baby allowed to die because parents are poor.

[Dragonsbane]

h4x: The quote was from Soviet leader and mass murderer Joseph Stalin, "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic".

Bob: Personally, Bob, I would probably give someone that medicine if they were in bad enough condition...such as a life-or-death scenario...regardless of whether or not they could pay. However, that would just be so that they could survive long enough for me to call an ambulance. Business is business, but compassion is an admitted weakness of mine. Would you give a starving man food? I would, until he's well enough to get his own...because I don't need them becoming dependant on me.

Of course, if they couldn't pay because they didn't have a job, and needed medicine they couldn't get in order to survive, I would try to help them find one. There has to be something that can be done in a case like this.

[edit] Of course, that's completely irrelevant, as the problem isn't that the parents aren't rich. According to the article, the doctors treating the baby believe that further treatment is futile, other than to ease the child's pain and suffering. In other words, they can't cure her cancer and skin disease, just use up resources prolonging it.