Free kill families. This seems to be real in Florida, though it's the first time I heard of it.

[Baitball Blogger]

Families fight to change Florida's 'free kill' law

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Chances are, you or someone you know is a so-called "free kill" in the state of Florida. Someone not married, with no kids, and older than 25.

If you fit that description and die as a result of medical negligence, your loved ones are not able to sue for grief, pain, or suffering.

At Tradition Hospital in 2019, Marcia Scheppler said her 29-year-old son Jo Jo with down syndrome and autism was having a reaction to medication.

Terrified of hospitals, she needed help getting him inside but said surveillance shows medical staff wouldn’t admit him or help bring him in.

The delay in treatment, Scheppler said, led to his untimely death. Scheppler wanted to sue for medical negligence, but learned because of who Jo Jo was, she couldn’t sue for more than the cost of a funeral.


https://www.wptv.com/news/state/families-fight-to-change-floridas-free-kill-law

[CousinIT]

1. If you aren't married and/or pushing out babies, you're worthless.

That seems to be the message. Nice country. Pfft.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. We need to keep track of the women who are dying during failed

pregnancies and because of birthing issues. It will be the only way to get the support needed to fight against Neanderthal men who don't care about the pain they're inflicting on young women and their families.

[jimfields33]

8. It passed the Florida legislature 30 years ago!!!!!

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investigates/families-urge-lawmakers-to-end-florida-free-kill-law?_amp=true

[Farmer-Rick]

28. This seems to be Only in Florida

This is absolutely horrible. All these "free kills" have parents.

Technically speaking my children fit this category. Yet, I they have significant others who live with them. This is an awful law.

That poor woman who had a heart attack while refusing to leave the ER in TN would have fit the free kill law. It's just an excuse for incompetence. And an advertisement for serial killers.

[Captain Zero]

33. Does it apply to incels too?

I can't see why it wouldn't.
So no reason to treat their gun Wounds when they roll into the ER.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. This is totally appalling!

Their so-called “pro-life” legislators are okay with this?

[jimfields33]

7. I'd love to know when this passed. Seems so odd.

[Diamond_Dog]

9. According to article,

“The law was passed more than 30 years ago with the idea of preventing frivolous lawsuits and attracting medical professionals to the state with the hope of lower malpractice insurance costs.”

[jimfields33]

10. Thank you! That was decades ago. Weird law but I guess back then the politicians

thought it was a good idea. Lawton Chiles was governor 30 years ago.

[Diamond_Dog]

12. I cannot believe it was passed into law!

[Dustlawyer]

19. So if you lose your 26 year old daughter and sue for your loss it is a frivolous lawsuit?

[Diamond_Dog]

20. Yep - that's how I understand it,

If she is unmarried and has no children

Appalling.

[Farmer-Rick]

29. Attracting medical professionals????

Isn't it a medical professionals goal to keep people from dying? Seems to me this would attract more serial killers than medical professionals......or medical professional serial killers.

[Diamond_Dog]

36. Certainty they won't have to worry

about their treatment (or lack of) concerning “certain” patients.

[XanaDUer2]

4. Then theres that poor woman in TN

Discharged and cops mocking her while she was dying. What the fuck are hospitals for?

[Trailrider1951]

30. Why, hospitals are there to relieve your wallet of your savings, and

to make fortunes for their shareholders and CEOs, like pRick Scott.

[wnylib]

34. Well, considering how hospitals are

treating (or not treating) people today, one answer to "What are they for?" is that they are for picketing these days.

We could use a "healthcare brigade" to show up at hospitals and other medical facilities where good care and human dignity are absent but price gouging is present to make public issues of it whenever it happens. Picket these places with signs that name the executive officers or medical staff who are responsible for the inhumane policies printed in large bold letters.

Go to social media with the same information.

They will continue to act like this unless people push back HARD and make a big public issue over it.

[hippywife]

5. I would think after the last 6-7 years or so, the answer to this quote...

from the article would already be fairly obvious. Apparently, there are people walking around still thinking their repub reps actually give a shit about them.

"I don’t understand how the politicians who are supposed to be for the constituents in the state cannot hear this bill when it talks about the lives that are affected by medical negligence," Waner said.

[Baitball Blogger]

16. I am going to be perfectly frank. I came across this piece of info eavesdropping

on a progressive site in Florida. It came from a progressive who was eavesdropping on a Republican site. THEY were the ones who were angry about it. This is why the old guard Florida Democrats are useless. THESE are the kind of issues that they should be looking for, and riding on point.

[IbogaProject]

6. That isn't equal protection

I'm sure the SC will be ok with it though.

[d_r]

11. The article also says it's minor children

So if someone is over 25, not married, and doesn't have a minor children. So a whole lot of old folks in Florida

[Initech]

13. Is Florida trying to become the worst state in the country?

Because if so they are doing a damn fine job of it.

[jimfields33]

14. I guess it did 30 years ago when it passed this.

[Baitball Blogger]

17. They have been pushing Libertarian for some time.

De Santis is going against the grain by using government to take down his enemies in the private sector.

[FakeNoose]

15. It's just one more reason to never set foot in the state of Floriduh

[iluvtennis]

18. Un-fkn-believable. I'm never ever gonna step foot in Florida again. This is BS.

[Girard442]

21. Lebensunwertes Leben.

Life unworthy of life. Fucking Florida Nazis.

[Warpy]

22. Florida seems to be going full Nazi

The first people the Nazis killed were the disabled, especially the mentally disabled. Florida's only allowing it by neglect now but wait long enough and that will change.

[alotus51]

23. Ah Ha

Kinda puts the Duh in Floriduh....

[peggysue2]

24. I wonder how many Florida residents even know this law exists?

I don't live in FL but I never heard of such a thing: A Free Kill Law?

WTF?

Those sunny beaches might not look so good to residents if they find out their age, marital status and lack of children has them branded as Dead Meat, not worthy of recompense in cases of negligience.

Really????

[marybourg]

25. Yes, Republicans were convinced by their doctor friends

that all malpractice suits were frivolous; that no doctor ever made a mistake and no patient was ever really damaged or killed by a doctor’s or hospital’s mistake. That greedy patients and ruthless lawyers were exploiting blameless doctors and hospitals. This law was the logical outcome of such thinking.

[Farmer-Rick]

31. What comes to my mind is the angels of death

You know those medical professional serial killers who purposely kill their patients. I would think they would flock to Florida. They probably have.

[marybourg]

35. My mother, who spent winters in FL,

Used to complain about the quality of medical care there, saying that doctors who lost their licenses to practice in other states flocked there and were granted licenses. Don't know if it's true or not.

[bedazzled]

37. Lots of the doctors here have no insurance anyway

Amazing as that sounds.

[marybourg]

38. And all their assets are in the Caymen Islands

I imagine, for that ploy to work.

[Marcuse]

26. Do the MAGA in The Villages know about this?

[Meadowoak]

27. I hate Florida more and more each day.

[Ilsa]

32. Maybe turn the individual doctors and nurses in to their medical

and nursing boards. See if they'll be investigated. Give. Them. Hell. Protest outside the hospital: "...discriminates against disabled persons."

[live love laugh]

39. WTF

[ThoughtCriminal]

40. The whole "Death Panel" thing was projection

[niyad]

41. Exactly.

[roamer65]

42. I've definitely scratched it off my "places to retire" list.

I’d rather live thru cold winters than live under fascism.