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Old and In the Way?
Townhall.com ^
| September 25, 2014
| Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 09/25/2014 9:09:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
Normally, no one would care that in a recent Atlantic essay -- "Why I hope to die at 75"-- 57-year-old Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel argued that living to be 75 years old was long enough for anyone. After 75, Emanuel suggests, "We are no longer remembered as vibrant and engaged but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic.
But Emanuel is no garden-variety crackpot. Nor is he a wannabe science-fiction writer dreaming of a centrally planned planet of robust youthful humanoids. Unfortunately, he was one of the chief architects of the troubled Affordable Care Act and a key medical advisor to the Obama administration.
The ACA's conservative critics have long knocked Obamacare as a first step toward medical rationing. Read Emanuel's diatribe against living too long, and suddenly Sarah Palin's attack on Obamacare's "death panels" does not seem so far-fetched.
Emanuel's main point is that those who live beyond 75 inordinately gobble up collective health resources -- like flu shots. Emanuel asserts that at age 75 and beyond, he will decline nearly all medical tests and treatments. ("What about simple stuff? Flu shots are out.") He claims he won't take antibiotics either.
"I think this manic desperation to endlessly extend life is misguided and potentially destructive," Emanuel writes. "For many reasons, 75 is a pretty good age to aim to stop."
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; deathpanels; drezekielemanuel; evilleftingloon; ezekielemanuel; health; obamacare; seniorcitizens; unaffordablecareact; vdh; victordavishanson
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:09:41 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Why wait sir?
Isn’t 57 years plenty?
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:11:21 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Kaslin
We’d all have been better off if he died at 5.
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:12:16 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Kaslin
The Nazis had a term for this mental disorder......................Useless Eaters....................
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:12:54 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: Kaslin
old & in the way songs
Every song on the record is perfect
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:14:58 AM PDT
by
stanne
To: Kaslin
To the liberals, old = white and conservative voter.
Of course they want them dead.
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:15:35 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: Kaslin
Funny how all those proposing that limits being placed on life, health care, housing, income, etc, are those in protected casts and none of their proposals will actually effect them!
Mark
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:16:01 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: Kaslin
Nazi tactics...what rock did this jerk crawl out from under???
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:16:25 AM PDT
by
Dawgreg
(Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
To: Kaslin
Hanson should crawl back into his copy of the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO where he came from....
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:20:06 AM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: Kaslin
Unfortunately, he was one of the chief architects of the troubled Affordable Care Act and a key medical advisor to the Obama... Obama has a way of finding thugs with superior attitudes --- and little else. Add one more lowlife to his list...
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:26:36 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" - Albert Camus)
To: Red Badger
The Nazis had a term for this mental disorder......................Useless Eaters... Major power of Nazis control was the bureaucracy... Group think with power. Same with Obama. These people think if they're 'official' that it's the same as being ethical. Speaking of people over 75 - Leonard Cohen just put out a new album - and he's 80. It's great.
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:32:28 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" - Albert Camus)
To: EagleUSA
“Should crawl back into his copy of the Communist Manifesto”...
Did you mean Emmanuel instead of Hanson?
Victor Davis Hanson is pretty solid conservative in my experience...Do you know something to the contrary?
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:34:05 AM PDT
by
elteemike
(Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak!)
To: Still Thinking
Better if he were aborted.
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:37:34 AM PDT
by
Chgogal
(Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
To: EagleUSA
Did you even read the article? Victor Davis Hanson does not suggest that 75 is long enough for people to live. That was Rahm Fishwrap Emmanuel's brother Ezekiel Emmanuel who suggested it.
I suggest you learn read, before you make a fool of yourself.
Never mind you already did that
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:40:01 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
To: Kaslin
Looking at the title, I thought it was going to be an article about McCain
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:40:05 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
To: Still Thinking
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:40:32 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
To: Kaslin
Someone needs to tell Ezekiel that Mrs. Clinton is 9 years away from 75.
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:40:41 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Dawgreg
Yeah doesn’t Dr Mengele come to mind?
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:41:48 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
To: elteemike
I don’t think he read the article
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:43:13 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
To: SMARTY
Let the horses think, they have larger heads
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posted on
09/25/2014 9:44:48 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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