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Science > Abortion |
| User: |
"Williams" |
| Date: |
20 Mar 2005 12:50:41 PM |
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Bush signed law to pull plug on poor patients |
Bush signed law to pull plug on poor patients
In 1999 George W. Bush signed a law which allowed hospitals to withdraw
life support from patients, over the objections of the family.
A patient's inability to pay for medical care combined with a prognosis
that renders further care futile are two reasons a hospital might
suggest cutting off life support...
"When the hospital is really correct and the care is futile ... you're
not going to find many hospitals or long-term acute care facilities
(that) want to take that case," the spokesman said. "Any facility
that's going to be receiving a patient in that condition ... is going
to want to be paid for it, of course."
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3079622
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3073295
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3087387
(law was signed by gw bush in 1999)
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