(WBAP/KLIF) — Texas taxpayers are spending tens of millions of dollars to keep a toddler alive. Doctors have testified that Tinslee Lewis has no chance of recovery and every day she’s kept alive is tortuous for her. Cook Children’s Hospital is now pushing for a trial date to decide the matter.
State Medicaid has spent more than $24-million to keep Tinslee on a ventilator under heavy sedation. The toddlers mother says the girl deserves the right to live and her family should have the sole decision to take her off life support. The hospital and the girl’s family are in a court battle over taking the toddler off life support. Doctors say the girl is terminal and is suffering by being kept alive, while her family believes she is getting better. now, a Medicaid agency may enter the case as the cost of care for the toddler is approaching $25-million.
According to the Fort Worth Star Telegram, although hospital officials don’t cite financial reasons to make end-of-life decisions, cook’s attorneys are pushing the case to trial. The cost of Tinslee’s care was never mentioned in previous court documents, but the hospital wants a court to decide immediately to end the girl’s suffering.
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