How horrible.

[velvetpage]

I mourn this woman, younger than I am. I see in this one case the perfect reason why socialized health care is essential to a reasonable and civilized society. This could not have happened in a place where medicine wasn't governed directly by money.

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa051214_lj_african.bb0e76d.html

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[paka.livejournal.com]

It's ludicrous and sad to you.

To us, still reeling from a governor willing to break the law and a religious right railing to try and save a woman without enough brains to scrape together a fragment of this lady's last thoughts, it's downright horrific.

And when you consider that the obviously brain dead lady was Caucasian, and the obviously cognizant lady wasn't, especially after other events of the past year, it's nearly impossible not to scream about the Republicans' unspoken racism.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

To be fair, it could be classism - that is, discrimination against someone because they are poor. The Schiavos et. al. definitely were not that.

It could be racism, though. It could be a combination of both. I don't know enough about Texas to make that judgement.