[ejonesie22]

Your choice is the way that it can AND should work, and did for many years. If the parents could not raise the funds themselves then there were PRIVATE organizations as well as foundations who could take up the slack. Even with that the doctors rendered the care knowing the risk of possibly never getting paid and having faith that they would.

Thanks to 40+ years of liberal policies we are not there right now.

The Child however is (was) dying now.

So if the parent(s) cannot afford to pay and the coffers of charity are dry, what do you advocate?

I guess the question would be do you advocate pulling the plug based on cost.

The next question is what do you propose to do until we can reverse 40 years of liberal policy, what do we do until deregulation and taxes release the charitable world from it's grasp and the old balance returns?

Do you propose for those who fall into this gap that has and will continue to occur until we correct the situation a “too bad so sad” approach?

Do you say sorry, we the tax payers, the ones who sat here for 40 plus years and let us get in this situation now say that you will just have die because we have not fixed it yet.

Are you, as indicated by being so strong in you argument at this time in this thread about a child dying due to monetary concerns, saying that Alan Grayson and others on the left are correct, we Conservatives are heartless bastards more concerned with money and even more so concerned with being right that we could care less about people?

If so, please, do conservatism and the rest of us who want the Government totally out of the business of health care a favor and say nothing more on the subject. The left is working hard enough to paint us as cold and unfeeling as a means to further their agenda, we don't need folks on our side proving them right.

[trumandogz]

The Bottom Line is that this one child is not more precious than any other child in the country and we know that as a society, we cannot afford to provide healthcare and critical medical treatment to every child.

Therefore, the tax payers should not be on the hook for this one child that has been deemed so special, but rather the family needs to raise the cash to pay the hospital bills.

I am sorry that you view me as a “heartless bastard,” but you are advocating a system of Socialized Medicine and I will stand by my principles and oppose any effort to force the tax payer to shell out the cash for everyone’s medical care.