Tennessee Stands’ Gary Humble Recaps Tuesday Night Shutdown of Patient Rights Act by General Assembly

Live from Music Row Wednesday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed Gary Humble of Tennessee Stands to the newsmaker line to review Tuesday night’s mishandling of the Patient’s Rights Act bill, which never made its way to the floor and left a widow unable to tell her story.

Leahy: And now for the very best guest of all, Gary Humble with Tennessee Stands. Good morning, Gary.

Humble: Well, that’s very kind of you, sir.

Leahy: So I got a note last night from you: “Hey, what’s going on in the Tennessee General Assembly? Let me fill you in.” What’s going on?

Humble: Yes. So what happened yesterday, it’s not only the subject matter, it’s silencing the voice of the people that, to me, was so egregious. There are so many bills going on this week that are very important in committees.

One of which yesterday was HB 2486. It’s the Patient’s Rights Act, a very simple bill that would simply require that a hospital allow an immediate family member or someone with power of attorney to be in the hospital with the patient.

A lot of people have experienced, throughout the country and throughout Tennessee, especially during COVID, where you go into the hospital, you get diagnosed, and then everyone else is barred from the hospital.

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Even spouses are no longer allowed to see their loved ones. And the issue is it’s not just visitation, it’s the fact that there’s no one there to advocate for their medical care.

Leahy: Yes. That’s a big point, isn’t it? And by the way, this isn’t a hospital regulation. What’s the origin of such regulation?

Humble: Well, that’s a great question. I think hospitals, in general, have just begun to implement these rules across the country.

Leahy: Do the rules come from the hospitals or do the rules come from various government bureaucrats at the state and national levels?

Humble: It could be. These rules in particular, I believe, more often than not come from the hospital, hospital policy, because there are some hospitals – very few – where this has not happened. So it doesn’t seem to be the rule across the board.

Leahy: Do the hospitals feel, though, that the state and local regulations require them to do that?

Humble: It could be something stemming from the CMS regulations. Again, they’re not enforced across the board. So this law would simply set a standard by which a hospital would be required to allow at least one patient advocate in the room.

That’s what we’re trying to accomplish. But the point is this room yesterday was packed with people and supporters. I mean, packed. From wall to wall, the entrances to the room were packed and the hallways in the Capitol were packed.

Leahy: Supporting the bill.

Humble: Supporting the bill.

Leahy: And what happened?

Humble: When it was time to call the bill up, any time you call a bill to be heard, you need a motion and you need a second.

Leahy: Which committee was this in? The House committee, the Senate committee?

Humble: The House Health subcommittee.

Leahy: A subcommittee. And who is the chairman there?

Humble: Chairman Bob Ramsey from Maryville, Tennessee.

Leahy: Okay. How many members of the committee?

Humble: There are 11 sitting members of this subcommittee.

Leahy: I’m guessing what, eight Republicans, three Democrats, something like that.

Humble: Maybe just two Democrats, actually.

Leahy: Maybe nine-two. That’s about the breakdown. Okay, so walk us through what happened yesterday.

Humble: You’re supposed to get a motion and a second to hear the bill. There was a motion. The second was promised to Representative Todd Warner to be Representative Robin Smith out of Chattanooga. She was promised to be the second on the bill.

Whenever it came time to call the bill, her chair was empty. She had left the room. The story is she had another bill to go work on.

She leaves. Now, it’s important to note anyone on that committee could have seconded the bill but no one did. And they let the bill die and adjourn the meeting.

Leahy: Is Todd Warner the sponsor of that bill?

Humble: He’s the sponsor. He’s out of Marshall County.

Leahy: Yes. He’s actually now got parts of Williamson County in his new district. I got a mailer from him. He’s been on our show.

I think I may be in that new district. I live in the Spring Hill-Thompsons Station area. You got no seconds. Interesting. So what happens to the bill? What happens to the bill? What do you recommend?

Humble: It may not get rolled next week, but the problem was you had two physicians there to testify and you had a woman named Alicia Rodriguez who lost her 36-year-old husband and who never got to see him again, who was barred entry from the hospital. She was there to tell the story of her dead husband and did not get to tell her story.

Leahy: She did not get to tell her story?

Humble: They looked her in the eye and shut this committee down.

Leahy: Maybe somebody in the Tennessee General Assembly, we’ll call someone in the subcommittee chairman and see what he has to say and if it’s going to come up again.

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3 Thoughts to “Tennessee Stands’ Gary Humble Recaps Tuesday Night Shutdown of Patient Rights Act by General Assembly”

  1. Cannoneer2

    How long has Mr. Humble lived in Tennessee? Non-elected folks can be carpetbaggers too. If people subscribe to a newcomer’s ideas, are they still considered a “Carpetbagger”?

    1. I think Mr. Humble is doing the public a great service.

  2. The hospitals, run by corporations, are incentivize by the federal government to diagnose people fraudulently with the PCR test and COVID-19. Where did flu go? They are making money. This is greed feeding on the public. This goes back to 1910 when the Rockefellers and the Carnegies took over Western medicine. The same families that entered into the Federal Reserve System, loan currency to the Federal Government for programs such as Medicare. The same families are heavily invested in big Pharma and make money off Trademarked medication instead of cheap off-patent frontline medications such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. It’s a round robin of profit. John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie Killed Natural Medicine And Built The Big Pharma Drug Empire of Today! Now, thro Bill Gates into the Mix and Wallah! When churches were involved in hospitals it truly was about healthcare. When the corporations took over hospitals it became about profit.

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