"Strict youngest-first allocation directs scarce resources predominantly to infants. This approach seems incorrect. The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.... Adolescents have received substantial substantial education and parental care, investments that will be wasted without a complete life. Infants, by contrast, have not yet received these investments.... It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does."
"Ultimately, the complete lives system does not create 'classes of Untermenschen whose lives and well being are deemed not worth spending money on,' but rather empowers us to decide fairly whom to save..."
This is beyond insurance and provider choice issues. This is pure evil in out time. Obama Care simply MUST be stopped.
Bookmarked for later read.
Lebens unwertens leben. And this from a Doctor named Ezikiel Emmanuel. What are six million souls saying as they watch this unfolding horror?
Jeff I think this article would help make your argument even more powerful. Look at this article Ezekiel Emanuel helped author in a scholarly journal...
“What Are the Potential Cost Savings from Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide?”
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/339/3/167
I could go for this “20 first, 60 last” if we started with CONGRESS.
ALL those bozos would be deathcared.