Two-year old Emerson White of Monument is quickly becoming a victim of bureaucracy. The toddler received a transplant on her small intestine, liver and pancreas back in June of 2008. She received the transplant at a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska because no hospital in Colorado could perform the operation.

Seven months later the liver and pancreas are responding well, but Emerson's body has rejected the small intestine. She is now in desperate need of a second transplant, but funding has run out.

Emerson has already maxed out her family's personal heath insurance at two million dollars. She then went on Colorado Medicaid, but now the state is telling the family that because Emerson has been in Nebraska so long, they no longer consider her a resident of Colorado.
The funding the family was receiving from the State of Colorado was based on a waiver that allowed her to receive treatment even though she was out of state. That waiver has now been pulled.

Emerson is nearly healthy enough to go back on the donor list, but without prior funding approval that won't happen. Without this transplant, doctors have told Emerson's parents that she will not survive.
Calls made to Colorado Lawmakers went unanswered on Monday due to the holiday. Stay with 11 News for more updates on Emerson's situation.

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