Gov't-Run Health Care Death Sentence in AZ: No More Liver Transplants for Hep-C Patients

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Gov't-Run Health Care Death Sentence in AZ: No More Liver Transplants for Hep-C

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(CNSNews.com) - Arizona's Medicaid agency will no longer pay for liver

transplants for patients with Hepatitis C; certain heart and bone marrow

transplants; or lung and pancreas transplants. The state agency says

" significant fiscal challenges " also will eliminate other benefits for adults. A

group that advocates for viral hepatitis patients is outraged by the state's

decision to " deprive " hepatitis C patients of liver-transplant coverage, calling

the move " a death sentence. "