Posted on 09/23/2014 4:06:15 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Last week, esteemed doctor and one of our ObamaCare Architect Overlords penned a column for the Atlantic that should win a Pulitzer Prize for passive-aggressive shaming. Although Emanuel claims that *he* doesn't want to live past the age of 75, the article itself could have been a listicle titled, "Top 15 Reasons No One Over 75 Should Receive Healthcare."
Emanuel even includes a monstrous but brightly colored graph that is meant to tell anyone over 75 that their "last contribution" to society likely occurred more than a decade ago.
Good God.
The phrase "the banality of evil" gets bandied about a lot. Emanuel's column, which in reality is a public service announcement meant to begin a debate about the way in which we prioritize healthcare, takes the prize in that department.
And yes, Emanuel's article is an act of evil, written by a soulless bureaucrat with no respect or compassion for the individual. Emanuel's only concern is for the collective, the State. And he is exactly the kind of "medical professional" many feared would grab hold of our healthcare system if the Federal government got their hands on it -- which it now has.
Thanks Obama!
Leftists like Emanuel don’t see human life as anything more than utilitarian. They see nothing special or unique or inviolable about the Individual or life itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
More lovely quotes from this hideous piece of scum:
“Every favor to a constituency should be linked to support for the health-care reform agenda. If the automakers want a bailout, then they and their suppliers have to agree to support and lobby for the administration’s health-reform effort.”
“Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years.”
“Ultimately, the complete lives system does not create ‘classes of Untermenschen whose lives and well being are deemed not worth spending money on,’ but rather empowers us to decide fairly whom to save when genuine scarcity makes saving everyone impossible.”
“Strict youngest-first allocation directs scarce resources predominantly to infants. This approach seems incorrect. The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.... Adolescents have received substantial substantial education and parental care, investments that will be wasted without a complete life. Infants, by contrast, have not yet received these investments.... It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.”
“When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated.”
“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.”
"...I'm sorry sir...we cannot schedule that appointment for you in November 2010 to have that melanoma removed because you have not undergone your mandatory annual counseling after age 65...oh, of course you are right. I know you are only 62, but they did move the age down again this year...we have an opening in three months with the counselors office...would you like that?"
This above conversation is fully expected, but It will not be the people you will be FORCED to talk to in order to receive your care, nor the intentional delays in care that will be the most insidiously evil facets of this. It will be the conversations like this one below that will become commonplace that ONLY BEGIN to illustrate what it is all about:
FRIEND OF "JANICE" DISCUSSING "END OF LIFE COUNSELING" IN OBAMACARE : "Hi Jan, how are you? I heard your father is resisting counseling. It must be difficult, I know. There just seems to be so much of that lately. I know I am only 40 years old, but I don't understand why people like your father are so opposed to this.
I went with my mother to her counseling session, and while she was angry because she was supposed to have another five years before she had to go but they moved the age down again, she went anyway. I thought she was really rude to the counseling agent, who was just a young woman only doing her job. Hm.
Someone told me they are only hiring young women as counselors now, because the men who were doing it just got angry too easily and shouted at people to just "sign the damned papers". Hm. I tried to tell my mom why they have to do this, but she said they do it just to get rid of old people to save money.
The counseling agent gave my mom a copy of the book "Death is Joy". I read it, and it makes a lot of sense to me. Of course, when I was going to school, we didn't have to read it, but now they have required classes they take every year beginning in first grade.
Suzie is in third grade and is taking the course this year that deals with the chapter on keeping birth rates down, and Tommy is in his senior year where they cover the financial aspects of care for the elderly. He was so excited, he said that since they have implemented this national care program, the number of elderly people has dropped dramatically, so they can spend more money on programs such as monthly equality checks for the economically disadvantaged and reparations for the descendants of slaves. I think it is wonderful.
He asked me why so many elderly people are so selfish and refuse to accept counseling...I didn't really have an answer for him. Hm. Now, don't be defensive, I am not criticizing your parents.
I am just saying, it is a problem.
They had an hour-long program on PBS about this the other night, and they were saying how the people who are being selfish about this and refusing to take advantage of early exit programs that pay cash to their children are being so self-centered because they grew up in a time where everyone was self-centered and were interested only in money. You know, they showed films from the days of the capitalists where there were people who had what they called 'gas-guzzlers", and they used to make so much more money than they needed to live comfortably, so many people were going without health care because they were taking all the money..."
