Wesley J. Smith

This is good news.  The pure public option was swamped 15-8, with five Democrats voting no. A non profit system had a closer vote. From the story:The Senate Finance Committee gaveled a nail in the coffin of government-run health insurance, with moderate Senate Democrats casting the deciding . . . . Continue Reading »

I am still mulling whether to get an H1N1 shot, which is solely in my discretion as it should be.Not so New York State health care workers.  They have been ordered to get the inoculation or lose their jobs—and it is causing a revolt.  From the story:New York is the first state in the . . . . Continue Reading »

I am never quite sure what to make of columns like this:  Joan Wickersham’s father committed suicide years ago, and his death clearly still cuts deep.  What to do? She writes in the Boston Globe that we need to “talk.” From the column:Suicide is so disturbing that most of . . . . Continue Reading »

Whenever we have discussed national health care here, I warned that proponents would try to take things too far at too great a cost, and that their desire to cover abortion could kill the bill.  That very scenario is playing out. Amendments in the House Committees to explicitly bar abortion . . . . Continue Reading »

I monitor blogs and stories that involve human exceptionalism. Recently, I noticed a recent upswing in Darwinists railing against the idea that human beings have unique moral value.  In essence, they say, we are just animals: Get used to it.That theme is found in review of a motion picture . . . . Continue Reading »

The biotech agenda has never been about stem cell research. That is only a stage. The ultimate agenda is Brave New World, e.g. genetic engineering, reproductive cloning, post humanism, and anything goes.  This has been hidden for political reasons, but with the hated Bush’s stem cell . . . . Continue Reading »

       Obamacare supporters are in a conundrum: If they pretend they don’t want rationing, people know they are not being candid.  But candor leads to increased resistance: We don’t want faceless bureaucrats telling patients and doctors . . . . Continue Reading »

As health care rationing is seriously on the table—generally supported by the political Left—some of that persuasion also want to include illegal immigrants in Obamacare if they buy the premiums.  From the story:Fearful that they’re losing ground on immigration and health . . . . Continue Reading »

Former Governor Richard Lamm fell into the soup years ago when he claimed that the elderly infirm and dying had a duty to die. Lamm claimed to have been misunderstood. But maybe he wasn’t. Lamm has come out passionately for health care rationing, stating in his Huffington Post piece : It is . . . . Continue Reading »

Former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm got a bad reputation by stating in a speech some years ago, “We [meaning when we get old] have a duty to die and get out of the way.”  When I interviewed Lamm for the “duty to die” discussion in Culture of Death, he told me that he . . . . Continue Reading »