Did Apple CEO Steve Jobs receive preferentially treatment?

Question

Did Jobs taking a liver from someone who would have a far better chance of surviving? And did he cut to the head of the line because he's rich and famous?

Additional Details

Three whole months!! WOW

National average wait: 12.3 months

Answer 1

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How do you know that he hadn't been on a wait list? Besides, it's not the same wait for everyone. It depends on if a liver that is compatible with the patient is available.

If we had nationalized health care, Jobs would die waiting for treatment.

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Barry is a DWEEB!

Answer 2

Why is this in politics?

We don't know who the donor was. We don't know the details. Dude looks like he would have been top of the list to me...but I'm no doctor.

Answer 3

(Inside Info)

He had to wait for 3 months for that liver.

So, in no way he was given a preffenrial treatment.

Answer 4

He would still be waiting if we had government healthcare.

Answer 5

yeah he has panceratic cancer which is uncureable and should of never been on a list for donation


if i remember right i think it was spector the party jumper so i can get elected , tha was on a list for like 3 weeks for a heart and alot of people got pissed due to his rate of climb to the top of the list

Answer 6

Who knows and why do you care? Are you gonna lose sleep over it? Things happen on a daily basis in life that aren't fair.

Answer 7

Of course. Another was the singer David Crosby.

Answer 8

Would you be asking this question if it was barrack obama or some other democrat politician?

Answer 9

Jobs offered the physician a free iPhone, complete with some cool apps.

Answer 10

Wrong category...and if you think that powerful, rich people don't get preferential treatment, then you are living in Narnia.

Answer 11

no and no.

Answer 12

Rich people don't have to wait.

If you got the money you get the best health care money can buy, if your paying into a insurance plan like everyone else you get less than what you pay for.

Answer 13

Nope he just has a better health plan and millions of his own to fill in the gaps. All depends on how sick he was too from the pics I saw he looked bad. How did this even get posted in this section?

Answer 14

I was on the liver transplant waiting list for 18 months before I received my surgery. Everything falls under the guidelines of UNOS whether you are rich or poor. That's the United Network for Organ Sharing. Everyone has to play by their rules.

Everyone gets a MELD score which is based on the results of 3 blood tests (creatnine, INR, and biliruben). The higher the score, the closer you are placed to the top. Now there are other factors that can also give you some added points which is cancer. But if you have too much cancer, they will not give you a transplant.

I'm not saying that some well paid for doctor couldn't work this system somehow for a particular individual, but I hope that didn't happen. I have seen some people wait years on their transplants because their scores remain low and they are just not sick enough. I have also seen someone get a transplant within a few days of being listed because they are near death and very sick. But it does seem suspicious that the famous and wealthy do only have to usually wait a very short time in case after case. I cannot remember any celebrity or rich person having to wait for years or even 18 months like I had to wait. It seems that something might be happening to go in their favor, but I have not seen any proof.

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I had liver failure and a transplant.