Where are the Terri Schiavo crazies now?
The existence of this law made the rounds during the Terri Schiavo debacle, but this is a specific example.
Now this case is different than most of the cases under this law in that Andrea Clark has insurance, although I would wager that they would be happy to stop payment as well. This law was originally passed to limit the costs of hospitals.
HOUSTON---The countdown has begun on the life of Andrea Clark, a patient at St. Luke's Hospital.
Six days left.
No, she's not terminal, her family says and she's not brain dead. Her sisters say that she wants to live. The Houston hospital is going to unilaterally remove a woman from life support, apparently based on the decision of a lone physician even though her family wants her to continue to receive care.....
What's even more significant in the Clark case is that the Texas bill that allows health care providers to end a human life despite the wishes of the patient and the patient's family was signed into law in 1999 by President George W. Bush as Texas Governor.
Now this case is different than most of the cases under this law in that Andrea Clark has insurance, although I would wager that they would be happy to stop payment as well. This law was originally passed to limit the costs of hospitals.
posted by mikevotes at
7:56 AM
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I don't see why you're so confused. In the Schiavo case, a business would have lost money if Terri expired. In the Clark case, the business loses money if Andrea remains alive.
Priorities, duh. The GOP may feign to be pro-life... but more accurately they're really, really pro-profit. By a long shot.
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-epm, at 9:19 AM
I really am a believer in the right to die and am not really comfortable with this issue because I recognize I am way outside the mainstream, but I thought the parallel to Schiavo signed with Bush's own signature was just too much not to mention.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 1:10 PM
good one. this is a bit of a sick contradiction.
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Justin, at 6:07 AM
Yeah. And not only that but it was enacted and enforced by the same people who now claim the moral high ground on the other side.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 6:22 PM
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