Let's skip topics and talk about Charlie Gard.
I don't know how many of you are following
this, but this is the story of the baby, a
young boy in England who has a very rare - very
rare I think there are only 16 cases ever
of this disease - genetic disorder that is
basically incapacitating his brain.
It goes to the brain and it makes it impossible
for the brain to properly grow.
Its called mitochondrial depletion syndrome.
Mitochondrial is a genetic material.
Here's how it describes his situation: can't
breathe with out a ventilator, move, he's
deaf has severe epilepsy, and they are saying,
at least the doctors are saying, he has severe
brain damage.
Now the parents...now he's in this British
hospital, all of his treatment is being paid
for by the British Health Services because
of Socialized Medicine.
And a decision has to be made at what point
do you disconnect this child from the ventilator
and let him die?
There is no life here for him.
He's got severe brain damage.
He can't breathe without the ventilator.
Who wants to live that way?
Why would anybody want to live that way?
And of course, who's paying for it?
Now its socialized medicine, so who gets to
make that decision?
Under Socialized Medicine, the hospital gets
to make that decision or court in this case
gets to make the decision.
Now the parents, the parents don't want the
child disconnected and the parents have latched
on to the idea that there is this experimental
medication, treatment in the United States
and they want to take the child and move him
to the United States to experience this medication
this experiment.
And they have actually raised money to do
it.
Now, in a free market, in a completely free
market, yeah, the parents would have the complete
decision about what to do here.
And they would decide where to take the child
as long as they are paying for it.
I don't think insurance companies would be
willing to keep the child on the ventilator
and ship him to the United States for a treatment
that is probably 90%+ not going to do any
good.
Even if it does good, its not going to repair
the brain damage the child already has.
So we will get to the moral question of whether
one should even try to save this child.
But it would be the parents responsibility.
Its their child, like it or not.
They would go through the motions, they would
pay for it, they would do what ever is necessary.
One of the great evils of Socialized Medicine
is that its not your decision, its not the
parents decision.
Its not even the insurance company's decision.
Its the government's decision.
Its a court's decision.
Now what is a court have to do with this?
Well the court has to decide how to use public
money, government money.
Whether to keep some people alive or others
not.
Because if you kept every body alive, all
the time, the social system would run out
of money.
It would run out of money.
Socialized Medicine is a disaster.
This isn't a good case to illustrate it though.
This kid is dead, this kid in my view should
be allowed to die.
Keeping him alive is an abomination.
And at the same time, millions of people,
millions of people are being harmed by socialized
medicine.
Millions of people are standing in lines to
receive MRI or any kind of treatment.
Thousands of people are not being treated
with the most effective treatment for cancer
or heart disease because there is not enough
money in the budget and they can't pay for
it themselves.
The injustice is committed daily on healthy
adults.
A constant and nobody cares.
This is the great mystery.
Right?
Nobody cares.
Nobody cares about the thousands of people
dying because of socialized medicine.
Nobody cares about the fact that thousands
or millions globally of people are not getting
the best cancer and heart disease treatment
because of socialized medicine.
Nobody cares that people die in line waiting
for the MRI.
But you take one child, with severe brain
damage and parents who are going to do anything
inter power to keep him alive and suddenly
everybody cares.
People are flying to England to demonstrate,
to demonstrate - why?
Why is THIS the case that is galvanizing us?
Arguably if you cared about the child, you
would argue for them disconnecting him, letting
him die.
You can't say that about adults, you can't
say that about healthy people who are just
waiting for an MRI, or somebody who's got
the beginning of cancer and not going to get
the right treatment.
That's the real evil!
Its because of the altruism in our culture.
Its because the more, the more somebody is
suffering, the more we got to care.
The more somebody is closer to death, the
more we got to care.
The more damaged, brain damaged in this case,
the more we have to care.
But that's upside down.
I feel horrible for this kid.
I feel horrible for the parents.
As a parent myself, I can't imagine what they
are going through.
But the fact is this kid will never have a
life.
This kid, no matter what the treatment does,
will never have the parts of his brain that
have not grown properly.
Those won't come back.
Its true, the court system shouldn't be deciding
this.
But this isn't the case on which to fight
Socialized Medicine.
This isn't the case on which to take a stand.
Because I think the parents are wrong here.
I think the parents should allow the hospital
to let the child die.
And its only this awful, awful sense of ... I
don't know, I don't know what it is about
us that...well Ido know.
Its this awful morality that we all live under.
The worse off somebody is, the more we want
to jump to his defense.
And note, note, that President Trump has come
in on this issue and the Pope.
The Pope, you expected, has come in on this
issue - keep the kid alive, keep the kid alive...bring
him to the United States.
And Congress, has given the parents temporary
residency in the United States so they can
bring him without going through the visa process.
Why?!
