Posted on 02/23/2011 11:43:38 AM PST by zippythepinhead
Remember the Terry Schiavo case in which the parents tried to keep their daughter alive, but lost the case in Florida? Now a Canadian Family has received a court order to remove their son's breathing tube. He is currently in a vegetative state, but the court has decided that he has lived long enough. The family is seeking relief in the US health system in Detroit.
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Nope. Oblahblah is worried about making sure he is getting his putting on the green up.
Nightmare. To Canada? Oh perish the thought. But Canada may be better than the US if the King gets his way. All hail King Obama the Last!
Agreed.
True. But that is for basic medical care. This is not basic medical care. This is extensive $$$$$$$ medical care. There is a big difference between ER medical care and keeping someone alive for long term with expensive intervention.
Maybe Yousef? :P
That's why I was asking. That and a "discussion" I got into years ago with a canadian on some other board when I suggested that their free health care wasn't free at all, but simply stuck the healthy ones with the cost of the sick ones. At that point the entitlement mindset of the canadian exploded and he told me that he'd had some sort of cancer and it would have cost him (some large amount out of his own pocket say $250,000 - I don't really remember) And when I told him that his misfortune still didn't give him any moral claim to the fruits of the labors of others he went ballistic - like having cancer gives you some sort of immunity to logic.
That pretty much says it.
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