Baby Joseph and Canadian health care

[Dave]

By now, most of you have probably heard about the case in Canada where the parents of a baby with a terminal affliction are in a fight with the hospital where their son is being treated at. The hospital wants to take away the baby's ventilator regardless of what the parents want. The parents want a tracheotomy performed so that the baby can be taken home... basically so that the baby can die at home. I would like to think that its just the single hospital that has taken the action and its not representative of what the entire Canadian health care system... if it is the entire system, I don't think it's going to show them in a very good light. The right to care should be up to the parents in this case. The parents know that their baby doesn't have long to live and want the baby to spend that little bit of time remaining with them... I can certainly emphasize with that, I'd might do the same thing in that situation.

Hopefully the hospital does the right thing and let's the parents do what they wish!

[J.B]

Isnt that the plan that Nancy and Harry got for us here in the USA and Obama brags that it is his health care package.

[masonco]

Pretty much the same thing yes.  But they went a step further. Cut medicare to pay for inner city abortions, then cut medicare even more> Oh and force end of life "counseling"  for elderly &  those with chronic illnesses.

[J.B]

Masonco I think that is the same as Obama care

[Lisa O'Brien]

Does anyone know the affliction? Is it more humane to let the baby die quickly at the hospital or let it linger and suffer at home with it's parents? Not knowing what the affliction is - I would always chose the least painful way for the child, over the parents need for more time.

[Sweater Cows!]

Ah..but there is the hitch, is it up to the health care system to determine these things or is it up to the individual(parents in this case).

[masonco]

The government makes most decisions regarding the health care. If a patient want to pursue treatment or not want to wait 6 months to a year or more for treatment they were coming to USA and paying out of pocket for treatments.

 

Years ago a friend of mine from Canada come to MI to start breast cancer treatment. She would have died waiting for treatment in Canada because she was only 26 and it was a very fast aggressive type. She got treatment east side of state and 10 years later is cancer free. Course they are still paying for the loan they took out to cover the cost.

 

This is what we have to look forward to here in USA. Expensive treatments will be denied to all but those who have $$ or those in Congress who have unlimited free health care. Review the ObamaCare manual.

[Edie Lindsey]

Doesn't government-backed 'unequal care' violate the "Equal Protection Under Law" cited in the Fourteenth Amendment, the liberals so often quote? 

Public Servants should not be treated better than their Masters.

[Dave]

In this case I'm not sure its that the parents want more time... Its my impression that they would prefer that he just be home when he passes. They apparently had another child with either the same or a similar affliction and were able to bring the child home for her final days. From the sounds of things too, I don't know if the child is in much if any pain as he is described as being in a vegetative state now, basically being kept alive by the ventilator.

[Dave]

Its being reported that the hospital where Baby Joseph is at might be relenting and will allow the parents to take the baby into their care. Its been a pretty brutal fight for both sides but assuming that its true, I think the hospital is in the end making the right decision.