Guilt. It Comes Naturally To Me As

Guilt. It Comes Naturally To Me As A Jew And A Liberal.

Vaccines Are The Most Cost-effective Health Care Interventions There Are. A Dollar Spent On A Childhood Vaccination Not Only Helps Save A Life, But Greatly Reduces Spending On Future Healthcare.

Reasoning Based On Cost Has Been Strenuously Resisted; It Violated The Hippocratic Oath, Was Associated With Rationing, And Derided As Putting A Price On Life... Indeed, Many Physicians Were Willing To Lie To Get Patients What They Needed From Insurance Companies That Were Trying To Hold Down Costs.

Patients Who Are Being Kept Alive By Technology And Want To End Their Lives Already Have A Recognized Constitutional Right To Stop Any And All Medical Interventions, From Respirators To Antibiotics. They Do Not Need Physician-assisted Suicide Or Euthanasia.

We Had A Big Controversy In The United States When There Was A Limited Number Of Dialysis Machines. In Seattle, They Appointed What They Called A 'god Committee' To Choose Who Should Get It, And That Committee Was Eventually Abandoned. Society Ended Up Paying The Whole Bill For Dialysis Instead Of Having People Make Those Decisions.