Ezekiel Emanuel Article: Deny Medical Care to Alzheimer's Patients

IsraPundit ^ | 8/12/09 | Bill Levinson

[Winged Hussar]

We previously compared Obamacare to the German Aktion T4, in which "life unworthy of living" was to be eliminated through denial of medical care or even palliatives such as Zyklon B. In fairness to the health care bill HR 3200, of which we downloaded a complete copy, the section on end of life counseling does not mandate or even encourage euthanasia. ...However, Ezekiel Emanuel (Rahm Emanuel's brother, with close ties to Barack Obama) is on written record as advocating denial of "discretionary" medical care to patients with dementia such as Alzheimer's Disease: a position entirely consistent with Germany's Aktion T4 health care plan. The Hastings Center Report in question also talks about "communitarianism," and the Communitarians are on record as advocating practices that all responsible hunters and firearm owners would define as slob hunting and vicious cruelty to animals.

This civic republican or deliberative democratic conception of the good provides both procedural and substantive insights for developing a just allocation of health care resources. Procedurally, it suggests the need for public forums to deliberate about which health services should be considered basic and should be socially guaranteed. Substantively, it suggests services that promote the continuation of the polity-those that ensure healthy future generations, ensure development of practical reasoning skills, and ensure full and active participation by citizens in public deliberations-are to be socially guaranteed as basic. Conversely, services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia. A less obvious example is guaranteeing neuropsychological services to ensure children with learning disabilities can read and learn to reason.

[Winged Hussar]

[Stepan12]

Unseless bread gobblers /s

[RummyChick]

interview with the guy who made the headlines from yesterday’s Specter town hall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGb_eElg24Q

[b4its2late]

Ezekiel Emanuel’s medical license should be revoked.

[Always Right]

I think the Obama camp thinks of them as “Useless Emitters of Greenhouse Gases.

[silverleaf]

What, you don’t want Dr. Zeke as your oncologist?
He probably had a very low patient readmission rate...

[RC2]

My father died of this problem. Withhold care? Are they totally heartless? Have they ever had their father look at them and not know who they were? Have they ever been in a position where they could no longer have a conversation with their father? I wish with all my heart that the medical industry had found a way to cure my father but it was not there. We can’t give up on our parents and grandparents. Those that gave their lives for us deserve all our support, not the government killing machine.

[ravingnutter]

I wouldn’t want him as my proctologist, one a—hole in the exam room is enough.

[kcvl]

Ezekiel Emanuel’s medical license should be revoked.

Long, long ago!

Instead, he is Director of the Clinical Bioethics Department at the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

[boomop1]

He is a hoodlum scum as his brother.

[kcvl]

Ezekiel Emanuel wrote an article for The Hastings Center Report in 1996, in which he suggested that public deliberative forums should decide which health services should be socially guaranteed, and that those services "that ensure healthy future generations, ensure development of practical reasoning skills, and ensure full and active participation by citizens in public deliberations" might be considered by this deliberative body as "basic", while "services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed". He goes on to give examples illustrating these two concepts: "not guaranteeing health services to patients with demenia", while "guaranteeing neuropsychological services to ensure children with learning disabilities can read and learn to reason".

[MozarkDawg]

May I have a clarification for future use? He is speaking to any medical care/services to these *useless eaters* is he not? He is not advocating they be denied ONLY if they are under government insurance, right?

I just want to be certain, so that should I use a quote later on, some other message board, some nitwit won't come along and say "They can always pay for it themselves" or such.

[DustyMoment]

We previously compared Obamacare to the German Aktion T4, in which "life unworthy of living" was to be eliminated through denial of medical care or even palliatives such as Zyklon B. In fairness to the health care bill HR 3200, of which we downloaded a complete copy, the section on end of life counseling does not mandate or even encourage euthanasia. ...However, Ezekiel Emanuel (Rahm Emanuel's brother, with close ties to Barack Obama) is on written record as advocating denial of "discretionary" medical care to patients with dementia such as Alzheimer's Disease: a position entirely consistent with Germany's Aktion T4 health care plan.

I sincerely pray to God that neither Obama, either of the Emanuels, or any supporter of this horrible "plan" ever suffers from a debilitating disease or has a loved one who suffers such a fate.

And,I hope that God will forgive them for their horrible, perverted and disgraceful characterizations of human beings!

[kati2fl]

My mother died this June 23.she had internal bleeding set in..( I still say it was the medicine for Alzheimer’s.Mixed with her heart medication..and Dr said she was 82 and too weak to operate on..that her “poor” heart was tired out......(I lost it)...........I know the heartbreak...we were with her for a week before she passed and she didn’t know us at all....the look in her eyes was so pleading.as please help me..whats going on....... Ezekiel Emanuel (this so called Dr) is one cold hearted Bast**d........How dare he.......

[b4its2late]

I wonder who the older one is of the two, Zeke or Rhammmy

[socialismisinsidious]

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[kcvl]

“services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed”.

[Pajamajan]

bookmark

[mrsmel]

It fits right in with having a tax cheat over Treasury.

[Cheburashka]

How about research into the causes of Alzheimer's, and possible treatments that delay the onset of the mental deterioration? Are those verbotten (a little NaziGerman lingo there) as well? If a hypothetical future discovery allows, say, a two year delay in the dementia, do we implement that treatment, or just suppress the research results so Alzheimer's sufferers and their family are not aware that the treatment exists? And counsel the family that poor Uncle Robert would be better off with an "expedited end-of-life" treatment?