thank you norbert,

i will not be able to post anything else, until i am feeling a little better. i would like to keep this discussion more focused on american health issues. the dutch article is relavent, however i can not donotate an organ to someone in a foreign country. and i do wish the thread to become a discussion about organ donation.

one of my concerns is how does someone in the u.s get a doctor to treat them if they don't have medical coverage? how do they get life saving medications if they can't pay?

see this article on a recent preventable death of a child due to the simple fact that the medicaid insured party could not locate a provider. sounds crazy? not really...it is americas hidden shame.

providers can turn patients away for ANY reason, people in the u.s are dying.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp -dyn/content/article/2007/05/02/ AR2007050202539.html

you said you had access to a giant search system, perhaps you can locate the statistics on how many people dye each year in the u.s due to "curable" diseases. probably very hard to find - it would be an admission of guilt.

thanks,

dafna