Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Wed 9th Sep 2009 21:36 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
After back and forth rumors about the health of Apple's revered Steve Jobs way back in last year and the beginning of 2009, it turned out that he really did have some health problems: complications with his liver requiring a transplant. It was supposed that he'd return to Apple by the end of June, and now he's finally made his first public appearance since he first took his medical leave of absence earlier this year.
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Member since:2006-01-14
Actually the facts are pretty well known. Jobs registered on every transplant list in the country. To get on a list, you have to go through the entire battery of tests for each list. Normal insurance doesn't pay for that, or for transportation. He also has to be able to get to the hospital within 24 hours. So having a private plane certainly helps. The transplant was NOT done in CA, so he got the liver from a list he travelled to. He got the liver because he had the money to do these things. The problem is that he took a liver that probably would have saved someone else's life, who didnt have a fortune at their disposal.
Member since:2005-07-07
Actually the facts are pretty well known. Jobs registered on every transplant list in the country. To get on a list, you have to go through the entire battery of tests for each list. Normal insurance doesn't pay for that, or for transportation. He also has to be able to get to the hospital within 24 hours. So having a private plane certainly helps. The transplant was NOT done in CA, so he got the liver from a list he travelled to. He got the liver because he had the money to do these things.
This is a problem with the US healthcare system. Don't fault Jobs for trying to save his own life. He didn't break any laws or pay anyone off which is what Tomcat seemed to be implying.
The problem is that he took a liver that probably would have saved someone else's life, who didnt have a fortune at their disposal.
That's just unsubstantiated hyperbole. You don't know if a single person died because of Jobs transplant and accusing Jobs of causing someone's death is a pretty low blow, especially without a shred of evidence.
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More BS without any evidence. The sickest patients go to the top of the transplant list and Jobs was on death's door. It's possible he got bumped up on the list because of wealth or celebrity but you're basing everything you have said on your own opinion and not on a single fact. If you're going to bash someone who almost died from disease you should at least back it up with at least one fact. Otherwise you just look like an asshole.