Health Care Rationing

Baby Joseph battles

Sheila Liaugminas | 02 March 2011

The hospital involved in this sad story is representing itself as allowing the family’s wishes to take their child home to die there instead of in the stark atmosphere of the medical facility. And some news stories have reported that the parents are getting their wish, after all. Not exactly true…

‘Death panel’ debate revived

Sheila Liaugminas | 05 January 2011

Over the Christmas holiday, the Obama administration inserted ‘end of life’ counseling into the health care plans for Medicare patients when few were paying attention. They are now.

Disabilities Act has an anniversary

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 July 2010

And it may be short-lived.

Dysfunctional ‘family guy’

Sheila Liaugminas | 31 March 2010

Anyone familiar with the Fox channel’s satiric show ‘Family Guy’ already knows how irreverent its writers are about real family values and things like respect and common decency. There was none of either in a recent episode of that show when they tastelessly and offensively ridiculed Terri Schiavo and her end-of-life ordeal that gripped the nation before she passed away, five years ago.

The Rationing Commission?

Sheila Liaugminas | 17 November 2009

Democrats are quietly attempting to impose a “global budget” on Medicare, with radical implications for U.S. medicine.

‘Death panels’

Sheila Liaugminas | 20 October 2009

Sarah Palin introduced that term into public and political debate over health care reform and now it’s regularly repeated by news analysts, usually scorned but occasionally affirmed.

Max and the Bean Counters

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 September 2009

The Baucus bill under debate in Congress this week is being touted as the compromise to save health care ‘reform’. But that’s a misrepresentation.

When saving money is the primary goal

Sheila Liaugminas | 21 September 2009

The consequences will lead to justifying practices that are dehumanizing.

The face of euthanasia

Sheila Liaugminas | 15 September 2009

Seems like everyone would know Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s immense role in spreading the cause of death on demand.