why would us righties need to do that. the aca is already doing that. Remember the little girl that needed the heart lung transplant and kalthleen the nazi sebelious turned her back on her and a federal judge had to overturn the aca supporters decision
The ACA had nothing to do with it, you lying POS!
And the girl got her lungs, at the expense of someone else in need, and they failed within hours because it was an adult lung and she was 11 years old. Normally you have to be 12 to get an adult lung. So the girl was given a second adult lung, costing a second needy person a lung. Whenever you move someone up on the list someone else must be moved down, in this case the girl cost 2 needy people their lungs.
Kathleen Sebelius at center of storm over child?s lung transplant - Brett Norman - POLITICO.com
Some experts agree that the lung allocation policy may need to be revisited; it has been for kidney and liver transplants.
But they say no snap decisions should be made because of the media glare.
“Should Sebelius step in and do something? No. She doesn’t have all the facts,” said NYU bioethicist Art Caplan. Acting under pressure from a media savvy family “or the noisiest person in line” is bad policy, he added.
Transplant policy in the U.S. is made and administered by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network working with the United Network for Organ Sharing under contract with HHS. ItÂ’s inherently charged and complex because there arenÂ’t enough organs for everyone who needs them, and people do die waiting.
While Sebelius can certainly order a policy review, as she did in a May 31 letter to the procurement network,
her authority to intervene in a specific case is unclear.
Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) told Sebelius that “
t simply takes your signature” to help this child.
Caplan said: “It isn’t clear no matter how many congressmen yell at Secretary Sebelius that she has the ability to do anything.”
Setting transplant policy is complicated. OPTN has expert committees that draft proposals and submit them for public comment. Approved policies are subject to the secretaryÂ’s discretion of enforcement or reconsideration, according to a summary of the regulations by OPTN.
The policy that the Murnaghan and their advocates are questioning is one that puts children under 12 at the bottom of the waiting list for lungs from adult donors. Young children would be first in line for lungs donated by kids their age. But far fewer of those are available.
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Caplan noted one reason that may give Sebelius pause: by moving someone up the list, someone else goes down. One child saved could mean another child dies. Sebelius, he noted, “doesn’t have all the information.”