Look into the future if Obamacare remains. Texas has a futile care law permitting a hospital bioethics panel to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment if they don’t think the patient’s life is worth the cost or has sufficient quality. It is like the old signs over restaurant doors, “We reserve the right to refuse service.” If the futile care protocol had been enforced, he might well be dead.
National Review
“12-Year-Old Boy Doctors Wanted to Die Now in Rehab”
October 11, 2012
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