Will Dr. Frist & Senator Hyde Save The Life Support of 323,000 Tennesseans?

Sharon Cobb over at Save TennCare asks if Dr. Frist & Senator Hyde will do for the victims of Gov. Bredesen's 'Lizzie Borden Health Care Plan' (Bredesen plans to rob 323,000 Tennesseans of healthcare coverage) what he's done for Terri Schiavo.

Sharon's query was published in yesterday's Nashville City Paper:

If Schiavo was on TennCare …

To the Editor

If Terry Schiavo had been on TennCare:

1. If in a hospital, she would be limited to 20 days of inpatient care per year.

2. If receiving private duty nursing (intensive home health nursing) care at home, the service would be terminated altogether.

3. If receiving care in a nursing home, she would continue to receive basic institutional care, but whether she would receive more than four prescriptions per month remains unclear. The governor said in January that they provide an exemption from . . .

4-Rx limit for nursing home residents, but now they say that is undecided.

With the above in mind, how can Bredesen cut off the life support of thousands of people in Tennessee who are pleading on a daily basis not to have their life support taken away, when a woman in a persistent vegetative state has the right to her life support?

Will Bill Frist take to the Senate floor to argue for the lives of his constituents?

If this new law applies to Terry, then it applies to thousands in Tennessee who will also die within weeks of losing their TennCare.

Sharon Cobb