The right to life support

In a recent Slate article , Steve Landesburg, discusses the recent decision to end the life support of a poor woman. He argues that

A policy of helping everyone who needs a ventilator is a policy of spending less to help the same class of people in other ways. Accounting for "economic considerations" means—by definition—trying to give people what they'll value the most. In other words, economic considerations are the basis of true compassion.

Robert Frank responds here