Fox Uses Case Of Canadian Baby To Raise Specter Of Death Panels

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On Fox News' America Live, Megyn Kelly highlighted the case of a Canadian couple who Kelly claims has been "ordered to let their 13-month-old boy die." During discussion of the case, guest Wendy Murphy claimed the decision was "a cost issue," when in reality, the baby has no chance of recovery and doctors seek to avoid preforming a procedure that could increase the baby's discomfort and the risk of infection.

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Doctors Concluded Baby Has No Chance Of Recovery

Canadian Baby's Condition Irreversible, He Remains In A "Persistent Vegetative State." According to the Canadian news agency Postmedia News:

Joseph has been at London's Victoria Hospital since October, suffering from severe and progressively deteriorating neurological problems.

His brain is losing function and he can't breathe on his own or swallow.

After a battery of tests and various examinations, specialists in London concluded that Joseph has no prospect of recovery and is in a persistent vegetative state.

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One-year-old Joseph Maraachli has been at the Victoria Hospital in London since mid-October, suffering from a "severe and progressively deteriorating neurological state," according to medical reports.

Full story: http://mediamatters.org/research/201102220042

See also News Hounds: "Fox & Friends Pimps "Baby Joseph" "Health Care Nightmare" 2 Days In A Row"

Hmm, maybe Fox News would like to ask one of its own employees how she managed to get health care over the border.

[Zoeisright]

1. FUX news is staffed with a bunch of lying ghouls.

This, unfortunately, happens all the time. When any person's condition is irreversible and hopeless, they aren't treated except for palliative care. Anyone who doesn't know this either has never studied the issue or has never had to face the issue.

Burn in hell, FUX.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Right. There have always been Death Panels

Some person or group makes a decision that there is nothing to be done. Enough is enough. Just make him comfortable as possible.

Whether it's a hospital board poring through medical charts, or some harried triage nurse at a disaster scene, someone is making a decision.

We can call it a Death Panel, or a Death Tsar, whatever pleases the Fox rhetoriticians, but it's not a new concept. It didn't originate with the teabagger epithet of "Obamacare".

[forty6]

2. Megyn Kelley is such a liar !!! Fox News is the biggest enemy

to America! Lies and propaganda can kill our freedoms.