Since the parents are paying for it, the doctors should do what they wish. I hope they get to bring poor little Joseph to the US, and that he will live a very long life.
My Dad suffered a brain injury from a fall. The medical staff insisted that he there was no hope and that he was brain dead. Well, he squeezed the nurse’s hand when we asked him to, and when my sister entered the room the first time, he opened his eyes and tracked her the whole way. Then he turned to look at the nurse who was changing his ventilator. No one would listen to me. I also, blame the transfer to the other hospital across town. It makes no sense to jog a brain bleed patient. I’m having a hard time letting go and it’s been a few years now.
But this is Canada and the doctors are paid by the same type of single payer system that is soon to come to the US.
On the very day my dad died, my mom collapsed and we ended up in a local emergency room. After many, many hours in which she was ignored, we finally decided we had had enough. My mother needed some sort of asthma treatment before we left but the doctors withheld it. Why? Because she was determined to leave the chaotic, miserable, unhelpful hospital that had no pity for what my mother was enduring. Basically, they were insulted that we wanted to quit their Dantesque hell.
As we approached the parking lot, a kind male nurse ran out with a vaporizer and allowed my mother to take it. He also expressed condolences on behalf of my deceased father. I wish I had HIS name.
If you want to bring a baby that will cost your state’s social welfare system hundreds of thousands of dollars, then have the Catholics pay for it themselves.