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Canadian health care allocation officials already ruled that Joseph had to be taken off life support and allowed to die in the hospital. A Canadian judge then ruled that Maraachli had to give his consent to having the breathing tube removed by Monday. He refused.
Maraachli says turning off life support could cause his son to choke and suffocate. He told Fox News on Wednesday that the doctors at London Health Sciences Centre have said the “best treatment” is to “let him die… I don’t know what kind of treatment that [is].”
I really feel for the parents here. While I actually agree that the child should be removed from life support, it should be the PARENTS decision... not the governments or the courts.Canadian health care allocation officials already ruled that Joseph had to be taken off life support and allowed to die in the hospital. A Canadian judge then ruled that Maraachli had to give his consent to having the breathing tube removed by Monday. He refused.
FoxNews.com - Canadian Family in Life Support Battle Denied Request for Hospital Transfer
So with nationalized healthcare, a judge gets to make the decisions about the medical care for your children.
LONDON, ONT.—The parents of a dying 13-month-old boy from Windsor, Ont., are said to be devastated after suffering yet another setback.
Joseph Maraachli's family received word late Wednesday afternoon that the Children's Hospital of Michigan has decided not to request the transfer of the baby from a London, Ont., hospital.
“Joseph’s parents are devastated by the news that the Michigan Children’s Hospital will not accept Joseph,” their lawyer Mark Handleman said in an email to The Canadian Press Wednesday night.
Moe Maraachli hoped to transfer his son to the U.S. hospital after waging a months-long battle to stop doctors at London's Victoria Hospital from taking the baby off a ventilator.
Alex Schadenberg, the executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, said he was with Joseph's father when he got the news
Officials at the Ontario hospital appeared to be cooperating with the transfer request and sent Joseph’s full medical record to Children’s Hospital of Michigan on Monday.
Hmmm. I think I'll pass. Kinda sounds like one of those "death panels".
Hospital officials have increased security around Joseph Maraachli, the terminally ill Windsor, Ont., baby whose fate is now the focus of a battle pitting his parents against his doctors.
The 13-month-old is in a vegetative state from a rare neurodegenerative condition and has no hope of recovery, medical professionals said.
His parents had urged doctors at the London Health Sciences Centre to perform a tracheotomy on their son so they could take him home to die in peace, but the hospital refused. The baby was to be disconnected from a ventilator on Monday after a court order, but that was delayed when the parents tried to get their son transferred to a Detroit hospital for a possible tracheotomy.
if we are lucky, it will beFoxNews.com - Canadian Family in Life Support Battle Denied Request for Hospital Transfer
I really feel for the parents here. While I actually agree that the child should be removed from life support, it should be the PARENTS decision... not the governments or the courts.
This is the type of health care we'll end up with eventually if Obamacare is not dropped.
Your article is sloped.
Michigan hospital won't take dying Windsor baby - Parentcentral.ca
From your ****ing article!
Whats actually wrong with this story is this:
Ont. hospital boosts security around dying baby - Windsor - CBC News
The hospital acted unnaceptably. They should have granted the parents request, but the baby was always going to die. It wasn't "We're not going to save him". The baby is terminal. And shame on that judge for upholding that hospitals decision.
Be very careful about misrepresenting again.
This issue is not about whether or not a judge ordered the baby to die, the baby was going to die and the parents accepted that, this issue is about the judge and the hospital denying parents request for the tracheotomy so that they could bring the baby home with them to die in peace...
This is not about Euthanisia before anyone starts jumping the gun.
if we are lucky, it will be
one of the present practices which causes our health care costs to be so enormous in comparison to the rest of the world is the amount of care provided to those who are terminal. such as the instance you have presented
# Nearly one third of terminally ill patients with insurance used up most or all of their savings to cover uninsured medical expenses such as home care.
# 27 to 30 percent of Medicare payments cover the cost of care for people in the last year of life.
# 40 percent of Medicare dollars cover care for people in the last month.
# 12 percent of Medicare spending covers people who are in the last two months.
# 10 percent of Medicare beneficiaries account for 70 percent of program spending.
Before I Die: Spending on Care
so... you approve of the government deciding when someone should be taken off life support, as opposed to the family?
nice.
so... you approve of the government deciding when someone should be taken off life support, as opposed to the family?
nice.
i approve it when it is determined by trained medical professionals
The parents wanted to inflict surgery on their son so he could die in the location they preferred, where he had never ever been.
It's so easy to say "The Evil Judge".
Doctors probably had a case that they presented to the judge that won out against the parents case to have the baby die in their own home.
I can't say I support the doctors or the judges position, but if this is on doctors advice, I want to hear their reasoning behind why they denied the families request, then we could make a more accurate assessment of the situation.
Let's be straight with what happened folks... the government health care officials decided he should be taken off the respirator... and the judge ordered the father to comply... he refused. The judge did not decide the child should be removed from life support, the government health authority did.
The parents wanted to inflict surgery on their son so he could die in the location they preferred, where he had never ever been.
and you'd be ok with this if it were your child?
FoxNews.com - Canadian Family in Life Support Battle Denied Request for Hospital Transfer
I really feel for the parents here. While I actually agree that the child should be removed from life support, it should be the PARENTS decision... not the governments or the courts.
This is the type of health care we'll end up with eventually if Obamacare is not dropped.
so... you approve of the government deciding when someone should be taken off life support, as opposed to the family?
nice.
My comments weren't about the Michigan hospital.
It was about the fact that a JUDGE, not the doctor and the parents working together, made the decision regarding taking the child off the ventilator. The Ontario hospital had to help the parents because a JUDGE was telling that hospital what it had to do.
That is disgusting.
You do realize this occurs in the US as well right, Whovian pointing out a very famous case with Terri Schiavo.
Judges decide on medical issues in the US and in Canada, which going by your first post means you dont want nationalized health care or private health care. As judges can decide in both
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