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Wonder what the Death Panel types think of this


Posted: Dec 3, 2010

Arizona Cuts Financing for Transplant Patients

Joshua Lott for The New York Times

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.

Randy Shepherd, who needs a heart transplant, showed scars from an earlier operation. He hopes a decision is reversed.

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.

“The most difficult discussions are those that involve patients who had been on the donor list for a year or more and now we have to tell them they’re not on the list anymore,” said Dr. Rainer Gruessner, a transplant specialist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. “The frustration is tremendous. It’s more than frustration.”

Organ transplants are already the subject of a web of regulations, which do not guarantee that everyone in need of a life-saving organ will receive one. But Arizona’s transplant specialists are alarmed that patients who were in line to receive transplants one day were, after the state’s budget cuts to its Medicaid program, ruled ineligible the next — unless they raised the money themselves.

Francisco Felix, 32, a father of four who has hepatitis C and is in need of a liver, received news a few weeks ago that a family friend was dying and wanted to donate her liver to him. But the budget cuts meant he no longer qualified for a state-financed transplant.

He was prepared anyway at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center as his relatives scrambled to raise the needed $200,000. When the money did not come through, the liver went to someone else on the transplant list.

“I know times are tight and cuts are needed, but you can’t cut human lives,” said Mr. Felix’s wife, Flor. “You just can’t do that.”

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Read the rest at the NY Times article below.  It's unbelievable that conservatives were saying that liberals/dems were the ones wanting so-called "death panels."  But I'll bet a lot of repubs still believe it.

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It is sad. I could tell you story after story - of people who have

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been cut from Medicaid in my state that have major, major health issues. They get no insurance at all. We use to have a state plan that you could pay for it you made too much for the straight Medicaid but had pre-exisitings, but of course, it was going bankrupt and had to be cut. Our governor is a Democrat. It is so very sad, but the state could not afford it while you have Medicaid patients who needed their Lortab, Xanax and Soma for their back problems at 20 or people freshly released from jail with their automatic Medicaid.

What does the death panel say about private insurance denials? - nm

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Enlighten me. I don't know - sm

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Things are denied in private insurance all of the time as with Medicare, Medicaid. They all do. I guess it would be on a case by case basis. I'm not sure why they have started denying transplants through the Medicaid of that certain state. I'm assuming the state just cannot afford it. There are a lot of factors when looking into things like that patient by patient.

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