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compatibility, chances of success, urgency, distance from donor That's the OP's point: all of these are subject to the influence of wealth. Compatibility: bet
by lr4444lr 11y ago
compatibility, chances of success, urgency, distance from donor
That's the OP's point: all of these are subject to the influence of wealth.
Compatibility: better supportive care keeping the person healthier on the defective organ. (An actual mismatch, like blood type, is a random variable.)
Chances of success: depends on the medical affidavits from "second opinions" that you can afford to shop around for. This perhaps won't work in extreme cases, like an 80 year old on death's door vs. an 11 year old diagnosed with an early stage defect, but it's rarely that clear.
Urgency: Jitters over the stock price of Apple is surely going to weigh Steve Jobs' transplant as more "urgent".
Distance from donor: obviously nothing more than a trivial obstacle for the wealthy.
- coldtea 11y ago>Compatibility: better supportive care keeping the person healthier on the defective organ. That's indeed subject to wealth -- but it's not the kind of compatibility the system looks for. Rather size, blood type, etc. >This perhaps won't work in extreme cases, like an 80 year old on death's door vs. an 11 year old diagnosed with an early stage defect, but it's rarely that clear. Maybe, but still better than "80 year old with money gets it over poor 12 year old". Just because a system doesn't work 100% perfectly and yields to money factors, doesn't mean it's better of to replace it entirely to something money driven. >Urgency: Jitters over the stock price of Apple is surely going to weigh Steve Jobs' transplant as more "urgent". Urgent in the medical sense. Not in whether the patient is "more important" for his business...