Man Discovers Transplant Patients Face Huge Costs

By ANNE GEGGIS, Staff Writer 

Dale Shaylor journeyed to Florida in search of a life-saving liver transplant -- only to find the surgery has a price tag far out of the missionary pilot's reach.

Shaylor, a Deltona father of three who has Hepatitis B, said he was told that to get on a list to receive a new liver from a cadaver, he would have to make a deposit of nearly half a million dollars -- $425,000 to be exact.

"A transplant is not something that's covered as an emergency -- it's more of a luxury item," said Shaylor, 40, referring to what he's learned in the last month about his options.

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