Zika crisis: each child with microencephaly in US to cost $10 million
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Anonymous
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"In the U.S., the March of Dimes recently estimated the cost of care for one American child with microcephaly to be $10 million dollars."
Given local transmission of Zika in the continental US has now been found, what is the Republican plan to pay for these severely brain damaged children after banning abortion? Pence's law in Indiana forbids abortion on grounds of prenatal testing that reveals disability. I would love to hear what his solution is to this incoming public health crisis. Spreading like wildfire in Puerto Rico, now in Florida and soon Texas. http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/health/zika-brazil-microcephaly-babies-brains-gupta/ |
Anonymous
We are testing Zika vaccine in humans. There will be a massive public health campaign to vaccinate all women of childbearing age. |
Anonymous
| get your wallets out, conservatives! |
Anonymous
Actually, there are major concerns with the Zika vaccine due to antibody-dependent enhancement. It will need to be tested for several more years before the implications of rolling it out on a wide scale are understood. http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2016/07/contrary-dengue-vaccine-response-hints-possible-problems-zika |
Anonymous
Thought they didn't believe that private citizens should foot the bill for government interventions in their lives? |
Anonymous
| How dare we as a society help provide care for children with special needs? OP you are so right, all our SN kids should be aborted if known in utero and we should just kill those when we discover their SN later on in life. Thanks, good to know you are such caring individual. |
Anonymous
Many babies with microencephaly don't live and/or live very short painful lives. |
Anonymous
No one said that. The politically relevant question is, WHO is responsible for providing that care? Are the conservatives going to tax citizens to get the funds to help out? Are private citizens going to be burdened by a government policy that forces individual families to become bankrupt and deprive their other children of resources to raise a severely brain damaged child? What are your practical ideas here to alleviate cost and suffering, given that you love life so much? |
Anonymous
| A small price for Republicans to pay for their cognitive dissonance on abortion. |
Anonymous
huh? b/c abortions are cheaper, I guess, right? |
Anonymous
Well, this is one way to keep the population under control. |
Anonymous
| So are you saying my disabled child isn't worth $10 million? What about a child with Down Syndrome? Autism? Should we just kill them all? |
Anonymous
| Does anyone know, what happens to girls who get bit but a Zika mosquito. If you are 13 and get Zika, are your future children at risk? How long do you have Zika? Forever? Same with boys, since is sexually transmitted. If my Zike free 30 yr old DD marries a man who got bit by a Zika mosquito when he was 10, are her future children at risk? Do people need to test for HIV and Zika now before agreeing to procreate? |
Anonymous
No, we're just asking who you think should foot the bill. Is it individual families who get to decide how to apportion their resources? Or does the government decide, and then take on the responsibility for supporting them? Give me a practical solution here, not just this emotional Rah Rah for Life. We all like life. There's also this thing called reality, finite resources, etc. Tell me who's responsible for taking on this financial burden -- the government via increased taxation, or individual families (whose other children will likely suffer)? |
Anonymous
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I still don't hear anyone responding to the question of who foots the bill. Just a lot of empty rhetoric about how precious all lives are.
If they're so precious, who is going to pay the price? That's a very practical question. Give me a practical answer. |