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Dick Cheney needs a heart. So does Randall Shepherd.
On Tuesday, the former Vice President told NBC, "I'll have to make a decision at some point whether I want to go for a transplant," adding "the technology is getting better and better. He also said he has been making do with a battery-powered heart pump which makes it "awkward to walk around."
Randall Shepherd is 36 years old with a three year old son. His heart was damaged by rheumatic fever. He was one of the many Arizona citizens told they will not receive transplants because the state's Medicaid program has stopped funding them.
"There's a bit of a personal loss and the realization that this could be me in time if something's not changed here," Shepherd said, referring to the two who have died. "Until I get a new heart, my life is in a holding pattern."
For Cheney, a heart transplant is not life or death at this point, but a matter of convenience. He will get the heart and the operation whenever he wants them because he is wealthy. Randall Shepherd will die without a transplant, yet because he is on Medicaid, it is a question whether he will receive one. And the answer seems to be no.
