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Update: Premier David Eby responds to a question from Vaughn Palmer about 9 yr old Charleigh Pollock having her medicine defunded by the government. Eby says he does not favour intervening in cases like this and he cautions that a system in which politicians did intervene could be one... show more
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Her doctor recommended continued treatment. The issue is payment for the recommended medication. The legislation dealing with expensive drugs for rare diseases allows the minister of health to decide if they will pay for the drugs. The @bcndp answer was no.

Eby is heartless. And he’s too much of a slimy coward to come right out and say it plainly: “No, the BC NDP will not pay for Charleigh’s treatment.” Awful

David Eby is INTENTIONALLY obfuscating what is happening in this case! Charleigh’s caregivers and doctors say she is stable and doing well on the treatment - it is the GOVERNMENT who is interfering to pull her off care, essentially giving her a death sentence. People with MS or cancer would be terminal too without treatment, you can’t just say they’re unhelpable while ripping life saving treatment from them. This is happening becuase Charleigh is a disabled child, period. It is discrimination. And you can bet if it was Eby’s child, nobody would be taking her off treatment prematurely. This is nothing short of murder.

@Lalee41660792 It is a politicians' job to intervene when policy is flawed.

Also, he is trying to manipulate the media and the public by repeatedly calling her terminal. He is twisting the situation to try and make it look like he’s not personally condemning a disabled child to death, which he, Josie Osborne, and everyone else in a position of power is.

Eby has the self-awareness of a cockroaches arsehole.

Fucking weasel

And if it was his kid you can bet he'd intervene and make damn sure his privilege got him what he demanded

Do he is saying the family doctors and others involved daily with this girl know nothing what is best?? They should be on media and Eby has to answer to them!!

Eby: Says he does not favour intervening to supply life-saving medicine to a child. Also Eby: The man accused in the Lapu Lapu Day festival rampage should “spend the rest of his goddamn life in jail.” Intervention by swaying opinion, or vocal outrage only for some.
