Little-Acorn
07-20-2009, 08:53 PM
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Man, 22, Dies After Liver Transplant Refused
10:06pm UK, Monday July 20, 2009
A 22-year-old alcoholic has died after being refused a life-saving liver transplant because he was too ill to leave hospital and prove he could stay sober.
Gary with his mother just days before he died. Pic: The Sunday Times
Gary Reinbach, who died in hospital on Monday from a severe case of liver cirrhosis, did not qualify for a donor liver under strict NHS rules.
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Coming soon, to a health care system near you!
Presently our government swears up and down that this will never happen. ALL patients who need treatment, will get it.
But how long will that last, once costs start to rise? (Have you ever seen ANY government program where costs didn't start rising, and quickly?)
And when they do, and people finally start calling their Congressmen and refusing to support all the new taxes the government says they need, what then?
How long will it be before government starts deciding, that in extreme cases where people's own behavior has caused the damage to their bodies, that they can no longer pay to fix it?
And people look around, and find that there are no longer any alternatives, because private practitioners have been unable to compete with tax-money-subsidized "Universal Health Care" that penalizes people for going outside the system, and have gone out of business?
Man, 22, Dies After Liver Transplant Refused
10:06pm UK, Monday July 20, 2009
A 22-year-old alcoholic has died after being refused a life-saving liver transplant because he was too ill to leave hospital and prove he could stay sober.
Gary with his mother just days before he died. Pic: The Sunday Times
Gary Reinbach, who died in hospital on Monday from a severe case of liver cirrhosis, did not qualify for a donor liver under strict NHS rules.
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Coming soon, to a health care system near you!
Presently our government swears up and down that this will never happen. ALL patients who need treatment, will get it.
But how long will that last, once costs start to rise? (Have you ever seen ANY government program where costs didn't start rising, and quickly?)
And when they do, and people finally start calling their Congressmen and refusing to support all the new taxes the government says they need, what then?
How long will it be before government starts deciding, that in extreme cases where people's own behavior has caused the damage to their bodies, that they can no longer pay to fix it?
And people look around, and find that there are no longer any alternatives, because private practitioners have been unable to compete with tax-money-subsidized "Universal Health Care" that penalizes people for going outside the system, and have gone out of business?