Wealth: Article Analysis
The old saying “money can’t buy you happiness” seems to be vanishing since nowadays money keeps making the world move, and wealthy people seem to be able to buy anything they want new studies suggest that wealthy people have a better chance to get an organ transplant. In the following essay I will compare two article that report this issue in a very similar matter.
The article Wealth may mean health: Study sees advantage for multiple listing, getting an organ transplant by Marilynn Marchione suggested that wealthy people are more likely to be in multiple waiting list, given them a higher change to receive an organ. The article Organ waiting list policy benefits the wealthy, study charges, states a similar point of view as the article above discuses. “People in line for organ transplants gain an advantage by getting on the waiting lists at multiple centers”
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“To get on more than one list, a patient must be evaluated at each center, which requires the means for travel and lodging” the article states. It also discusses “that the list exist because patients want it” a current UNOS (the united network for organ sharing) spokesman said.
The second article approaches the same issue but the article provides more examples “Robert Veatch, a medical ethicist at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University mentions Steve jobs as the perfect example of the abilities that wealthy people have. “The former Apple chief was on a transplant list in Tennessee and received a new liver at a hospital there in 2009 even though he lived in California.” As I mentioned before both article cover the fact that wealthier people are more likely to be on multiple list, but the second article actually uses realm facts to demonstrate the
The article Wealth may mean health: Study sees advantage for multiple listing, getting an organ transplant by Marilynn Marchione suggested that wealthy people are more likely to be in multiple waiting list, given them a higher change to receive an organ. The article Organ waiting list policy benefits the wealthy, study charges, states a similar point of view as the article above discuses. “People in line for organ transplants gain an advantage by getting on the waiting lists at multiple centers”
Although both articles have the similar …show more content…
“To get on more than one list, a patient must be evaluated at each center, which requires the means for travel and lodging” the article states. It also discusses “that the list exist because patients want it” a current UNOS (the united network for organ sharing) spokesman said.
The second article approaches the same issue but the article provides more examples “Robert Veatch, a medical ethicist at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University mentions Steve jobs as the perfect example of the abilities that wealthy people have. “The former Apple chief was on a transplant list in Tennessee and received a new liver at a hospital there in 2009 even though he lived in California.” As I mentioned before both article cover the fact that wealthier people are more likely to be on multiple list, but the second article actually uses realm facts to demonstrate the