Here’s an interesting factoid from Dr. Zeke Emanuel posted earlier on FR.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287233/posts
Ezekiel Emmanuel MD, Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, is “Special Advisor for Health Policy” to the Office of Management and Budget ( Peter Orszag), is described by the Huffington Post article as engaged in a very important mission: redesigning the US health care system.
Here’s an interesting factoid from Dr. Zeke Emanuel posted earlier on FR.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287233/posts
Ezekiel Emmanuel MD, Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, is “Special Advisor for Health Policy” to the Office of Management and Budget (Peter Orszag), is described by the Huffington Post article as engaged in a very important mission: redesigning the US health care system.
Thanks, Plangent.
I'm not allowed to post the entire 7,000 words of my Whistleblower article here, but below is a small excerpt from it which touches on Dr. Emmanuel and his age-weighted rationing policies:
QUOTE FROM WHISTLEBLOWER ARTICLE FOLLOWS:
In a Jan. 31 article in the British medical journal Lancet, Emmanuel advised steering health dollars toward the young and fit, specifically those between the ages of 15 and 40, while reducing health spending for the elderly.
Weirdly, Emmanuel -- along with his co-authors Govind Persad and Alan Wertheimer -- made a special point of arguing that age-weighted medical rationing does not violate the rules of political correctness. They wrote:
"“Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination … Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years. Treating 65-year-olds differently because of stereotypes or falsehoods would be ageist; treating them differently because they have already had more life-years is not.”
In other words, if we decided to let the elderly die because we think of them in “stereotypical” terms – say, if we thought of them as useless old dodderers – we would be guilty of “ageism.” However, if we let them die for a “good” reason – for example, because we decide that they have already had their chance at life, and now it’s time to give someone else a chance – then letting them die is perfectly OK.
In Emanuel’s view, letting old people die is not the problem. The problem is finding the right words to justify it.
END QUOTE FROM WHISTLEBLOWER ARTICLE
It’s interesting that half of boomers are participating in getting their own demise, but other half realize the SCAM and are protesting...just like in old days of Vietnam War.
R&Z are terrible human beings.