Then, just wait until they pass legislation for a "Death Benefit" that will be paid to the families of elderly people. That will be the icing on the cake. It will be presented as a compassionate gesture to help the families with their grief, and will put at ease those people slated for "end of life" counseling. I can see the conversation by the time I go in for my "counseling" session:
COUNSELOR: Thank you for coming in today, sir. Now, let's see...you have high blood pressure, rheumatoid arthritis but more importantly, positive genetic tags for vascular/heart disease, Alzheimer's, matricular degeneration and three types of cancer, prostate, esophageal and colon. Prostate and colon are very high. We see one of these two expressing itself in the next three years.
ME: Er...really?
COUNSELOR: Yes. This is all very scientifically based, and the results are incontrovertible. There is no mistake.
ME: Ahhh...could I speak to a doctor about this?
COUNSELOR: I am afraid not, sir. The rules are physicians are for direct care only, and nothing else. Federal Statue HCR23.1771-b mandates that I communicate this information to you, and inform you of the various options.
ME: But you don't know anything about medicine! You are a clerk, nothing more! How can I discuss this issue with you?
COUNSELOR: Sir, I have taken all the courses coming through High School, and attended the Life Counseling University courses offered by the government. I graduated in the top half of my class. I do understand the issues here.
ME: But...but...
COUNSELOR: Look, sir. You are getting old, and are soon going to be a burden on society. You don't have cancer right now, and can still think and get around, but for how long? You need to think about your children and their children. We offer a special financial compensation package that will help them bear the grief of your passing, to be paid out upon your death. With your approval, we emailed them an official forms packet before this meeting.
ME: I approved that?
COUNSELOR: Well, yes sir. The electronic copy is right here with your esignature (TURNS SCREEN TO FACE ME).
ME: I never signed that!
COUNSELOR: Sir, didn't you read the codocil that was automatically added at the bottom of your government supplied Will and Last Testament session that we finished up your first End of Life session you had with us last year? You did click the button that said "I approve all the changes" and you did use your voice authentication to say "I do approve".
ME: What! What is going on here? I...
COUNSELOR: Your two sons and your daughter who came in with you today have been in communication with our department on this. (Smiles) I think it is great that the government approves time-off pay for employees to attend these End of Life meetings for their parents. I'll call them in...
ME: Hey! I am not finished discus...
(DOOR OPENS, CHILDREN ENTER)
SON 1: Dad, I am so glad you signed up for the Early Exit Death Benefit. I was really behind on my tax payments for last year, and that will put me over the top...
ME: You...what?
SON 2: Yeah, dad. Billy is graduating from high school, and we want to send him to a quality college, but we could never afford it. But now we might...thanks to you.
Daughter: Oh, Daddy (tears in her eyes) I know none of us live forever, and I will miss you so much, but this money will allow me to pay th license fees to the government so I can open my dream business! Without you...
ME: HEY! WTF is going on here? I am not "ready to die", I feel pretty good, I could live for another twenty years! I didn't sign that damned thing, they just threw all this stuff in front of me! This is effing stupid! (TURNS TO COUNSELOR) Look, I don't know what kind of crap you set in motion, but undo it. I didn't sign up for this.
COUNSELOR: (PRIGGISH, TIGHT LIPPED LOOK ON HIS FACE) Sir...you have already been scheduled for next year, and your family has been paid that benefit in advance as the law allows. We cannot undo it. See the text that you signed (TURNS SCREEN) states explicitly that this if final and cannot be remanded...
ME: (SMASHES SREEN WITH HAND) LOOK! I DON'T GIVE A RAT'S ASS IF YOU HAVE TO BURROW THROUGH THE WIRES BACK TO THE CENTRAL COMPUTER SYSTEM YOURSELF, USING YOUR SLIMEY PENCIL NECK AS A LEG TO DO IT SO YOU CAN UNDO THIS ROYAL F*CKUP ON YOUR PART...
COUNSELOR: (HAND CUPPED OVER SPEAKER, EYES ON ME, WHISPERING) We have a 22-22 in here...get in here right away...
