Obama and Rahm Emmanuel Want to Kill Senior Citizens...Another Adviser Wants Sterilizations...Well, actually, Rahm's brother, a doctor already in charge of several White House Health programs, thinks it is a waste of time for old people to have health care. Yep, check it out:
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).
In other words, no health care for cerebral palsy victims, or people with Alzheimers or Parkinsons. Think I am being too mean, guess what the same writer of the Post article found:
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).
In other words, you seniors got your care when you were 25, now hurry up and die and save us some money. Gee, AARP folks, does this sound like good treatment of the elderly to you?
But wait, Dr. Zeke "Mengele"Emmanuel has more to say. Seniors don't deserve the breakthroughs in technology that have given them better quality of life:
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.
And another so-called doctor on team Obama agrees with him:
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.
So, if you resist Big Doctor, you are going to be punished. Also, you people who want breast cancer cures, screw you! AIDS research, slow it down! These guys want us to die rather than have funding for research to find cures! In America! But wait, there is more from team Final Solution II: Reich Now, er, I mean the Obama Administration:
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."
Gosh, and the libs called us brownshirts! These people make Ernst Rohm, Goebbels, and Mengele seem like choirboys. In America, no less, people! Stand strong. Obama wants to thin the ranks. He believes in the nonsense of Ehrlich and others. I mean, we have his science guy on the record about forced abortions.
But this is at the heart of so-called Progressivism, a cute euphemism for Statist Fascism. Remember, Margaret Sanger is/was a hero to progressives and she wanted blacks dead. She was praised by the Nazis, as well.
Anyone waiting for the crooked cross to be flying over the White House?
