I’m not a heartless monster and do feel bad for the child and parents. I have two children of my own and would do anything if they were in the same situation.
A lot of people here keeping blaming socialized medicine but I guarantee you if we looked we could find similar situations with insurance companies or Medicaid making the same decisions.
Yes, there are cases in this country where hospitals have interceded and have taken control of a child’s health care or lack of.
But, in the case of the 4 y/o child I referred to, I’ve never heard of any case in which a medical team did not work towards another remission. Yes I know personally of other similar cases. The parents are heartbroken watching their little boy get sicker each day. When he relapsed, it was in the very beginning. Each day that goes by makes it so that treatment may no longer be effective. This is disgusting to me. There was a huge ability to help this boy. Perhaps the baby this article is about- not so much. I’m glad for now that we do not have a single payer system.