The moral outrage being expressed in this thread presupposes that we have the economic resources to provide unlimited medical care in all areas without having to make the difficult decisions about where else to cut back. If providing care to one premature baby with multiple birth defects means having to withhold asthma treatment to tens or hundreds of adolescents with asthma, then there is a difficult decision to be made, especially when one or more of the asthma patients could die of their disease.
See #33