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By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics In last night’s State of the Union address, President Obama continued to misrepresent his health care law while evidence of rationing continues to mount. While hundreds of thousands lost their...
By Jennifer Popik, JD & Burke Balch, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics Editor’s note. This column appeared in the January issue of National Right to Life News which can be read in its entirety online...
By Wesley J. Smith Well, this is eyebrow raising. A charity that advocates on behalf of the elderly in the UK is alleging that the NHS [National Health Service] appears to be offering less quality cancer treatment to oldsters than to younger patients. From the...
By Wesley J. Smith The UK may soon tighten its health care rationing to prevent new medicines from getting to the elderly. From the Telegraph story: “New drugs would only be licensed for the NHS [National Health Service] if they help those judged to be a...
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 Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics This week two major national polls show that a wide majority of Americans are facing declining health insurance coverage and that they blame Obamacare. Another study finds that new plans being...
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics As mainstream media outlets are reporting, and as NRL News Today has repeatedly documented, tens of thousands who had individual health insurance policies that were terminated against their will,...
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 Wesley j. Smith Imagine you are in a hospital or nursing home with a brain injury. Doctors say you are “not there,” but you are. And you hear doctors tell your family to stop giving you food and water! Imagine what that would feel like. And imagine the suffering...
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...