"Socialized medicine does not have Death Panels!"
Posted on 02/04/2010 2:35:27 PM PST by Second Amendment First
And Dr.’s have samples. My children were given a sample of Advair. Something we seriously wrong on both ends.
"Socialized medicine does not have Death Panels!"
Ms. Lucero needs to be a little concerned as to why she couldn’t provide for her son.
Why didn’t she just buy it? This doesn’t make sense! The medication to save her son’s life was in a box a few feet in front of a wooden counter.
Another dead child on (Saint) Obama’s watch.
This may be the reason we don’t go around claiming to be the black Jesus with the Denver Post watching.
Something doesn’t jive right with this story?!! MONTHS without the meds? What’s wrong with this picture?
I’m sorry, if my child is that ill I’m buying medication myself. What kind of mother sits around waiting for some bureaucrat to get their sh*t together rather than scrounging up the money and getting what her child needs? The woman had a job, don’t tell me she couldn’t get the money.
See what the liberal welfare state does to people? This mother’s common sense was destroyed and her child paid the price.
Advair runs about $175/mo. full price.
However, severe asthma was controlled relatively well before Advair.
From the way this article reads, the kid was in a constant state of airway inflamation. Generally, this is not the way asthma operates. Asthma usually needs some sort of environmental trigger before it starts.
I’m 51, almost died from my asthma a couple of times in my youth. I survived and managed before Advair was even invented.
I say this, because I think there’s a lot more to this story than is being reported.
OLTG’s Rules for a Long and Happy Life #5467 “Do not ever rely on a government bureaucracy for life and death issues.”
I would sit in a bare house before letting my (future) child go without food or medication.
The kind that believes electing obama will solve all her problems.
I’d want to know some more details. Could be that mom was caught between a rock and a hard place, such as she can’t legally tap into some other discount program if she is “eligible for Medicaid.” Therefore to get the stuff she has to lay out MSRP which virtually nobody else has to pay (not even insurers). So chose to keep food on her table and try lesser treatments. I’d like to know what happened to the dad?
Who would let their child die because the government wouldn’t pay for the medicine?
60 doses of the generic Advair is $50 (just checked). Maybe someone could have helped her or something. Wow.
A careful reading of this story indicates this mother and her child are being supported by the state, that is, welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, etc. She expects the state to provide for them and If the state doesn’t provide for them, they die. That is what socialism is all about. Now the woman is going to sue the state. I predict a lot more of this in our future as we are all herded into socialized medicine and other inefficient collective arrangements.
As a parent that was also my first thought...there is nothing that would stop me from getting medicine my kid needed....including flat out theft.
I wouldnt have put up with it for 4 days much less four months....
I suspect there is more to this story than we’ve been told....
Now that Social Security is officially broke and may need a bailout, look for more people to be denied.
The mother is stupid and the one to blame. She should have done anything possible to get the medicine.
from the article...
“Lucero, who works as a paraprofessional in Denver Public Schools”
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