There are thousands of thousands, millions
of people who would love to come to the United
States to get health treatment.
People who could actually live a good life
if they got that treatment.
Why are we making this exception for this
child?
Why is this?
What is motivating us to give temporary residency,
for Congress to go into session in order to
address this?
I mean this is just horrific!
Its horrific that Congress would do such a
thing!
I mean if Congress wants to pass a bill saying
"all the victims of Socialized Medicine in
the world, or in Great Britain, or in Europe,
or what ever... if you want to come to the
United States to get better treatment, we
will give you a special visa that makes it
easy for you to come into the United States
to get special treatment."
I'm all for that - that would be great.
Come over, get the treatment, pay for it here
- for everybody.
But to pass a bill for one child, a child
that actually, probably will not be able to
helped by this treatment and if he is helped
by this treatment, will stay crippled, and
cognitively deficient because his brain will
never have developed enough.
So he will never live a human life.
But that's what these people want.
That's what these Altruist want.
They want this kid to suffer.
Alright, we are going to take a break and
will come back - happy to get your calls.
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All Right, we are back and we are talking
about Charlie Gard, this poor kid who has
a genetic disease that is basically destroying
him, its eating him alive.
Basically he is going to be crippled for the
rest of his life, no matter what the treatment
does, he is going to have an unfunctioning
brain for the rest of his life.
He is not going to be able to live as a human
being.
Now look I completely agree that it should
be 100% the parents decision if they have
the money to pay for it, which they do and
it shouldn't be a political issue.
It shouldn't be up to the state to make these
decisions, but they have Socialized Medicine.The
state is making these decisions every single
day.
Why has this kid become the symbol, the thing
that conservatives are latching on to to try
to attack Socialized Medicine?
This isn't the good example.
The real example is every single day people
are dying because of Socialized Medicine.
Every single day, people are denied choices
because of Socialized Medicine.
Every single day our system is collapsing,
our healthcare systems collapsing more and
more because, because of Socialized Medicine.
So, Charlie Gard is a bad example because
there is no good outcome.
Its not like under private healthcare there'd
be a good outcome for this.
If England had a private healthcare system,
the parents would pay $1.3 million, they have
$1.3 million, now to keep him alive basically
as a vegetable, I guess, and probably a suffering
one.
There'd be no positive outcome here and he'd
probably die.
Yes, maybe they'd learn something by treating
him.
Maybe they'd learn something about medicine,
but who the hell wants their kid to be a guinea
pig of experimentation when the chances of
actual living a life as a human being are
basically impossible?
I agree completely with the point that its
not, it should not be the government, it should
not be the hospital making these decisions.
In a private healthcare system it wouldn't
be.
This is clearly a horrific one example of
millions of examples of why Socialized Medicine
is so bad.
You have death councils, death committees
who decide who lives and who dies.
But this isn't the example.
And why again, why is our President getting
involved?
Why isn't he denouncing Socialized Medicine
every single day?
Why denounce it only with Charlie Gard?
And he didn't really denounce Socialized Medicine
when he came out to show his caring about
Charlie.
Why, why is Congress getting involved if Socialized
Medicine is so bad?
First of all, Congress could repeal Obamacare
- that would be good.
It could repeal Medicare - that would be good.
Those are Socialized Medicine programs.
Let's not become England - that's good.
But again, this child is not an example, a
good example of the true evil of Socialized
Medicine.
I think he's being used.
He's being used primarlily by elements of
the religious right all over the place.
He's being used and look the protesters outside
this hospital are giving death threats to
hospital administrators, giving death threats
to nurses and doctors, disrupting the functioning
of the hospital...I mean where are they when
again hundreds of people every single day
are suffering because of Socialized Medicine.
They didn't care.
But you give them one really really suffering
kid, one child who cannot live normal life
as a human being, and they go nuts.
It offends them, suddenly.
Why are you fighting for this life and not
the lives of normal people?
Not the lives of healthy people?
Its sad.
Its sad.
And they are not fighting of his life, they
are fighting to keep him alive.
It reminds me of the Terry Shivo case, do
you remember the Terry Shivo case?
Years and years ago in Florida, she was basically
on life support for a couple of years and
her husband wanted to unplug her.
She was brain dead, she was completely dead,
there was nothing there and he wanted to unplug
her.
And her parents didn't want it.
And they actually passed a law in the Florida
legislature that just applied to Terry Shivo.
In the name of the Right to Life.
What life?
What life?
You are a vegetable.
What life?
Disconnect it, let them die with dignity.
Let it end.
Its tragic, its sad anytime children die.
But it is what it is.
Sad note.
We here on the Yaron Brook show are for freedom.
For human flourishing, for individual human
flourishing and the only system that provides
that is freedom.
And in healthcare, that freedom is necessary
across the board.
