A preview of things to come ...
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Rahm Emanuel, the President’s Chief of Staff, is one of the President’s Advisors on Health Care. This is taken from Gates of Vienna.blogspot.com/2009/08. Dr. Emanuel’s referenced essay was published in the Hastings Center Report (Nov-Dec 1996).
“I’m still wondering why Emmanuel’s essay was published in The Lancet (quick registration required, but worth it). Would no American medical journal take this plan? That’s a possible reason, because what Dr. Emmanuel proposes is a calculus of “quality of life years” on which to base medical care decisions for individual citizens. The man is no fool: he allocates the majority of health care to the young - ages fifteen to forty - and the healthy. They don’t require any care to speak of, thus presenting huge savings from the get-go.
Infants and old people, the chronically ill, or those victims of accidents who will require lengthy rehabilitation? They can all crawl to the back of the bus and wait their turn, provided there are any leftovers. God forbid you would choose to bear your handicapped child and then let it live. The “quality of life years” for your kid will be, as Emmanuel euphemizes, “attenuated”.
(Pegita says that the chart does not copy for me ... if someone else can insert, please do. Starting at age Zero, the chart climbs and peaks at age 25 and remains constant to age 30, then sharply declines to age 60, where it continues to decline through age 70. And then no more ... End of what Pegita says).
This chart from his essay makes it crystal clear: up until age fifteen or so, you’re a drain on the public purse. By the same calculus, once past your fortieth birthday, your sell-by date is questionable. Move to the back of the health care bus. Notice that the eighty year-olds don’t even appear there at all.”
Pegita says ... Be afraid ... Be very afraid. Job 12:10 ~ “In His hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.” Galatians 6:7 ~ “Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”