Money: Pay-or-Die Approach and American Families

money: But millions of low-income American families, he pointed out, would have been forced to let their newborn child die, according to Rabble. If your baby doesn't have to die, it shouldn't matter how much money you make, he argued, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, or something else. He said he had ample money to pay the steep cost of the surgery, which could amount to 200,000 or more. We all agree on that, right Unfortunately, there is no such consensus in the U.S. Even as Kimmel was speaking, the reigning Republicans were making another attempt to ram through a healthcare reform bill that would not only perpetuate this pay-or-die approach, but worsen it. Kimmel's experience parallels that of the parents of Tommy Douglas, now revered as the father of public health care in Canada. Kimmel could have reminded his audience that the United States is the only advanced country that lacks a national public health care system -- that in these other developed countries, including Canada, surgeries of this kind are performed with no cost to the parents. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.