Posted on 09/25/2014 9:09:40 AM PDT by 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
I just looked that up, the band was OLD AND IN THE WAY! I will have to find a copy of that music!
I also was just thinking about what my life insurance agent told me. He was telling us about extended care coverage for when you are older and do not want to live in a nursing home.
He said when you are 40, 50, 60 you may say you don’t want to live any longer. But his father was 80 and still wanted to live as long as he could IN his own home. He said care for him was expensive but it is what his father wanted.
After his father had said for all his life that he didn’t want to live to be really old.... he said once you are 70 or 80 or 90 you might change your mind.
So plan ahead, just in case!
How about insightful, precisely correct, brilliant, and brave?
Sarah is a latterday Joan of Arc, the secret love-child of Teddy Roosevelt and Annie Oakley and a direct descendant of Molly Pitcher and Boadicea.
Go Sarah!
Was it the Nazis who coined that one?
Well, Nazis and Communists are ideological first cousins after all ..... a point much obfuscated by NKVD disinformation specialists and their American traitor hacks like Izzy Stone and C.P. Snow back in the early 40's.
Mr. Emmanuel, my grandfather was among the first at Omaha Beach and went all the way to Buchenwald. He slogged off the landing craft with M1 Garand in tow and he fought people like you. Mr. Emmanuel, you are nothing but a cheerleader for the likes of Josef Mengele.
Seven years for Bill Clinton...
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