The new rule will also allow involuntary organ harvesting from the poor in the event a needy billionaire needs a transplant…
Would this apply to critically-needed spine transplants? Asking for 51 friends.
2 words Dick Cheney
WHY the holy fk is this even a THING??? No. Hospitals should be held accountable for their work. If a patient dies, show us WHY. What ghoul even thought this was a GOOD thing?
I swear I had a similar reaction when I first read the headline: “Do away with regs that won’t let people sell their organs!”
He’s about due for a new one.
With the donor picking up the costs of the organ extraction, of course!
You might think that Trump would have second thoughts on this given Stormy’s revelation
I think it’s onerous to hold transplant centers accountable when they stick a cancerous pig’s liver in you.
Nah, it will be fully funded by Obamacare.
Oh wait…
Oh, yeah. This sounds like a plan.
Our for-profit health care business is the envy of the world.
My only confusion is, if it’s consumer driven and based purely on what customers would want and pay for - why is it so very, very, terrible?
you beat me to it
WHAAAATTT?? Full stop, do not pass GO.
Schold said the rules have created a perception that programs need to turn away some ailing patients and reject less-than-ideal organs in order to meet outcome targets.
Of course you have to turn away some people who have “less-than-ideal organs.” You can’t accept organs from donors who are ALREADY ill no matter how eager they may be to donate. Who in their right minds doesn’t understand this??
I man, hell, why not bring back grave robbing?
We’re busy this week. That’s on the agenda for Spring.
As the article points out, the stats already adjust for how sick a patient is. I agree that it’s horrible for patients to die waiting for a transplant, but it’s similarly horrible for patients to undergo the expense and pain of transplant surgery, only to lose the organ or die of illness arising from the transplant. And we have people arguing here who are not exactly unbiased.
One big problem is allocation, which is (iirc from reporting years ago) essentially that the sicker you are the higher you go on the list. It may be the least-bad way of allocating, but it still sucks. (In the early days of transplants, hospitals had committees, consisting of doctors and other pillars of the local community, who would decide how valuable a potential recipient’s life was based on their previous career and potential for doing good in the future – you can imagine how that turned out.)
“We are proposing to remove those inefficiencies to reduce the amount of time patients have to wait, so that the government can begin paying,” Verma said.
FIFY
Our tax dollars at work!
Also when they spend so damn much time and effort trying to get good matches between donors and recipients. It can’t be all that hard to just stick some recently-beating heart into somebody who needs one and take your chances that it might be rejected. Play the odds and you’ll probably have a few real good outcomes, then just hide the information on the others.
YOU SAID what I WAS thinking!