"This person suffering from hereditary
defects costs the people 60,000
Reichmarks during his lifetime. People,
that is your money. Read 'New People'."
Posted on 08/21/2006 3:43:35 PM PDT by wagglebee
We can't count on the govt to protect people. Not even at the borders.
Anyone of the street can become a ethicist these days. It's a meaningless profession. There's no standards. Some ethicists could believe cannibalism is fine, for example. Relativism rules the day.
Why Atlanta or Indiana? Is that where the kids live?
I asked: "Has the family offered to pay for continued care at Regency? "
You replied: "No. The family believes the money to care for their mother will appear out of thin air. They are unwilling to transfer her to a hospital that will care for her, gratis."
The Mom may be a Baptist, but her children are Democrats.
This situation is pretty common in hospitals. The insurance will drop the patient because of a lack of steady noticable improvement, the money dries up and the hospital treating. I dont see how this case is any different from the hundreds that happen every month across the country. They are trying to make it into a religious battle, but the hospital has been very reasonable in my opinion. A hospital is a business, it cant operate by letting people stay for free. This is a matter of the family coming up with the money, finding new insurance, or moving to another hospital.
I can't think of to many things the government hasn't screwed up once they get involved in something. Including heath care. Every single thing they touch gets expensive, very expensive.
What do you mean culture of death? The family can move the patient for care elsewhere if they wish. There's no pleasing some people.
Doesn't the article say that she would not survive without a dialysis machine?
That's it in a nutshell...watch out though..you're in BIG TROUBLE with the life at any cost brigade here.
So, who pays to keep this COMATOSE woman alive?
But you insist on doing this in Dallas, and not Atlanta. This article relies heavily on the Dallas Morning News article, sourced below. It conveniently leaves out the following two paragraphs:
Mr. Bennett said that so far, Regency has taken great care of Mrs. Webster. All of her bedsores healed, he said. And in letters to family members since the decision to remove Mrs. Webster's treatment, hospital officials offered to help them seek another facility for her. The hospital has informally agreed to cover the costs of the move, Mr. Bennett said.
But for the Webster children, who are considering moving their mother to facilities in Atlanta or Indiana, it's the principle that matters. They don't want to be forced to move their mother. And they certainly don't want anyone outside of the family deciding when it's time to end treatments.
Yea, now it's the hospital's fault...PEOPLE DIE. YOU WILL DIE ONE DAY.
What exactly do you think that hospitals are?
Who do you propose pay for this? How do you intend to compel them to?
Is there any evidence of this? I didn't see anything in the article that necessarily indicated negligence on the part of the hospital.
Renal dialysis.
There is no evidence. But, if something bad happens to some poor soul, you can bet big hospital caused it.
I dunno.... There's a small but very loud group of Republicans on this site who believe people should be kept alive indefinately on machines no matter what prognosis for recovery, and hospitals have no right to be paid for providing such care.
Mom's kids seem to think God will magically make everything all right and they don't have to pay for anything.
The message of God is that sometimes God says no.
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