Commentary: Texas lawmakers' vote creates a 'death panel' for HIV patients

[unhappycamper]

Commentary: Texas lawmakers' vote creates a 'death panel' for HIV patients
Posted on Sunday, April 3, 2011
By Bud Kennedy | The Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Besides whacking education jobs and trashing university research, the Texas Legislature is considering yet another way to avoid raising even one more precious penny of tax money.

A state Senate subcommittee on Medicaid spending is offering its own final solution:

Let people die.

Our very own death panel voted last week against adding $23 million in lifesaving medications for poor Texans with HIV, essentially turning away the 2,000 new patients who will need help in the next two years.

At a meeting where the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Medicaid restored $4.5 billion for health care, including money for mental-health services and nursing home patients, those 2,000 Texans didn't make the cut.

[Scuba]

1. Let's hope they live long enough to vote a few more times. n/t

[cutlassmama]

2. it should have been evenly split into thirds since there were 3 groups

of people.

[atreides1]

3. My question

Do we get to compare the TeaPublicans to the latter 1930's German government that they seem to want to emulate...or do we have to wait until people actually start to die because of their draconian policies?

[McCamy Taylor]

4. And folks here accuse me of Texas bashing. (Note that I live here).

[xchrom]

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