Posted on 08/14/2009 6:51:27 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
@ 8:23 am by Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) praised a Senate committee's decision to drop an end-of-life provision from its healthcare reform bill, but continued to pound away at the overall bill — especially a proposal by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel.
"It's gratifying that the voice of the people is getting through to Congress," Palin said in a new note on her Facebook page posted early Friday morning of the Senate Finance Committee's decision to drop end-of-life consultations from its health bill. (The Alaska politician had derided those consultations as "death panels" seeking to aid the euthanasia of the elderly.)
"However, that provision was not the only disturbing detail in this legislation; it was just one of the more obvious ones," Palin added.
Palin alleged that Emanuel, a White House healthcare adviser and brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, would advocate a "Complete Lives System," which "if enacted, would refuse to allocate medical resources to the elderly, the infirm, and the disabled who have less economic potential."
President Obama's silence on the Complete Lives System is troubling, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate asserted, and called on the president to answer questions about the theory.
"Why the silence from the president on this aspect of his nationalization of health care? Does he agree with the 'Complete Lives System'?" Palin asked. "If not, then why is Dr. Emanuel his policy advisor? What is he advising the president on?"
The note marks the latest in a series of attacks Palin has launched on the president's heatlhcare reform proposals, and signals that while the conservative Republican had managed a small political victory over end-of-life care, she would continue to hammer away against Obama.
"We must stop and think or we may find ourselves losing even more of our freedoms," she wrote.
in before the Sarah h8ers/obamabots call her a quitter or irrelavent
This is a brilliant challenge by Palin to Obama.
The attack on ObamaCare up ‘til now has focused on the details of the house bill. A broader attack is now needed, because when you look at the left’s ideal health care system in total it smacks of elitism and centralized control.
Obama tells us time and again, doctors are greedy and wasteful. Central planning boards of experts like Zeke Emanuel will provide mandates for acceptable practices, and hoards of bureaucrats will review every action made by doctors. There will be punishment for those who don’t conform.
There will be no tort reform under Obama and the left because lawyers like Obama are needed to keep doctors in line.
Finally, Obama’s boards and bureaucrats will decide who can become doctors (by controlling reimbursement of tuition)and what specialties they can practice.
Editor
Wichita Eagle
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel supports the denial of medical care to the elderly and to the disabled.
Dr. Emanuel is a member of the Obama Administration.
Dr. Emanuel is the Brother of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
Dr. Emanuel is the primary advisor, to the Obama Administration, on health “reform” issues.
Dr. Emanuel has written about the “Complete Lives System” as the basis to ration health care. “A young person with a poor prognosis has had few life-years but lacks the potential to live a complete life. Considering prognosis forestalls the concern that disproportionately large amounts of resources will be directed to young people with poor prognosis.” Dr. Emanuel further says that his proposed system, “produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years old get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated.”
“People are policy” is always the rule, in any Administration. Dr. Emanuel’s position is the official position of the Obama administration, even if they are trying to hide that fact from us.
Wichita has a strong history of support for disabled children. The Special Needs support in the Wichita Public Schools is remarkable. In addition, we have a proud history of private, charitable support for the disabled. Heartspring, Rainbows United, Kansas Elks Training Center, Starkey, and so many other organizations and individuals form a support base in Wichita that is so strong, so compassionate and so vital to the care of our disabled children, that few other communities can compete with Wichita on this issue.
If you have a disabled child in your family, Wichita is where you want to live!
Therefore, the compassionate example of Wichita, when it comes to disabled children, should serve as the standard for how we, as a country, care for those who are weak, mentally retarded, autistic, have MS or MD or any of the other maladies that so many of us have dealt with.
Our children and grandchildren, as well as our parents, DESERVE to have heart surgery or other vital treatments, regardless of age and regardless of other ailments or disabilities.
House Bill 3200, in the United States Congress, will restrict such vital, life saving services, for those under 15 or over 40 years old. That bill will also prohibit us from paying, out of our own pockets, for many life saving services. If a government bureaucrat decides that the life of our loved ones does not have enough “value” on their eugenics, Malthusian-based scale, we are prohibited from treating that person!
One other thing to ponder: Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, and any of her successors, and any government employees under their direction, will be exempt from any court challenge on the denial of care. The decision of the health Czars, or the “death Panels” as Sarah Palin aptly calls them, are final. Only a joint act of Congress can over-rule a decision of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, for instance. The same will be true for any “denial of care” decision from our government if this horrible Bill ever becomes law.
“Comparative Effectiveness Research” is a euphemism, or code, for rationing. The term is used frequently, by the politicians in Washington. President Obama uses the term rather frequently.
