While it may be common for private insurance companies or government agencies to change eligibility requirements for medical procedures ahead of time, medical ethicists say authorizing a procedure and then reversing that decision is unheard of.

Oooh, that hurts.

In Arizona, 98 low-income patients approved for organ transplants have been told they are no longer getting them because of state budget cuts.

The patients receive medical coverage through the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), the state's version of Medicaid. While it may be common for private insurance companies or government agencies to change eligibility requirements for medical procedures ahead of time, medical ethicists say authorizing a procedure and then reversing that decision is unheard of.

In other words, not state healthcare - but GOP health care.

Would it not have been easier and less politically risky to just say these 98 would be the last approvals and trim down the program AFTER?

re: #3 dragonfire1981

You forget, they don't care. Lack of common sense, heartlessness, and social brutality are part of that fiscal package people believe they wanted.