Mom who shared son's surgery bill online: "I was offered a .22 bullet"

[deurbano]

37. No, they cheer on "saving" Terry Schiavo. And fetuses. They just hate anything they are brainwashed

to associate with liberals. You are projecting your own considered concerns onto them, but they aren't "considering" anything; they are just reacting (as they have been conditioned to react) to any perceived criticism of their God-Emperor.

Many of us struggle to afford braces for our kids (and the families who really struggle don't get them), but that doesn't turn us into assholes with no compassion for this mother's situation, no matter what we think about the appropriate allocation of health care resources.

Also, while the case can be made for choosing to let "nature take its course" in certain situations, that's a devastating decision (to be made by the parties directly involved), and a new child cannot simply "replace" the one lost. In any case, the child in question doesn't have a condition so dire as to warrant such a painful choice. And health care spending could be greatly reduced if we could finally get to single payer and stop dramatically overpaying for medical services and medications compared to other countries. Start there and with "defense" spending before deciding the life of the next Stephen Hawking-- or the life of someone like my daughter, who is quadriplegic with a speech disability as a result of cerebral palsy-- is not worth the resource allocation.