic yet ignorant do-gooders, while politicians grandstand for face time and the judge has opened a can of legal worms that I hope a higher court makes him eat.
Decisions on criteria have to be made. Are we going to do it with emotion or with medical science? Are we going to let anyone sue and have the courts second guess the medical experts opinions every time somebody doesn’t make the list?