Steven H. Aden: Locked-In’ to Bureaucratic Healthcare

Steven H. Aden writes The Church Report: “The recent report of 46-year-old Rom Houben’s 23-year agony as a sufferer of what neurologists call ‘locked-in syndrome’ should make would-be regulators of the American health care system sit up and take notice . . . There was a time in American health care when all available means – even so-called ‘extraordinary’ or ‘heroic’ means – would be deployed to save a life, with no regard to the cost. That era began to pass away some time ago, before the shadow of government bureaucratization of the health care system – with the threat of ‘death panels’ and rationing – loomed.”