There are many reasons to oppose House Bill 3200. Try to prove me wrong, on the points I have listed, READ THE BILL!
Please, Wichita, do yourself proud: Read this bill, and rise to the proud advocacy tradition that Wichita has always taken, on behalf of the disabled!
Sincerely;
Paul F. Rosell
Wichita, KS
and don’t you just love the footnotes....
Sarah is biting chunks out of this ObamaCare like a hungry Rottweiler. Chomp, chomp, chomp....that would make a nice political cartoon.
Palin is challenging 0bama on the very issue that he himself has said he was staking his presidency on.
0bama has pounding his “stake” in jello.
Isn’t that amazing....I’d say Sarah is doing so much better than the elites ever considered
But unlike Rush, she would run for president.
I think you nailed it. A Sarah radio show would probably match Rush.
I am concerned about this facebook thing. You know it can be hacked and make her to look like an idiot. Once it’s hacked the media will report “what she wrote” as fact and never say a word once someone is caught for hacking the site. And to many people believe the media.
Do you wonder how they’re going to justify AIDS treatment under their system?
Here’s my prediction - homo’s lifestyle is going to be giving a “bonus” as being a more worthy life. This will slant their Quality Adjusted Life Year score so as to justify their expensive AIDS treatment.
Sarah, is and always has been, the “Anti-Obama”.
I found it a bit disturbing, yet bracing, that it was SHE
who was given the task of going after Obama during the campaign, while McCain’s task seemed merely “to lose”.
This bill AS A WHOLE should be rejected, with no compromise.
NO COMPROMISE.
The fact that they backtracked on some end-of-life verbiage means nothing; it only ensures that more stuff we don’t like is likely to remain IN the bill.
It has to be REJECTED IN TOTO.
NEVER FORGET just what it was they tried to foist on the entire nation from the get go. THAT is what they should be
called on.
I sent Murkowski an email and told her that I trusted Palin more than I would ever trust her.
I’m so with you!
I don’t want her running. I want her to continue doing just what she is.
Making them sweat.
If they ignored her, she would go away, but they keep covering her. CNN is waiting breathlessly for her Tweets. They are drawn to her like flies to a flame.
You’ve nailed it. She’s turning the tables, using the rhetorical tactics used by the left. Reagan was “making children starve”; Bush was “torturing innocent Muslims.” Sarah injects the phrase “death panel” into the MSM/Dem lexicon! So even when they criticize the phrase, people hear it, and Obama’s numbers drop!
It’s a great political tactic in today’s soundbyte age.
The obligation to participate in biomedical research.
G. Owen Schaefer, Ezekiel J . Emanuel, Alan Wertheimer.
JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association.
July 1, 2009 v302 i1 p67(6).
Abstract:
The article discusses the need for biomedical research to be looked upon as an obligation, that is available to every individual, whether they want it or not. Individuals should participate in such research in order to help make the society and community a healthier and long lived community.
Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions.
Govind Persad, Alan Wertheimer, Ezekiel J . Emanuel. The Lancet. Jan 31, 2009 v373 i9661 p423(9).
Author's Abstract:
Allocation of very scarce medical interventions such as organs and vaccines is a persistent ethical challenge. We evaluate eight simple allocation principles that can be classified into four categories: treating people equally, favouring the worst-off, maximising total benefits, and promoting and rewarding social usefulness....
We recommend an alternative system -- the complete lives system -- which prioritises younger people who have not yet lived a complete life, and also incorporates prognosis, save the most lives, lottery, and instrumental value principles.
Author Affiliation:
(a) Department of Bioethics, The Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
What are bioethicists doing about health care reform?
Ezekiel J . Emanuel. The Hastings Center Report. March-April 2008 v38 i2 p12(2).
[snip]
True universal coverage--covering 100 percent of the population--requires significantly changing the health care financing system. In particular, it requires disconnecting coverage from employment and any income-indexed eligibility requirements. Without such a separation, some people will refuse to pay, and others will be excluded because they cannot pay. Even in the Netherlands, where the population is more compliant and easier to oversee, a similar mandate with subsidies for two-thirds of the population still leaves 1.5 percent of the population uninsured. In this regard, single-payer plans have it right--true universal coverage requires a single-payer financing system. In the current U.S. health care system, this would mean eliminating employer-based coverage as well as government programs, such as Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, that have income eligibility limits.
[snip]
This means nothing short of eliminating the fee-for-service reimbursement system, which is purely quantity-driven. It also requires routine monitoring and reporting patient outcomes. Again, these are hardly easy reforms.
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