Wesley Smith of Discovery Institute is one of the few "bioethicists" who actually argues for a traditional, invariably high, valuation of human life. Many of the others, unfortunately, are now parts of the machinery of hospital panels convened to deliberate on end of life treatments. The reason this is unfortunate is that the people that pay the bioethicists' salaries are usually plagued by budgetary pressures that subtly, or blatantly, compel rationing of care.
A disturbing recent family situation persuades me that this pressure already operates under Medicare--a government program. It may well be the future for everyone under ObamaCare, when each of us, effectively, will be in competition with others for scarce, government-controlled treatment dollars.
Think not? Look at NICE in Britain, as Wesley Smith describes it in connection with ObamaCare.
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