Donor cards should have check box for "public patients only"

Worztron · 19-01-2012 10:48pm #1

The Donor card should have a check box for "public patients only". I don't want some rich private patient $%&£$ to get it over a kid from a less well off family. The private health service seeks to give preferential treatment based on someones wealth - what a disgusting notion. I seek to balance things.

hmmm · 19-01-2012 10:50pm

All that spite building up in your organs probably means they are useless anyway.

TheZohanS · 19-01-2012 10:51pm

Worztron wrote: »

The Donor card should have a check box for "public patients only". I don't want some rich private patient $%&£$ to get it over a kid from a less well off family. The private health service seeks to give preferential treatment based on someones wealth - what a disgusting notion. I seek to balance things.

Oh...well I donate platelets and I'm a private health patient...should I make demands as to where my platelets go?

I think not.

Senna · 19-01-2012 10:53pm

Its who ever is top of the list and close enough to get it in time. Its "need" over "wealth" etc.

gsxr1 · 19-01-2012 10:53pm

Who cares how successful the recipient is in life. As long as you save a life.

Worztron · 19-01-2012 10:53pm

hmmm wrote: »

All that spite building up in your organs probably means they are useless anyway.

If 2 people (both same age) need an organ (just one is available). 1 is private and the other is public. Who do you think will get it?

Worztron · 19-01-2012 10:55pm

Senna wrote: »

Its who ever is top of the list and close enough to get it in time. Its "need" over "wealth" etc.

I will believe in "need" over "wealth" when I see a minister on a hospital trolley waiting days on end for a bed.

Sindri · 19-01-2012 10:55pm

Worztron wrote: »

If 2 people (both same age) need an organ (just one is available). 1 is private and the other is public. Who do you think will get it?

Ahh yes, but who decides the faith of someone's life?

Captain_Generic · 19-01-2012 10:55pm

Worztron wrote: »

If 2 people (both same age) need an organ (just one is available). 1 is private and the other is public. Who do you think will get it?

Spiderman

coffee_cake · 19-01-2012 10:56pm

Worztron wrote: »

If 2 people (both same age) need an organ (just one is available). 1 is private and the other is public. Who do you think will get it?

them foreigners

Underdraft · 19-01-2012 10:57pm

Captain_Generic wrote: »

Spiderman

With great organs comes great responsibility.

jam_mac_jam · 19-01-2012 10:58pm

Worztron wrote: »

If 2 people (both same age) need an organ (just one is available). 1 is private and the other is public. Who do you think will get it?

Does that happen very often? Are they also the same match of organ, blood etc.?

Cavehill Red · 19-01-2012 10:59pm

bluewolf wrote: »

them foreigners

I believe we 'share' organ donations with Britain, and they get more off us than we get off them. That was certainly the case in the recent past anyway.

Pin_Cushion · 19-01-2012 10:59pm

Worztron wrote: »

If 2 people (both same age) need an organ (just one is available). 1 is private and the other is public. Who do you think will get it?

Whoever the consultant decides needs it most, regardless of their type of cover. This is how it works in our hospitals.

cocoshovel · 19-01-2012 10:59pm

Anybody else have an organ donor card but never bothered to get next of kin to sign it?

Guy:Incognito · 19-01-2012 10:59pm

Worztron wrote: »

I will believe in "need" over "wealth" when I see a minister on a hospital trolley waiting days on end for a bed.

If you earned over 100k a year would you go public?

Cavehill Red wrote: »

I believe we 'share' organ donations with Britain, and they get more off us than we get off them. That was certainly the case in the recent past anyway.

Theres about 14 times more people in Britan than here, if there were more people in need of organs here thered be somethign seriously wrong with us.

Rhyme · 19-01-2012 10:59pm

Underdraft wrote: »

With great organs comes great responsibility.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIgfiSzCy1o

hmmm · 19-01-2012 10:59pm

Worztron wrote: »

If 2 people (both same age) need an organ (just one is available). 1 is private and the other is public. Who do you think will get it?

It depends on who is next on the list as run by the National Organ Procurement Service. Have you not done your research before you started this thread?

Besides which, these "rich" kids parents have been paying for your dole and medical card.

