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  • BusterBoy0

    Jesus, this is totally fucked up. To those of you who might ask why an Aussie is interested in this, I have relatives in Tucson. One is 48 years old and suffers cardiomyopathy and will probably die without a transplant.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/0…
    Arizona Cuts Financing for Transplant Patients

    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.

    • if medicaid cant afford it.... what do u expect. you shrug and say eh thats life, makes sense
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    • notice the hear strigns being pulled but not the rational ones. soemtimes it does come down to simple logistics
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    • oh and no disrespect to family. shit happens that just sucks. thats life.
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    • Do us a favor and shoot yourself. You;re draining my economy.TheBlueOne
    • Deathboy, you are an asshole.DrBombay

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