Comments on: We Have One Twisted Health System, Living Organ Donors Beware http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/11/01/we-have-one-twisted-health-system-living-organ-donors-beware/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:00:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Texas blog roundup for the week of November 9 – Off the Kuff http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/11/01/we-have-one-twisted-health-system-living-organ-donors-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-34913 Texas blog roundup for the week of November 9 – Off the Kuff Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:15:35 +0000 http://www.bluebloggin.com/?p=4223#comment-34913 [...] nytexan takes a long look at another disgusting practice of our medical insurance industry. We Have One Twisted Health System, Living Organ Donors Beware. The organ donor’s family is never charged for donating. The family is charged for the cost of [...] [...] nytexan takes a long look at another disgusting practice of our medical insurance industry. We Have One Twisted Health System, Living Organ Donors Beware. The organ donor’s family is never charged for donating. The family is charged for the cost of [...]

]]> By: Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up « TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/11/01/we-have-one-twisted-health-system-living-organ-donors-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-34907 Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up « TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:03:48 +0000 http://www.bluebloggin.com/?p=4223#comment-34907 [...] nytexan takes a long look at another disgusting practice of our medical insurance industry. We Have One Twisted Health System, Living Organ Donors Beware. The organ donor’s family is never charged for donating. The family is charged for the cost of [...] [...] nytexan takes a long look at another disgusting practice of our medical insurance industry. We Have One Twisted Health System, Living Organ Donors Beware. The organ donor’s family is never charged for donating. The family is charged for the cost of [...]

]]> By: Eye on Williamson » Texas Blog Round Up (November 9, 2009) http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/11/01/we-have-one-twisted-health-system-living-organ-donors-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-34905 Eye on Williamson » Texas Blog Round Up (November 9, 2009) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:37:39 +0000 http://www.bluebloggin.com/?p=4223#comment-34905 [...] nytexan takes a long look at another disgusting practice of our medical insurance industry. We Have One Twisted Health System, Living Organ Donors Beware. The organ donor’s family is never charged for donating. The family is charged for the cost of [...] [...] nytexan takes a long look at another disgusting practice of our medical insurance industry. We Have One Twisted Health System, Living Organ Donors Beware. The organ donor’s family is never charged for donating. The family is charged for the cost of [...]

]]> By: Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up Nov 9, 2009 | BlueBloggin http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/11/01/we-have-one-twisted-health-system-living-organ-donors-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-34903 Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up Nov 9, 2009 | BlueBloggin Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:37:17 +0000 http://www.bluebloggin.com/?p=4223#comment-34903 [...] nytexan takes a long look at another disgusting practice of our medical insurance industry. We Have One Twisted Health System, Living Organ Donors Beware. The organ donor’s family is never charged for donating. The family is charged for the cost of [...] [...] nytexan takes a long look at another disgusting practice of our medical insurance industry. We Have One Twisted Health System, Living Organ Donors Beware. The organ donor’s family is never charged for donating. The family is charged for the cost of [...]

]]> By: Texas Progressive Alliance November 9, 2009 « TruthHugger http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/11/01/we-have-one-twisted-health-system-living-organ-donors-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-34902 Texas Progressive Alliance November 9, 2009 « TruthHugger Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:19:05 +0000 http://www.bluebloggin.com/?p=4223#comment-34902 [...] nytexan takes a long look at another disgusting practice of our medical insurance industry. We Have One Twisted Health System, Living Organ Donors Beware. The organ donor’s family is never charged for donating. The family is charged for the cost of [...] [...] nytexan takes a long look at another disgusting practice of our medical insurance industry. We Have One Twisted Health System, Living Organ Donors Beware. The organ donor’s family is never charged for donating. The family is charged for the cost of [...]

]]> By: Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Line Up « Doing My Part for the Left http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/11/01/we-have-one-twisted-health-system-living-organ-donors-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-34901 Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Line Up « Doing My Part for the Left Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:08:37 +0000 http://www.bluebloggin.com/?p=4223#comment-34901 [...] nytexan takes a long look at another disgusting practice of our medical insurance industry. We Have One Twisted Health System, Living Organ Donors Beware. The organ donor’s family is never charged for donating. The family is charged for the cost of [...] [...] nytexan takes a long look at another disgusting practice of our medical insurance industry. We Have One Twisted Health System, Living Organ Donors Beware. The organ donor’s family is never charged for donating. The family is charged for the cost of [...]

]]> By: livingdonor101 http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/11/01/we-have-one-twisted-health-system-living-organ-donors-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-34890 livingdonor101 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:51:01 +0000 http://www.bluebloggin.com/?p=4223#comment-34890 The 1972 Social Security Act, Section 1881 (42 USC 139 rr) established a benefit for living donors. In 1974, the director of SSA issued a memo to all transplant centers that donor expenses were to be billed to the recipient’s insurance – IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW. Transplant centers happily complied with this edict; private insurance companies provide larger reimbursements than Medicare. Congress has been informed for this issue multiple times, but it saves Medicare money, so they’ve done nothing. ACOT’s recommendations are just that – non-enforcable suggestions. Transplant centers have discretion over exactly what they include in their informed consent process and it never includes the real physiological and psychological risks of living donation (http://www.livingdonor101.com/risks.shtml). The media perpetrates the propoganda that living donation is perfectly safe when we have NO comprehensive long-term data on donors at all. UNOS admits they lose 40% of living donors with-in six months, and the number dwindle from there. The medical community has resisted every effort to implement a living donor registry (even though one exists for recipients, so who do they prioritize?) because they fear it will reveal the truth and they’ll have to find another way to line their pockets. The 1972 Social Security Act, Section 1881 (42 USC 139 rr) established a benefit for living donors. In 1974, the director of SSA issued a memo to all transplant centers that donor expenses were to be billed to the recipient’s insurance – IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW.

Transplant centers happily complied with this edict; private insurance companies provide larger reimbursements than Medicare. Congress has been informed for this issue multiple times, but it saves Medicare money, so they’ve done nothing.

ACOT’s recommendations are just that – non-enforcable suggestions. Transplant centers have discretion over exactly what they include in their informed consent process and it never includes the real physiological and psychological risks of living donation (http://www.livingdonor101.com/risks.shtml).

The media perpetrates the propoganda that living donation is perfectly safe when we have NO comprehensive long-term data on donors at all. UNOS admits they lose 40% of living donors with-in six months, and the number dwindle from there. The medical community has resisted every effort to implement a living donor registry (even though one exists for recipients, so who do they prioritize?) because they fear it will reveal the truth and they’ll have to find another way to line their pockets.

]]>