By: Jerilynn Sweet
The state of Arizona recently passed a finance cut to save the state approximently $4.5 million dollars annually, the cuts however were made againt state paid for organ trasnplants. Those mainly effected by this decisioin will be patients in need of a liver from Hep C, lung transplants, pancrease and some bone marrow transplants. The state eliminated paying for many of these perticular operations based on past success rates of previous patients. The problem here is while the state is trying to save money they are also playing God in a sence that they as politicians are deciding who has a chance to live and who does not. All transplants are diffrent and just because some people may have dies or had complications from a transplant that does not mean another patient will. Dr. Andrew M. Yeager, a University of Arizona professor who is director of the Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program at the Arizona Cancer Center stated “I appreciate the need for budget restraints,but when one looks at a potentially lifesaving treatment, admittedly expensive, and we have data to support efficacy, cuts like this are shortsighted and sad.” The states solution to this issue it to simply remind patients that they can try to raise to money for their transplants which range in average of up over $200,000. Due to the reaction that Arizona is getting from its citizens the state is considering holding a debate to reconsider the financial cuts, but that is only a possibility at the moment while the deaths of many people that used to be on transplant lists is almost a deffinet.
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