Category Archives: Health Care
SPECIALISTS’ GROUP WANTS DOCTORS TO GIVE PATIENTS ONLY “PARSIMONIOUS” MEDICAL TREATMENT
By Jennifer Popik, J.D., Legislative Counsel for the Powell Center for Medical Ethics at the National Right to Life Committee Earlier this week the largest group of specialist physicians in the United States issued controversial revised “ethics” guidelines stating physicians
Should Doctors Tell the Non Terminal Elderly When They Will Die?
By Wesley J. Smith I find it odd that learned medical commentators would think that octogenarians and nonagenarians would not be aware that their time is growing short. Of course they do! Should doctors discuss what elderly patients want in
Class Action Suit Pondered Against British Hospital Accused of Gross Neglect attributed to “casual indifference of staff”
By Dave Andrusko “The common themes we have encountered include patients being left dehydrated and starved – feeding tubes not given to patients who could not swallow normally, food being plunked out of reach of patients, and others left to
Marginalized for doing what is noble
By Dave Andrusko For the last story of the day, I’d like to very briefly talk about a column written by one of my favorite writers and then add the link. Colleen Carroll Campbell is a St. Louis-based author, former
Pushing One-Way-Streets in End-of-Life Care
By Wesley J. Smith Articles like this are ubiquitous these days: First, purportedly write about one thing that is entirely reasonable–but which, beneath that patina, is really about centralizing health care decisions and/or restricting expensive treatments, e.g., rationing. Yesterday I
ARE OTHER COUNTRIES REALLY MORE EFFICIENT IN PROVIDING HEALTH CARE THAN THE U.S.?
By Burke Balch, JD Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics As justification for the ObamaCare law’s limits on what resources Americans will be permitted to devote to saving the lives of themselves and their family members (as documented at http://www.nrlc.org/HealthCareRationing/LifeatRiskLongform.pdf
States Limit Medicaid Hospital Stays, Highlighting Inadequacy of Health Care Financing
By Jennifer Popik, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics A USA Today piece from last week titled, “More states limiting Medicaid hospital stays,” reports that an increasing number of states are dramatically limiting hospital stays under Medicaid to as little as 10 days
Less than Two Days Away from House Vote on Protect Life Act; be sure to Contact your Member of the House of Representatives
By Dave Andrusko What the National Right to Life-backed “Protect Life Act” would do is as simple as it is important: remove the abortion-expanding components of ObamaCare. (Link to Part One to find out how to contact your Member of
How the health care debate is about human equality
Editor’s note. This appears on the blog of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, National Right to Life’s State Affiliate. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From a new essay by Yuval Levin regarding health care policy and the 2012 presidential race: Centralized management of the