Remember when the Affordable Care Act (sic) was being debated and Republicans were saying that there would be "death panels"? And remember how they were mocked in the media. Well, here we are.
DENVER (KDVR) — A Colorado woman on a kidney transplant list was moved to inactive status by UCHealth for not receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. Her living donor is also unvaccinated and the hospital said both need to be vaccinated for the transplant process to continue.
No, I didn't just find out about this. The main reason I didn't post on it is because I didn't want to "fed post"
I've been saying that these are malicious people. If you don't get it now, you won't get it.
Look, say your insurance company says that they will not cover a procedure. That's their right as you are asking for them to pay for something. As awful as that sounds, it's how "insurance" works. But, even then, this is not the insurance company *denying you a procedure*. They are declining to *pay* for it. You could try to raise the money yourself and if you do, then the insurance company has no say in the matter.
Would that be a "fun" option? Of course not. But it underscores that "insurance" is about "who pays" not whether you "can" have the procedure. What we have here is a private entity charged with providing medical attention to those who need it, deciding to not do a procedure because they don't approve of your prior medical decisions.
The hospital said in the letter that Lutali has 30 days to start vaccination, and if she refuses, she will be removed from the transplant list.
Lutali’s potential donor, Jaimee Fougner, said she was also told she would not be eligible for the surgery since she is unvaccinated as well.
“When I explained that no, I wouldn’t be able to take the COVID shot, then the comment was, well your journey ends here, because we require all of our donors and recipients to have the COVID-19 vaccine,” Fougner said.
So not only would they deny the recipient. They would decline the donor.
“Surgeries may be postponed until patients take all required precautions in order to give them the best chance at positive outcomes.”
So patient will certainly die without transplant. Patient *may* die if they have it while not have taken the jab. They go with option one.
Death panel.
Mind you:
Lutali said she had COVID-19 last summer, so she’s not too worried about the virus.
We already know that immunity derived from infection beats all the shots. If these people were not malicious they would have taken that into account.
The hospital also said a living donor could spread the COVID-19 to an organ recipient even if they initially test negative for the virus.
So,
1) They don't trust their own tests.
2) While that may be the case, you would think they would do an anti-body test if they were so concerned. if the donor had anti-bodies then they are not supposed to be carrying the virus. But even then, they could certainly decide that the donor would need to be isolated for 14 days and tested during that period.
The reason they are not doing either of these things is that they are malicious people. Period. They would rather see you dead.
*resist fed-posting*
“Should they become infected, they are at particularly high risk of severe illness, hospitalization and death,” the hospital said. “Studies have found transplant patients who contract COVID-19 may have a mortality rate of 20% or higher.”
If only there was a protocol for early treatment and prophylaxis.
If only.
*resist fed-posting*