Posted on 03/18/2010 8:03:30 PM PDT by This Just In
The Future's Shadow
By George Neumayr on 3.18.10 @ 6:09AM
Often the politicians who talk about health care the most believe in the Hippocratic Oath the least. Barack Obama falls into this category. He promises that his health care plan will protect the weak and vulnerable. This would be a little bit more credible if his policies weren't already killing and exploiting them.
He considers aborting unborn children "health care," has authorized the use of tax dollars for the exploitation of embryos in lab experiments, and his Department of Health and Human Services is now pushing the grotesque practice of harvesting organs from urgent-care patients in emergency rooms.
According to the Washington Post, taxpayers are now financing, via a $321,000 HHS grant, a pilot program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian Hospital and Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh to obtain organs from emergency room patients, a practice heretofore "considered off-limits in the United States because of ethical and logistical concerns."
The goal of the project, reports the paper, is to "investigate whether it is feasible and, if so, to encourage other hospitals nationwide to follow."
The article is somewhat obtuse about the longstanding moral problem at the center of organ transplantation, which is that the donors aren't actually dead. It seems to accept uncritically the bogus definitions of death as "brain death" and "cardiac death" that the medical community uses to take organs from the dying but not dead. (Organs from cadavers are useless, so the medical community had to come up with the convenient lies of death as "brain death" and "cardiac death" to pluck usable organs from the living.)
Still, the subtext of the article is that bringing transplant teams into emergency rooms marks a new low for society:
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Paging Dr. Mengele to the White House courtesy phone.
An 0bamanation..
Dr. Frankenstein
If you can’t pay the $12,000 for “approved” govt. health care, they will take organs instead.
Me: "I need about 20 stitches in my arm. I gashed it when I fell off my ladder."
ER Attendant: "Sign this paper donating your your liver and eyes, then you can take a number to see a doctor."
How can they have a plan for harvesting organs when it is so expensive, thus unlikely under socialized medicine?
The hospital will charge you an arm and a leg.
Seriously, this is truly diabolical.
I wrote about some similarly bad policies in my sci-fi anthology “Humanity’s Edge”, but set it 30 more years in the future because I didn’t think it could happen this fast.
So in a few years wll we have to worry that we might have the right blood type and organ that someone important needs and we have a broken leg...opppsss too many pain killers>organ donor?
It’s time for the peasants with torches!
Yup. And who will decide who gets the organs? That’s right, the government. Gee, who will they pick? Not themselves and their toadies? Naw.
Of course they will.
Welcome to the USSA, comrade.
Almost daily something comes along that proves to me Obama is worse than even I thought. It could turn out, and seems to be, he is worse than Hitler. Maybe he is from the seed of Lucifer.
Freepers, we need to spread this around. Get out those email contact lists and use them!
It was Nevada if I remember.
This monstrosity reveals new evils by the hour.
Well, if Obama’s “health care” plan passes, we’ll be reading a whole lot more about these homicides.
i’ll bet Glen Beck would love to take a whack at this!!
Let’s hope he does. People must realize the scope of Obama’s “health care” plan.
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