[jyl]

Sketchy information, but what caught my eye was:
- She was already severely ill with leukemia.
- Her condition was bad enough that she had a bone marrow operation around Thanksgiving
- Then she developed a complication, deteriorated, and became "vegetative"
- Not sure exactly when the doctors recommended a liver transplant, but it was probably shortly before Dec 11
- She didn't live even 10 days after that
- Was a donor liver even available, that quickly? There are something like 20,000 people waiting for liver transplants, I think. Although I read that donor livers are allocated by severity and urgency of need, so perhaps a critical case can get an organ quickly.
- If she was that ill and deteriorating that quickly, was she even the right candidate for a liver transplant? I read an article that said cancer patients usually do not receive liver transplants, because the immuno-suppressing drugs used for the transplants then make the cancer worse; it is considered "futile".

I think I'd have to know a lot more before blaming the insurer for this.

By the way, I read that liver transplants and the follow-up care usually cost around $200,000.