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Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
Thanks CUGreekgirl and everyone else for prayers. What ticks me off is that not only did Allan die waiting for an organ, but because he had no health insurance, it meant him never being put on the waiting list to start.
You see, Allan had Cystic Fibrosis and this lung transplant would have "cured" him - giving him a 60% survival rate. Alan had no health insurance, so he was dependant upon Medicaid, which denied payment to cover the procedure, calling a 60% chance of survival a "poor outcome considering the cost of the surgery, which was $400,000.
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Oh, Honeykiss, that's just
obscene!!! I know people who are on Medicaid who were artificially inseminated (as if that's a top priority!) - Allan should have had priority over people like that!!
The concept of governmental medicine scares the spit out of me!!