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Matthew LoftusEthicsHealth & Medicine

letting dying people die is not the same as killing them

The government shouldn't interfere with a parents' decision to try to keep their child alive. But keeping someone alive isn't always ethical & dignifying.

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

The healthcare problem markets and charity can't fix

The government is really only good at three things: killing people, keeping people from dying, and collecting money to do the first two things

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

5 ways to actually reform American healthcare

Conservatives have failed to articulate what a just healthcare system would look like. Here are 5 options to choose from.

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

Health care is not a human right, but it is also not just a market commodity

Health care is a social good that buttresses the right to life. It is not a market commodity.

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

addiction: the devil you can measure and the devil you can't

What if addiction is a spiritual power, a hole between our brains and a demonic nether world?

Matthew LoftusCultureHealth & Medicine

I love candy, but I'm glad my wife won't let me eat it all the time

If you eat intellectual junk food, you will get moral diabetes. Which leads to cultural amputations and political dialysis. And terrible-analogy insulin.

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

Make the healthcare system better with this one weird trick!

There are a lot of things that are broken about the American healthcare system. I think one the main problems can be summed up by observing that most parts of the system are not really designed to make people healthy, take […]