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MILLIONS OF CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD STARVE TO DEATH, DIE, LIVE IN POVERTY and you people are deciding whether or not even more money should be spent on these kids? LMAO! What a surreal world we live in. God must be smiling right now because while we just blasted a little Iraqi kid to smitherines last week we are so moral and generous because we are spending $4+million on two kids that should never have been born in the first place. Sounds harsh......yet idiots want to pretend we live in some sort of all loving, utopia. We live on a big fat planet with limited resources and with all our amazing technology still are ruled by the laws of nature. Billions of people inhabit this earth.......there are thousands of kids that die in the US of diseases every day. Most of them have a fighting chance..........not these two kids joined together. If these parents new beforehand that these kids were going to be born like this and still decided to have them they are extremely ignorant and selfish people. Plus if they are Christians wouldn't they rather have these little angels go be with god? I mean hell if you believe in heaven why make these children suffer......let them go be with god in heaven where the streets are lined with gold...........?
First of all, the hospital charges are $4 million. Who is paying? Family funds and health insurance (in which case it is none of our business)? Or is it medicaid? Or is the hospital just going to eat the bill in the name of medical science (given the rare opportunity of treating these rare conditions)? We cannot answer the question until this is answered. But ultimately it is probably much less cruel to have aborted them or let them die without intervention shortly after birth, rather than treating them as a medical experiment.
$4 million is a drop in the bucket for entitlement. There are plenty of people who don't deserve any entitlement. Is it good for us to pay $4 million for for 200 middle aged and elderly people to get dialysis each year when they decided to get fat, get diabetes / hypertension and renal failure? I think it doesn't matter. They should all probably just accept their mortality if they can't pay for it.
We have a lot of people (a larger than normal) on CD who want all entitlements to stop, throw people on the street rather than provide housing assistance.
I figure, they're already alive.
Figured a comment like this would pop up sooner or later from one of you Dims.
I know this is going to sound cold and inhuman and yes, it is a hard decision but they proably should not have been kept alive to begin with. We are talking two little boys who will never live anything close to a normal life. We are talking about a mommy (no mention of daddy) who apparently can not provide for them in any way. Now, that they are alive and a year old, it would be hard to even think about terminating their lives, but it could have been done a year ago.
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This is the way that I would have voted if it were a sane poll.
It's a difficult decision but if I was in that position I would have gone for abortion - but I know that moms think differently than men. Sometimes you have to deal with what life throws at you, but this mom knew at 6 months that the babies shared a heart and surgery to separate would never be an option. At one year old they are still on machines.
First of all, the hospital charges are $4 million. Who is paying? Family funds and health insurance (in which case it is none of our business)? Or is it medicaid? Or is the hospital just going to eat the bill in the name of medical science (given the rare opportunity of treating these rare conditions)? We cannot answer the question until this is answered. But ultimately it is probably much less cruel to have aborted them or let them die without intervention shortly after birth, rather than treating them as a medical experiment.
$4 million is a drop in the bucket for entitlement. There are plenty of people who don't deserve any entitlement. Is it good for us to pay $4 million for for 200 middle aged and elderly people to get dialysis each year when they decided to get fat, get diabetes / hypertension and renal failure? I think it doesn't matter. They should all probably just accept their mortality if they can't pay for it.
It stated in the article that Medicaid was picking up the tab. Most hospitals lose money on Medicaid procedures and care anyways, so the hospital is undoubtedly footing the intangible portion of the bill and the Illinois taxpayers (myself being one of them) are paying for the rest.
This story makes me want to vomit and these selfish parents disgust me. We do not have unlimited resources and to expend what little we do have on conjoined twins with no hope for a future serves no purpose.
Maybe we could put our heads together and come up with a solution, two heads are better than one.
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