[orionblamblam]

Interesting quandry. How much should the taxpayers pay to keep someone alive?

[Petronski]

How much money would it take for you to let her die?

[gridlock]

If the taxpayers are going to take over the cost of medical care, they have to pay what it takes. Maybe nationalizing the health care system wasn't such a bright idea, after all!

[D.P.Roberts]

Isn't it wonderful how people are always willing to pay for their principles with other people's money?

[TheBattman]

As a sideshow to this story - the "parents" who claimed to have such an interest in the child's survival now both basically disclaim the child - wanting the system to take the child in.

Motives are a funny thing. I wonder if the parents expected a financial windfall from the whole thing (like maybe people would donate tons of money)?

[sgtbono2002]

***Both parents live on state benefits****


Pay for the child--cut off the parents.

[IMissPresidentReagan]

Here's my two cents. Let me start off by saying I'm not sure how much a taxpayer should pay. As a conservative I hate to spend money on anything, but how do you put a price limit on life? It is an interesting quandary to say the least.

I'd been following this story since a year ago and I admittedly know very little about the situation. However, from what I do know or thought I knew, there seems to be some inconsistencies between what I thought I had learned and what this article reports. I first learned of this situation when the British doctors/hospital had stated that they would not resuscitate baby Charlotte again, despite her parents' wanting her to be resuscitated. The parents took the case to the courts and lost, and from what I had understood the parents were trying to bring her home so that they could care for her and contrary to the statements of this article, the parents seemed pretty involved in Charlotte's life, though the television program I watched was no champion of baby Charlotte as constant comparisons were made to the Terri Schiavo case, and conclusions drawn about quality of life, as well as commenting on the strain on the parent's marriage. It was my understanding that from the program and the small bits and pieces I read after watching the program that the father had lost his job because of the situation (he missed a lot of work to be at the hospital and such) and that is where their financial troubles began. I believe it was an episode of 48 hours or Primetime that first sparked my interest. After the court case, it seemed that this situation had died down in the media.

Now it seems that the parents are being painted in a much less caring light. I seem somewhat confused about their motivations if they are infrequent visitors, and I had thought they had moved her from a hospital to a facility of some sort to "rehabilitate" her so she could come home.

I guess none of this is important, it just made me wonder what was really going on.

[Old Professer]

As much as it takes, either play with your toys or quit collecting them.

[kinoxi]

If you can ask the question. It is already answered here.