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    Matt Lewis‏Verified account @mattklewis 3 Jul 2017

    Matt Lewis Retweeted scr

    If it were my child, I wouldn't want the government telling me I couldn't try.https://twitter.com/scrlovelife/status/881939230217428993 …

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    scr @scrlovelife
    Replying to @scrlovelife @DavidCandor and 2 others
    For an experimental treatment that most likely won't work as no one with this child's condition has ever taken it
    11:16 AM - 3 Jul 2017 from Alexandria, VA
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    14 replies 4 retweets 21 likes
      1. J M G‏ @Womanmoderate 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        Yes but who pays for it? Kids who need psych services? Knee replacement patients? Cancer patients? No free lunch just hard choices

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      1. scr‏ @scrlovelife 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        My point was not that govt should stop from trying. My point was this doesn't have anything to do with single payer HC

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      2. Eric Rothschild‏ @rothschild_eric 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        If govt was source of your HC,can you demand it pay for it rather than use those resources on treatable patients? In US, should Medicaid?

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      3. scr‏ @scrlovelife 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @rothschild_eric @mattklewis

        I'm not sure I'm understanding you. But that is not the issue in this child's case.

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      4. Eric Rothschild‏ @rothschild_eric 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @scrlovelife @mattklewis

        I agree with you Shannon. Pointing out to @mattklewis that his parental liberty has to confront the medical realities and costs.

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      1. Bill Krause‏ @BillKrause2 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        Wow, phrased like a right-wing demagogue. NHS didn't say they can't try, only that it wouldn't pay. As it shouldn't.

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      1. pathetictweets‏ @tweets_toomuch 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        Nothing to do with money. Docs against bc pain and suffering caise the child. Parents, understandably grief stricken, are being selfish

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      1. They Had a Permit‏ @boboflink 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        Should government stop parents from treating a disease like diabetes with prayer?

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      1. Linda Ramos‏ @LindaLroseymom 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        But should the government subsidize it is probably the more operative ? Maybe if the parents pay instead of NHS.

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      1. Cheryl Post‏ @dcdals 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        There's nothing I wouldn't try for my child & I don't even have any kids or like them for the most part. Shouldn't be up to govt

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      1. Vicki Steckler‏ @VickiSteckler 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        And it's even their own money!

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      2. Marc Posner‏ @mposner 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        Thats the bottom line......I can't believe people are comfortable with letting that happen.....

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      3. scr‏ @scrlovelife 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @mposner @mattklewis

        I am not comfortable with a govt deciding someone can live or die. Someone was comparing this case to single payer HC

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      2. Rob‏ @nekko377 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        But who's paying?

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      3. scr‏ @scrlovelife 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @nekko377 @mattklewis

        They raised enough money to bring the child here, it seems.

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      1. Alean‏ @Alean4 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        Happens every day. Your party is getting ready to take away proven treatments but yeah-no big deal

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      1. Horace Pendlebury Davenport‏ @RobertKYarbro 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        The state owns the child seems to be their position.

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