Steven W. Dugger of Wichita, KS writes: I enjoyed today's article by Geoffrey P. Hunt, but I think he understated one of his points.One of the reasons health care costs are rising is because the technology we have today allow us to live longer.  But that technology is expensive, and the better the technology is, the more expensive it’s going to get.   So, more and more, you’re looking at cases where the average person will not earn enough money in his entire career, to pay for the health care costs necessary to keep him alive for the last five years of his life.What do you do then?If our economy is to survive, there will come a point where we will have to let people die, just because there isn’t enough money to keep them alive.   I think that that moment in our history will place more strain on our morality then anything else, up to and including abortion.  Right now, our morality holds that life has infinite value.   The...(Read Full Post)