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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery.

The bottom line is, until we're helping people to stop smoking, screening for breast cancer, giving Pap smears, giving prenatal care to pregnant women, we should not go into publicly paying for the artificial heart, which will benefit at great cost only a few people.

Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.

This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything.

There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.

Many premature babies are never given a chance to make it out of the hospital.

The American people have not become heartless.

In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.

I don't think one ought to bring a clearly disabled child into the world.