Taxpayers, hospice pay for Schiavo medical care

The Miami Herald ^ | PHIL LONG

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Terri Ping!

[jjmcgo]

So Michael Schiavo has spent at least $440,000 of Terry's therapy settlement on lawyers for the purpose of killing, not rehabilitating, her and the Miami Herald wants to portray her as a burden on society.
This story is a bunch of garbage. The Herald has been portraying Terry's case as a right-to-die case right along, despite the lack of a living will.

[booksaver]

This story doesn't portray Schiavo as "a burden on society" but as an example of vulnerable Americans who sometimes depend on Medicaid.

[Carolinamom]

She does not require much medicine....

Proof that she is not sick. Yet she is housed in a place for the dying. Why?

[booksaver]

She may not require "much medicine" but she does require feeding tubes, that's not something you can do at home. Or maybe it is. That's my guess.

[Joanna Najfeld]

THE TERRI SCHIAVO INFORMATION PAGE

[Roses0508]

You can do feeding tubes at home, but they require care. During my father's final illness, we learned to manage them quite easily. It only takes a little training. I'm not sure what other kind of care Terri requires.

[booksaver]

So someone must be willing or able to provide this kind of loving care at home apparently.

[lastchance]

I am unable to access the full article let me guess is there No mention of the fact Mikey used a portion of the money to pay the death squad. No mention that her parents want her out of hospice and home. No mention that she has been illegaly incarcerated in hospice for the last several years. No mention that Mikey is supporting a new sweetie and two children. No mention of the house and the mercedes. No mention that medicaid fraud is more of a problem than legitimate use of medicaid funds.

[GeekDejure]

Hail Terri...

Child of God...

We pray those judicial sinners...

Do not cause the hour of thy death...

Amen !!!

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[lastchance]

I am unable to access the full article let me guess is there No mention of the fact Mikey used a portion of the money to pay the death squad. No mention that her parents want her out of hospice and home. No mention that she has been illegaly incarcerated in hospice for the last several years. No mention that Mikey is supporting a new sweetie and two children. No mention of the house and the mercedes. No mention that medicaid fraud is more of a problem than legitimate use of medicaid funds.

[FormerACLUmember]

She does not require much medicine.... Proof that she is not sick. Yet she is housed in a place for the dying. Why?

Because her husband demanded she be placed there, rather than in a proper facility. His creepy shyster is a director of the hospice, I kid you not.

[booksaver]

I think most people who are interested know about the fact that Terry's parents desperately want her to live. The details of her housing arrangements if she lives, I am not aware of. I assumed she would stay in the hospice where she can receive rehabilitation, something her parents have repeatedly requested.

The fact that he's currently living with another woman, I think is also well known. I, myself, have never heard about paid death squads.

As far as Medicaid fraud, the fact is that states themselves are the biggest perpetrators of Medicaid fraud using what Thomas Scully called in 2003, "Inappropriate Funding Mechanisms". See: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/media/press/testimony.asp?Counter=882

But I don't think fraud is pertinent to this article.

[Honestfreedom]

My mother n law had a feeding tube at home. It is not a very big deal medically speaking.

[booksaver]

Also, the full article is posted above.

[LongViewSC]

I thought her parents wanted to take her home.

[syriacus]

Michael Schiavo and Scott Peterson are both serial philanderers
who desired to get rid of their wives.

[booksaver]

I don't really know. I'm searching for that information now.

[syriacus]

Felos [has been paid] $358,434.

High priced lawyers, defending serial philanderers who desired the deaths of their wives. Separated at birth?