[mcg1969]

Agreed. I know we're sensitized to this now thanks to the Terry Schiavo case but it seems to me that delaying God's will through incredible artificial means is bound to cause tragic suffering sometimes.

I was also about to make some comment like, "this is what you get when you let someone else pay for your health care." But the story seems to suggest that money has nothing to do with it.

[pharmamom]

Money has everything to do with this story. Sooner or later, we will have to confront some tough ethical issues: should we do everything medically that we can do? We don't have the money to keep up with our technology. Care such as is being contemplated for this child will run up astronomical bills. Money siphoned off from an already bankrupt Medicaid system is money that can't go to care for people who are alive and functioning well on their own. We simply cannot afford to spend millions of dollars on every single medical nightmare that comes along. The child is on life support - in other words, he is already dead but for extreme measures. Time to let him go.