What is humane treatment? A tracheotomy certainly isn’t, especially if there is no hope of it ever being reversed. Do you think that pneumonia (that baby Joseph could get from this tracheotomy) is better?
I don’t want him to suffer, but his illness has decreed otherwise. I am sorry for his family, but it doesn’t mean that I cannot look rationally at the situation.
In a time of enormous budget deficits (Ontario has one by the way) you cannot ignore the financial aspects. As soon as the care isn’t paid for by the family, then it is either paid for by the taxpayer or by other patients who will have less resources at their disposal for their own care or the care of their children. Somebody mentions that the care of his sister was for more than a million dollars when she was at home before she died. Do you think it is fair for the Canadian taxpayer to pick up the tab? This will mean worse care for others, maybe less money for schools etc. etc.
There is not enough money for all the care in the world. It is sad, but it is a truth which must be taken into consideration.
You can when the cost doesn't involve public funds. The fact is that hospitals like it when people pay for care without insurance, they make more.
As soon as the care isn’t paid for by the family, then it is either paid for by the taxpayer or by other patients who will have less resources at their disposal for their own care or the care of their children.
So, you believe that the head of a prominent pro-life group with a private jet at his disposal can't pay for a tracheotomy.
Somebody mentions that the care of his sister was for more than a million dollars when she was at home before she died.
Actually, that erroneous figure came from you or someone like you.
Do you think it is fair for the Canadian taxpayer to pick up the tab?
The Canadians aren't being asked to pay for this.
There is not enough money for all the care in the world.
But there is enough for Baby Joseph.
From everything I have read, the family simply wants to take him home to die with dignity in his home surrounded by those who love him. Very sad that so many wish to deny them some quality time together.