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Obama's Health Rationer-in-Chief
Wall Street Journal ^ | Updated Aug. 27, 2009 12:52 p.m. ET | Betsy McCaughey

Posted on 11/18/2013 9:18:42 PM PST by Eva

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, health adviser to President Barack Obama, is under scrutiny. As a bioethicist, he has written extensively about who should get medical care, who should decide, and whose life is worth saving. Dr. Emanuel is part of a school of thought that redefines a physician’s duty, insisting that it includes working for the greater good of society instead of focusing only on a patient’s needs. Many physicians find that view dangerous, and most Americans are likely to agree.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: deathpanel; deathpanels; democrat; democrats; drezkill; ezekielemanuel; healthcommission; obama; obamacare; rationing
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To: Eva
Here are some choice quotes from the article from Dr. Death, who has a truly Hitlerian perspective on human life. Babies and the mentally disabled are first in line to the death panels along with retirees...

"Covering 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."

"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

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."

Dr. Emanuel says the United States should erect a decision-making body similar to the United Kingdom's rationing body—the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)—to slow the adoption of new medications and set limits on how much will be paid to lengthen a life.

In 1993, he urged that President Bill Clinton impose a wage and price freeze on health care to force parties to the table. "The desire to be rid of the freeze will do much to concentrate the mind,"

21 posted on 11/18/2013 10:13:52 PM PST by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: Jane Long

She was also on Megyn Kelly recently saying that the bill essentially already gives us single-payer health care, especially in light of the Medicaid expansion.


22 posted on 11/18/2013 10:16:09 PM PST by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: Eva

Emanuel=Mengele


23 posted on 11/18/2013 10:37:48 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Eva

I hadn’t seen that article. Yoga in the park? I read somewhere that acupuncture is also required coverage under obamacare.


24 posted on 11/18/2013 10:38:12 PM PST by Girlene (Hey, NSA!)
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To: Eva

“Rahm and Ezekiel may be secular Jews, but it doesn’t sound as though their parents were. I wonder if they are proud of their sons?”

They must somehow be related to Geyorgi Schwartz (Soros)!


25 posted on 11/18/2013 10:40:15 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Jane Long

The people were listening but the Democrats in congress are the ones who passed this piece of crap they knew that more than a majority of people were against it but they crammed it down our throats anyway.


26 posted on 11/18/2013 11:16:28 PM PST by funfan
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To: willywill

Not necessarily, he just has a thing for guys. I’d love to see and hear Mark Levin have a one on one with ole Zeke Emanuel...priceless!


27 posted on 11/19/2013 12:00:14 AM PST by itssme
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To: MasterGunner01

He is a reincarnation of Adolf Eichman. He should wind up the same way


28 posted on 11/19/2013 2:30:50 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Jimmy Valentine; Eva
Yes, the evil creature is Satan's spawn, promoting abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, death panels. A secular Jew who serves as Obama's wild-eyed, genocidal maniac. A new Holocaust is on the horizon.
29 posted on 11/19/2013 3:14:59 AM PST by twister881
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To: Eva

If the worst were to happen and Obamacare goes into full effect, Emanuel is going to need a Secret Service detail equal to that provided that thing in the White House.


30 posted on 11/19/2013 4:03:43 AM PST by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: Eva

The Jewish Dr. Mengele, how sad.


31 posted on 11/19/2013 4:27:26 AM PST by DAC21
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To: funfan

Yes, precisely. EVERY lib/dem I know supported this POC...even the more moderate dems. They are completely silent, now.


32 posted on 11/19/2013 5:45:44 AM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: Eva

Bump for the morning.


33 posted on 11/19/2013 6:47:27 AM PST by Eva
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To: Eva

“Obama’s Health Rationer in Chief”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3092938/posts

A little trip down memory lane.


34 posted on 11/19/2013 7:08:24 AM PST by Eva
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