Oregon asked people about moral values

EDITOR,—David Price's tale about rationing of health care based on the case of child B, who had leukaemia, conveys sorrow for the child, grief for the parents, empathy for the physician, sympathy for the judges and administrators, and even pity for the barristers who struggle over the fate of a sick child in a strange dialect of legal abstraction.1 They seem, together, to be helpless victims of a system without moral direction.

With regard to the Oregon health plan, I must point …