Charlie was doomed to a very short and tragic life from conception, he had a particularly severe form of mitochondrial depletion.  His parents were not highly paid professionals, he worked in a company post room, she was a carer.  Are you seriously suggesting under an American style insurance system they would have had insurance which would have given them better treatment?  Have you seen the lengths the hospital went to, the consultants they brought in, for this child?  Many of us in England feel US commentators are using this tragedy for political point scoring with comments like yours.