Category Archives: Health Care
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
London hospital backs down from forcing Christian nurses to participate in abortion after receiving lawyer’s letter
Editor’s note. The following excerpts are from the blog of the Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization. A London hospital which tried to force two Christian nurses to participate in abortion has backed down after receiving a letter from a
Doctors’ Duty is to Patients, Not “Society”
By Wesley J. Smith Editor’s note. This appears on Wesley’s fine blog. Increasingly the medical intelligentsia are pushing a dual mandate on physicians in the name of cutting costs–one to patients and one to society–and when they conflict, many want
Head of NRLC’s Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics Submits Testimony to Congress on Rationing Implications of IPAB
By Dave Andrusko The House of Representatives today finished a second round of hearings on the ultra-controversial Independent Payment Advisory Board. The IPAB is the central aspect of the Obama Health Care Law (ObamaCare) wherein an unelected 18-member board is
First of Two Hearing Regarding Controversial IPAB
By Jennifer Popik, JD Today was the first of two hearings related to the controversial Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB. H.R. 452, the bill in the House which seeks to repeal the IPAB, has 161 cosponsors from both sides