Posted on 03/21/2011 4:50:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
Health Reform: A Canada court had ruled that under socialized medicine their baby must die in the hospital. Now he's in the U.S., getting the care his parents, not the bureaucrats, want.
Joseph Maraachli, who’d been set to have his ventilator removed against his parents’ wishes at an Ontario hospital last month, got a tracheotomy Monday morning and is doing well, his family says. The procedure was denied him under a system of medicine that may be coming to a hospital near you courtesy of ObamaCare.
His parents, Moe Maraachli and Sana Nader, took Joseph to Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center in St. Louis on Sunday after trying unsuccessfully to get him the simple procedure at London Health Sciences Centre, a hospital in Ontario, Canada. Doctors report he is resting comfortably.
His parents will soon be able to take him home, which was their initial wish. No one should outlive his or her children. Thirteen-month-old Joseph has a neurodegenerative disease that doctors say leaves little hope for recovery. Nine years ago his parents lost an 18-month-old daughter to the same disease. What’s made the anguish of this Windsor, Ontario, family worse this time is that the parents have spent precious time battling courts and medical boards as to just how and where their son should die.
“He’s a human,” Moe Maraachli told Fox News. “He has a right to fight.”
But Ontario Superior Court Justice Helen Rady recently ordered the couple to agree to take Joseph off his ventilator. The court was upholding a decision already made by Ontario’s Consent and Capacity Board, which some here might call a death panel.
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Godspeed little one.
Baby Joseph ping.
Yes. Now it’s not up to man..
Part of the reason that Senators and Congressmen can support such a system is because they know for their families, friends, and the politically connected the system will always work for the benefit of the patient.
The wealthy don’t really care all that much as they will readily spend money (which more often than not came from the government anyway) to live long healthy lives.
The only people who are punished are the poor, middle class, or rich who are politically unconnected and need procedures deemed to expensive.
Cardinal Glennon will be getting a nice, fat donation from me very soon. For Canada’s judicial and medical care systems, you are getting a huge middle finger from me. F#@k each and every one of you. Sorry mods. This family’s treatment by their government really pisses me off.
Prayers for Baby Joseph and family.
Defund ObamaCare now!
More prayers for Baby Joseph!
I am so glad a team of caring people got together, and knew enough to keep their plans secret until they had baby Joseph in custody. I’ve always thought that should have been done for Terri, but nobody knew what they were up against until it was too late.
Wow, I didn’t know saving Baby Joseph had to be done in secret.
Glad there was no tip off like there was against Terri.
I *remember* when Jeb Bush had his press conference. Talk about the tip off of tip offs.
I wouldn’t vote for him to clean out my cat’s litter box.
“I *remember* when Jeb Bush had his press conference. Talk about the tip off of tip offs.”
So that’s how the tip off happened?
Very astute and beyond the understanding of the American people who are so uninformed on so many things, a result of a failed education system for so many years. It’s already been twenty-eight years since Bill Bennett’s “A Nation at Risk” report, and nothing changed.
Yes, further proof of the ineptitude of everything Bush.
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