[syriacus]

You'd think our public leaders, who oversee the quality of medical care, would especially want to oversee the quality of care given to the very sickest and most vulnerable.

The government is already involved in protecting the "medical" rights of individuals.

Why should the government's role, in assuring a minimum quality for medical care, stop abruptly at the moment the individual's guardian takes over?

[Ohioan from Florida]

I couldn't agree more! The government is already in the middle of all this, they haven't just started stepping in recently. Each state has agencies they use to check on potentially abusive situations and law enforcement is expected to be called in to assist when necessary, What good are any of these arms of government if they don't do the jobs they are supposed to do? Do we have to wait for tragedies (Haleigh is but one example) to get them to clean up their acts?

Your whole post was very well thought out and written.