[The Good Doctor]

There is a cost-benefit ratio for everything. I'll probably be considered a genocidal maniac, but if it's costing enormous sums of money to save someone else's baby the benefit isn't worth the cost to me. Sorry, it isn't.

If a person wants to spare none of their own expense to save their child I understand completely. Just don't expect (or legislate) that everyone else feels the same about it.

I know the argument, "but that baby may have grown up and discovered a cure for cancer!". Yes. And that baby may also have grown up to be a criminal who mugs and murders me some day. Considering my experience with the demographics of ulta-low birthweight babies the latter scenario is more likely than the former.

[wagglebee]

There is a cost-benefit ratio for everything. I'll probably be considered a genocidal maniac, but if it's costing enormous sums of money to save someone else's baby the benefit isn't worth the cost to me. Sorry, it isn't.

Are you aware that the overwhelming number of people having babies have health insurance?

I know the argument, "but that baby may have grown up and discovered a cure for cancer!". Yes. And that baby may also have grown up to be a criminal who mugs and murders me some day.

I'm guessing "The Bell Curve" is one of your favorite books.

Considering my experience with the demographics of ulta-low birthweight babies the latter scenario is more likely than the former.

I presume your "experience" is that a child will turn out just like the parents? Do also you believe that Buck v. Bell was one of the Supreme Court's greatest rulings?

[DJ MacWoW]

Ahhhh. So all life is NOT precious to you. You judge the value of life on demographics. How.......interesting.

You do know that as you age your value will also be judged, right? You may be comfortable letting the left judge who's valuable but most are not.

[RnMomof7]

You may be a doctor, but not a “good “one

Mar 10:18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God.

[BykrBayb]

Good doctors do not pick and choose their patients based speculation about the patients’ future worth as human beings.

[metmom]

There is a cost-benefit ratio for everything. I'll probably be considered a genocidal maniac, but if it's costing enormous sums of money to save someone else's baby the benefit isn't worth the cost to me. Sorry, it isn't.

If the shoe fits......

It's reprehensible to put a dollar amount on a person's life, reducing it to a mere commodity.

I don't know if you're a real MD or not, but the *good* part is no mystery. Screennames mean nothing, but if you are, could you have the courtesy of putting your real state flag on your home page so I can have a clue about whether to know if I have to worry about being on the receiving end of YOUR "services"? I'd really rather not, if it's all the same to you. I want a doctor who will first, Do No Harm, and will have the ethics to look out for my best interest.

Almost every advance in the medical field starts out borne of necessity and is not cheap. As it proves it's worth, it's refined and cost comes down.

For all your cold hearted, calculating, disgusting cost effectiveness philosophy, trying to save these babies will lead us to learn more.

If you can't find it in you to have enough of a soul to save babies for ethical reasons, perhaps you could reduce that to cost effectiveness and see the value in what we can learn from trying.

You know, the space program back in the 60's was criticized for much the same thing. We were poring money into it and not seeing much of a *return*, but we did. The space program accelerated the development of technology which wasn't considered needed but has benefited us tremendously.

Seems to me that sterile clean rooms, that allow people with no immune systems to survive, were one of those developments.

I noted, too, that your objection was to saving "someone else's baby". And if it were YOUR OWN baby, that would make a difference?

God help you.

[metmom]

If obama care continues to be in our future, I can see a place for you on one of his deathpanels.