Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Sliming Graeme Frost

["Scott Hussey" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 10/12/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Have you ever heard of a "poster child?"  So you are literally saying that
> children and their families should not be "in the spotlight" in a debate
> about how children and families should be treated by health-care
> legislation?  Who should be in the spotlight then?  HMOs?  Physicians?
> Look, it's about the children, so the children are the focus.  If you're
> going to promote a system that helps children, you have to show what
> happens to children when that system fails.

This Frost kid is an example of what happens when that system
succeeds. He received the care he needed from legislation already in
place. Regardless, by putting a specific child in the spotlight you
are pandering to emotion not reason. Of course this is American
politics, so that shouldn't be surprising. Why not rationally show
what happens to a society that doesn't maintain the health of its
children? That seems to take care of things without putting a 12 year
old in harms way for political gain.

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Scott Hussey
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