[goldstategop]

What they did to Terri Schiavo set a precedent. Its all about the money. The patient's wishes be damned. Ruthie Webster has to be killed because her insurance is no longer paying for her care. When you get right down to it, that's what this is all about.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[KnowTheFacts]

Like it or not, health care in the US is in a shambles right now due to rampant cost overruns and poor use of resources. This is only going to continue as our "technology" improves and we're able to diagnose more and more conditions in the super-elderly. Choices will have to be made and should be made. Thirty years ago this wasn't nearly the issue it is today because of the limited technology available then.

If people want their wishes carried out without question, they need to establish it in an advanced directive and living will. If they choose to be irresponsible and foist this decision upon others, then so be it.

This case has ABSOLUTELY no similarity to Schiavo and if the Webster family members routinely posting on this forum would tell the WHOLE STORY, you'd see it very clearly.