Budget Cuts? Are you kidding me?

and this is all before we get socialised medicine!!!!

Ok, gonna be the baddie here.....if the disease is fatal, maybe it's time to get hospice in there and let the poor girl go.....when do we stop intervening to prolong a life that has little quality to it? Quantity of life does not equal quality. I know I wouldn't want to 'live' like this poor girl is living now.

And for those who argue that socialized medicine would encourage such scenarios, as we can see they are already happening. Insurance companies play with our lives all the time in the name of making a buck.

We already have socialized medicine! It's called Medicare and Medicaid!

So ... you can't "blame" socialized medicine for the heartaches of this sort of situation. This type of situation is a product of the CURRENT situation -- strong evidence of how our current system is broken and in need of a major overhaul.

Not necessarily. Here in Texas it is not available to everybody. It is only available for children and the elderly. I will be losing my COBRA (from my divorce) in 2 months and will be left with nothing due to a pre-existing condition & unemployment. Even if I could qualify to purchase coverage, it will be nearly $1000 per month.