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 ...
Hate to tell them, but my dad will be 72 soon and he still works full time.
Only a liberal could make a person thank God their grandmother died before all this crap hit.
Thank you GOP for lying to us all about your intent to fight it. Instead you KEEP FUNDING IT. And now you beg us for our votes?
FOAD.
When this country began murdering babies, it was only a matter of time before it would get around to the elderly and the infirm.
As the line from Casablanca goes, “human life is cheap.”
A business case could be made for setting Medicare
as a 10 year contract, to be initiated at any time,
but when it’s done, it’s done
If you initiate it at 75, it goes until 85
If you initiate it at 21, it goes until 31
Then you are on your own...
My Dad is 85 and still likes to mow my lawns - if it wasn’t for medical help he would have died 2 years ago when he had a stroke - now he is back as good as ever and should live until his nineties. These creeps would have left him to die but he has gotten to see his great grandchildren born - what a blessing - this guy is planning to die in potentially the best years of his life - but then again libs seem to value what they can do rather than who they are despite all the feel good BS they spout!
“my dad will be 72 and still works full time”
Since the USA can’t break its addiction to spending and fraud, and always waging costly unneeded war in the Middle East and giving away billions like popcorn foreign aid.... Americans had better get used to never retiring and working forever.
Emmanuel is a very very sick guy, and I don’t mean physically. His is a diseased brain, and it’s frightening that he has been granted power to see some of his sick ideas carried out. Let us pray that this latest admission never sees fruition in the rest of us.
He is socializing the concept that old people are parasites and not worth spending "limited" resources on.
This concept, just like global warming, will be picked up by the media and repeated by the godless nihilists that make up the dhimmi party w/ the intention of shaming anyone that lives past their "due date".
And like same-sex "marriage", what was once unthinkable will become accepted wisdom.
Palin’s cogent assessment of Obama’s “death panels” was absolutely correct. The Democrats’ War on Grandma has begun. (After all, there are many more old women than old men, and they use the medical resources of the nation more than any other group.)
Fortunately, for the Democrat death planners, the Republicans won’t say a word about this while they continue to heap scorn on Palin and the TEA Party.
Does that mean we only have to pay into for 10 years?
If so I should be getting a boatload of money back.
“A business case for only 10 years of Medicare.”
I’d prefer to see more patriotism and fewer corrupt politicians on the dole to crony capitalism. They should be restoring and defending America and our borders. Instead of these puppets taking care of our own elderly, they are showboating and wasting our military power in the ME and tying to impress and take care of the world with a Chinese credit card.
My Mom’s 81 and still works part-time.
When Hillary gets the nomination, the Republicans should ask her how many of her friend Zeke’s points she agrees with. They should also ask her if Zeke has or will have any role as a government consultant on health care. But of course they will never ask such questions. They just might be seen as too aggressive.
If so I should be getting a boatload of money back.
Aye, there’s the rub
Medicare has been profoundly warped to include
Disabled young adults. It was never designed for it
I believe that the Societal Contracts, like Medicare,
Should only apply to those who have earned Citizenship
By serving the Country for at least 3 years
Military, CCC, infrastructure work
And must be under command,
Do what you are told to do,
and honorably discharged
Then the social contracts apply.
You have Paid Your Dues.
One thing that really struck me about his article was the absolute hubris of his thesis. Who is man, any man, to decide his own or any other man’s value to society?
His is the absolute opposite of a God centered world-view. In a God centered world view, if a person is born ( and even before birth while in the womb), then by definition, God has determined that they have worth, they should exist and that they are needed in the world He created. They are of full value to society, in whatever state they are in, until He decides to take them home, at which point, they leave. To think otherwise, as EE does, is to put oneself in the position of God.
Oh yes,
Only those have earned Citizenship can vote
Screw that, I paid taxes since I'm 16 and I've never been under anyone's "command" nor do I want anyone under my "command".
What you are suggesting is quite un-American.
Do you remember when Allan Grayson accused Repubicans of a “die quickly” policy for old people? So it is really the liberals behind Obamacare with that policy.
My dad lived another nine months. He died from complications of COPD. Had he not smoked he would have cruised easily into his eighties. He was still mentally sharp until the last month when the lack of oxygen began to get to him.
Those nine months with my dad were some of the best. We talked not only as dad and son but as men would talk. We talked about football, cars, etc. We talked about life, we talked about death. I told my dad I was as proud of him during that time as I ever was. Why? Because he handled it like the responsible man he had been teaching me to be.
I learned a lot about death that year and how we are to handle it. Why is this important? Because we have to teach the next generation that death is a part of life and we have to learn to handle it.
No guvment official should ever decide when someone should die. That includes those little ones in the womb.
I pray that when my appointed days on the earth are over and the Lord calls me home that I handle life like the man my dad taught me to be.
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