A second Arizona transplant patient has died. Gov. Jan Brewer’s passed extreme budget cuts that stop paying for seven types of transplants, ABC News reports. The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state’s Medicaid agency, offers healthcare programs such as transplants for state residents.
Doctors and transplant patients throughout Arizona are criticizing the drastic budget approach. This approach to tackling the state’s budget has angered many, including Nina Roosevelt Gibson, who is the granddaughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She has a daughter who is on the transplant list for a heart transplant. She said:
Denying life saving transplants to individuals has led some, like Arizona Senate Minority Leader-Elect David Schapira, to claim that there is a “death panel” in the state.
“I’m outraged when we have 90-something people who were promised a transplant and were told as of Oct. 1 that you can’t have it because the state wants to save money. They were promised transplants and have not been giving the time to raise the money that’s necessary. People are going to lose their lives because they don’t have the money.”
However, Gov. Jan Brewer defends the budget measures: “The state has only so much money and we can only provide so many optional kinds of care,” according to CBS. Only time will tell if the two bills in the legislature to help restore transplant funding will be passed.
Related Resources:
- Arizona Death Panel Claims Another Victim (Forbes)
- Patient Cut From Transplant List Dies: Arizona’s Death Panel? (CBS)
- Arizona Cuts In Transplant Coverage Spark Outrage (CNN)
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