Rationing? This is Tragic !!!!!!!!!
This is Not Your Father's America-Literally!!
We have heard a lot about the various frightening aspects of the Health Care Bill. Sometimes, we are tempted to believe that it couldn't possibly be as bad as they make it out to be. Could it?
Are we headed for telling mom or dad that the doctor simply won't help them because they are "past it", no longer a productive part of our society? Never mind that they worked hard all their lives, paid their taxes, fought for their country, and expected to be cared for as much as they cared for others.
I spent a lot of time lately reading testimonies from citizens of Canada and England and other countries that are dealing with these problems, and they are frightening. A man, who needed heart surgery, but was denied, a woman who needed brain surgery but was denied.
One of the most frightening aspects has got to be rationing. Can't happen? Guess again. This is not your father's America.
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Goodman's website, listed below, giving a brief overview of the White House Medical advisor, Ezekiel Emanuel, GET THIS , recognize the name? Yep, brother of Rahm Emanuel.
What is the basis for these allegations of biased healthcare rationing? Dr. Goodman cites none other than White House healthcare policy adviser Ezekiel Emanuel. “Allocation by age is not invidious discrimination,” Emanuel wrote in the January 31 issue of the British medical journal the Lancet. “Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years.” So because everyone would get an equal chance to be favored when they are young, they would be equally discriminated against when they are old. “Treating 65-year-olds differently because of stereotypes or falsehoods would be ageist,” Emmanuel maintains, but “treating them differently because they have already had more life-years is not.”http://www.ncpa.org/about/john-c-goodman --- John C. Goodman is NCPA president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis. The Wall Street Journal and the National Journal, among other publications, have called him the "Father of Health Savings Accounts," and the Media Research Center credits him, along with former Sen. Phil Gramm and columnist Bill Kristol with playing the pivotal role in the defeat of the Clinton Administration's plan to overhaul the U.S. health care system.
Here is Emanuel's take on the Hippocratic Oath.
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).
A member of my family had quadruple bypass surgery many years ago, and has since had two other surgeries that saved his life. He volunteers at Church, helps out with whatever needs done, enjoys his grandchildren and children and this year went on a 4,5oo mile trip with his wife and family.
A great uncle of mine lived to be 105, and he was a wealth of information about his WWI experiences and history until the day he died.
Our medical professionals have worked hard over the last century to prolong life, preserve life, and give us the inaleinable right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. How many politicians, judges, teachers, ministers, lawyers, doctors, and just plain retired grandpas and grandmas are out there whose families feel that they are just as important as they were when they were 25 or 45?
Ah yes, we sure could save money, and it seems like we're headed in that direction, by getting rid of excess babies and excess seniors. We need to leave the world to the 25 year olds, because they don't need the experience or the advise of those who have gone before them- do they?
Shame on any person, country, party, anyone who would even consider this barbaric practice against their own people.
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