culture of cash, man

Politicians did not speculate on her diagnosis via video tape.  Conservative religious zealots did not picket the hospital.  She didn't have insurance. Ventilator treatment is expensive. Baylor did not want to incur any more expenses. So they removed a conscious woman from a respirator.

basically, she couldnt pay for it, so no circus ensued.  schiavo was a vegetable and this was a conscious woman - culture of life, my ass.  this had nothing to do with life, it had to do with insurance.  taking a principled stance in favour of the texas healthcare system isnt really in the bible, is it.  i guess it's her fault for being from africa, getting cancer, and not being able to pay for it.

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[Anonalogue]

Hmmmm, this is eerily similar to the article I just read by Kate of SDA:

"After waiting 10 days on oxygen in an intensive care ward, where it was more likely that a knowledgable visitor would tend to a distressed patient or dysfunctioning equipment than any of the five nurses charged with holding down chairs, we began to wonder when the lung specialist planned to show up to discuss our mother's condition.

He had to be reminded, as it turned out. Standing over the duct-taped linoleum, he shared the diagnosis and advised it was terminal. With no hope of treatment, we arranged for her return by ambulance the 120 miles to our local rural hospital, where she was finally treated for pain and was tended to by a nurse she knew as a friend. Thank heaven for small mercies - for it had been slated for closure earlier that year. "

http://forums.cbc.ca/roundtable/2005/12/zerotier_health.html

[Candace]

That's brutal. The poor woman, may she rest in peace (and may the doctors, hospital administrators & all the people willing to invoke that law burn in hell).