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This 12 page
report discusses the debate regarding who or who should not receive certain forms of
medical treatment or health care and the many questions the issue presents. In this climate
of ostensibly “compassionate conservatism,” far too many people, in a wide array of life
circumstances, are without access to, much less the money to afford optimum health care.
This report argues that health care and medical treatment should not be only for those
who can financially afford them. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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the stories of both woman and men, serving life sentences in prison who desperately need an organ transplant. Should they receive it? Do they "deserve" it? What about circumstances in
which it is their own behavior, i.e. drug addiction, alcoholism, that has caused their current medical condition? Who "should" receive the almost always difficult to obtain organs? And who is
responsible for making that decision? And what if the person famous, or wealthy, or the loved one or "pet project" of somebody who is? More than 50,000 people in the
United States were listed on the national organ transplant waiting list in January of 1997. According to Giuliano (1997), most were also expected to die while waiting for their
necessary organ transplant. The average cost for a liver transplant operation and the first year of treatment after the operation is about $200,000. According to Russell (1999) writing for
the JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, (4/21/99), approximately 4,000 of those 50,000 waiting people received a liver transplant in the United States in 1997 (pp. 1431). Stepping
away from the undeniably complicated organ transplant question, what about the supposedly more mundane aspects of health care in America? Consider the dilemma of a single woman who is part
of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" social class in America and does not have any health insurance coverage. If she
becomes pregnant, how will she afford prenatal care or even the doctor and hospital costs of giving birth? The questions are, quite literally, endless. In this climate of ostensibly "compassionate
conservatism," far too many people, in a wide array of life circumstances, are without access to, much less the money to afford optimum health care. As the student working on
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