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I'm so angry at the hypocrisy of GW that I could scream. Why is it OK for a baby to die basically at the hands of a bill he signed (that allows doctors to stop treatment even if it is against the express wishes of the family because of MONEY!!!) but he'll sign a special order to keep poor, pathetic Terry Schiavo alive against her HUSBAND'S wishes. I thought Republicans were for less governement and state's rights? What the hell are they doing intervening in something the states have already decided? What the hell are they doing getting in the middle of a marriage?
What about the kids that don't have enough to eat? What about underfunded schools? What about health care for everyone? What about some more jobs? Why is so much money and time and effort going toward this situation? I'm just sickened for everyone concerned. This isn't the business of the federal government.
“Inappropriate treatment” was defined under the 1999 Texas law as ‘medical treatment for which the patient cannot pay’. Ok, I'm overstating the case--but if that, while not explicit, is implicit. Who can find another medical facility ready to take on a difficult, possibly hopeless case? Those with money or insurance. Who can't? medicaid patients. Or those with out insurance. Like the six month old that had his feeding tube removed this week. Why didn't they keep a fresh new life, full of possiblity alive instead of wishing for a reversal in a brain damaged 40 year old woman--who made herself sick?
Citations are the DailyKos and thinkprogress.org.
And could somebody PLEASE please please find some balls and give them to a reporter and get him or her to expose Tom Delay for the grandstanding slimy unethical creep that he is.
GOD..I haven't been this angry about politics since Reagan.
What about the kids that don't have enough to eat? What about underfunded schools? What about health care for everyone? What about some more jobs? Why is so much money and time and effort going toward this situation? I'm just sickened for everyone concerned. This isn't the business of the federal government.
“Inappropriate treatment” was defined under the 1999 Texas law as ‘medical treatment for which the patient cannot pay’. Ok, I'm overstating the case--but if that, while not explicit, is implicit. Who can find another medical facility ready to take on a difficult, possibly hopeless case? Those with money or insurance. Who can't? medicaid patients. Or those with out insurance. Like the six month old that had his feeding tube removed this week. Why didn't they keep a fresh new life, full of possiblity alive instead of wishing for a reversal in a brain damaged 40 year old woman--who made herself sick?
Citations are the DailyKos and thinkprogress.org.
And could somebody PLEASE please please find some balls and give them to a reporter and get him or her to expose Tom Delay for the grandstanding slimy unethical creep that he is.
GOD..I haven't been this angry about politics since Reagan.
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That's where I see a differance with the case...and yes...I agree with you about the shotty health care and people just letting those without insurances and whatnot just being ignored...and I think that is WRONG...also the treatment of those with state health insurance like medicaid...I remember my mom being forced out of the hospital within 4 days of being cut nearly in half and having a kidney removed b/c she was on medicaid...the doctor flat out told her...if she had private insurance she would stay in the hospital for at least 2 weeks, but since she had medicaid...she had to leave...which is BULLSHIT...
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and a number of other places, she can't actually do any of those things. Her brain scans were leaked to the 'net yesterday and there isn't anything there that can control speech. And she can't swallow, that part of her brain is gone. The words to the contrary seem to me to be desperate hope, which you can't fault the parents for, but I do fault the federal government for becoing involved in a state matter. It's already been through the courts and they've made the same decision over and over. I understand how harsh it seems to die of dehydration and starvation, that is troubling and seems cruel. But these are considered heroic measures and interventions, what she said she didn't want.
I keep coming back to how we let animals go when they have no quality of life and nothing can be done. Why can't we do the same for people. I know without a shadow of a doubt if my brain were mostly spinal fluid (which hers is now) that I would want to be let go. And I'd want my husband to be able to make that decision.
I just don't understand why we can't get national health care but instead spend millions of dollars on *this*. It seems like a huge waste.
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