Tag Archives: rationing
Cuts hit cancer patients—foreshadowing broader limits under federal health care law
By Jennifer Popik, JD Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics Starting this month, cancer clinics across the country have begun turning away thousands of Medicare patients, citing the Federal sequester budget cuts. Oncologists took a 2% funding cut, and they
Maryland outdoes ObamaCare in Rationing
By Burke Balch, JD, and Jennifer Popik, JD Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics The federal health care law enacted in 2010 imposes unprecedented limits on what Americans are allowed to spend to save their lives and the lives of
Maryland outdoes ObamaCare in rationing
By Burke Balch, JD, and Jennifer Popik, JD Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics The federal health care law enacted in 2010 (popularly known as ObamaCare) imposes unprecedented limits on what Americans are allowed to spend to save their lives
Here Comes “Expected Life Years” Rationing
By Wesley J. Smith The researchers are busy creating computer models and testing hypotheses to see if they can predict mortality accurately–as a way, I suspect, of justifying health care rationing. My concern was heightened by a study just published
House Attempts to Use New Rules to Prevent IPAB from Rationing Care
By Jennifer Popik, J.D., Legislative Counsel, NRLC’s Powell Center for Medical Ethics Recently House Republicans passed a package of rules that will guide the next (113th) Congress. Contained within these rules was a simple provision stating that “[The] Independent Payment
Is there “rationing” in ObamaCare?
By Burke Balch, J.D., director of NRLC’s Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics “A rose by any other name,” Shakespeare wrote, “would smell just as sweet.” Unfortunately, the same is true when the fragrance is less pleasant. When the role
Life at Risk: Effective ObamaCare Rationing Video
The Center for Medical Ethics at the Louisiana Right to Life Federation has produced a 60-second video entitled “Life at Risk” that very effectively highlights the denial of medical treatment authorized by Obamacare. Talking in their kitchen,
Is there “rationing” in Obamacare?
By Burke Balch, J.D., director of NRLC’s Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics “A rose by any other name,” Shakespeare wrote, “would smell just as sweet.” Unfortunately, the same is true when the fragrance is less pleasant. When the role
Several Provisions of Obama Health Law Take Effect, Worst Yet to Come
By Jennifer Popik, JD Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics This summer, the Obama Health Care Law (“ObamaCare”) has generated a renewed wave of controversy. In June, the Supreme Court narrowly upheld most of the law’s key provisions, and only
Elderly Being Abandoned to Abuse?
By Wesley J. Smith Interestingly, I did an interview with a Polish magazine today that dealt precisely with the problem of abandoning the elderly to the abuse of euthanasia and medical neglect of “quality of life” refusals of treatment. The