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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"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,"
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.
Emanuel=Mengele
I hadn’t seen that article. Yoga in the park? I read somewhere that acupuncture is also required coverage under obamacare.
“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)!
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.
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!
He is a reincarnation of Adolf Eichman. He should wind up the same way
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.
The Jewish Dr. Mengele, how sad.
Yes, precisely. EVERY lib/dem I know supported this POC...even the more moderate dems. They are completely silent, now.
Bump for the morning.
“Obama’s Health Rationer in Chief”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3092938/posts
A little trip down memory lane.
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