Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984 - Organ donation
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Cokie Roberts introduces report on the organ donor crisis and Congress s efforts to simplify donor process, make transplants less a matter of politics and means.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Woman with 2 year-old girl in children's ward of hospital, girl has split on arm and breathing tube in nose, cries. Girl needs a liver transplant, but has no eligible donor. CU of mother s hand holding child s. Parents, girl moving down hospital hall, mother pushes IV/respirator machine, father pushes girl in stroller. Girl's father discusses difficulty in finding suitable liver. He says a central organ bank is needed.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Surgeon in masks/scrubs, removing a kidney. Shot of operating room from ceiling camera. Doctors standing over patient.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
In a hospital ward, teenaged girl in chair, connected to dialysis machine.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Surgeon carrying a human liver in hands. People loading plastic coolers into van. Voiceover heart and liver patients must turn to private organ providers, supply is low.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Infant in hospital bed, cries, IV in arm.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
DO NOT USE Still photo of REAGAN, v.o. of a speech, REAGAN makes plea for organ donor.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Shot of baby girl, mashing hands into frosting of a birthday cake.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Congressman Charles Stenholm (D - Texas) Ashley never got a liver. The bright side of that is that we counted some 6 to 8 individuals who did receive a liver transplant because of the President s efforts on her behalf.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
American flag flying, pull back to show the White House.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Congressman Charles Stenholm (D - Texas) After making this appeal and having the President of the United States, on two occasions, mention Ashley s case personally, we found out that she was not on all of the individual donor lists. And this was something that we became aware of. And we thought that with all this publicity everybody knew about it, but they didn t. So some centralized system is very much needed and the House bill certainly goes a long way in the right direction.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Shot of the United States Capitol building.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Congressman Al Gore (D - Tennessee) Now some people are put ahead of the line because they re able to get national wide publicity or because they re able to get the support of this person or that person. We ought to be concerned about improving the system for all of the patients, not just singling out individuals.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Shot of girl in hospital bed receiving oral medication.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
United States Assistant Secretary for Health, Dr. Edward Brandt, The Gore bill would, in effect, replace an existing, functioning, private sector system with a federal system where the federal government set the criteria, determines who s going to go it and so forth. And we don t see any reason t tear down a good functioning system and replace it with that isn t established.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Surgeons severing viscera to remove an organ.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Congressman Charles Stenholm (D - Texas) When an individual calls you and says my granddaughter s life is on the line and Congressman can you help? Then you re going to do everything within your power to help. Then you come in to who s going to pay for it. That s going to take a lot of hours of Congressional time before we decide on a system that is affordable.