Wesley J. Smith

I am traveling all day, but I wanted to weigh in a bit about today’s vote on Obamacare.  I suspect it will pass.  Otherwise, Speaker Pelosi wouldn’t hold the vote.  If it does, it will demonstrate several things:1. The Democratic Party could care less about the will of the . . . . Continue Reading »

The CBO has scored Obamacare version 543—or is it 642?—and it either cuts the deficit, or it doesn’t, is neutral on the deficit, or has no idea. In the latest wrinkle, the CBO says that Medicare fixes—whatever those are—will put the bill in the red. From the . . . . Continue Reading »

As mentioned here yesterday, Idaho will sue to stop Obamacare’s mandatory purchase provision.  Virginia’s bill, soon to become law, in effect, opts its citizens out of the mandatory purchase requirement altogether.  From the story:The Virginia General Assembly [official . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare would require each and every one of us buy private health insurance unless we are covered by our employers. That sure seems unconstitutional to me.  While the Feds certainly have the power to regulate commerce among the states, I don’t think they have the power to require . . . . Continue Reading »

I have long thought that bioethics is something of a pseudo field. Not that the matters with which it grapples are not important.  They are crucial.  And not that its thinkers are not morally serious—they are. But it has always seemed to me that bioethics lacks focus, e.g., that . . . . Continue Reading »

Animal rights activists would never stop screaming if the actions they take were directed against them.  They demand the right to free speech—which some activists expand beyond recognition to include threats, intimidation, and even bombings—but have little problem with denying it to . . . . Continue Reading »

The warning sirens are blaring, but will we listen?  Centralized health care planning doesn’t work.  In the UK, the NHS hospitals have an abysmal record on something as basic as hygiene. From the story:A quarter of health trusts failed to meet standards over hospital infections while . . . . Continue Reading »

This is very alarming.  A survey—published in the New England Journal of Medicine!, not a conservative blog site—found that huge numbers of doctors worry they will be forced—or will want—to leave medicine if Obamacare passes.  From the story:Health Reform and . . . . Continue Reading »

Regular readers of SHS will recall that I was honored to be asked by the United Nations International School to lecture at a two day bioethics conference it held for about 700 students from all around the world.  My theme was the importance of intrinsic human dignity in bioethics.Part of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Good grief what next?  I posted previously that two courts found no connection between autism and childhood vaccines. But integrity requires that I now post  about the latest twist in that ongoing controversy: One of the premier scientists involved in finding no link is now immersed in a . . . . Continue Reading »