The GOP Paradox

The GOP Leaders want it both ways. They want to save the Terri Schiavo's of the world whose costly care would be impossible without Medicaid, but they want to slash Medicaid. It's not okay for her husband to remove her feeding tube, but it's okay for them to remove funding for it.

Likewise, the part of Terri's care that was paid for by her husband came from a million dollar settlement against the doctors, a settlement that the GOP would like to make impossible in their plan to cap runaway malpractice settlements. Yeah, that settlement was ridiculous alright, ridiculously small given cost of her care for fifteen years.