“The Importance of ‘Living Dyingly’”

Wesley Smith discusses the experience of his father when ding and voices his opposition to assisted suicide. Visit: “The Importance of ‘Living Dyingly’”

From Wesley Smith: Medicare in Trouble

Medicare is in deep trouble because it is a single payer health care system that seeks to cut costs by, among other ways, restricting physician and facility compensation. As a consequence, we are seeing the ongoing collapse of the system as doctors restrict their patient load and cease providing optimal care. From the story:

Want an appointment with kidney specialist Adam Weinstein of Easton, Md.? If you’re a senior covered by Medicare, the wait is eight weeks. How about a checkup from geriatric specialist Michael Trahos? Expect to see him every six months: The Alexandria-based doctor has been limiting most of his Medicare patients to twice yearly rather than the quarterly checkups....Medicare in Trouble

Discovery Institute - Top Ten Bioethics Stories of the Decade - Wesley Smith

Wesley Smith Lists the Top Ten Bioethics Stories of the Decade.
"As we come to the end of the first tenth of the 21st century, pundits are making lists about the decade just past: the biggest stories, the worst movies. In that spirit, here’s a list of the top ten stories in bioethics.
This isn’t an idle exercise. Bioethics matters. The field exerts tremendous influence over the most important questions of public policy and moral values: How should we treat the most vulnerable and dependent among us? What makes us human? Indeed, is it even morally relevant that one is human? Trends in bioethics, thus, illuminate where we are as a society and the nature of the culture we are creating for our progeny."
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