Family of Christian Teen Condemned to Death by Doctors Sounds Alarm
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Thank God Trump dismantled the Obamacare, or else Americans would be in similar situations.
For those who keep asking "How come you dont like free healthcare" - well cases like these are the answer.
Trump didn't dismantle Obamacare. The only thing he did was to do away with the penalty for not having health insurance. Not that this was a small thing. I'm happy he did that much. But everything else about Obamacare is the same as it was.
This is something that really pisses me off with the Republicans in Congress. They raised hell about Obamacare for years and yet when they took control of the House, the Senate, and the Presidency and had the power to gut it and replace it with something better, they chose to stick their thumbs up their asses instead. They had 8 years while Obama was in office to come up with something better. But what did they do instead? That's right, they stuck their thumbs all the way up their poopers.
And then they turn around and blame the Democrats for everything. Most of the Republicans in Congress aren't any better than the Democrats.
Thats all it takes for bad things to be gone. Giving people choice.
Too many people thought socialized medicine was going to be wonderful. Many of them are just now beginning to understand how wonderful it really is.
I don't think this really has to do with socialized healthcare failing. It's an experimental treatment found in Canada, which also has socialized healthcare.
And because it was an experimental treatment, it wouldn't have been covered by Canada's healthcare treatment. She was going to have to pay for it out of pocket anyway because she wasn't a Canadian. And since her family had already bankrupted themselves with lawyer fees, she didn't have a way to pay for it.
And then after all that, it's still Big Pharma, which isn't to be trusted.
In the end, I think this is a very sad story about a young woman with a horrible fatal illness who, for various reasons, wasn't able to try an experimental treatment (which most likely couldn't be trusted anyway).
And someone saw a way to use this poor girl's tragedy to stoke up fear and anger and sell newspapers.
I was referring to why Trump didn't dismantle Obummer Care. It would have required support from Congress, which he wasn't going to get, and people need to understand what the true cost of socialized medicine really is. We essentially have it now, but it's run by the insurance companies, big pharma, and the large providers. The only difference would be who controls all the purse strings, and who gets to launder money out of the system.
If people feel basic health care is a right, then that is a separate discussion, but for it to work, you have to safe guard the system so it only provides basic health care and nothing more. As soon as you set it up, someone is going to come along and demand that the system pays for all the special treatment their loved one requires, even if it means 1000s of others go without. And some lawyer will be more than willing to take on the challenge of ruining the system.
And institute Right To Try!
The family states the patient was fully conscious, and prevented from accessing specialized treatment, which sounds like they were trying to help her live out her days despite them being unfortunate. Many people have bodies that don't work, but Fully Conscious means a LOT.
The fundamental issue with this case is not socialized medicine but that the UK government basically was able to take control of this girl and to do what they wanted with her. In other words, to enslave her. Using medical status as an excuse for the state to take control of an individual is not restricted to the countries with socialized medicine. It just happens there more because authoritarian despot countries like the UK also tend to also have socialized medicine.
I totally agree with you.