Lawmakers want answers after Dallas Morning News exposes widespread failure of care

Dallas News: D'ashon Morris, a foster baby who suffocated and ended up brain dead because a private health company refused to provide him enough home nursing, will attend his first legislative hearing Wednesday.

He'll be wheeled in by Linda Badawo, the foster mother who had warned state health officials and Superior HealthPlan repeatedly that if he didn't get 24/7 nursing, he could die. As he became an active toddler, D'ashon had developed a dangerous habit of pulling out his tracheostomy tube, which kept his airway open. As his doctors, nurses and others had warned, he tugged it out in October 2016, when no nurse was around to save him.

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