Negative Space: assisted suicide
- Costs of assisted suicide
- Neil Gorsuch writes about the “unintended consequences” of legalizing assisted suicide in the Wisconsin Law Review.
- Misplaced compassion: more deaths, less dignity
- I fear that a successful “death with dignity” movement will only exacerbate the bad laws and choices that result in excessive pain, and will result in a slippery slope towards more and more assisted suicides.
- Oregon’s physician-assisted suicide
- The federal government has the power to keep effective doses of pain reduction medication from patients, but not lethal doses of medication.
- Phase 1: Reforming health care
- Our current health care system works so poorly we want to expand it: instead of a bunch of huge organizations vying for the attention of multiple employers, we’re going to have a few (at best) even bigger organizations vying for the attention of government bureaucrats. Why not come up with some reform that actually reforms?
More Information
- An Inconvenient Truth About The “Death Panel”
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“Put together the concepts of prognosis and age, and Dr. Emanuel’s proposal reasonably could be construed as advocating the withholding of some level of medical treatment (probably not basic care, but likely expensive advanced care) to a baby born with Down Syndrome. You may not like this implication, but it is Dr. Emanuel’s implication not Palin’s.”
