I really don't want to write too much about this case. I find every aspect of it either depressing or sickening. But in the comments of my post on Terri Schiavo yesterday I repeated something I'd heard about Michael Schiavo possibly being motivated by money from a malpractice suit, and I should correct that. As David Corn notes, "the malpractice money, according to several media sources, is long gone. It's been spent on Schiavo's care, and now Medicaid pays the bills."
But while I'm still here, that Corn post, which exposes a cruel hypocrisy on the part of Congress regarding a six-month old named Sam Hudson, is worth reading. As is this one which shows a similar Bush hypocrisy, and reminds us that "the best primer on this episode" is the report prepared by Jay Wolfson, "a doctor and a lawyer who was appointed as a guardian for Schiavo in October 2003 by none other than Florida Governor Jeb Bush," "which just so happens to undercut the arguments of Tom DeLay, Bill First and the other Republican politicians seeking to exploit this sad story."
