Did you think government-run healthcare would be good for you? A UK woman in need of a kidney transplant was denied her daughter's kidney, because the mother was not on the government-approved recipient list. BBC:
A mother who urgently needs a kidney transplant has branded the system which denied her the organs of her dying daughter as "ridiculous".
Laura Ashworth, 21, from Bierley, near Bradford, West Yorkshire, died on 2 April, two days after an asthma attack.
Her mother Rachel Leake, 39, has kidney failure, but Ms Ashworth's kidneys were given to strangers.
Despite her personal wish to help her mother Ms Ashworth's organs went to others on the transplant waiting list.
Ms Ashworth, the mother of a two-year-old girl, was on the NHS Organ Donor Register, which records a person's wish to donate organs after death.
She had also told her mother she would be prepared to be a "living donor", but had not begun the formal process.
As a result Ms Ashworth's kidneys and liver were given to three patients on the UK Transplant waiting list.
Mrs Leake said the regulations should be changed.
"I believe it should be overturned, I really do," she said.
"It's an absolutely ridiculous law. Laura's helped three people through this, but Laura would have wanted to help me. To help her mum."
Now listen to the explanation from the socialist in charge of the government program:
Adrian McNeil, chief executive of the HTA, said: "The central principle of matching and allocating organs from the deceased is that they are allocated to the person on the UK Transplant waiting list who is most in need and who is the best match with the donor.
"In line with this central principle, a person cannot choose to whom their organ can be given when they die; nor can their family."
When the government runs healthcare, humanity is eliminated, and, the care gets worse. Photo via BBC.
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