1. And should the sickest people in Arizona be at the top of the list for organs that become available in other states? 2. Opponents of the proposal say only the sickest people would buy into the plan, creating added costs to the government. 3. So a plan whose lavish benefits attract the sickest mentally ill people invites bankruptcy. 4. The present system allows private procurement organizations to give organs to the sickest people first, offering the organs locally, regionally and, in rare cases, nationally. 5. Thus, the sickest people are likely to enroll, he said, and the healthier people needed to make the plan financially viable are not. 6. The network has opposed giving the sickest people the highest priority, arguing they are less likely to survive a transplant. |