Ezekiel Emmanuel's Death Panel of 1:
Ezekiel Emmanuel's Death Panel of 1:
Have you seen this one?
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/PIIS0140673609601379.pdf
Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions
Treating people equally
Many scarce medical interventions, such as organ
transplants, are indivisible. For indivisible goods, benefi ting
people equally entails providing equal chances at
the scarce intervention—equality of opportunity, rather
than equal amounts of it.
Two principles attempt to embody this value.Lottery
Allocation by lottery has been used, sometimes with
explicit judicial and legislative endorsement, in military
conscription, immigration, education, and distribution
of vaccines.
Lotteries have several attractions. Equal moral status
supports an equal claim to scarce resources.
Even among only roughly equal candidates, lotteries prevent
small differences from drastically aff ecting outcome.
Some people also support lottery allocation because “each
person’s desire to stay alive should be regarded as of the
same importance and deserving the same respect as that
of anyone else”.
Practically, lottery allocation is quick
and requires little knowledge about recipients.
Finally, lotteries resist corruption.
The major disadvantage of lotteries is their blindness
to many seemingly relevant factors.
Random decisions between someone who can gain 40 years and
someone who can gain only 4 months, or someone who has
already lived for 80 years and someone who has lived
only 20 years, are inappropriate. Treating people equally
often fails to treat them as equals.
Wilson’s outburst reminded me of the House of Commons where the PM regularly gets ripped apart during his Friday Q&A. Nobody thinks anything of it over there...our politicians are much too thin-skinned.
Wilson told the truth. Judging from Pelosi’s reaction, I’d wager that she told the pubbie leadership to jump Wilson for his comment and make him apologize. Sounds like something the congressional pubbies would do.