TheZohanS · 19-01-2012 10:59pm

Worztron wrote: »

If 2 people (both same age) need an organ (just one is available). 1 is private and the other is public. Who do you think will get it?

What if the organ donor is a private patient? Is it right that it's given to a public patent?

44leto · 19-01-2012 11:00pm

Worztron wrote: »

The Donor card should have a check box for "public patients only". I don't want some rich private patient $%&£$ to get it over a kid from a less well off family. The private health service seeks to give preferential treatment based on someones wealth - what a disgusting notion. I seek to balance things.

Have you got evidence for this because I think that's BS, you are put on a waiting list and then that depends on compatibility for the donated organ.

PrincessLola · 19-01-2012 11:00pm

This post is puzzling. Rich people may be able to buy their way into a lot of things, but they can't buy organs (not legally and safely anyway).

DarkJager · 19-01-2012 11:01pm

Worztron wrote: »

The Donor card should have a check box for "public patients only". I don't want some rich private patient $%&£$ to get it over a kid from a less well off family. The private health service seeks to give preferential treatment based on someones wealth - what a disgusting notion. I seek to balance things.

No, the private health insurance gives you a standard of quality treatment because you PAY for it. I'm not aware though of private patients getting preferential treatment for organ donation, please explain?

PaulKK · 19-01-2012 11:01pm

Worztron wrote: »

The Donor card should have a check box for "public patients only". I don't want some rich private patient $%&£$ to get it over a kid from a less well off family. The private health service seeks to give preferential treatment based on someones wealth - what a disgusting notion. I seek to balance things.

Ever consider that not everyone with health insurance is rich?

Many have it as a benefit package as part of their job.

blackbox · 19-01-2012 11:01pm

Why should you care if people wish to spend their money on additional health insurance on top of what they are already paying in taxes to cover the basic service.

Other people may wish to spend their money on holidays instead. Yet others may chose to spend it on cigarettes, or on their children's education.

If they have earned the money, it's their choice.

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Teyla Emmagan · 19-01-2012 11:01pm

Worztron wrote: »

The Donor card should have a check box for "public patients only". I don't want some rich private patient $%&£$ to get it over a kid from a less well off family. The private health service seeks to give preferential treatment based on someones wealth - what a disgusting notion. I seek to balance things.

Are you even an organ donor like? Or just sh(t stirring?!

The whole point of carrying a card is to help save someone else's life when you're gone. It's supposed to be the ultimate act of altruism, not a tool with which to make a cheap political statement.

Worztron · 19-01-2012 11:04pm

blackbox wrote: »

Why should you care if people wish to spend their money on additional health insurance on top of what they are already paying in taxes to cover the basic service.

Other people may wish to spend their money on holidays instead. Yet others may chose to spend it on cigarettes, or on their children's education.

If they have earned the money, it's their choice.

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There should not be a 2 tier health service. There should be 1 health service for all and someones wealth should be irrelevant to their treatment.

Worztron · 19-01-2012 11:06pm

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Are you even an organ donor like? Or just sh(t stirring?!

The whole point of carrying a card is to help save someone else's life when you're gone. It's supposed to be the ultimate act of altruism, not a tool with which to make a cheap political statement.

I have an organ donor card. I am entitled to my opinion.

TheZohanS · 19-01-2012 11:06pm

Worztron wrote: »

There should not be a 2 tier health service. There should be 1 health service for all and someones wealth should be irrelevant to their treatment.

lol

DarkJager · 19-01-2012 11:06pm

Worztron wrote: »

There should not be a 2 tier health service. There should be 1 health service for all and someones wealth should be irrelevant to their treatment.

Yet again, you pay for a service you get a service. You dont, then you rely in the governments ability to operate it's health service. Tough **** basically.

Spacedog · 19-01-2012 11:07pm

bluewolf wrote: »

them foreigners

Dey took ur errrrrrrrrrrrrgins, Derp-a-derp!

44leto · 19-01-2012 11:08pm

Worztron wrote: »

I have an organ donor card. I am entitled to my opinion.

Indeed you are, but could you please back up what you said in the OP. Or is that a made up opinion.

Donor cards should have check box for "public patients only"

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