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Healthcare reform sets off euthanasia alarm
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Posted on 07/25/2009 10:20:42 PM PDT by ttjemery
health economist warns that President Obama's government-run healthcare plan may result in denying care to a significant number of Americans, especially senior citizens.
Conservative opponents of President Obama's healthcare plan have been arguing that a government takeover of healthcare will allow Washington bureaucrats to use "comparative effectiveness research" to dictate to doctors which treatments they should prescribe and how much those treatments should cost. Critics say this will lead to rationing of care.
In the medical journal The Lancet (January 2009 [PDF]) Obama's special health policy advisor Ezekiel Emanuel wrote that if healthcare has to be rationed, he prefers the "complete lives system," which "discriminates against older people."
Dr. Devon Herrick, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, says Emanuel believes young adults should be given preferential care over seniors because they have more years of their life ahead of them.
"I guess the implication of that is if you're older, you will be assumed to have lived a complete life; whereas if you're younger, you'd have yet to live a complete life," Herrick suggests. "So in a way I kind of see it as a method to ration care to the elderly, but trying to use an ethicist's view to justify it."
In an article written more than a decade ago [PDF] for the Hastings Center Report, Dr. Emanuel suggested that health services should not be guaranteed to "individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens." He said "an obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia."
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:20:42 PM PDT
by
ttjemery
To: ttjemery
This SOB in Chief thinks that it is OK to let a newborn baby die, with out ANY medical care, in a botched abortion case.
You bet your very soul that he will deny treatment to anyone he feels is not worthy of his blessings!
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:23:23 PM PDT
by
Kansas58
To: ttjemery
Somebody needs to send this story to Ted Kennedy!
He can lead by example, and show the rest of us how wonderful 0bamaCare is going to be!
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:23:25 PM PDT
by
airborne
(Congratulations to the Stanley Cup Champions! PITTSBURGH PENGUINS RULE!!!)
To: ttjemery
Dr. Emanuel suggested that health services should not be guaranteed to “individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens.”
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Yes! They want you to work your whole life and pay their damn taxes...and then when its time for you to retire, they want you to die so they can keep more money instead of giving it to you in your social security!
To: ttjemery
Does this apply to people with incurable diseases, like AIDS?
Is the gay community aware of what is in the House bill?
To: ttjemery
Abortion loving Notre Dame “catholics” love him. Some of this type of scum are even a few of my realtives. Some Catholics they are.
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:34:13 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
(Where is the birth certificate?)
To: ttjemery
The very concepts forwarded by this legislative disaster are grounds for revolution.
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posted on
07/25/2009 11:12:31 PM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: Caipirabob
Does anyone now question Obama being the ANTICHRIST?
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posted on
07/25/2009 11:33:28 PM PDT
by
BornToBeAmerican
(We the people, ..... never)
To: Atom Smasher; CatDancer
Yes! They want you to work your whole life and pay their damn taxes...and then when its time for you to retire, they want you to die so they can keep more money instead of giving it to you in your social security!
See my tagline...
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posted on
07/26/2009 12:07:58 AM PDT
by
green pastures
(Soylent green? More like solvent green: health care reform to kill folks and 'save' social security.)
To: ttjemery
Dr. Emanuel suggested that health services should not be guaranteed to "individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens." He said "an obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia."
"This person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community 60,000 Reichsmark during his lifetime. Fellow Germans, that is your money, too."
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posted on
07/26/2009 12:15:19 AM PDT
by
green pastures
(Soylent green? More like solvent green: health care reform to kill folks and 'save' social security.)
To: BusterBear
I’m not sure. Perhaps it will be exempt from exclusion. See some of my “representative’s” work on the bill:
Baldwin Provisions in Health Reform Bill Address LGBT Health Disparities
Press Release, July 17, 2009
As the House Energy and Commerce Committee began this week to mark-up Americas Affordable Health Choices Act (H.R. 3200), Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin was successful in her efforts to add language addressing LGBT health disparities. This includes:
Helping people with AIDS gain access to drugs under Medicare Part D;
Ensuring data collection on the health of LGBT populations; and
Strong non-discrimination provisions to guarantee access to health care for all communities.
