The New York Times made news—or rather manufactured it—by publishing a public opinion poll that seems to show Americans overwhelmingly supporting a single payer or similar health care funding system. The only problem is, those questioned voted by nearly 2 to 1 for Obama over . . . . Continue Reading »
Why am I not surprised?A few days ago, I reported recently here at SHS, about a Pew Poll that showed fewer than 50% wanting a wholesale overhaul of our health care system, far less than in 1993. A few days ago, imagine my surprise when the New York Times came out with a completely different series . . . . Continue Reading »
Health care rationing is a polite name for invidious medical discrimination against the weak and vulnerable. The Obama Administration seems to be pushing the USA toward rationing by hinting that it will support establishing a utilitarian bioethics oversite board that would determine the levels of . . . . Continue Reading »
A diocese in the Church of England, has found a creative way to get men to come to church. This past Sunday the church offered a range of incentives for men attending Father’s Day service, including bacon rolls, chocolate bars, and free beer . [The Rt Rev John Inge, the Bishop of . . . . Continue Reading »
A UK bioethicist named Daniel K. Sokol, who writes nary a word in opposition to Futile Care Theory, aka medical futility (meaning, I suspect, he is a futilitarian), has nonetheless written a valuable informative essay in the British Medical Journal (no link, 13 JUNE 2009 | Volume 338) called . . . . Continue Reading »
What can one say about such things?From BBC last week:One in four South African men questioned in a survey said they had raped someone, and nearly half of them admitted more than one attack.The study, by the country’s Medical Research Council, also found three out of four who admitted rape had . . . . Continue Reading »
Since its publication in 1951, J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye has been the favored bildungsroman novel of the American teen. At least it was, that is, before the arrival of the current generation of discerning readers : Teachers say young readers just don’t like Holden as much as . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a warning of what could befall the USA if we allow centralized bioethical planning to become part of health care reform. In the UK, utilitarian bioethicists control who gets—and who is denied—treatment via the Orwellian named organization NICE (National Institute for Health . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama just abruptly and unceremoniously put his Bioethics Council to rest and our own Peter Lawler, a member of the commission, writes its eulogy explaining the importance of its work and of the issues it addressed. While the website still exists, I encourage any and all to take a . . . . Continue Reading »
Assisted suicide is many things; abandonment, lethal, dangerous, discriminatory—but to its supporters, merciful and respectful of individual autonomy. But it is not medicine. Everyone knows this, of course. But to gain public respectability and thereby gain legalization, advocates . . . . Continue Reading »
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