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Papa Obama Top Health Advisor Supports Euthanasia

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Top Papa Obama Health Advisor Supports Euthanasia: Wants Health Care For Non-Disabled 'Participating' Citizens or ' from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs'

Comrades.

It is a most glorious socialist future ahead of us. No one said that it would be easy. Of course with"dictatorship of the proletariat" the state will decide who needs what of our resources. It is tough; but our "workers democracy" demands that we have to make these tough choices.

Comrades, This is most exciting news! One only has to wonder how the state will apply this theory and the means to the other "non-productive" members of our society- e.g. welfare receipents

THE health bills coming out of Congress would put the decisions about your care in the hands of presidential appointees. They'd decide what plans cover, how much leeway your doctor will have and what seniors get under Medicare.

Yet at least two of President Obama's top health advisers should never be trusted with that power.

Start with Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. He has already been appointed to two key positions: health-policy adviser at theOffice of Management and Budget and a member of Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research.

The bills being rushed through Congress will be paid for largely by a $500 billion-plus cut in Medicare over 10 years. Knowing how unpopular the cuts will be, the president's budget director, Peter Orszag, urged Congress this week to delegate its own authority over Medicare to a new, presidentially-appointed bureaucracy that wouldn't be accountable to the public. Emanuel bluntly admits that the cuts will not be pain-free. "Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely 'lipstick' cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change," he wrote last year (Health Affairs Feb. 27, 2008).

Savings, he writes, will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, "as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others" (Journal of the American Medical Association, June 18, 2008). Yes, that's what patients want their doctors to do. But Emanuel wants doctors to look beyond the needs of their patients and consider social justice, such as whether the money could be better spent on somebody else.

Many doctors are horrified by this notion; they'll tell you that a doctor's job is to achieve social justice one patient at a time.

Emanuel, however, believes that "communitarianism" should guide decisions on who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those "who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens . . . An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia" (Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. '96).

Comrades,
the other good news this will balance well with our other population policies and working both ends of the life cycle will be very "green" effective as well.


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Ms. Sanger of course wanted to exterminate the Negroes, thinking them inferior. Well we now know that her Negros are the Rethuglicans. I find nothing objectionable about exterminating people who vote for anyone but Democrats, Socialists, or Communists.

Oh. I repeat myself.


 
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