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  • Edwards Needs A Little More Than One Data Point (Nataline Sarkisyan and American health-care)

    01/11/2008 12:13:07 PM PST · by jdm · 13 replies · 108+ views
    Captain's Quarters ^ | Jan. 11, 2008 | Ed Morrissey
    John Edwards has used the story of Nataline Sarkisyan on the campaign trail to underscore the heartlessness of the American health-care industry, and specifically its insurers. The teenager died from complications of liver failure and cancer, after applying for and initially being rejected for a liver transplant. Edwards wants to remake the health-care system in order to prevent anyone from being denied a transplant, but as the Wall Street Journal points out, the Sarkisyan case was a good deal more complicated than Edwards lets on -- and the US leads government-run health care systems around the world in transplants: Research...