Doctor Death is in the White House

I'm bumping this post back up the list because of the quality of the comments. Please feel free to add your opinion. This thread is excellent reading.

Who is this man?
He's Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

What's his job title?
He is the top healthcare adviser at Obama's Budget Office.

What policies does he promote?
In his speech to the American Medical Association, President Obama said what White House health advisor Ezekiel Emanuel and Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag have said in print some time ago. The only way to control health care costs is to get doctors to provide less care — fewer tests, fewer procedures, fewer everything.

Dr Emanuel wrote an entire article on this subject in the Lancet on January 31, 2009. Emanuel advocated allocating health resources in order to maximize collective life years. Suppose a 25-year-old and a 65-year-old have a life threatening disease. Since the 25-year-old has many more potential years of life ahead of him, he should receive preferential treatment, says Emanuel.

In a different article written for the Hastings Center Report, Emanuel said health services should not be guaranteed to "individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens." He continues, "An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia."

What does this mean?
It means that Obamacare will be a virtual death camp for the elderly, the mentally ill, and the very young. "Dr." Emanuel wants to care for the economic health of the state, not tend to needs of people. His goal is to cut costs. (Obama calls that "making difficult decisions.") Emanuel wants to trim the high price of health care by literally eliminating people who are a drag on the system, like the elderly.

How can Democrat Senators and Congressmen support this kind of health care?
They and their families are exempt from Obamacare.


Hat tip to John Goodman's Health Policy Blog

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