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The Complete Lives System
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StormyKnight on
August 11, 2009 at
9:17PM CST
One of two health care 'advisors' to President Obama is world renown Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (yup- brother of Rahm). Dr. Zeke has been criticized for his beliefs on how health care for everyone, or as he calls it the "Complete Lives System" borders on eugenics and recently has advocated the end of the Hippocratic Oath.....can you say amoralist? In January of this year Dr. Zeke wrote,"When implemented, the Complete Lives System produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated. The Complete Lives System justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value." Then in November of 1996 Dr. Zeke wrote: "Conversely, services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed." Ummmmm, excuse me doc, we ARE guaranteed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Are you going to outlaw the Constitution to achieve this goal of yours? This guy is advising the President on health care issues! Another 'doctor' of sorts advising the President is preeminent legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics, Cass Sunstein. In the January 2004 edition of the Columbia Law Review Sunstein had this to say about health care issues: "I urge that the government should indeed focus on life-years rather than lives. A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people." "If a program would prevent fifty deaths of people who are twenty, should it be treated the same way as a program that would prevent fifty deaths of people who are seventy? Other things being equal, a program that protects young people seems far better than one that protects old people, because it delivers greater benefits." Below is a chart of how the Complete Lives System would work and a link to a document in which Dr. Zeke helped write regarding this system. Note in the first chart (scroll down a few times to locate it) and the first suggestion as to how to implement such a program and deliver care is to have a LOTTERY. Hmmmmmm, where have I heard that idea before? Let's see..........oh yeah! It was in a report by John Stossel on ABC's 20/20 in which he found that in Canada there are lotteries held once a month to determine who gets to see a doctor. Wow- not that they have socialized/single payer/government run health care in Canada......right? Oy vey. http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/PIIS0140673609601379.pdf This chart can also be found in the pdf link above.
And here is a video of a rather harsh critique of Dr. Zeke's "system". Do you think it's a fair assessment?
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