Posted on 07/25/2009 5:12:31 PM PDT by Starman417
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's brother, a physician, appointed to Obama health care job admits killing old people is the only way to cut costs!
DEADLY DOCTORS O ADVISERS WANT TO RATION CARE By BETSY MCCAUGHEY New York Post July 24, 2009"Communitarianism?" Sounds like ?Emanuel: Believes in withholding care from elderly for greater good. THE health bills coming out of Congress would put the decisions about your care in the hands of presidential appointees. They'd decide what plans cover, how much leeway your doctor will have and what seniors get under Medicare.
Yet at least two of President Obama's top health advisers should never be trusted with that power.
Start with Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. He has already been appointed to two key positions: health-policy adviser at the Office of Management and Budget and a member of Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research.
Emanuel bluntly admits that the cuts will not be pain-free. "Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely 'lipstick' cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change," he wrote last year (Health Affairs Feb. 27, 2008).
Savings, he writes, will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, "as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others" (Journal of the American Medical Association, June 18, 2008). Yes, that's what patients want their doctors to do. But Emanuel wants doctors to look beyond the needs of their patients and consider social justice, such as whether the money could be better spent on somebody else.
Many doctors are horrified by this notion; they'll tell you that a doctor's job is to achieve social justice one patient at a time. Emanuel, however, believes that "communitarianism" should guide decisions on who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those "who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens . . . An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia" (Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. '96). Translation: Don't give much care to a grandmother with Parkinson's or a child with cerebral palsy.
He explicitly defends discrimination against older patients: "Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years" (Lancet, Jan. 31).
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If you use one from the the late 70’s, what’s the loss?
Yup.
Here’s an article on the founder of communitarianism, Etzioni.
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/010901-13.htm
there are more but whatever...
Sorry about that. LOL
I am reminded of what I've always believed about Ross Perot's '92 campaign: If the Clintons got elected he'd get Hillary care's DP contract.
You must be right about Big Pharm and AARP.
Ross Perot split the Conservative vote, or Clinton would never have been President....sad. Perot was right on about NAFTA, among other things...but I fear the same thing will happen in 2012. So many issues, and everyone divided on who will make best GOP leader, so if we have a libertarian, independent, and rerun of Ron Paul,,, plus others,,, that splits the vote enough to get zero back in, even if he loses half his base. WE MUST UNITE BEHIND ONE CANDIDATE AND STOP BICKERING!
Well, there's a protest sign.
Isn't it ironic that the man behind most of the obamakill has the last name Emmanual? A Jew proposing the "final" solution to healthcare costs.
You're right but it don't help none when the Party pisses off people (like me for 45 years and still counting); to wit,
Nelson Rockefeller according to Stuart Spencer (Rockefeller's public relations head) said, "We had to destroy Barry Goldwater as a member of the human race."
They're still doing it? Mainline Republicans have to destroy Sarah Palin as a member of the human race?
They're a mite gentler than Rockefeller, Scranton, et al but the goal is the same?
“Emanuel, however, believes that “communitarianism” should guide decisions on who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those “who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens . . . An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia” (Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. ‘96). Translation: Don’t give much care to a grandmother with Parkinson’s or a child with cerebral palsy.
Sounds like Eugenics to me.”
Eugenics—part of the Nazi Party belief system and the modern liberal Democrat......
If you dig into the CFR you find that the head of think tank this past year was David Rockefeller, and a self confessed communist. Need I say more?
Under this neo-Nazi, my nephew Lance who has Sturge Weber syndrome would be dead. Wear the name proudly, Ezekiel. You’re a latter day Nazi.
I have always thought the pogrom against Terri Schiavo was a test case (along with Hugh Finn and others) of the legality of euthanasia in the name of utilitarianism.
found it HERE: http://www.abortion.org.au/Abortion1.gif
We did.
Obama...
If I remember correctly most of FR did not vote for bozo and including me.
I think there’s some authority that does *something* like that. ;’)
And the same goes for all the brave disabled heros who have sacrificed while fighting in zero’s name.That hopefully should put the military on our side when the s&*! hits the fan and we have to manually drag this filthy african muslim usurper from OUR executive mansion!!!!!!!
Adolf Hitler has been reincarnated.
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