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Originally posted by Arvon:
No state has had more serious budget anxiety attacks recently than Oregon, which saw some public schools close early this year after running out of money. However, another crisis surfaced in April when death-row inmate Horacio Reyes-Camarena told prison officials he would reluctantly accept the kidney transplant that would save Oregon taxpayers most of the $120,000 a year they now pay for his dialysis (and must, by law, pay until his execution, which may be as long as 10 years away, because of appeals). Some law-abiding Oregon kidney patients are being turned down for transplants because post-transplant drugs are too expensive. [Reuters, 5-27-03]
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so there paying alot, to keep alive someone on death row at the expense of the lives of other more needy citizens? has the world gone insane? surely put him in the place of someone on the waiting list, and give the kidney to someone elce!