Not all of them... but alot of them.
Story goes as follows:
A 7 year old child is brought into the emergency room that I work at, he is blue, has stopped breathing, and has no pulse. The child has severe asthma and had an episode that was so bad that he went into respiratory arrest. His parents decided that the best course of action would be to bring him into the emergency room (at least one thing they did was right). So in the process of driving from downtown boise to our small rural emergency room, they passed two trauma centers, and two other emergency rooms, and drove 50+ miles to come and see us.
They were worried that if this was not considered a "real emergency" that they would be charged for it if they didn't go to their hospital. So as their child stopped breathing, and then his heart stopped, they simply kept driving.
He was life flighted out shortly after arrival, we flew him directly back to one of the trauma centers that was driven by in the first place. The child has no brain activity, and is currently on machines that let him breathe.
Make your own judgement on this one, but to me "willfully denying a child of medical care" qualifies as child abuse. They should be arrested.. and sent to jail.
