X-Message-Number: 24742 From: "Joe Waynick" <> Subject: No Outstanding Debts, but Were They Paid? Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 09:20:08 -0700 It has come to my attention that there are members who have legitimate questions about Alcors patient acceptance practices. Hopefully, I can address those questions in this posting. Alcor has never actually suspended anyone in exchange for "publicity". However, back in the 1980s an offer was made to one or two science fiction authors to give them a suspension in exchange for their endorsement, but they never took us up on it. For the record, I am adamantly opposed to such arrangements and have no plans to enter into one. In addition, there are no such arrangements or even offers to make such arrangements on the table with anyone at this time. All members are required to pay for their suspension with proper funding arrangements. We have no outstanding receivables for suspension funding nor have we written off any outstanding suspension funding debts in recent years. In short, there are no outstanding debts or unfunded suspensions that are being "hidden." Nevertheless, there have been unfunded suspensions in the past. The only documented unfunded suspensions I could find, (documented on paper and/or from the memories of everyone I asked about this issue), were one suspension in the early 1990s when a members insurance policy did not pay off, and again when we assumed care of three patients from other organizations in the 1980s (including Dr. Bedford), but nothing of the sort has happened since then. I will not comment on the specifics of any particular members financial arrangements beyond what I have stated above because I consider it an invasion of patient privacy and not a matter for public record. If there are additional questions that do not violate patient confidentiality I will do my best to answer them. --jw CEO/President Alcor Life Extension Foundation 7895 E. Acoma Dr., Suite 110, Scottsdale AZ 85260-6916 Membership Information: (877) GO-ALCOR (462-5267) Phone (480) 905-1906 FAX (480) 922-9027 for general requests. Visit our website at: http://www.alcor.org or to subscribe to our monthly newsletter go to: http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/AlcorNews. The Alcor Life Extension Foundation was founded in 1972 as a non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, and has 65 patients in cryostasis. Alcor is the world's leading provider of professional cryotransport services with over 680 members who have pre-arranged for cryopreservation. Alcor's Emergency CryoTransport System (ECS) is a medical-style rescue network patterned after the Emergency Medical System (EMS). Alcor CryoTransport Technicians, as with EMTs and Paramedics on an ambulance, are advised by our Medical Director and Advisory Board consisting of MDs, PhDs, cryobiologists, scientists, and other members of the scientific research community who are Alcor members and/or contract physicians. Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24742