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(From 1998) What Are the Potential Cost Savings from Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide?
The New England Journal of Medicine ^ | July 16, 1998 | Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., and Margaret P. Battin, Ph.D

Posted on 08/10/2009 12:16:13 AM PDT by CalifScreaming

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Chief Heathcare Advisor to Obama and brother of Rahm Emanuel.

"Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia."

21 posted on 08/10/2009 3:14:58 AM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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Chief Heathcare Advisor to Obama and brother of Rahm Emanuel.

"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."

22 posted on 08/10/2009 3:15:37 AM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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Ezekiel Emmanuel has no more regard for the sanctity of human life than Mengele and the other Nazi “doctors”. To think that this man is shaping health care policy is chilling.


23 posted on 08/10/2009 6:09:31 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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