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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (9662)	2/18/2012 11:22:32 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Respond to of 85487

Lots of surgery can be scheduled and is not dependent on finding a donor organ. Those donor cases would be much harder to address.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (9662)	2/18/2012 12:30:58 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Your liver is failing, you really want to go shopping for the lowest priced transplant? There are other examples of your point, but that isn't a good one. Sure once an organ is available you don't have a lot of time to search or negotiate, but you can have plenty of time for both while you waiting for an organ. For more routine care and more predicable cost, we not a lot more bargain searching, the lack of it, the insulation of the patient from the costs, drives up the cost.