[Avoiding_Sulla]

This story finally breaks the preferred illusion that fears of radical human population control is nothing more than the product of a fevered imagination.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Prognosis allocation encourages physicians to improve patients’ health, unlike the perverse incentives to sicken patients or misrepresent health that the sickest-first allocation creates.

I read this as a metric of the increase of prognosis expected from medical care. Otherwise we'd be flooding the system with first aid cases. That is only little less tempting for doctors to overrate sickness than a sickest-first metric. I mean if the doctors say you have a broken arm but will be all well by next week, that looks better than saying you have a sprained wrist but will be all well by next week.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

This story finally breaks the preferred illusion that fears of radical human population control is nothing more than the product of a fevered imagination.

There are also Biblical connotations to this story other than the title “Electing God.” This is not the first time men have tried to play God.

Zero’s healthcare geniuses think that the term “useful individuals” is speakable — out in an open paper, the Lancet — for the first time since the Third Reich.

[Jess Kitting]

This is what Obamacare is all about.

They (government bureaucrats) get to play God: With health care rationing, they decide who gets health care and who doesn't. They decide who lives and who dies.

[nathanbedford]

Deciding who lives and who dies: the liberals ultimate wet dream.

God players all, liberals now get to officially do what they have always dreamed of doing, controlling individuals down to the very end of life, in fact, granting or withholding life itself.

Once one accepts the initial premise advanced for the government providing universal healthcare, all this becomes inevitable. No matter that the participation of government itself creates shortages which justify granting or denying life-saving ministrations. To justify their God-playing, liberals presume that shortages will become evident in privately provided healthcare to the point where the market decides that some people might die earlier and some people might die later. Whether that choice is made by people acting prudently or imprudently in a free market, or by Almighty God himself, liberals cannot tolerate such power in the hands of others.

I accuse liberals of seeking control over health care because, just as environmentalism means control over the economy, controlling healthcare gains control over life. This is the ultimate game for liberals.

The ironies abound. Liberals demand universal health care controlled by the government to make it "fairer" and eliminate "shortages." Yet, even as they plan the takeover, they plan for the inevitable shortages. They want health care to be "fairer," so they say that they have to decide what is fair and what is unfair. If I am a prudent man, and provide for the exigencies of expensive healthcare in my old age by sacrificing financially and exercising and dieting while younger, why is it "fair" for the government to consign me to death only because my prudence has kept me alive so long?

Liberals delight in setting up categories describing the characteristics which will prompt them to decide who lives and who dies: Are you old? Are you politically correct? Are you expensive? It really does not matter what the litmus tests are, it only matters that liberals get to lay them down.

Do not believe that once these categories are laid down by liberals they will be carved in stone. Not at all, exceptions will have to be recognized, modifications to the exceptions, new rules will be engrafted, the process will be endless and liberals will be able to play God with your lives until they die themselves for lack of available health care-unless they can try to fall within one of their own "exceptions".

[GiovannaNicoletta]

bookmark

[wolfcreek]

RED ALERT!

http://dotsub.com/view/d195a883-247a-482d-84f4-32b67084ba71

[ripley]

“Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, Rahm Emanuel’s brother, who is
Barack Obama’s “Special Advisor for Health Policy”, is described by the Huffington Post article as engaged in a very important mission: redesigning the US healthcare system.”

What absolutely brilliant people. They must be many times higher on the evolutionary scale than the rest of us. They have to be beyond brilliant; they have to be shining stars of tremendous thinking ability. One wonders if these “Special Advisors” can make a diagnosis without the aid of any silly machines that this current, flawed, unjust health-care system has at its disposal.

This world must be on the verge of being delivered to the most knowledgeable, the most brilliant, the most loving, compassionate and magnanimous people who ever walked the earth. What an amazing time to be alive; to be nurtured by brilliant, all-knowing, smart, intelligent, holier-than-the-rest-of-us individuals who know so much more than anyone else. Absolutely amazing.

/S/

IMHO

[Freedom2specul8]

Avoid caffeine while you read ping..

[EternalVigilance]

http://www.aipnews.com/talk/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=6057&posts=2#M17783

[LucyT]

This story finally breaks the preferred illusion that fears of radical human population control is nothing more than the product of a fevered imagination.

— out in an open paper, the Lancet — for the first time since the Third Reich.

Thanks ~Kim4VRWC's~