One of the favorite lies Republicans used to discredit health care reform was the false claim that end of life counseling, originally included through a Republican amendment to that bill, would establish death panels that would “kill grandma”. Of course the real death panels have always been the insurance company executives, who are all too happy to kill their customers to enhance the bottom line. And then the Republican Party revealed their own health care plan, RepubliCare, by instituting their own death panel in Arizona. That death panel has just murdered its second victim.

A patient who was refused a liver transplant because of state budget cuts has died, Tucson’s University Medical Center confirmed Wednesday. The death was "most likely" due to the defunding of certain organ transplants that had been previously covered by the state’s Medicaid program, said University of Arizona Surgery Department spokeswoman Jo Marie Gellerman. She could not release any further information about the patient, who was taken off the waiting list Oct. 1 when Arizona stopped paying for certain organ transplants for patients covered by the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System. The patient did not die at UMC but had been waiting for a transplant at the Tucson hospital before being removed from the waiting list, Gellerman said. She said the patient died at another health-care facility. The patient is the second person known to die after being denied a transplant due to the funding cuts. A 38-year-old Goodyear man on AHCCCS who was denied a bone-marrow transplant died in November. Between 95 and 100 people who were waiting for transplants in Arizona were affected by the cuts… [emphasis added]

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This is the future of health care if Republicans have their way.

Keith Olbermann provides more details in an interview with Arizona State Senator, Kristin Sinema.

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