Administration Thugs

I'm also a parent of a disabled citizen. There is nothing I like about Obama's health care reform. The government may one day have the power to choose whether my child should live or die. To have a national health care system would mean rationing. Which will mean the government will have to make a choice who's life is more valuable to society. My daughter will no doubt be at the top of the list. I hope it will never come to this. But how sick is this, that we're even talking about it.

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (Health Advisor to President Obama): Death to Those With Dementia, as Useless Eaters.

"Substantively, it suggests services that promote the continuation of the polity - those that ensure healthy future generations, ensure development of practical reasoning skills, and ensure full and active participation by citizens in public deliberation - are to be socially guaranteed as basic. Conversely, services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia." - Ezekiel Emanuel, also brother of Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

Obama advisor would ration medical care to seniors, young children, the demented.

Goodman cites an article Ezekiel (Emanuel) co-authored with two other men that appeared in the January 31, 2009, edition of the British medical journal, The Lancet. Goodman also cites a 1996 article by Ezekiel that appeared in The Hastings Report. In the latter, which was titled "Where civic republicanism and deliberative democracy meet," Ezekiel argued for limiting health care for “individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens.” He cited "not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia” as an example.

Rationing care for Special Needs citizens, Healthcare Bill HR 3200: Pg. 354 Sec: 1177

House Health-Care Bill Would Establish 'Medical Homes' for the Elderly and Disabled.

The House health-care reform bill proposes to decrease hospital visits by establishing a 'medical home pilot program' for elderly and disabled Americans. Such a medical home would not require a physician to be on the staff, and therefore could be run solely by nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Medical homes also would practice 'evidence-based' medicine [EBM], which advocates only the use of medical treatments that are supported by effectiveness research. ... It also may lead to dumping Medicare/Medicaid patients in facilities that are not required to have physicians on staff.