Another big example of health care rationing here and now in the US

As it says above, yet another example--this one the latest--of health care rationing here in the good ol' US of A, this time from The New York Times:

Arizona Cuts Financing for Transplant Patients

By Marc Lacey


PHOENIX — Even physicians with decades of experience telling patients that their lives are nearing an end are having difficulty discussing a potentially fatal condition that has arisen in Arizona: Death by budget cut.
Effective at the beginning of October, Arizona stopped financing certain transplant operations under the state’s version of Medicaid. Many doctors say the decision amounts to a death sentence for some low-income patients, who have little chance of survival without transplants and lack the hundreds of thousands of dollars needed to pay for them.

Just don't think and/or don't tell me rationing of health care doesn't already take place in America because it does.  This is just one more example in a long line of them, just the latest.  It's pathetic.
 
If you look at the picture that goes with this story, too, at the top of it, you'll see Mr. Randy Sheperd looks solidly Middle-Class here.  We're not talking only about not giving medicine to the indigent.  This isn't handouts to or for the poor.  It's important to note that.
 
Link:  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/us/03transplant.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a23