Wow, check this story out

What a screwed up system they have in the US. I can't imagine how anyone is gonna be able to fix it. Even if Obama's reforms get through, situations like this are bound to continue. Glad I'm in the UK and have the good old NHS behind me.

On the flip side, in the comments someone says "this story is about the fact that govt bureaucrats are so ineffectual that it'll take an act of Congress to change this ruling; this is why we fear Obama's reforms". I hadn't thought about it like that. If he was proposing an NHS (which would *never* fly in the US as an idea) that'd be one thing, but from what I understand, all he can really do is propose a Govt-funded insurance scheme for those who are too poor or jobless to find their own private one... and as the private system sometimes also totally fails to support transplant drugs, it really does seem like after 3 years you're living on borrowed time if you have ESRF there... but they'll fund dialysis permanently?! How screwed up is that!