Posted on 03/04/2022 6:29:48 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants
Tennesseans were outraged when a patients rights caption bill failed on Tuesday before they had a chance to speak. Doctors and citizens from all over Tennessee traveled to the Nashville Capitol, packing the Health Subcommittee room and hallways, to testify on behalf of the bill sponsored by Representative Todd Warner (R-Lewisburg-D92).
The Healthcare Recipient Rights Act would ensure that patients are allowed visitation by family members and advocates in the case of inability to make one’s own medical decisions. In addition, it requires informed consent for treatments that are authorized for emergency use only.
Warner was promised by Health Subcommittee Chair Bob Ramsey (R-Maryville-D20) that advocates of HB2486 would be allowed to share their testimony in support of the bill. One of the people waiting to speak was Alysha Rodriguez who took her 36 year old, active, fit husband to the emergency room last year because he was having trouble breathing. Despite having medical power of attorney, she was not allowed in to be with him or advocate for him and he died after a 9 day stay.
When the subcommittee reached the bill on the agenda, Ramsey announced that no action would be taken on the bill because they had run out of time. He agreed to give Warner 10 minutes for 3 speakers, but before allowing them to speak he asked for a motion and a second on the bill. After a motion was made, but no second, he announced that the bill had failed and therefore no testimony would be allowed.
Commenting on what transpired, Gary Humble, of Tennessee Stands, said, “It is one of the most egregious things I’ve ever seen.” He pointed out that the majority of the Health Subcommittee is made up of Republicans. “It’s not Democrats who are killing these bills… it’s Republicans.”
Damn!
big Med, big Pharma strikes again. follow the money.
Patents have not rights anymore. Big Medicine and Big Pharma have teemed up and own our politicians outright. They are one of the biggest lobbies if not the single biggest lobby at this point in time. Who do you think political whores will listen to? Not us. We have no rights and Big Medicine is the enemy and can no longer be trusted.
We are so screwed.
The GOP are as much paid for whores as the Rats are. No difference. Big Medicine owns them all. Sauron of LOTR fame would be jeaous of the “One Ring” Big Medicine has to rule over all of our politicans at every level.
We are a completely corrupt nation from top to bottom. I never thought I would see the day. Oh, I knew it was coming, but I thought it was years off. US corruption, downfall and collapse has all accelerate since the Muslim in Chief’s catasterophic reign of terror.
My father was in the Tennessee legislature many years ago. When other elected officials commented that everyone was paid off by industry my father asked why he was never approached with offers of money. He was told it was because they knew he would not take it. That was fifty years ago.
brother, sure could use your dad today.
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