Wesley J. Smith

Obamacare, Senator Baucus style, weighs in at over 1500 pages!  From the story:Senate Finance Committee members have been notified that the committee’s health reform bill was filed today. S. 1796 weighs in at 1,502 pages... Read the entire 1,502 page Finance bill...It’s important to . . . . Continue Reading »

Drudge has a story up about a proposed—but not yet implimented—Florida plan to prioritize care in the event of a terrible flu outbreak and resulting severe resource shortage.  I just heard Rush Limbaugh call it a death panel.  I don’t agree—mostly—and . . . . Continue Reading »

I think the point of Obamacare is to destroy the private health insurance system.  But Obama/Pelosi/Reid aren’t sufficiently candid to openly propose the idea because that would allow a real and legitimate democratic debate about how we should manage the medical future. (Similarly, the . . . . Continue Reading »

In the past few months, I have come to think that Obamacare and the obsession with cost containment is driving us crazy. Now, after reading Slate writer Daniel Engber’s call for a war on shortness to be fought alongside the war on obesity, I know it is.  Writing in the New York Times . . . . Continue Reading »

Adult stem cells have restored feeling in the bodies of people paralyzed with spinal cord injury—indeed, even permitting some to walk with assistance. From the story : The injuries in the study patients were 18 months to 15 years old. The patients, ages 19 to 37, had no use of their legs . . . . Continue Reading »

Two notable stories about ethical stem cell research. First, another announcement of how olfactory adult stem cells have aided paralyzed patients with spinal cord injury regain feeling—and even walk.  From the story:The injuries in the study patients were 18 months to 15 years old. The . . . . Continue Reading »

Secondhand Smokette gets to the nub of the problem with Obamacare in her San Francisco Chronicle column today: It is a fiscal house of cards, built in sand, on a windy day.  Perhaps that is why the president and Democrats are so desperate for a Republican vote or two—then, they can share . . . . Continue Reading »

We supposedly live in enlightened times. But like the opening scene in Blue Velvet that shows the vermin crawling beneath the beautiful appearing lawn, the downtrodden in our world are exploited and oppressed in unbelievable ways.  Children are trafficked for sex. People are trafficked for . . . . Continue Reading »

I was asked to write a piece for an online magazine called The Church Report.  I decided to expand my criticism of the lawsuit in Connecticut to redefine the word “suicide” in the assisted suicide context to “aid in dying.” The suit wants a judge to rule that when the . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been warning for nearly ten years that the Medical and Bioethics Intelligentsia were committed to imposing futile care theory on the most weak and vulnerable patients.  Lately, we have been discussing the pronounced threat of health care rationing under Obamacare.  Today, I noticed . . . . Continue Reading »