Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.
-- Javier Pascual Salcedo --
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-- Javier Pascual Salcedo --
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Dick Cheney got a heart transplant, at age 71, after only 20 months on the wait list. Authorities insist that there was no favoritism.
You know, the rest of us simply don't believe that. We might be more inclined to believe that rich and famous people don't get organs faster, don't jump the line, if once, just once, somebody rich or famous died while waiting for an organ.
There are thousands of ordinary people every year who die waiting for livers, kidneys, lungs, hearts. If it's really fair, at least one of them had to be rich or famous.
Anybody know of any?
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If you're here for info on how transplant lists work, see the comments, especially my second (long) one. When I originally wrote this, I assumed everyone knew how the lists work and why rich people don't wait, but it became obvious from the other comments that they didn't. So I explained it. Read the comments.
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