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Extravagantly Expensive Heart Transplant Gave Anthony Stokes a Second Chance to Die a Lowlife
Have a heart. If only lowlifes could be given a second chance, like all those drug criminals whose sentences Obama has been commuting, surely they would mend their ways and redeem themselves. Or maybe not:
Anthony Stokes, 17, died on Tuesday after he crashed a stolen Honda into a pole as he fled the scene of an attempted burglary at an elderly woman’s home in Roswell, Georgia.
His death comes less than two years after he was given a second chance at life following a heart transplant at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
The boy, from Decatur, suffered from a dilated cardiomyopathy so his heart was unable to pump enough blood. The condition can lead to irregular heartbeats, blood clots or heart failure.
He had been given just six to nine months to live but the hospital initially refused to put him on the waiting list for a new organ because they thought he would be ‘non-compliant’ with the treatment. …
But family and friends alleged that his low school grades and brushes with the law were the real reason he had been ruled out.
Stokes’ mother, Melencia Hamilton, told reporters that her son, who wore a court-ordered monitoring device, had been stereotyped as a troubled teen.
Stokes was stereotyped? That means the poor teen was discriminated against! No wonder he ended up getting the heart transplant, presumably ahead of much more worthy recipients.
Sure enough:
Following pressure from national media coverage, the boy’s family and civil rights groups, the hospital backpedaled in August 2013, and the teenager received a new heart.
As the federal government tightens its grip on the medical industry, count on people like Anthony Stokes to go straight to the top of the list for transplants, in the name of social justice.
In 2013, the Orlando Sentinel reported that the average cost of a heart transplant is between $550,000 and $650,000.
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Have a heart. If only lowlifes could be given a second chance, like all those drug criminals whose sentences Obama has been commuting, surely they would mend their ways and redeem themselves. Or maybe not:
Anthony Stokes, 17, died on Tuesday after he crashed a stolen Honda into a pole as he fled the scene of an attempted burglary at an elderly woman’s home in Roswell, Georgia.
His death comes less than two years after he was given a second chance at life following a heart transplant at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
The boy, from Decatur, suffered from a dilated cardiomyopathy so his heart was unable to pump enough blood. The condition can lead to irregular heartbeats, blood clots or heart failure.
He had been given just six to nine months to live but the hospital initially refused to put him on the waiting list for a new organ because they thought he would be ‘non-compliant’ with the treatment. …
But family and friends alleged that his low school grades and brushes with the law were the real reason he had been ruled out.
Stokes’ mother, Melencia Hamilton, told reporters that her son, who wore a court-ordered monitoring device, had been stereotyped as a troubled teen.
Stokes was stereotyped? That means the poor teen was discriminated against! No wonder he ended up getting the heart transplant, presumably ahead of much more worthy recipients.
Sure enough:
Following pressure from national media coverage, the boy’s family and civil rights groups, the hospital backpedaled in August 2013, and the teenager received a new heart.
As the federal government tightens its grip on the medical industry, count on people like Anthony Stokes to go straight to the top of the list for transplants, in the name of social justice.
In 2013, the Orlando Sentinel reported that the average cost of a heart transplant is between $550,000 and $650,000.
http://moonbattery.com/graphics/anthony-stokes.jpg
