Sometimes the good guys win one

Looks like emails, phone calls, and media pressure may have finally convinced the Medicaid paper-pushers that pulling the plug on a helpless little girl isn’t actually a form of public service.  (Link via Atrios, with a thanks to several alert readers for the heads-up.)

This doesn’t exactly mean Lauren Rainey has it easy from here out; she has more health challenges to deal with than almost any random twenty people combined.  But at least it looks like her family won’t have to keep fighting insanely callous official policies, too.