[cookcounty]

"For example, Schiavo's hospice reportedly charges $80,000 a year......"

Let's see, the award in the malpractice suit was $3 million-$7 million depending on who you believe. Can these people not do the math?

*80,000/year should last at least 40 years. But of course the lawyers (Felos & Company) believed their BMWs to be more precious than life itself, so there was only enough to pay for 15 years.

[GovernmentShrinker]

But those millions of dollars were paid by an insurance company, resulting in higher rates which are, directly or indirectly, passed on to all people who pay their own way in society. The end result is the same as taxpayer funding.

[Destro]

Oh yea, the malpractice award - that Repubs voted to make harder to get........That is what the Dems will say - so we lose that issue.