Gov. Jeb Bush ends drive to change law on patients with feeding tubes

[seafan]

Gov. Bush ends drive to change law on patients with feeding tubes

By Maya Bell
Orlando Sentinel

April 13, 2006

Unable to reopen the legislative debate over Terri Schiavo, Gov. Jeb Bush is giving up on his effort to change Florida law to allow patients to reject or withdraw a feeding tube only if they put that wish in writing.
The governor had directed his staff to develop a policy that would draw a distinction between artificial hydration and nutrition delivered through a medically implanted feeding tube and other life-prolonging medical interventions.

Under current law, there is no distinction; both can be withdrawn or rejected by patients, or their surrogates, under specific circumstances and based on the patient's oral or written wishes.
But still troubled by the severely brain-damaged woman's death last year, the governor hoped to change that. He was unable, however, to find willing legislative sponsors for his recommendations, forcing him to retreat on one of his priorities as he nears the end of his second and final term.

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As drafted, his proposal would have allowed patients who have a terminal or end-stage condition or are consigned to a persistent vegetative state to forgo or withdraw a feeding tube only if they outlined that preference in a living will, or if they authorized a surrogate to make that decision.
Doctors and medical ethicists said such a law would have forced feeding tubes on tens of thousands of Floridians.

"It'd be a very bad thing for Florida," said Kenneth Brummel-Smith, chief of geriatrics at Florida State University's College of Medicine. "Only 18 to 25 percent of people have a living will so, under this bill, if you don't have one, you would be at risk of having a tube shoved in you."

The language was designed with Schiavo in mind.

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-fterry13apr13,0,1339943,print.story?coll=sfla-news-florida

[peekaloo]

1. Too bad. You could have hooked up a tube to Jeb and people could

feed off his fat for years.

[Tyler Durden]

2. THANKS! I needed a laugh!

[soup]

3. *snort*

:rofl:

[Judi Lynn]

5. Also, his fat could be used as a long term fuel source.

[SoCalDem]

17. Poor Jebbie.. He's just "big-boned"

and looking like Larry Flynt more and more every day..

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Will Jeb fly a white flag at half mast? Won't his nut case supporters

be upset?

[soup]

7. yep.

This surprises me. Typically, devious J.E.B. doesn't let go of ANYTHING.
class size, vouchers, rapid transit - whatever -

[seafan]

13. Funny you should say that.... he's also "ditching his class-size crusade".

I agree with you, though. Never, NEVER turn your back on this guy. He's the king of devious plans and is tenacious as a water moccasin.

From April 9

His term running out, Bush ditches class size crusade



...and one day later:


GOP finds new reason to target class-size amendment

TALLAHASSEE — Since 2002, state Republican leaders have argued that complying with an amendment to shrink public-school classes would cost too much money.

Four years later, flush with extra billions of dollars in tax revenue, leaders have turned to a new reason: There is now not enough time to build the necessary schools by the required deadlines.

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Ol' Jeb is just delegating this fight to his legislature outright.

He's got more important devious plans to cook up:







And we'd best not forget it.

[LunaSea]

21. Jesus Christ on a Trailer Hitch!

I just can't seem to get enough of those rally pics.
More please...

[NYC]

22. I saved the trailer hitch picture.

I just couldn't believe that one.

[FVZA_Colonel]

23. Do you happen to have the one of the guy holding the sign saying

"we're all a bunch of idiots," or something like that?


On Edit: NVM, I found it a few posts down.

[rocktivity]

6. "Get thee behind me, Terri! Unclean! Unclean!"

"I'm jockeying for a run at the White House in '08! I'll be in enough trouble if anyone takes a closer look at my attempts to violate the court order to remove you from your hospice and having your husband investigated for your murder. So leave me alone, or I'm telling my daddy on you!"

:headbang:
rocknation

[MountainLaurel]

9. That photo made me

:spray:

[Runcible Spoon]

8. well I guess it's irrelevant to him now...situation served its purpose...

that political capital has been spent..on to find the next media feeding frenzy to exploit :grr:

[shanti]

12. exactly

nothing to see there anymore...

[seafan]

14. Jeb: Been there, done that..... on to the next conquest.

[ronnykmarshall]

16. The guy in the Ramones T-shirt rocks!

I love the look on that dumb ass fundy gal in front of him.

[Pastiche423]

20. I LOVE that photo!

I have it in my cycling wallpaper. It gives me a chuckle everytime I see it.

[malaise]

24. My favourite is the lunatic woman

in white. These photos are really funny:rofl: :rofl:

[Zenlitened]

10. Republicans = Government meddling in private matters.

Really, the entire GOP is just shit. Anyone with a conscience should be fleeing in horror from the despicable, morally corrupt cult it's become.

:scared:

[riona]

11. You get the feeling

that the republicans want to be in charge of all our personal activities from before birth until death do us depart. The party of mattress monitors.

[0007]

15. Jeb booked another looser, LOL!!

Did Noelle ever get her mind back from being born into the Bush family?



[CottonBear]

18. I feel really sorry for poor Nicole. She seems to have been disappeared

by the Bush family. She is never mentioned in stories or shown in any photos. I think the last time we saw her was in Kennebunkport a few years ago. She wasn't at the last inauguration or at least not in any photos from that event.

[Lochloosa]

19. And let's not forget about his wife and her devious ways...

http://www.sptimes.com/News/62299/State/Gov_Bush_says_his_wif.shtml

© St. Petersburg Times, published June 22, 1999


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TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Jeb Bush said Monday that his wife misled U.S. Customs officials about $19,000 in new clothing and jewelry she brought into the country because she didn't want him to know how much she had spent on her five-day Paris shopping trip.

On Friday, the Bushes disclosed that Columba Bush had paid a $4,100 fine and was briefly detained by Customs agents for failing to declare merchandise when she arrived at Hartsfield International Airport. With that, the low profile enjoyed by the governor's quiet wife ended. "Shop 'til you drop," read a headline Saturday in the Bush's new hometown paper, the Tallahassee Democrat.