Old and In the Way?

Townhall.com ^ | September 25, 2014 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Kaslin]

Normally, no one would care that in a recent Atlantic essay -- "Why I hope to die at 75"-- 57-year-old Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel argued that living to be 75 years old was long enough for anyone. After 75, Emanuel suggests, "We are no longer remembered as vibrant and engaged but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic.

But Emanuel is no garden-variety crackpot. Nor is he a wannabe science-fiction writer dreaming of a centrally planned planet of robust youthful humanoids. Unfortunately, he was one of the chief architects of the troubled Affordable Care Act and a key medical advisor to the Obama administration.

The ACA's conservative critics have long knocked Obamacare as a first step toward medical rationing. Read Emanuel's diatribe against living too long, and suddenly Sarah Palin's attack on Obamacare's "death panels" does not seem so far-fetched.

Emanuel's main point is that those who live beyond 75 inordinately gobble up collective health resources -- like flu shots. Emanuel asserts that at age 75 and beyond, he will decline nearly all medical tests and treatments. ("What about simple stuff? Flu shots are out.") He claims he won't take antibiotics either.

"I think this manic desperation to endlessly extend life is misguided and potentially destructive," Emanuel writes. "For many reasons, 75 is a pretty good age to aim to stop."

[BenLurkin]

Why wait sir?

Isn’t 57 years plenty?

[Still Thinking]

We’d all have been better off if he died at 5.

[Red Badger]

The Nazis had a term for this mental disorder......................Useless Eaters....................

[stanne]

old & in the way songs

Every song on the record is perfect

[skeeter]

To the liberals, old = white and conservative voter.

Of course they want them dead.

[MarkL]

Funny how all those proposing that limits being placed on life, health care, housing, income, etc, are those in protected casts and none of their proposals will actually effect them!

Mark

[Dawgreg]

Nazi tactics...what rock did this jerk crawl out from under???

[EagleUSA]

Hanson should crawl back into his copy of the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO where he came from....

[GOPJ]

Unfortunately, he was one of the chief architects of the troubled Affordable Care Act and a key medical advisor to the Obama...

Obama has a way of finding thugs with superior attitudes --- and little else. Add one more lowlife to his list...

[GOPJ]

The Nazis had a term for this mental disorder......................Useless Eaters...

Major power of Nazis control was the bureaucracy... Group think with power. Same with Obama. These people think if they're 'official' that it's the same as being ethical. Speaking of people over 75 - Leonard Cohen just put out a new album - and he's 80. It's great.

[elteemike]

“Should crawl back into his copy of the Communist Manifesto”...

Did you mean Emmanuel instead of Hanson?

Victor Davis Hanson is pretty solid conservative in my experience...Do you know something to the contrary?

[Chgogal]

Better if he were aborted.

[Kaslin]

Did you even read the article? Victor Davis Hanson does not suggest that 75 is long enough for people to live. That was Rahm Fishwrap Emmanuel's brother Ezekiel Emmanuel who suggested it.

I suggest you learn read, before you make a fool of yourself.

Never mind you already did that

[SMARTY]

Looking at the title, I thought it was going to be an article about McCain

[Kaslin]

Good point

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Someone needs to tell Ezekiel that Mrs. Clinton is 9 years away from 75.

[Kaslin]

Yeah doesn’t Dr Mengele come to mind?

[Kaslin]

I don’t think he read the article

[Kaslin]

Let the horses think, they have larger heads