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by David N. O'Steen, Ph.D. and Burke J. Balch, J.D. Many argue that a decision to kill oneself is a private choice about which society has no right to be concerned. This position assumes that suicide results from competent people making autonomous, rational...
Following is a brief summary of points worth making in rebutting arguments for legalizing active euthanasia: For more detailed info go to: http://nrlc.org///medethics 1. A request for assisted Suicide is typically a cry for help. It is in reality a call for...
The House Bill contains important elements that would greatly impact the ability of patients to receive unrationed medical care. These elements, combined with inadequate funding – a scheme of “robbing Peter to pay Paul” wherein half of the funding comes from cuts in...
On December 23, 2009, the Senate passed a bill which contains important elements that will greatly impact the ability of patients to receive unrationed medical care. These elements, combined with inadequate funding – a scheme of “robbing Peter to pay Paul” wherein...
At present, much medical treatment for the uninsured is effectively financed by a "hidden tax" – hospitals pay for it largely with money they make from treating patients with private insurance, ultimately paid for by higher premiums charged on their behalf. There is...
by Liz Townsend Montana, which has the highest suicide rate in America, is now the third state where doctors can legally kill their patients. Montana District Court Judge Dorothy McCarter ruled December 5 that the state constitution includes the right to assisted...
WHY MANAGED CARE CAN THREATEN RATIONING "Managed care denies needed treatment, no doubt about it at all in my mind. And it happens all the time." --Neurologist Dr. Michael Schlitt, quoted in Investor's Business Daily, 7/14/94 Managed care is "a cost-cutter's invention...
Is it "Unfair" to Let Older Americans Add Their Own Money To Government Medicare Payments in Purchasing "private-fee-for-service" Plans? Imagine a law that said after age 65 it is illegal to spend anything other than your Social Security payments--that no older...
Why Holding Health Cost Increases to the Rate of "Inflation" Forces Rationing-- And Why America Can Nevertheless Afford Unrationed Health Care MEDICAL INFLATION. The rate of medical inflation has fairly consistently exceeded the rate of general inflation. Is this due...
THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT’S POSITION ON MEDICARE Since its inception, the National Right to Life Committee has been committed to protecting the right to life from conception until natural death, which means that we have fought just as strongly against infanticide and...