but Cheney was never convicted of a felony...

Too many people have been released after felony convictions because they weere Innocent. Why turn into Palin's Death Panels?

Please read the hypocratic oath, the basis for medico-legal ethics.

But there seem to be plenty of DUers who believe that *allegations* of criminal conduct, even without any arrest or conviction, should be sufficient to disqualify someone from receiving an organ.

being a recipient, I am one illegal search away from that ineligible status. I am more concerned about UNOS rejecting cannabis users while gratefully accepting cannabis using donors. There is something rotten in the UNOS system

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Edited to correct my response. I misread the OP.

Failing to pay federal income tax is a felony.

You would have them die for that.

Sweet.

Read too quickly. Sorry about the error. I would not have anyone die, felon or otherwise, poor, someone with no insurance, etc. Everyone is entitled to access to medical care imo, regardless of their status.

And was appalled by the number of “nos” from a supposedly liberal site. I humbly apologize to each and everyone of you for thinking bad about you, even if was for only a short moment

Healthcare should be universal - in the tradition of the man whose name you have selected as a username- and cannot be dependent on a person's 'good character'. What happens if a person is unjustly convicted? I could even imagine people deliberately framing someone for a crime, just in order to deprive them of the right to a transplant and to shorten their life. The same considerations apply as for the death penalty - and here it could well be that someone is essentially sentenced to death for a crime that would never receive the DP in the ordinary way.

Eligibility for a transplant should depend only on medical factors.

Admittedly, I hope that if I ever become a donor (by which time I'd obviously be past caring) that my organs would go to nicer people than a certain recent recipient. Nevertheless, healthcare cannot be made dependent on moral or legal virtue, or where does it end?

I also disagree with the laws that make convicted felons ineligible for food stamps.

Ironically, the one place where you can expect free health care is in prison.

One does not lose their status as a human being upon being convicted of a felony.

I'd like to pose this question; how many people without health insurance are actually put on donor lists?

(god, i kill me)

I know that in many cases are, but I think that it is wrong in any case that their official sentence is not a life sentence.
Why should someone needing a transplant in their fifties and sixties be condemned to death for a felony committed in their late teens or twenties in which their official sentence was only for a few years? That does not make any sense.