Wesley J. Smith

Foremost Health Care today stated that none of its insureds would have to wait more than 18 weeks to receive treatment from a specialist referred by their primary care physician. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi reacting the news in a press release said, “This is what happens when we let greed run . . . . Continue Reading »

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Gallup has a new poll out that measures the public’s beliefs about the moral propriety of certain behaviors.  This is not the same thing, obviously, as to whether such policies should be legal.  The following are the ones relevant to our discussions here: From the Poll:- Doctor . . . . Continue Reading »

Medicare is dying like a tree, slowly from the roots.  As we Baby Boomers get ready to come on line (just three years and less than a month for me), the money is drying up, the status quo unsustainable, the supposed trust fund a fiction.  Representative Ryan has put out a proposal that . . . . Continue Reading »

My father spent nearly three years fighting in the Pacific, earning two Bronze Stars and a Silver Star, and two battlefield commissions. He declined a Purple Heart for fear of alarming my mother. Dad, like all combat veterans I have met from old World War I heroes—all moved on, now—to . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the reasons I turned against single payer is that I believe—as an advocate who learned the trade at the knees of Ralph Nader—in the tort system.  It provides a free market remedy in a free market system.Tort law is especially important in the health care marketplace, where . . . . Continue Reading »

There are two aspects of care in a hospital; medical treatment and what is sometimes called humane care.  The latter includes orally supplied food, water (for those who can partake), warmth, cleanliness, etc.  It isn’t “medical,” it is basic, and cannot be withdrawn.But . . . . Continue Reading »

Larry Flint peddles obscenity and misogyny.  He is not mainstream, to be sure, but he is also a big booster of left wing causes—and I haven’t seen too many on behalf of whom he has labored reject his support or condemn his work, although it is possible I just missed it.He gets some . . . . Continue Reading »

Lawyers aren’t money-grubbing snakes and our class action lawsuit against Pearls Before Swine and every newspaper that carries it will prove . . . . Continue Reading »

The FBI has raided the elderly woman in California who manufactures suicide bags and sells them for $60. From the KFOR story:Federal agents have raided the home of a 91-year-old woman who was selling do-it-yourself asphyxiation kits for $60 apiece in a mail-order business out of her San Diego-area . . . . Continue Reading »