So it seems the single parent just sat back until little Zumati died because Wallgreens refused to fill her prescription? The mother needed a prescription for motivation for Gods sake. Figure it out while the child is alive.
Oh please. Have you ever tried to fight the medicaid bureaucratic nightmare?
This kid died because a pharmacy wouldn't fill his frigging albuterol inhaler.
That's just absurd.
But blame the mother. Why not? I am sure it's all her fault. If only she could have been able to afford private insurance, she wouldn't have had these problems!
Are you people FOR REAL! We are talking about a parent who ALLOWED their child to die because it took too much effort to clear up the snafu here. For MONTHS she did NOTHING.
WHO THE **** DOES THAT except someone who believes she has less responsibility for that child than some faceless bureaucracy? What kind of ASSHOLE, IRRESPONSIBLE citizens are we deliberately breeding by making excuses for this kind of behavior? A show of hands here about who here would just shrug if they experienced a screw up over their own child's insurance coverage and just allow their own child to go without his asthma medication for MONTHS like this?
Did she return to the emergency room or the clinic and tell a doctor about the problem and ask for their help to at least get her kid's medication in the interim -because there isn't a doctor in the country who would have said they couldn't help with making sure a child was not deprived of a medication that could cost that child his life by going without it! How hard was it even do THAT much? Every pharmaceutical company in this country has a program to help people get vital medications who cannot afford it to get that vital medication either for free or at significantly reduced prices-especially that for children. And asthma medication is a critical medication.
Whose job did she think it was to bring this error to the attention of someone who could help or entirely fix it? Clearly some people here think she had no responsibility to make sure this error was fixed in order to save her own child's life!! If you wouldn't have allowed your kid to go without his life-saving medication then where do you get off excusing this woman for being so irresponsible?
1. She could have gone to or called the Medicaid office and insisted on getting the error fixed, making sure they knew a child's life was at risk until it was fixed. She didn't even bother with this minimal step.
2. She could have returned to the prescribing physician and explain the problem and ask for help and she absolutely would have gotten at least temporary help had she done this much as well as information about what else she could do if she couldn't get Medicaid to fix the error -including long term assistance to make sure her kid was never without his inhaler.
3. She could have paid cash for that inhaler while trying to get it fixed -some inhalers cost as little as $20 even without insurance -for anywhere from 100 to 250 doses. But I bet she had plenty of cash to spend on her own personal vices though. But for MONTHS she coughed up NOT ONE DIME for her own child's medication -although the vast majority of parents would have foregone spending money on something else to make sure their kid had his life-saving medication.
Instead she CHOSE not to do ANY of these things and she chose NOT to make any extra effort to fix this screw up -
which makes HER negligent. If you know your child needs that medication and you CHOOSE not to make the effort to make sure a bureaucratic screw up isn't fixed so he can get that life-saving medication, then as a parent, you have FAILED your parental responsibility and are negligent! FAR more negligent than a bureaucratic screw-up committed by a faceless government bureaucracy which does not have greater responsibility for her kid than she does! A mistake that would have and could have been corrected had it just been brought to someone's attention!
I'm a parent too and I cannot imagine just sitting on my ass doing nothing about this for MONTHS. But then I take my job as a parent ******* SERIOUS, was never indoctrinated to believe others carried greater responsibility for the health and welfare of my kid than I do - and would have done whatever was necessary to make sure MY kid had his asthma medication so he wouldn't suffocate to death the next time he had an asthma attack! IT IS MY DUTY AS A PARENT!
And not so oddly enough in this "gimme-gimme" society and "sticking my hand out for that hand out amounts to a real job" mentality we are creating, she has no problem going through far more trouble to sue someone for HER negligence as a parent -hoping to make big bucks off the death SHE could have prevented in the first place. But clearly felt no real sense of responsibility to do so.
I sympathize with that child that he had such an UNCARING, negligent parent who couldn't be bothered to do the right thing by her own kid. But NONE for her. Those defending this woman for her own negligence must really believe the issue of insurance and insurance screw ups relieves a parent of their primary responsibility to their own kid and shifts the burden to some faceless bureaucracy instead. Even though SHE is the one who actually knew there was a bureaucratic mistake occurring but couldn't be bothered to insure it got fixed in order to save her own kid's life.
SHE still had options available to get around that screw up and chose not to use ANY OF THEM. If I were a juror on this lawsuit she wouldn't get a dime from me.
