Addict Claire Murray offered second chance for liver transplant (1 Viewer)

[pman]

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[Graney]

It's no worse than any other taxpayer funded medical expense. She should be entitled to state government assistance in accessing treatment, as much as any other individual.

If you refused treatment for all other lifestyle diseases, obesity, alcohol, tobacco, there really isn't much disease left to treat. Would you refuse treatment to an obese person after the first heart attack because they continued to eat?

 

[zombie omie jay]

wikipedia

gr8 source m8

peer reviewed articles only plz

 

[Graney]

Heroin withdrawal is pretty bad

 

[pman]

will dictionary.com do?

 

[zombie omie jay]

It's no worse than any other taxpayer funded medical expense. She should be entitled to state government assistance in accessing treatment, as much as any other individual.

If you refused treatment for all other lifestyle diseases, obesity, alcohol, tobacco, there really isn't much disease left to treat. Would you refuse treatment to an obese person after the first heart attack because they continued to eat?

yay we have a winnar

 

[pman]

Heroin withdrawal is pretty bad

but she started on dexamphetamine...withdrawal from that isn't that bad at all...Your just angry for a few weeks

 

[zombie omie jay]

no dictionary.com will not do ffs

 

[x.christina]

no this is unfair she already had a second chance with her first liver now she's going to pay the price of being a total fucking idiot

 

[zombie omie jay]

so like graney said

anyone who undertakes risky activities that cause health implications, shouldnt be offered tax payer funded health care

i see

or if they are, they should only be offered it once?

 

[Graney]

How is it 'unfair'? Unfair implies there is a inequity in the distribution of medical resources, someone is receiving worse treatment as a corollary of her favorable treatment. How will other liver disease patients be disadvantaged by what the government is offering?

It would be pretty messed up if she were being given priority for limited resources, being allocated a second donor liver. This is not what is happening. The state is prepared to fund a flight to NZ, where the viability of a family member donating part of their liver will be assessed. What is proposed is affordable and as nonexclusive as a life saving operation can be.

 

[x.christina]

so like graney said

anyone who undertakes risky activities that cause health implications, shouldnt be offered tax payer funded health care

i see

or if they are, they should only be offered it once?

yes. she's already had her one chance and its unfair to other people who have more of a right to their first liver transplant who wont go and abuse their new body part by taking drugs

 

[zombie omie jay]

yes. she's already had her one chance and its unfair to other people who have more of a right to their first liver transplant who wont go and abuse their new body part by taking drugs

hmm

what part of

her father is donating 1/3 of his own liver to her

dont you understand?

 

[x.christina]

hmm

what part of

her father is donating 1/3 of his own liver to her

dont you understand?

what a waste

 

[micuzzo]

hmm interesting read

 

[zombie omie jay]

how on earth is it a waste?

it was never going to go to anyone else if she doesnt use it

livers regenerate themselves

how is it a waste?

 

[katie tully]

no, no

sure, she can have another transplant

she just has to stay in line like everyone else

 

[inconnuBubble]

no, no

sure, she can have another transplant

she just has to stay in line like everyone else

This.

 

[Graney]

no, no

sure, she can have another transplant

she just has to stay in line like everyone else

Which is what is happening presently. The system is actually more punitive than what you're suggesting, as the state of WA has refused any possibility of her receiving a second transplant from a deceased donor. The outrage is about her receiving the same treatment options available to anyone else.

 

[0bs3n3]

Actually she originally became a drug addict/had her liver wrecked by prescription medicine she was given when she was like 12, it was beyond her control.

Personal responsibility, something they believed in during the Dark Ages.