The Silence of Ethics and the Economies of Medicine

My fear is that the academics and theologians, with the best intentions, are being seduced into an unholy alliance with the many bean counters who oversee our hospitals, and will provide them with the aura of humanity and ethical sanction that only blurs what is the true state of American medicine: reduced services, and even denied services, to those who are in fact not "too far gone" to be saved, but only too old, too poor, or too powerless to command adequate care.