DAUGHTER: (WAILS) How could you be so selfish?
SON 1: Great. I might as well go down to the Tax Police right now to get fitted for the volunteer industry uniform...
COUNSELOR: How am I going to tell Billy he can't go to the Barack Obama University? How?
DOOR OPENS, BURLY UNION GUYS IN BLACK COVERALLS RUN UP TO ME AND TASE ME. ALL GOES BLACK
Yep. The comparison to Nazis is often overused, but in this case, it is spot on.
But hey, it is all with the most humane and best of intentions for the greater good.
And the same will be said for all the associated inhumanity that follows this type of thing, as it always does with socialists, liberals and Nazis.
I know scary times. My parents have the medical issues that most people that age have. But their quality of life is still good. Thanks goodness they have cobbled together the means and the insurance and medicare to take care of themselves.
This is the same bastard that decried insurance not paying for certain procedures because of cost.
But I guess it’s OK if some gov’t panel denies treatment across the board based on some one-size-fits-all arbitrary cutoff.
Hmmm....wonder when karma will hit this evil guy?
I don’t want them to find out I will be 74 in a few days and yesterday someone guessed my age as 51. I have no health issues praise God.
I think I need a new birth certificate.
so zekie - just what is the value, to society of course, of people who have never worked, ever, and consume welfare and other transfers from the producers. I would say, on a relative value, that any elder person who worked their entire life, is still worth more to society than a young parasite welfarer.
Hey why not? If it’s good enough for the illegals, why not you?
Ezekiel is operating on the notion that those who aren’t currently “contributing to society” have no right to live. He believes your life belongs to society as expressed in government, not to you.
Yet ObamaCare, and most welfare programs, are all about delivering expensive benefits to those who contribute nothing to society their entire lives. Why are young deadbeats deserving, but people who has worked hard for 50 years are not? His argument seems to repudiate the liberal welfare state. Is he a Nazi or a very confused hypocrite?
Looking forward to his 75th...
Hard question for conservatives.
“If a law was passed so that liberals could, any time they wanted to, go to a government office, lie down on a soft lounge chair, and be issued and observed to take a pill that would kill them, would you support that law?”
Provisions would be that the pill would only be issued to the person who requested it for their own use, and had to take it there or surrender it.
I woould not support such a law. 2 reasons: 1) It’s against God’s law and 2) Suicide leaves a mess for others to clean up. (debts, etc.)
[ Democrat former governor of Colorado Richard Lamm thirty years ago declared, seriously ill old people have a duty to die. ]
Dick Lamm is an interesting old coot, in some ways he is a “Mask-Less Democrat”...
The end result will be “Shut up and sneak”
Where people will sneak off to see a “black market doctor” to get a 1st opinion before even attempting to see a “System doctor”...
[ Hard question for conservatives.
“If a law was passed so that liberals could, any time they wanted to, go to a government office, lie down on a soft lounge chair, and be issued and observed to take a pill that would kill them, would you support that law?”
Provisions would be that the pill would only be issued to the person who requested it for their own use, and had to take it there or surrender it. ]
My answer to this is easy... “There are plenty of cliffs/viewing locations in the grand canyon...”
Buy a plane ticket and stop whining...
Unlike many of the politians who have deliberately frittered away this nation for the benefit only of their puppet masters, I like to think I’m on the side of America and of restoring our nation to self sufficiency and prosperity. Few in DC that the taxpayers are forced to pay seem to have that goal.
So am I on wrong side? Not everyone in their in their 70s has the luck and genes to be able to keep working even if they wanted to.. Pencil pushers in a suit can work longer than someone doing heavy manual labor for example. We can blame much on lack of personal accountability. We can blame as much or more on incompetent crooked policy makers.
My point was that liberals typically put a high value on their own lives, and zero, or less than zero, value on the lives of other people, especially those least able to protect or defend themselves.
With the exception of multiple murdering heinous criminals. Liberals value their lives as well.
[ My point was that liberals typically put a high value on their own lives, and zero, or less than zero, value on the lives of other people, especially those least able to protect or defend themselves.
With the exception of multiple murdering heinous criminals. Liberals value their lives as well. ]
Liberalism is Selfishness dressed up as Fake Alturism...
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