Tag: Commentary

Waste, fraud, and abuse aren’t just budget problems—they’re human ones. By Leslie Ford, Sara Hart Weir, and Rachel Barkley Medicaid was created in 1965 to ensure that Americans who were poor, elderly, or disabled could access basic health care. But ...

Part 8 in the 11-Part Series "Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?" With assisted suicide and euthanasia now in the cultural mainstream, the pro-death lobby began to seize the moment. But which was the easier issue to move forward: assisted ...

Part 7 in the 11-Part Series "Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?" By the end of the 1970s, while assisted suicide and euthanasia were still illegal in the U.S., bioethics continued to expand as a philosophical field, coinciding with a ...

Part 6 in the 10-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. Just as medical science pivoted to more “scientific” uses of genetic testing and an increased emphasis on mitigating genetic diseases, the field of bioethics ...

The world's growing rejection of the leftist green agenda has ironically made our world greener. National Center Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen explains: Earth Day 2026 is truly an occasion to commemorate, but not for the reasons environmentalists have trumpeted Earth ...

“When government responds to fraud with blunt instruments, the people who rely on these programs can become collateral damage.” In a commentary published at The Hill, Able Americans Director Rachel Barkley commends the good intentions of those who want to root out fraud in the social ...

Part 5 in the 10-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. When Allied forces liberated the camps between the summer of 1944 and the spring of 1945, what they found shocked the world. The first ...

Part 4 in the 10-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. The secret official and organized killing under Aktion T4 at the six killing centers continued. However, by late 1941 things were starting to fall ...

Part 3 in the 10-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. Unofficial killing began in earnest before Aktion T4 was implemented. In the beginning, Germans with disabilities (including infants and children) were admitted to hospitals ...

"For decades, public policy sent a quiet but devastating message to people with disabilities: Stay poor or lose life-saving benefits," writes Able Americans Senior Fellow Sara Hart Weir. Sara notes that more than a decade after the ABLE Act was ...