If Obie and his ilk stay in power, no one is gonna wanna stick around after the age of 65 anyway.
On Jul 28, 1:10 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > The incumbent's advisors advise him to lose everybody over 65. Names and > quotes here: This is FACTUAL. For example, this: > > ---- In a Nov. 16, 2008, Health Care Watch column, [Ezekiel] Emanuel [Rahm's > brother] explained how business should be done: "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." > ----- > > (Posted to 2ampd under the title "Re: FROM DON KATES: DIE, OLD PEOPLE") > > --J. > > --- In [email protected] <2ampd%40yahoogroups.com>, > > "fleabitten_percheron" <percheronri...@...> wrote: > > Leroy, this was in the New York Post. I would have renamed this piece, > Doctor's from the 4th Reich > > DEADLY DOCTORS > By BETSY MCCAUGHEY > > July 24, 2009 -- > THE health bills coming out of Congress would put the de cisions 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 the Office of Management and Budget and a member of > Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research. > > 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). > > Translation: Don't give much care to a grandmother with Parkinson's or a > child with cerebral palsy. > > He explicitly defends discrimination against older patients: "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" (Lancet, Jan. 31). > > 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. > > Since Medicare was founded in 1965, seniors' lives have been transformed by > new medical treatments such as angioplasty, bypass surgery and hip and knee > replacements. These innovations allow the elderly to lead active lives. But > Emanuel criticizes Americans for being too "enamored with technology" and is > determined to reduce access to it. > > Dr. David Blumenthal, another key Obama adviser, agrees. He recommends > slowing medical innovation to control health spending. > > Blumenthal has long advocated government health-spending controls, though he > concedes they're "associated with longer waits" and "reduced availability of > new and expensive treatments and devices" (New England Journal of Medicine, > March 8, 2001). But he calls it "debatable" whether the timely care > Americans get is worth the cost. (Ask a cancer patient, and you'll get a > different answer. Delay lowers your chances of survival.) > > Obama appointed Blumenthal as national coordinator of health-information > technology, a job that involves making sure doctors obey electronically > deivered guidelines about what care the government deems appropriate and > cost effective. > > In the April 9 New England Journal of Medicine, Blumenthal predicted that > many doctors would resist "embedded clinical decision support" -- a > euphemism for computers telling doctors what to do. > > Americans need to know what the president's health advisers have in mind for > them. Emanuel sees even basic amenities as luxuries and says Americans > expect too much: "Hospital rooms in the United States offer more privacy . . > . physicians' offices are typically more conveniently located and have > parking nearby and more attractive waiting rooms" (JAMA, June 18, 2008). > > No one has leveled with the public about these dangerous views. Nor have > most people heard about the arm-twisting, Chicago-style tactics being used > to force support. In a Nov. 16, 2008, Health Care Watch column, Emanuel > explained how business should be done: "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." > > Do we want a "reform" that empowers people like this to decide for us? > > Betsy McCaughey is founder of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and a > former New York lieutenant governor. > > --- End forwarded message --- > > __,_._,___ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
