quote:Originally posted by JuanHunt:
Seth Petreikis will receive the thymus transplant that may save his life. His mother, Becky Petreikis, said she received a call shortly after 2:30 p.m. Friday from MDwise, Petreikis' Medicaid provider. Becky Petreikis said MDWise will partner with Hoosier Alliance to cover the surgery. Duke University Medical Center will also partner, Petreikis said. "It's an amazing miracle," said Becky Petreikis, thanking everyone who emailed and donated.
That's great news!!! I'm glad to hear that baby Seth won't be sent marching to the insurance company's death camp. (I'm sure his parents would have had to carry him anyway...what a relief to them!)
Interessting statement from Sarah Palin's facebook wall about death panels:
quote:The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
Health care by definition involves life and death decisions. Human rights and human dignity must be at the center of any health care discussion.
Rep. Michele Bachmann highlighted the Orwellian thinking of the president’s health care advisor, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of the White House chief of staff, in a floor speech to the House of Representatives. I commend her for being a voice for the most precious members of our society, our children and our seniors.
Hmmmm...so if the money had not been raised - or the publicity hadn't forced the insurance company to give in - baby Seth would have just suffered the consequences from the insurance company's use of rationed care? Let me get this straight: Palin's Downs Syndrome baby shouldn't have to stand in front of the "death panel" but baby Seth should?
That can't be right, because Palin stated:
"Obama's bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their level of productivity in society, whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil."
So it's only evil if any bureaucracy other than the insurance industry is putting the baby in front of the death panel - is that how it works with the Republicans?