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Posted: Apr 21, 2011

This story is one illustrates why government-controlled health care can be a dangerous thing. The doctors and the government took choice away from these parents and basically said "sorry, your child is just going to die, no tracheotomy for him." Religious organization from the US stepped in, brought him down here, US docs did the trach, and now he can spent his last days comfortably at home with his parents.

One can only hope that never happens here.

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A story - sm

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That is a nice story, but do not think that only happens where there is national healthcare. My friend here in the United States, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. There were no doctors that would accept her case because she has no healthcare insurance. She worked at the hospital and had insurance and was fired because she called in too much with pain. She had been to the doctor several times and nobody could find anything. Finally, after she got fired, they found this cancer, but no doctor would take her because she no longer had insurance. She is now home and in pain all the time but has nobody to take her case because of the financial issue. Please don't indicate that this only happens in places with national healthcare. Patient's are turned down all the time in this country without a national healthcare plan because they can't afford to be treated.

The point was the government and doctors - Indy

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overruled the parents in this case and the only time that happens is when the government has the final say. And in this case it was Baby Joseph dies. Over a tracheotomy.

Has your friend checked out any of these options?

http://cancer.about.com/lw/Health-Medicine/Conditions-and-diseases/Options-for-the-Uninsured-Person-with-Cancer.htm

"Baby Joseph" - anon

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The other side of the story.....more accurate - than "Media Matters..."

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Baby Joseph was given a death sentence by the Candian government and Canadian courts. This article gives their reasoning for not giving the child a tracheostomy. They were proven wrong; the child is breathing on his own and still alive, 4 months later.

His parents wanted to be able to take him home and let him spend whatever days he has left with them. Would you not want that for your child?? The Canadian government and courts decided for them that was not going to be possible. Priests for Life and a US hospital made that possible.

And YES, it COULD happen here. Whenever the government has the last word on care, it can happen ANYWHERE that is the case. God forbid we EVER give that choice to the government!!

The hospital offered a medical transport - on life support

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and the family refused. If you go back and read news items before it became a media circus, you'll find out what really happened.

Please post the items you refer to. - Frankly, I tend to believe

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the family in this case. Sad that you side with the government and doctors who refused to do a tracheostomy on the child. And they DID refuse. THAT is what happens when the government and doctors get the last choice. His parents wanted the procedure; the docs and government and courts decided the baby was not going to get it. PERIOD. You can end around that all you want, but the fact remains that in life and death decisions under government run health care, it is THEIR decision, NOT YOURS, that takes precedence.

Health Care - s/m

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Everyone deserves to be cared for, babies, in-between and elders. I think if I was the women with pancreatic cancer I would have to bring a lawn chair and sit on the front lawn of the Hospital that fired me until they threw me in Jail -- free health care there. Just saying

A lot is being left out of the BJ story - on Fox News

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Exactly - mbmt

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I don't see this as having anything to do with universal healthcare. From what I have read, the doctors did not want to do the procedure because of the risk of infection and the possibility of discomfort for the baby and the fact that the baby is terminally ill.

I have a little experience with a situation where one year ago my dear mother had a ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm. She made it through eight hours of surgery but had a stroke two days after the procedure. She could not breathe on her own initially and a trach was done. With the trach, she was able to breathe somewhat on her own, but when the trach was removed, she died. It was really an awful situation in that she was on dialysis, had the open wound in her throat, a feeding tube, catheter, and a tube inserted in her rectum to catch the stools. If we had it to do over again, we would have just let nature take its course and not have tried to save her life because there was really no quality of life anymore, and that would have been the loving thing to do.

You are also correct in saying that in the United States people without health insurance are often turned away. It happens all the time.

Claim denied - Sound familiar?

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Yes, but you can appeal if an insurance - Indy

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company denies you. If the government is insuring you and they deny you...no recourse. Unless we can find another country to go to like Baby Joseph did.

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