Health care rationing is nothing new under the sun. Decisions not to treat based upon inability to pay decisions are made hundreds, if not thousands of times a day across the US in hospitals, clinics, and doctors offices.

I am greatly relieved at the judge's ruling not to reopen this can of worms. Let's hope the appeals are turned down as quickly in Atlanta and Washington.

There is one question the Right to Lifers never want to answer about this case: what about the thousands of other patients who will have their feeding tubes removed by their legal guardians this year?