Fire on Hearts

What sort of void of conscience and humanity must exist in a medical professional to have the capacity to help extend life and to willfully deny the patient and patient's family even a scintilla of hope? How could those charged with preserving and protecting life so blithely take any opportunity at life away?

Goliath Versus David

The state is powerful and bureaucracy is all-consuming. The individual is small and at mercy of the state. There remains a force more powerful though than the state.

Overturn the Overreach

The US Supreme Court has the opportunity to prevent Obamacare from swallowing our very lives and freedom. Let us pray the justices do their duty and uphold Constitutional restraint before all-encompassing cradle to grave dependency government comes to crush us.

Law Unto Themselves

What if an institution existed that had a multi billion dollar endowment, was the recipient of billions more in government grants and largess, produced many or most of the supposed "leaders" of this particular community (including judges and lawyers), and even incorporated within its leviathan ranks the region's most prestigious law school? Would it be an easy thing to find representation to take on such an institution, even in a case where their conduct was outrageous?

An Unholy Alliance

If Obamacare is upheld by the US Supreme Court and goes into full effect, doctors will become either wary or unwilling agents of the state, happy to deny needed care or forced to ration life sustaining measures. Even before Obamacare, for those like my Father who have already been refused treatment that would preserve life, this is not a theoretical discussion, but a battle to preserve the sanctity of innocent human life.

The Judas Doctor

You do not expect your doctor to deliberately seek to hasten your passing. This is an ultimate betrayal. My Father had the misfortune of encountering a treatment team intent not on prolonging his life but shortening it.

The Most Vulnerable

I probably had no reason to worry about medical care, after all I am not a senior citizen, apparently not afflicted by a costly illness, and certainly not utterly dependent. It is an absolute shame and should be a scandal that those who are completely at the mercy of caregivers now have plenty to fear as to what will not be done to keep them alive.