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Anonymous wrote:So you are comfortable allowing government to make decisions for you even if you can afford to go private?

Your re-phrasing the issue and fake outrage make me want to puke.

Me, too. The slobbering trump fans and their faux outrage disgusts me. Their hypocrisy is astounding.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So you are comfortable allowing government to make decisions for you even if you can afford to go private?

It is the doctors who made this decision. The same is true in this country, PP.

+1 The UK government (via its citizens) are paying for the baby's care. Also, in the UK, you can actually pay for your own care.

The US also doesn't allow certain treatments in this country but other countries will do it. Not that different. In the UK, I can get certain things OTC that I can't here. In Canada, I can get a certain medication a heck of a lot cheaper than here, but the US government doesn't legally allow me to go cross the border just to get that drug at a lower price.

Anonymous wrote:So you are comfortable allowing government to make decisions for you even if you can afford to go private?

It is the doctors who made this decision. The same is true in this country, PP.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So you are comfortable allowing government to make decisions for you even if you can afford to go private?

Why not? The republicans have no problem denying millions of kids medical care.

Non answer

DP... but very true. Rs are comfortable with government making decisions about women's choices with their bodies, and what they are medically able or not able to do with it.

It is very sad when babies get seriously ill and die. It is equally very sad when babies die of neglect and can't afford medical care because some people feel that "personal responsibility" trumps taking care of individuals in a community.

As sad as this case is, the parents were fortunate that their health care system took care of the child without making them go bankrupt. Medical bankruptcy in the UK is extremely rare. Here, not so much. It's the #1 reason for bankruptcy filings.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So you are comfortable allowing government to make decisions for you even if you can afford to go private?

Why not? The republicans have no problem denying millions of kids medical care.

Non answer

Well, OP's premise went down in flames. That didn't take long.

Anonymous wrote:So you are comfortable allowing government to make decisions for you even if you can afford to go private?

Your re-phrasing the issue and fake outrage make me want to puke.

Anonymous wrote:So you are comfortable allowing government to make decisions for you even if you can afford to go private?

Why not? The republicans have no problem denying millions of kids medical care.

So you are comfortable allowing government to make decisions for you even if you can afford to go private?

Anonymous wrote:There's no way I'm giving Milo any clicks, but I doubt most of the people who are up in arms about this (including Milo) would give two shits if that kid was not white.

+1 Imagine if the baby were of Middle Eastern descent. Nothing to see here, folks.

There's no way I'm giving Milo any clicks, but I doubt most of the people who are up in arms about this (including Milo) would give two shits if that kid was not white.

Anonymous wrote:That mitochondrial disease, affecting muscles and the brain is fatal within the first year and all 20 children known to have suffered it passed away in less than a year. That child is suffering. The reason the US doctor is not named is because he wants to use that child in a human experiment.

Canadian Insurance would pay for US treatment and its Universal if that's your argument but, I would not let my child suffer like that. In the US that child would lose healthcare coverage after his first treatment if the ACA is repealed.

+1 And reach his lifetime max.

My DH is from the UK. If he or the kids (dual citizens) need expensive treatment, and AHCA is law of the land, along with lifetime max, then he said he'll go to the UK for treatment.

That mitochondrial disease, affecting muscles and the brain is fatal within the first year and all 20 children known to have suffered it passed away in less than a year. That child is suffering. The reason the US doctor is not named is because he wants to use that child in a human experiment.

Canadian Insurance would pay for US treatment and its Universal if that's your argument but, I would not let my child suffer like that. In the US that child would lose healthcare coverage after his first treatment if the ACA is repealed.

So sad. Let the baby go. He is terminal. The doctors are right and the parents are wrong, which is understandable. The GoFundMe is not.

Parents have raised money to privately pay his way to US. Docs in US have accepted him in trial. UK hospital refuses to release him to go:

https://milo.yiannopoulos.net/2017/06/british-baby-die-hospital/