I'm with Valkryie here. Instead of complaining, use that anger and frustration you have and become organ donors! To make things even better, join the bone marrow registry too! It takes 5 minutes to become an organ donor. My heart may be bleeding, but it will go to good use after my death.
From what I've heard, the family had a benefactor--so the illegal immigrant status wouldn't matter at all unless they were requesting Medicare/Medicaid. This is not uncommon for people from other countries, to have a wealthy person, either from here or their home country to pay their expenses. This happened with the conjoined twins who were separated last year. Going to another country for medical treatment happens all over--Americans do it just as often as those from other nations. In these cases, it's not about CITIZENSHIP as much as it is about MONEY. Green is green, no matter where the person who gives it to you is from.
Mad that they used two sets of organs on her because she's not a citizen? What about when they gave Mickey Mantle, who suffered from alcohol-related cirhrossis of the liver, two livers back-to-back?
So, it's better for someone who willfully damaged their own organs to have double transplants because they're American, than it is for a paying non-American suffering from a congenital disorder to have the opportunity to live?
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