[mommy23]

I've also been pondering this question of "who lobbied to change the law in FL". In digging around, here are some interesting documents that I have found in relation to this question.

"The 1998 Florida Legislature created (CS/CS/HB 3387),The Panel For The Study of End-Of-Life care. This 22 member panel was directed to study issues related to the care provided to persons as they near the end of their lives." This panel was the starting point for the legislation that was eventually passed and changed the law in 1999 in Florida.

Here is an interim report from this Panel For The Study of End Of Life Care(http://www.fha.org/acrobat/interimquality.pdf)

This interim report details the individuals who were on the panel, which included none other than Mary Labyak, Executive Director And CEO, Hospice of The Florida Suncoast.

In reading this report and looking through the 22 member panel, I do not see anyone representing the interests of the disabled and incapacitated.

The panel was administered by the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy from Florida State University. The Pepper Institute is listed on the "Center For Practical Bioethics" Website as being on their "community state partnerships to improve end-of-life care." (http://www.midbio.org/npo-map.htm) The Center For Practical Bioethics shows the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as a financial contributor. (http://www.midbio.org/mbc-gift.htm)

[pc93]

This is an important find.

[Pegita]

Pinging others to your Post #45, mom ...

[pickyourpoison]

good find

[cyn]

In reading this report and looking through the 22 member panel, I do not see anyone representing the interests of the disabled and incapacitated.

Hi, mommy23 -- I noted your post earlier -- thanks so much for putting that together and posting it. I was lost in archives looking at some of that stuff one night, and look forward to reading that in greater detail. It was a chilling thought(less) process, this legacy of Jim King.

Your analysis esp. on this detail (which would otherwise have gone unnoticed) is GREATLY appreciated -- an "Alamo Girl" kinda thing.

[phenn]

Well, well, well.

How very DEAR of Ms. Labayak to make herself available to this particular panel. How very INTERESTING that George Felos was then the Chairman of the Board for her Hospice. How CONVENIENT that this particular Hospice is associated with George Soros's Project on Death in America. And how very CURIOUS that all of this happened around the same time Florida was trying to make a martyr out of Terri Schiavo.

Anyone surprised at these bedfellows?

Anyone?

Beuhler?