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By Wesley J. Smith There is a widely believed myth that the elderly and dying take up a huge amount of the overall health-care budget, and that, by empowering “death panels,” imposing rationing or “futile care” forced withdrawal of treatment, and legalizing assisted...
By Paul Stark Editor’s note. This appears in the February digital edition of NRL News. Please read the entire 38-page issue and share with family and friends. “Abortion. Is. Health care,” emphatically proclaims NARAL Pro-Choice America. That group is not the only one...
By Burke Balch, JD & Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new report that showed that for the fourth year in a row, healthcare spending was at a near-record low. 2009 to...
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics The notion at the heart of the Obama Health Law is that Americans spend too much money on health care, and if there were a way to reduce spending, there would be overall positive impact. However, two...
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...
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...
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 the individual’s...
By Dave Andrusko Sixteen months ago, writing in an op-ed published in the Washington Post, Obama pollster Joel Benenson confidently predicted, ”When it comes to health care and insurance, once reform [ObamaCare] passes, the tangible benefits Americans will realize...
By Dave Andrusko Its acronym—IPAB—has been likened to a new Apple Inc. product but in truth the Independent Payment Advisory Board is anything but a harmless novelty computer gizmo. The IPAB is the highly controversial component of the even more controversial...
By Dave Andrusko Dr. Donald Berwick, who became head of the powerful Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services via a controversial recess appointment made by President Obama, is as popular with the Washington media as he is deeply unpopular with most Republicans and...