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...lead author of the study, Andrew A. Herring, was a third-year student at the Medical School when he treated a 25-year-old uninsured day laborer suffering from cardiomyopathy. When the patient died from lack of a heart transplant, Herring was inspired to explore the role of insurance coverage in whether or not a patient can receive an organ...
...People donate irrespective of their insurance,” said Herring, who is now doing a residency in emergency medicine in Oakland, Calif. “They donate from an altruistic sense of wanting to help someone else. Out of respect for that motive, the health care system needs to reflect the same altruism, which means allocation of organs irrespective of ability...
...vast majority of transplant surgeons want to give organs to those who get the greatest benefit from them, but the system around them is failing them,” Herring said...
...hope is that papers like this are part of a growing consensus that a universal health care system is necessary,” Herring said...
...have to ensure the long-term national interests of Russia in the Arctic." Thus, the $5.4 billion - under terms more favorable than Moscow has extended to recapitalize one of its own major banks - seems a modest price to pay. Even if ordinary Russians may have to live off Icelandic herring for years as more conventional foodstuffs are already disappearing from stores...