This has been a local story for months. This baby will eventually get a lung infection and die a more miserable death. In the meantime the taxpayers of Tarrant County are on the hook for $10K a day.
This seems pretty complex. Nobody has a RIGHT to health care. If they did, we'd all go absolutely bankrupt because the potential costs of health care are infinite, because we are all mortal.
This is the one of the core fallacies of free health care, along with bureaucratic corruption, and of course, people taking worse care of themselves because they won't pay for it.
And if you read the story, it's a whole lot of doctors and hospitals who agree that the cause is futile. Are you going to force them to act against their professional opinion? That seems no better.
I was under the impression the family was paying which is why they should be the ones making the call. Any doctor who feels they are doing something wrong does not have to help obv.
This has been a local story for months. This baby will eventually get a lung infection and die a more miserable death. In the meantime the taxpayers of Tarrant County are on the hook for $10K a day.
Are you comfortable with a judge being able to make the call though?
This seems pretty complex. Nobody has a RIGHT to health care. If they did, we'd all go absolutely bankrupt because the potential costs of health care are infinite, because we are all mortal.
This is the one of the core fallacies of free health care, along with bureaucratic corruption, and of course, people taking worse care of themselves because they won't pay for it.
And if you read the story, it's a whole lot of doctors and hospitals who agree that the cause is futile. Are you going to force them to act against their professional opinion? That seems no better.
I feel like morally I want to side with the family who isn't ready to give up yet.
Who pays? If they can afford it, sure. But I don't think you can force doctors to do what they think is unethical.
I was under the impression the family was paying which is why they should be the ones making the call. Any doctor who feels they are doing something wrong does not have to help obv.
And how much a day do we pay for illegals healthcare? I'd rather give this baby a chance and leave it in Gods hands.
Without technology that didn't exist 20 years ago, this baby wouldn't have lived an hour. Who's playing God now? Complex issue, I know.