I have to go off on a rant about organ donation.

[pitohui]

12. i'm glad being an organ donor is guaranteed to cost you nothing

i did without health insurance for 15 years, i know from personal experience that more care DOES go to the people with money, so there is no use in telling me stories about how you think it otherwise (and you offer no proof that the rich don't go first just your assertion without evidence or any cite from a disinterested party) -- fact is, money does buy better care, and better care does make it more likely that you'll be rated strong enough to undergo procedures, where is the hole in the logic here?

i don't criticize people who want to donate organs, but nor do i feel any special inclination to criticize those who don't -- i wonder how many of those 3 out of 4 who don't care to be organ donors are underprivileged or have other damn good reasons to be suspicious of the system

as for the claim that there is no charge to the family after the plug is pulled, i would say that's an easy claim for you to make, the bill won't go to the invisible wraith on the internet if you're wrong, the bill goes to my survivors at the time they can afford it the least so forgive me if i don't take your word for it, i have to believe what everybody IRL tells me, which is that they'll bill your family and your insurance for every little thing they can dream up, from $130 aspirins until the bill is over six figures! and the final day is the most expensive by many thousands of dollars! it's insane!!!

if organ donors had a complete forgiveness of their final hospital bill you'd see plenty of us older folks signing up, that's for sure, but instead big medicine wants to play on guilt and grab something for nothing, screw that