Cheney Has Heart Transplant

They must have used Osama Bin Laden's heart. It's the only one black enough.
 
TragicMonkey said:
It's almost like there's a difference between a treatable illness and an assassination!
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Don't you know how morally disgusting it is for suggesting someone should die from lack of treatment when they have money? It is not like he is a random poor slob. Then his demanding his death would be fine.
 
ponderingturtle said:
Don't you know how morally disgusting it is for suggesting someone should die from lack of treatment when they have money? It is not like he is a random poor slob. Then his demanding his death would be fine.
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Cheney's fortune isn't an issue. As a former Vice President and senior citizen, the government picked up the tab at taxpayor expense. Another success story for entitlements and socialized medicine!
 
Alferd_Packer said:
Just remember one thing, someone died and this man gets to live a little longer.
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Not entirely fair. Heart donors are already dead, that's how their heart became available. You could instead say that Cheney's getting this heart denies that same heart to someone more deserving...but you could equally say that about everybody on an organ donation list. There's always someone worthier, and it's not practical or possible to judge everybody in need of an organ in order of their worthiness to live.
 
Location, subject, manner, the fact that Cheney is doing well, these all add up to a more acceptable joke than the 'pretend it's Obama' yell.

Not that reprehensible things couldn't be said about this as well. Lefty will be along shortly.
 
Ok, my dad just died of congestive heart failure at 73. They said he was too old for a transplant. Cheney is 71. Is the cutoff line 72 or 73?
 
mortimer said:
So it's a big joke when the former Vice President undergoes heart transplant surgery, but when someone says "pretend its Obama" at a campaign stop at a shooting range, it's atrociously bad taste?
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Obama is only partly evil.

Cheney is pure evil.
 
BenBurch said:
I'm betting it isn't a hard number, but an assessment of state of health. I could be wrong.
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It's likely a combination of factors, including everything from the overall state of health to family history.

When it comes to organ transplants, the medical system is faced with the unenviable dilemma where the demand far exceeds supply. They have a long list of people, and they have to prioritize the small supply of transplantable organs. The result is that they include as many criteria as is humanly possible to derive meaningful statistical data about who's more likely to have a healthy recovery. While it makes logical sense, by its very nature there's no way to make it seem fair to those not deemed a high enough priority. :(
 
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