philadelphia area where sara and javier are. does that mean the judge s ruling gives them a better chance of transplants given how dire the situation is with sarah as we just heard. how sick is the potential recipient who would be receiving the donor lung. and sarah just gets on that list. in fact, we learned yesterday that sara moved to the top of the list because of the severity of her illness and javier is somewhere down on the list because he isn t as ill right now. there s a process that we go through. it s scientists and physicians and transplant surgeons who are involved in all of this. it ought not be washington d.c. that s the point we were trying to make. on that note, what do you make the transplant board to do at the emergency meeting on monday? i think it s absolutely imperative that we listen to the science, listen to the professionals involved and the rules. we need to be flexible and nimble in our health care systems. we don t need to have arbitrary rules. the rul
do you see a way to speed up the process? it will take two years and it s probably healthy to have a review of this done in a principalprinc principled manner. in light of the fact that the very process of looking at this as a recognition that there is a problem. if you have a problem, you also have to be addressing those matters between the time you resolve the problem and the time that you re aware of it. we spoke last week to a doctor on the transplant board and he means bending the rules for sarah means extending the wait for someone else. what do you say to him? he doesn t think it s fair. i go back to the word that this is not an exception. this puts sarah in line in her appropriate place in line by virtue of identifying the fact that she s currently in, she s been discriminated against. she s the one who isn t at her
kathleen sebelius asked the transplant board to review rules regarding children. it can take as long as two years. do you see a way to speed up the process? yes, i do. it will take two years and it s probably healthy to have a review of this done in a principaled manner. but there s an opportunity in my opinion within the law to seek a variance. in light of the fact that the very process of looking at this as a recognition that there s a problem and if you have a problem, you also have to be addressing those matters between the time you resolve the problem an the time that you re aware of it. therefore, i believe the secretary has the power to be able to make a determination in this window without it being a change some kind of a special circumstance. this is just a recognition in which they are seeking the variance, the organ network would be able to now consider the discriminatory nature of the age factor.