Meaningful health care reform has the potential to transform this country. As Congress considers legislation to make quality health care affordable and accessible, we must ensure that all Americans are included equally in our efforts, Baldwin said.
While applauding the addition of three of her objectives in the draft health care reform bill, Baldwin explained, Keep in mind that the bill introduced this week is just a starting point, and much work remains to be done. I am continuing my efforts to see that LGBT Americans are included in health reform and am hopeful that well see more progress as deliberations continue. My quest for an end to LGBT health disparities will continue long after we pass a health care reform bill.
Baldwins effort to end LGBT health disparities have earned the support of the Human Rights Campaign; National Coalition for LGBT Health; The AIDS Institute; Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) National; National Center for Transgender Equality; AIDS Action; American Psychological Association; Mautner Project: The National Lesbian Health Organization; and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
http://www.tammybaldwin.com/News/PressReleases/tabid/188/mid/768/newsid768/220/Default.aspx
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posted on
07/26/2009 12:25:53 AM PDT
by
green pastures
(Soylent green? More like solvent green: health care reform to kill folks and 'save' social security.)
To: ttjemery; All
Better translation of DeathCare Details:
July 23, 2009: 48 Important Things to Know About Obama's Healthcare Plan
- Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
- Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!
- Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
- Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
- Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.
- Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.
- Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
- Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
- Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.
- Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
- Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens
- Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
- Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
- Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No "judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.
- Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.
- Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
- Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.
- Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll
- Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
- Page 167: Any individual who doesnt' have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
- Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
- Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.
- Page 203: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." Yes, it really says that.
- Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected."
- Page 241: Doctors: no matter what speciality you have, you'll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)
- Page 253: Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional judgment, etc.
- Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.
- Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
- Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
- Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.
- Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.
- Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!
- Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
- Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on "community" input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
- Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
- Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.
- Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
- Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).
- Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?
- Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.
- Page 425: Goverment provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
- Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
- Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient's health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
- Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
- Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
- Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
- Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.
- Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.
You can download the complete bill text [
here ]
Incidentally, if you haven't watched Soylent Green yet, you should at least see the future of our country's end-of-life plans: [
Part 1 |
Part 2 ].
And...
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/07/health-care-chart-showing-huge.html
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posted on
07/26/2009 1:39:53 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: ttjemery
Where are the Republicans. This is red meat. The Prez and the Dems WANT TO FREAKING K-I-L-L THE ELDERLY.
Where did the “LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS” go?
How many times did the Dems tell senior citizens that the Republicans wanted to “kill them” by cutting benefits? It was a lie but they convinced the seniors. Now Bo REALLY does want to kill them in the “healthcare reform” bill
Where are the tv ads (not the internet ads, the TV ADS) showing an old couple going in for their “end of life” counselling? Who is next, diabetics? Their lifestyle is “expensive”, the disabled?
Mr President, you took an oath to uphold our Constitution and PROTECT the citizens of the United States. THere is no AGE LIMIT on those protections. He wants to kill AMERICAN
CITIZENS for budgetary reasons... we do not do that in America, Mr. President.
Where are the Republicans? This is a golden opportunity. Instead of telling us how “Edgey” Sonya is because she’s Hispanic, we could grab every senior citizen in the US with one ad. It would be the “daisy and the bomb” ad.
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posted on
07/26/2009 2:05:40 AM PDT
by
Reagan69
(No Representation without Taxation)
To: ttjemery
If anyone is interested Ezekiel Emmanuel's "Complete Lives" policy is ALREADY slipping into place. Remember the story last year about the 60 year old guy in Oregon (IIRC) who had prostate cancer and the state told him therapy was too expensive but he did qualify for euthanasia? Remember that story? So the tings folks are concerned about are already happening!
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posted on
07/26/2009 3:04:11 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(translation of tag "Come and get them (bastards)" and the Scout Motto)
To: ttjemery
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posted on
08/01/2009 1:06:25 PM PDT
by
Winged Hussar
(http://moveonpleasemoveon.blogspot.com/)
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