Wesley J. Smith

The campaign by Obama supporters to get him to emote about the oil spill goes into high . . . . Continue Reading »

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer has defended the appointment of socialized medicine and health care rationing fan, Dr. Donald Berwick, to head Medicare/Medicaid.  As to Berwick’s advocacy of rationing, Hoyer punted, saying in essence, that care is already rationed.  But it’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Another day, another story about the dishonesty of the Obamacare sales job.  Now, in a New York Times front pager, a study Obamacare boosters said demonstrated it would save money while improving care, turns out not to prove either. From the story:In selling the health care overhaul to . . . . Continue Reading »

See, I have to deal with this all of the time in the issues about which I engage.  Too often, we don’t judge the wisdom of policies by their impact or their propriety, but how those affected make us “feel.”  And now President Obama is being criticized for his handling of . . . . Continue Reading »

Legatus Magazine asked me to write a piece on the recent successes in assisted suicide advocacy.  I said yes, I wrote, and it is now out.I begin with a brief recitation of the history of modern assisted suicide advocacy, starting with the failed attempt to place a legalization initiative on the . . . . Continue Reading »

I really like Canada and Canadians. (In fact, I am going there next week.) Alas, the vaunted Canadian health care system is sinking in a red ink sea and may be ultimately unsustainable.  From the story:Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada’s . . . . Continue Reading »

My how time flies.  SHS has been one of the First Things blogs for a year now, and so I thought I’d analyze how it’s going.I accepted the offer to switch to FT because I thought it would improve my numbers—then growing nicely—and my breadth of penetration into the . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote here a few weeks ago about how Donald Berwick, the president’s appointee to run Medicare and Medicaid,  is a big health care rationing advocate.  Now, his boss, Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has more than implicitly agreed with Berwick’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Pig steals my debating . . . . Continue Reading »

Allowing people to make their own informed decisions regarding the extent of end-of-life medical treatment is crucial to respecting all people as persons.  Indeed, that view was first promoted by the late great Paul Ramsey, the Christian theologian/bioethicist, in his pioneering lectures and . . . . Continue Reading »