That's a great after-the-fact position taken by these gentlemen, but they couldn't pass a bill that said this, so they passed one that didn't, and Dr. Frist specifically stated on the Senate floor during debate on the bill that it DID NOT require the reinsertion of the feeding tube. No one disagreed. Read the 11th Circuit opinion - it quotes the floor debate on this issue.
But .. Dr. Frist is correct - the SENATE BILL did not specify that - but PUBLIC LAW 109-3 DID!!!