Not to diminish this poor family’s plight but this is the kind of “care” the most vulnerable of us can expect when we are on the state’s dime. Unfortunately federal and state interference in the medical system is intended to push us all into a position of needing government to fund our care.
I don’t know what it would be like to have the federal and state government get out of the healthcare business. I don’t how much cheaper things would be or if care would be cheap enough for this mom to pay for it. I don’t know if it would have helped this girl if the US was the country it once was and people had to rely on private charity instead of medicaid. I don’t know if private charities could provide better care for more people if the government didn’t usurp so much money and responsibility. I suspect life would have been better for this family were healthcare left to the market but I do not know for sure. What I do know, without a shadow of a doubt, is that without the government’s intrusion into healthcare this girl would never have been ripped away from her family to die alone.
I have a cousin who has lupus, and one of her kids has some serious medical issues. She’s swilling the kool-aid and is vehemantly in support of both Obamacare and that UN “Disabled Bill of Rights”. Nothing will make her see that the things she supports will be used against her and her children. I’m quite sure that even if it comes to boxcars and gas chambers, she’ll still be spouting the party line.
It’s a sad thing to watch.