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New “Point System” Would Discriminate Against Elderly and Disabled Patients, Deny Them Ventilators (Pennsylvania)
Life News ^ | April 9, 2020 | Maria Gallagher

Posted on 04/09/2020 6:29:48 PM PDT by Morgana

Reporting at PennLive.com David Wenner writes that a “point system” proposed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health could leave an especially vulnerable population, people with disabilities, without the health care they need, when it comes to life-saving treatment for COVID-19.

“Disability Rights Pennsylvania has filed a federal civil rights complaint,” the Philadelphia Inquirer added.

This frightening proposal—“Interim Pennsylvania Crisis Standards of Care for Pandemic Guidelines”– is raising new questions about the prospect of medical rationing during the Coronavirus pandemic, a possibility already raised by assorted “bioethicists.”

Under this disturbing system, those with higher scores because of pre-existing conditions would be deemed a lower priority for accessing ventilators. Meanwhile, those judged to have a longer life expectancy would be considered a top priority for intensive care.

Individuals with disabilities and their allies say the medical rationing plan is a clear violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. They have sent a letter to the Pennsylvania Health Department detailing the dangers of the proposal.

Asked about the civil rights complaint, a spokeswoman for the Health Department merely told reporters, “The interim guidance that was sent to hospitals was a draft that was not meant for further distribution. We will be working with these and additional stakeholders on a final document.”

People with disabilities poignantly describe cases where they could be at risk of losing life-saving equipment just because they need to go to the hospital—whether for the Coronavirus or any other medical emergency.

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According to Wenner

People with disabilities object to the guidelines for assorted reasons, including the potential for “myths, stereotypes, and unfounded assumptions about people with disabilities” to count against them.

“Doctors associate certain disabilities with a poor prognosis for long-term survival even though people with disabilities regularly outlive the prognoses that doctors ascribe to them, often by years,” they say in a letter sent Tuesday to Ray Barishansky, the deputy secretary for health preparedness and community protection for the Pennsylvania Department of Health

Without a clear directive against discrimination, Pennsylvanians face the scary prospect that their disability could become a death sentence under the Department of Health’s arbitrary guidelines.

ACTION ITEM: Call your Pennsylvania state Representative and state Senator and urge them to use their influence to stop discrimination against people with disabilities through medical rationing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

If you don’t know who your state lawmakers are, or you need contact information, please visit www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/findyourlegislator/#address


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: covid19; deathpanels; disabled; elderly; pahealthdept; paping; pennsylvania; pointsystem; prolife; ventilator; ventilators; wuhan
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1 posted on 04/09/2020 6:29:49 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Isn’t socialism wonderful? /s


2 posted on 04/09/2020 6:32:30 PM PDT by curious7
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To: curious7

obamacare?


3 posted on 04/09/2020 6:33:09 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

How many states didn’t get caught?


4 posted on 04/09/2020 6:33:23 PM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: Morgana

When the ventilator ‘kills’ ya any way, you’re better off without ...


5 posted on 04/09/2020 6:34:22 PM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: Morgana

Perhaps you haven’t heard of Dr Ezekiel Emmanuel’s “Complete Lives System”. This rationing is by design.


6 posted on 04/09/2020 6:34:24 PM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: Morgana

Kudos to the last real reporter who uncovered this.


7 posted on 04/09/2020 6:35:02 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Morgana

If you like your death panels, you can keep your death panels.


8 posted on 04/09/2020 6:36:59 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Morgana

Is protocol-driven COVID-19 respiratory therapy doing more harm than good?
Publish date: April 6, 2020
https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/220301/coronavirus-updates/protocol-driven-covid-19-respiratory-therapy-doing

Ventilator-associated lung injury
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventilator-associated_lung_injury

Bombshell Plea From NYC ICU Doctor: COVID-19 A Condition of Oxygen Deprivation, Not Pneumonia
VENTILATORS may be causing the lung damage, not the virus
https://www.newswars.com/bombshell-plea-from-nyc-icu-doctor-covid-19-a-condition-of-oxygen-deprivation-not-pneumonia/


9 posted on 04/09/2020 6:37:22 PM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: Morgana

Death panels. Man trying to play God, and failing miserably.


10 posted on 04/09/2020 6:38:04 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Morgana

Dead panel bingo


11 posted on 04/09/2020 6:40:10 PM PDT by ptsal ( Bust the NVIA)
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To: Morgana

Sarah Palin was right about the death panels.


12 posted on 04/09/2020 6:45:44 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (I'm triggered by liberals and other assorted moonbats.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog; Morgana
Buckeye McFrog :" Kudos to the last real reporter who uncovered this."

True That !
Death panels are the product of State directed healthcare
and smacks of the Communist Chinese 'social score' system.
The next thing you know, Pennsylvania Health Dept. will recommend a 'Soylent Green' program.

13 posted on 04/09/2020 6:45:45 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: ptsal

>>>Dead panel bingo

They need to go to the highest bidder. Let the market work.


14 posted on 04/09/2020 6:46:00 PM PDT by oincobx
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To: curious7

Anybody attempting to impose this on any family member of mine best move to an underground bunker for the next 20 years.


15 posted on 04/09/2020 6:46:19 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: GreyHoundSailor

He’ll have to sublet part of it from Anthony Fauci


16 posted on 04/09/2020 6:53:24 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Morgana

Well actually these are intended only when demand for services ‘dramatically exceeds’ the supply of the resources needed...and requires and depends on the physicians judgment at the point of patient care.

Resources are shifted to patients for whom treatment would most likely be lifesaving and whose functional
outcome would most likely improve with treatment. Such patients should be given priority over those who
would likely die ‘even with treatment’ and those who would likely survive without treatment.

These guidelines are to be implemented ‘only’ for disasters when numbers of seriously ill patients greatly surpass the capability of available care capacity
and normal standards of care can no longer be maintained,and then only after a disaster declaration from
the Governor..

It is intended to serve as a guide to the rational allocation of scarce resources ‘after other measures’ ,such as resources sharing strategies,have been exhausted.


17 posted on 04/09/2020 7:01:31 PM PDT by caww
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To: Morgana

Soooo.....

How much does each point cost?


18 posted on 04/09/2020 7:03:57 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Morgana

Miracle Day is upon us... Fire up the ovens...


19 posted on 04/09/2020 7:05:20 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Morgana

Shouldn’t it actually be the other way?

Younger people who can’t take the heat should be out of the gene pool. Old people already are, so it doesn’t matter!


20 posted on 04/09/2020 7:08:30 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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