republicon death panels

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PHOENIX — Even physicians with decades of experience telling patients that their lives are nearing an end are having difficulty discussing a potentially fatal condition that has arisen in Arizona: Death by budget cut.

Effective at the beginning of October, Arizona stopped financing certain transplant operations under the state’s version of Medicaid. Many doctors say the decision amounts to a death sentence for some low-income patients, who have little chance of survival without transplants and lack the hundreds of thousands of dollars needed to pay for them.

“The most difficult discussions are those that involve patients who had been on the donor list for a year or more and now we have to tell them they’re not on the list anymore,” said Dr. Rainer Gruessner, a transplant specialist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. “The frustration is tremendous. It’s more than frustration.”

Organ transplants are already the subject of a web of regulations, which do not guarantee that everyone in need of a life-saving organ will receive one. But Arizona’s transplant specialists are alarmed that patients who were in line to receive transplants one day were, after the state’s budget cuts to its Medicaid program, ruled ineligible the next — unless they raised the money themselves.

Francisco Felix, 32, a father of four who has hepatitis C and is in need of a liver, received news a few weeks ago that a family friend was dying and wanted to donate her liver to him. But the budget cuts meant he no longer qualified for a state-financed transplant.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/us/03transplant.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

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1. :cry: knr n/t

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2. this is PRECISELY what the thugs were accusing the democrats of in the HCR debate

as usual, the republicans are doing exactly what they accused the democrats

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4. Repukes always accuse everyone else of their own evil. And too often it seems to work. They are

masters of 'branding'.

Heinous despicable creatures all.

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5. Repukes always accuse everyone else of their own evil. And too often it seems to work. They are

masters of 'branding'.

Heinous despicable creatures all.

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3. Brewer McLump and Horsehead are all three serial killers. The other two just haven't been exposed

yet.