everything should be free
What do we want? Everything!
When do we want it? Now!
Who should pay for it? Somebody else!
That, folks, is today’s liberalism in a nutshell. Take the case of Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17-year old girl who died after not receiving a liver transplant. John Edwards, who knows all about making the personal both political and profitable (he made his millions suing doctors and hospitals.)
“Just a few weeks ago in America, Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old girl, … needed a liver transplant, and (her) insurance company decided they wouldn’t pay for her liver transplant operation,” Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said last week after placing second in the Iowa Caucus.
American people spoke up on her behalf by marching and picketing in front of her health insurance carrier. And, finally, the insurance carrier caved in and agreed to pay for her operation. And when they notified the family just a few hours later, she died. She lost her life. Why? Why?”
Perhaps it was the liver. But Edwards and those beating up on Cigna fail to note that Nataline was a very sick girl who had recurrent leukemia and was in a coma.
Three things we know: 1) there are insufficent organs to meet demand, thus candidates for transplants are screened for viability 2) transplants are expensive procedures and money is finite 3) no one likes to be told “no.”
The very people saying American healthcare is “broken” and too expensive for many Americans to afford, insist that insurance companies throw away money on heartbreaking cases. Often to ill effect.
In the 1990s, for example, patients pushed for insurance companies to cover a certain type of procedure called autologous bone marrow transplants for women with late-stage breast cancer.
But years later, research found it was only helpful in a small percentage of women, Ghose said.
Let’s face it: insurance companies must be heartless. If they bent the rules for every sad case –and aren’t they all? — no one could afford coverage. That liberals believe a medical bureaucracy will be less heartless is frightening.
Posted by Jim Bass
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