Jeb bush did take some action. But it was too late and not enough.
He only took SAFE action. A daring man, a man driven by the Holy Spirit, would have found some quasi-legal pretext, however threadbare, to raid that hospice, rescue Terri, reinsert the tube, and give her the rehab that would have made her a thinking functioning person. All these quasi-conservatives and quasi-christians who are saying not to blame Jeb but to blame judges like Greer are no different from persons who are soaked by the rain, yet do not bother to open an umbrella.
We needed a miracle. Maybe Terri's ordeal and horror is a miracle in its own way, since it has awakened the country to the menace of Liberal 'positive productive personhood' and 'quality of life'. Her death means many handicapped, those unable to speak...will not be put to death like this. Various states are already enacting a 'Terri's law' to make sure this can't happen again. That's one encouraging sign.