ThinkProgress » While Brewer Gives Corporations A Tax Cut, Another Arizonan Joins The 98 Waiting For Transplant Funding

ThinkProgress » While Brewer Gives Corporations A Tax Cut, Another Arizonan Joins The 98 Waiting For Transplant Funding

As ThinkProgress has reported, Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ) and the GOP-controlled state House have turned a blind eye to the plight of 98 Arizona patients in desperate need of organ transplants. Since Brewer enacted painful cuts to the state’s Medicaid program in October, two Arizonans unable to pay for the transplants they needed passed away. After months of appeals and protests, it appears Brewer has finally agreed to set aside a $151 million “uncompensated-care pool to pay health-care providers for ‘life-saving’ procedures, including transplants.”

However, state House Republicans remain vigilant in their anti-human life campaign. They are refusing to let measures to restore funding for organ transplants advance because, as the state House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jon Kavanagh (R) explained, “not enough lives would be saved to warrant restoring millions in budget cuts” for the transplants.

But as Brewer and the GOP-led legislature waffle over the value of human lives, two more people — including 23-year-old leukemia patient Courtney Parham — join the 98 others standing before the Brewer death panel. Because the state has so far refused to pay for her transplant, Courtney’s family “must raise somewhere between $400-$800 thousand dollars for a transplant, or their daughter will die.”

There's a video at the link. Republicans are all heart aren't they? They talk about being pro-life until push comes to shove and they want to give tax breaks to the rich instead. Not enough lives would be saved to warrant restoring money for transplants? How many lives need to be on the verge of death before it is worth it? WWJD? Send you assholes to hell, that's what!