medical ethics

Europe's much-vaunted human rights laws have been of no use in protecting the life of disabled British baby Charlie Gard. Instead his parents have had to turn to America for help in their quest to save their baby.

For the people who will make the call across the pond or inside the Beltway, that’s the name of the game. They don’t give a damn about health care any more than they care about climate change or income inequality or the rights of the transgendered. For them, it’s all about power.