Obama Refers to a Child in His Speech That Would Have Been Killed Off

Economic Policy Journal ^ | 9/7/09 | Robert Wenzel

[FromLori]

President Obama's prepared remarks for his speech to students is out.

According to the prepared remarks, he at one point will state:

I’m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who’s fought brain cancer since he was three. He’s endured all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longer – hundreds of extra hours – to do his schoolwork. But he never fell behind, and he’s headed to college this fall. Brain cancer at three? All sorts of treatments and surgeries? This kid would have been six feet under if one of Obama's healthcare gurus had his way. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, has already been appointed to two key positions: health-policy adviser at the Office of Management and Budget and a member of the Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research, and according to an WSJ Op-Ed by Betsy McCaughey, "He clearly will play a role guiding the White House's health initiative."

So what's Ezekiel's take on three year-olds with brain cancer? Bury them. In the Lancet, Jan. 31, 2009, edition Ezekiel and co-authors presented a "complete lives system" for the allocation of very scarce resources. In his own words: When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get changes that are attenuated...Adolescents have received substantial education and parental care, investments that will be wasted without a complete life. Infants, by contrast, have not yet received these investments. . . . As the legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin argues, 'It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old dies and worse still when an adolescent does,' this argument is supported by empirical surveys. In Ezekiel's "complete lives system" this infant is buried at three. Fighting brain cancer in a mere three year old, do you realize the cost? Come on, can't you do Obama balanced budget accounting?

[VeniVidiVici]

Brain cancer at three? All sorts of treatments and surgeries? This kid would have been six feet under if one of Obama's healthcare gurus had his way.

LOL! I'm surprised Dumbo didn't say the kid was lucky for not having worked at the US Postal Service.

[jonrick46]

Zer0 has no credibility for me. He is using the victim of cancer to set himself up as a champion of the down and out. This is playing the victim card for political gain. Where is he for innocent life in the womb?

[Global2010]

Salvation and another Freeper posted the speech (I believe in its entirety)

I did not read it all.

So if this indeed is in it all I have to say how transparent Obama is in trying to Pimp his healthcare crap to kids.

Esp in this day and age when most kids have knowledge of a family/freind who has fought the odds with health issues or disablilities.
Most of I would hope understand it as not a challenge of an underdog rather perserverance of life.

Obama is a jerk.

[riri]

This kid would have been six feet under if one of Obama's healthcare gurus had his way.

He would have been dead 3 years and 7 months prior. Problem solved.

[lionheart 247365]

Under 0bie’s Healthcare Plan government sponsered abortion would be a dream come true . How many of these children are a concern for zer0 ?

[paulycy]

When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance

So much for "all men are created equal."

[thethirddegree]

Obama is a useless bread gobbler.