I understand that the thought of a baby dying makes people emotional and protective. However, I guarantee you that insurance companies in the US make the same type of calls and don’t pay for procedures just like the British government did.
We have children here in the US with no medical insurance and I guarantee that everyone on this board would vote against providing it for them. But they want to bring some British kid over here and let the American taxpayer pay for his treatment. Because I guarantee you that the 1.5 million the parents raised won’t even cover the cost of transporting this gravely ill child to the US.
All of you remind me of a liberal friend of mine I was discussing Obamacare with before it passed. I asked him what kind of level of care do you think Americans should have. He replied the same level that Bill Gates has. I pointed out to him that there is not enough money in the world to give all 360 million Americans the same care as Bill Gates has. Bill Gates can afford to fly the best podiatrist in the world to come and treat a hangnail. There is not enough money to do that for every American.
Dude. The family has money to pay for the treatment. But the government and hospital will not release the child.
> I guarantee you that insurance companies in the US make the same type of calls <
Yes, that’s true.
> All of you remind me of a liberal friend of mine... <
I think you went a bridge to far there. Most FR posts on this topic are more philosophical than practical. Folks here on FR (including you, I’ll bet) are against socialist death panels. The Charlie Gard case is a perfect example of a socialist death panel in action.
Please permit me to add one more thing to my post #35. In the U.S., insurance companies will often deny payment for certain experimental procedures. But the patient is still free to seek help elsewhere.
Britain’s death panels do not allow that option.
The issue is not money or lack of money.
It is their refusal to comply with the wishes of the parents.
You want to see emotional and protective? Some arrogant bureaucrat takes that arrogant tact with me when I’m the parent, and I will initiate deadly force on them.
Evil people exist in the world because they are allowed to live.
But if a parent here wants to take their child home to die, they can.
And you remind me of aholes I have known who accuse people who don’t agree with them of being emotion driven liberals.
Liberals are the people who want sick people to die, like the liberals in the UK hospital and judge.
You claimed without any evidence that it would cost more than $1.5 million just to bring him here. How do you know how much it would cost, or how much the treatment would have cost?
I am sure you have no idea.
YOU are the liberal socialist, you like death of the “unfit”.
So how do your points apply to not letting the parents take their dying child home, which would in fact save the all powerful state money?
It was never a matter of American taxpayers footing the bill. Charlie Gard’s mother and father had already raised money for his treatment from nongovernment sources.