Appropriate Attack on Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network

I missed Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Sally Kalson's article earlier this spring, titled "We Spend Too Much in Dying."

Here are two excerpts from the beginning and end of her article:

If Medicaid is really as unsustainable as Republican governors insist, then the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network is not helping matters. . . .

Health care rationing sounds evil, but the fact is we're already doing it, based on who's covered and who isn't. Our challenge is finding a way to provide the best care at the lowest cost to the most people by the most efficient means.

But when I think of Terri Schiavo's brother, and the nation's Republican governors, and my cousin, I have to wonder if we're up to it.