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Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

Senator Asks About Surgery on Gangsters

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08...amp;th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Excerpt:

A United States senator wants to know more about liver transplant operations performed by U.C.L.A. Medical Center on four Japanese gang figures, according to a published report.

The senator, Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, wrote a letter to the University of California, Los Angeles, requesting surgery details, according to a story posted Friday night on the Web site of The Los Angeles Times.

“While surgeons do not seek to pass moral judgment on the patients they treat, Americans hope at the very least that foreign criminal figures wait in line along with the rest of us,” Mr. Grassley wrote.

The senator, who is the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, also sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which in 2001 helped an alleged Japanese gang leader, Tadamasa Goto, acquire a visa to enter the United States in exchange for leads on potentially illegal activity in this country by Japanese criminal gangs.

Law enforcement officials said Mr. Goto had provided no useful information and returned to Japan. The university said Mr. Goto, 65, later donated $100,000 to the hospital.

Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

Hey Grassley -- you ever heard of capitalism? You know, a system where the poor die for lack of medical care and the rich get the best care that money can buy? It's the opposite of socialism where everyone gets free health care under socialized medicine. You wouldn't want that, would you? Treating foreign gangsters was more profitable than treating Americans, so the health care corporations had a fiduciary duty to their stockholders to treat the gangsters.

--Mark

Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

The gangsters didn't write or pass the laws, Grassley, you and your colleagues did. All the gangsters did was take advantage of them.