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**squeerisott** · 02-26-2011, 02:25 AM

If we're going to determine who is and isn't worth a transplant then it is inevitable that some organization or agency be developed to administer and oversee the process. Just like everything else that goes on in society there will be some entity that oversees it. These determinations won't happen magically out of thin air after all nor is genie gonna pop from her bottle and wiggle her nose and pick for us.

Still haven't told me how we determine who is worth more than who in assigning the transplants. Let's say we've got two 19 year old knock out gorgeous freshman cheerleaders from State University. Both need the same transplant in order to survive. Who gets the organ first? Hmmmm, one has a GPA of 3.92 and the other 3.8. Does that factor in? Then again, one was a drunk in high school and still smokes and statistically that reduces her life expectancy. Does that factor in? One has a history of heart disease. Do we bring that into the final equation? Do we commit both to Mr Reaper in favor of the 23 year old man who never went to college, was homeless before the police found him sick and living under a bridge thus beginning his medical excursion? Or do we kill off the 23 year old?

We can't even get simple stuff like issuing driver's licenses correctly (recent scandal in CA). Who are we to think some board of experts is gonna get this right? I can see the headlines a decade from now:

"Transplant Board Chair Says No Bribes for Kidneys"

"Study finds women less likely to get lung transplants"

Not to mention the scandal that will ignite when it is discovered that "deserving" patients are deliberately overlooked by the board in favor of the obviously terminal (ie, the 89 year old that weighs 900 lbs and subsists on a diet of vodka and Krispy Kreme). How do we know this? Because it happens every single day in every other thing some gaggle of we know better bureaucrats attempt to manage! They can't even run Megan's Law correctly for heaven's sake. You're going to trust them to give you a spot in line when your gear gets casrep'd?

02-26-2011, 02:25 AM	#19
squeerisott Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 423 Senior Member	If we're going to determine who is and isn't worth a transplant then it is inevitable that some organization or agency be developed to administer and oversee the process. Just like everything else that goes on in society there will be some entity that oversees it. These determinations won't happen magically out of thin air after all nor is genie gonna pop from her bottle and wiggle her nose and pick for us. Still haven't told me how we determine who is worth more than who in assigning the transplants. Let's say we've got two 19 year old knock out gorgeous freshman cheerleaders from State University. Both need the same transplant in order to survive. Who gets the organ first? Hmmmm, one has a GPA of 3.92 and the other 3.8. Does that factor in? Then again, one was a drunk in high school and still smokes and statistically that reduces her life expectancy. Does that factor in? One has a history of heart disease. Do we bring that into the final equation? Do we commit both to Mr Reaper in favor of the 23 year old man who never went to college, was homeless before the police found him sick and living under a bridge thus beginning his medical excursion? Or do we kill off the 23 year old? We can't even get simple stuff like issuing driver's licenses correctly (recent scandal in CA). Who are we to think some board of experts is gonna get this right? I can see the headlines a decade from now: "Transplant Board Chair Says No Bribes for Kidneys" "Study finds women less likely to get lung transplants" Not to mention the scandal that will ignite when it is discovered that "deserving" patients are deliberately overlooked by the board in favor of the obviously terminal (ie, the 89 year old that weighs 900 lbs and subsists on a diet of vodka and Krispy Kreme). How do we know this? Because it happens every single day in every other thing some gaggle of we know better bureaucrats attempt to manage! They can't even run Megan's Law correctly for heaven's sake. You're going to trust them to give you a spot in line when your gear gets casrep'd?
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