Ezekiel sure is participating. He is the author of the Complete Lives System, the rationing of medical care, and Obamcare. No wonder he is so cocky when being interviewed. He is feeling quite powerful right about now, and answers to no one. He is evil, cold-hearted and a snake.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203706604574374463280098676
uh, I think the question was his participation as a patient and customer like everyone else....which I say is not possible due to his power and connex.
However he dresses it up, he's really just another in a long line of Progressive eugenicists who "just knows more about it than you do."
More people need to see the curve he uses, shown in the WSJ article, and also to read and re-read his distinction without a difference to grasp how this creep thinks, how discriminating against older Americans isn't really discriminating against older Americans.
Megan did a fine job, actually hold herself back and being overly polite, perhaps because she would like this gas bag back to allow him more opportunity to boast about his ideas.
Note how simple questions that could have otherwise been easily answered with a measured response become instead chattering, angry sophistry aimed at George Bush and Republicans. The administration and its supporters decide they must use an axe to thread a stitch and Dr. Zeke claims anyone who questions their methods have "presented no credible alternative."
The thing more American need to understand is this guy is a true believer, actually lobbying for his abhorrent positions with fervor.
There's no negotiating with him, like the Nazis. And that's an idea that would get a rise out of him, an arguably easy task. And his hate for "Republicans," really only an abstraction divorced from reality, is aimed equally at centrists and conservative.
The horrors never end once an unnatural measure of an individual's "quality of life" becomes an official standard for measuring an individual's intrinsic "value."
How many people in your family, or among your neighbors, near and far, would be determined to be leading "lives not worth living" when government, acting as the ruler rather than as a servant of "society" decides it must determine "how to allocate limited medical resources?"
You can be sure, when push comes to shove, urbane and connected White elitists like he and his brothers will pull the plug on your grandmother in flyover country before shutting down life support for their own kin.
After all, "everybody knows" the Chicago mayor is of more value "to society" than your grandmother, or mother, in the warped and sick standard of measure tallied up in "life-years."
More people need to grasp how truly dangerous this fearful little man has now become, and why.