[Prime Choice]

Geez...if the kid and her parents were illegal aliens from Mexico, they'd be getting a government-sponsored free ride weeks ago!

[Ninian Dryhope]

Canada has that great free health care. Take the up there to have the operation.

[Ninian Dryhope]

"But then it highlights the fact that there must be something wrong with the law. If our daughter is an American citizen, I'm Canadian, Philly's British"

I agree that there is something wrong with the law. The baby should not be an American citizen just because the baby was born in America.

[endthematrix]

Poppy was born with an unknown disease?

WTF did they bring over here...w/sarcasm, but what isn't able to be diagnosed these days?

[iowamark]

The article doesn't mention that, if they were in either parent's home country, the baby would never get an expensive high risk operation like a double lung transplant.

if the kid and her parents were illegal aliens from Mexico, they'd be getting a government-sponsored free ride weeks ago!

The child will be eligible for Medicaid when her insurance expires. The issue is the green card for the parents.

Why the Mexican bashing?

[msnimje]

"Green Card Red Tape"

That reminds me, only 78 days until Christmas!

[itsahoot]

A 7-month-old baby waiting for a life-saving double lung transplant at Children's Hospital is caught in an immigration dispute.

Sick baby in hospital gets operation that your kid cannot afford, unless you have really good insurance or are independently wealthy.

[SALChamps03]

I'm very sorry about the infant, but the parents should never have been in the United States to copulate, impregnate, and grant her citizenship. The law needs to be changed. If both of your parents are illegal aliens, you should not get citizenship. In fact a requirement for citizenship should be that both parents are legal US citizens. It is not our responsibility to take care of every person in the world.