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February 23rd, 2003, 08:50 PM
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I don't know all the details, please fill in the ones I have missed.
So far, we have a family that illegally entered the country with a vivacious daughter that needed a heart and lung transplant.
Somehow, she was able to get both a heart and lung transplant while American citizens continued to wait for their turn. The doctors did not match blood type properly, so a second set of heart and lungs was found and transplanted.
Jesica died yesterday. The parents are naturally angry, and a lawsuit is pending.
But recently the insurance industry has stopped covering American citizens who don't own reciprocal type of insurance. If you
get hit by another driver while driving your own car, but you don't have car insurance, you cannot file a claim against the other insurance company because that would mean you are collecting money from an insurance pool that you do not contribute to.
Well, what about Jesica and her family, if they weren't paying into the health care system, should they be allowed to sue, and sue for millions, when they "probably" weren't paying into the system. Should they sue after the use of two lung and hearts that could have gone to American Citizens?
This may sound cold and analytical, so for the record, if you see pictures of Jesica, she looks like a sweet young girl with her whole life ahead of her, and must have gone through so much trauma over the last couple of weeks of her life. (She was 17)
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