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By Faye Sonier Editor’s note. Dr. Gabel is Member of Council and Past President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. He is the chair of the College’s policy working group which issued the draft “Professional Obligations and Human Rights”...
New analysis details a disappointing explanation for recent decreases in Medicare spending growth – a paucity of new life-saving and health-preserving drugs By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics The title of an October 23, 2014,...
By Burke J. Balch, J.D., director of the National Right to Life Committee’s Powell Center for Medical Ethics These days, as for some time past, much outrage is directed at pricey drugs, and both the government and insurance companies increasingly implement...
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics A report released June 16, 2014, by the Commonwealth Fund think tank claims that although the U.S. spends more on health care, we underperform relative to other countries. This often repeated...
By Dave Andrusko Other than pro-lifers passing protective legislation, perhaps nothing angers pro-abortionists more than anyone (regardless of their position on abortion) making the commonsense distinction between abortion and women’s healthcare. To...
By Wesley J. Smith Several weeks ago the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia sponsored a debate–more a discussion–between me and Thaddeus Mason Pope about end of life care under the Affordable Care Act. He supports medical futility. I oppose it. We went from...
By Dave Andrusko Unless I write about nothing else, it’s impossible to do justice to the river of problems the rollout of Obamacare has drenched the American public in. At the top of a multi-tiered list is just one more example of evidence confirming what any...
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics A year-end article from The Hill, a newspaper which covers DC politics, might have said it best -- “The healthcare law faced a very tough year in 2013, but that could pale in comparison to what...
By Wesley J. Smith Oregon rations healthcare to Medicaid recipients. Terminal cancer patients are denied chemotherapy to extend life–and now the Oregon rationing board wants to go deeper into the weeds. From Hope Landsem’s Wall Street Journal blog: ”Liberal states...
By Wesley J. Smith The implosion of the NHS [the British National Health Service]–caused by sclerotic centralized control–continues. Perhaps the biggest scandal in the history of the service has shaken the UK, with thousands allegedly dead due to poor hospital care....