The Seattle ‘God Committee’: A Cautionary Tale
Carol Levine, Health Affairs
“Decisions about allocating scarce resources should be made using objective, consistent, and transparent criteria, not social worth. Finally, even beneficial programs should be re-examined in light of changing conditions.”  

The Five Biggest Lies in the Health Care Debate
Sharon Begley, Newsweek
”Many are simply scared out of their wits about what health-care reform will mean for them. But when fear and loathing hijack the brain, anything becomes believable—even that health-care reform is unconstitutional.”

Dead Wrong: Sarah Palin, meet Hippocrates
Sherwin B. Nuland, The New Republic
“After all, even if there were some provision before Congress that could conceivably be interpreted as establishing a “death panel,” centuries, if not millennia, of established medical ethics (in addition to existing U.S. law) would prevent its actualization.”

How American Health Care Killed My Father
David Goldhill, The Atlantic
“My dad became a statistic—merely one of the roughly 100,000 Americans whose deaths are caused or influenced by infections picked up in hospitals.”

More Than Meets the MRI
Roger Scruton, Times Online
"The philosopher Roger Scruton laments the rise of nonsensical neuroscience."