yet another reason for me to be paranoid about having health insurance.


Daily Kos: Culture of Life: Pull the plug on conscious patients - W's law.:

No one here can forget the spectacle made over the death of Terri Schiavo, whose brain had died long, long ago. But in Texas, the law George W. Bush signed as governor allows doctors to inform the family that further treatment is hopeless (and costly) and Pull the Plug. Literally.
In the latest case to escape the Culture of Life warriors, Tirhas Habtegiris, a young woman and legal immigrant from Africa, was CONSCIOUS and responsive when removed from a respirator and allowed to die.

she was removed from the respirator due to "economic considerations", a relatively new law in texas signed into effect by our current president.

carrie, i'd love to hear what you have to say about this one, and any other texans out there reading this.