In a triumph for socialized medicine Irish boy travels to U.S. for treatment of his rare disease

Here's another one guaranteed to make liberal heads explode. Call it Irish socialized medicine #fail. Because when you've got a rare incurable disease, the U.S. is the only place you'll get treatment. At least until Obamacare fully kicks in.

Ryan McCormack suffers from adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), the genetic disorder profiled in the 1992 movie "Lorenzo's Oil." His prognosis is not good, but there's a chance that a bone marrow transplant coupled with gene therapy could arrest the disease.

Can Ryan get this life-saving treatment from the fully socialist and ostensibly "free" Irish NHS?

It costs €3 million. What do you think?

So he's traveling to Minnesota, and relying on the charity of strangers.

Hmm, what is it that Minnesota doesn't have, at least not yet?

Did you say "socialized medicine"? You win!

Amazingly when you take the bureaucrats out of the loop and put the free market into play you find that treatments for rare diseases are available. No, they're not "free". But then, neither is Obamacare. Oh sure, it's "free" to you. If you're named Sandra Fluke or you've got a disease the bureaucrats have decided is worth treating. But if your ailment isn't on their list? Come to America, while you still can.

Godspeed Ryan. I pray your treatments are successful. And that they're completed before Donald Berwick and his IPAB (please don't call it a "Death Panel"!) finish mucking up the greatest health care system ever designed.

Posted at 12:32 by Chris Wysocki   [/obamacare]   Comments | Perm Link |
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