Maybe your child could have cancer and need a million dollars to save him. The health professionals (you know the ones that are in business to save lives) can tell you “sorry no can do, we might need money to pay for some appendectomies.”

So what if someone thinks you’re arrogant? I tend to agree.

Healthcare in this country will not improve until you change teh way you practice. You blame your pateints and their families for bankrupting ins., when you know it is you who are quilty of it. How many MIRs, ct scans, or whatever does it take before enough money has been spent that would have covered an appendectomy? Instead of changing your work habits you would rather withhold treatment from children and call it “For the good of healthcare.”

Thank you.

b

6:58 is stuck in the 3rd or fourth level in which their reasoning and outlook is only based immediately on themselves.

What if Aetna could no longer cover emergency appendectomies, meningitis, fractures, or whatever for the insureds because they blew the whole wad on one patient. Our Nation has to grapple with this as we seem to inevitably heading towards socialized medicine. 1% of the population uses ~ 50% of the healthcare dollar. Lines will have to be drawn.

First off, I have been making several of the comments in this thread against massive spending for this child and I am not a doctor and do not work in healthcare. I am an economist, so your anger at physicians might be misdirected. You can hate economists all you want.

Secondly, I am not saying this child’s life is not worth a million dollars. You act like there is an unlimited supply of healthcare, medicine, operating rooms, and doctors. The truth is there are finite quantities of all these. I am saying that the use of these precious resources would be better spent saving the lives of 500 people that need treatment of curable diseases. You want to talk about morals? How would you explain your decision to all the children who fall through the safety nets of Medicare because of lack of funding due to million dollar treatments you so adamantly support that are essentially usuless at curing the underlying disease? Are you saying that the life of one sick child should get priority over the other sick children just because you feel sorrier for him? Luckily people like you aren’t in charge of the distribution of healthcare because you would quickly waste all available resources to the fist person who had a sad story at the expense of everyone else. Your heart is in the right place but you are too stupid to understand the idiocy of what you are saying.

I have never seen so many arrogant people in my whole life. How can you just take about letting children die or even killing them just because YOU think it is best? Its even made worse by the fact that you are physicians. I’m sure many low lifes sitting in prisons have more morals and values than what some of you have..You guys really are the exact definition of two-faced. I will NEVER trust another physician again! Thank you!