What idiotic statements - your hatred of Obama has sucked all common sense out of your skulls. That poor child has more brain function and feeling than any of you.
Give me the name of the Insurance Company that you know that will provide intensive medical care for life. Give me a case out of 300,000,000 people where even one hundreth of the care would have been given by any of your vaunted and beloved Insurance companies.
There used to be a time in the history of this country when society valued human life. From the womb...to the tomb.
Imagine that.
Wouldn’t medicare cover this child?
First of all Cardhu, I don’t hate the President or hate anyone for that matter.
That’s a juvenile statement you just made.
I would have done like the father originally requested and given the boy an operation and taken him home with meds for his condition and pain and/or discomfort.
I would have taken care of him until the end of his natural life.
I am a Christian.
As a Christian I know that life begins in the womb and ends with eternal life.
I have a concern for all life.
I do not go down the road judging “quality of life” issues.
I’m not God and I’m not the Hitler administration.
You can learn a lot Cardhu about “quality of life” by studying history.
Too bad you can't see the wry smile on my face. The unmitigated truth is, dear, that you obviously are not gifted with common sense. You clearly have not educated yourself about the government take-over of every American citizen's health care.
If the Senate and the House come to an agreement on just how they will control our health care decisions, do you really want politicians controlling what medical procedures you can have and those you will be denied?
The silliest comment I've heard on this so far is: "Give me the name of the Insurance Company that you know that will provide intensive medical life for life."
And you actually believe the U.S. Government will do that for you. Who do you think is going to pay for that kind of coverage? I'll tell you. All the people in this country who go to work to earn a salary. Your health care will be stolen from their honest earnings.
I'm friends with a couple whose baby boy died, then was revived at birth but had massive brain damage as a result. They are by no means rich or even well-off. He was essentially a vegetable yet the child was provided for (with around the clock at-home care) by insurance at first then public aid for about 8 years before he passed.
Yes I know that public aid doesn't mean the same as 'private health insurance' directly but I would rather my tax dollars go to a program (such as part of a current established public aid program like medicare) and NOT to keeping death row inmates alive for 35+ years while they ride out their 376 appeals.
United Healthcare
Death panels are a fact of govt run healthcare. Govt run healthcare where the decision to kill is financial and not based on the persons chance of recovery.
The difference is, that in our current system, he could have the surgery paid for privately. That is against the law in the UK. Wouldn’t be “fair.” Wouldn’t use “resources appropriately.”
Some insurances would have done the surgery to get him home, for cheaper care. He would most likely have died from an infection by now. I don’t understand the reasoning behind refusing, unless it’s the legal problem of difference of opinion between the parents about what is best for the boy.