I disagree. The family would not have had to stop working during their son's treatment in any country with universal health care. The US family medical leave

I disagree. The family would not have had to stop working during their son's treatment in any country with universal health care. The US family medical leave act is ridiculous in that it only allows up to 12 weeks in a calendar year of leave before the employer is entitled to terminate you. In any other first world country with universal health care, the right to take an extended leave of absence to care for a sick or dying child is protected by law. Other countries have looked at the economic consequences of forcing a productive citizen to quit their job to care for a dying relative and have determined that it is both less costly than paying for professional in home nursing and less costly from a societal standpoint in that the family does not need to collect welfare assistance because they lost their job. How is that not related to the story?