I was not intimidated during
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI hunt for reporters like me who criticized him. I
railed against the Bush-Cheney war on the Bill of Rights without
blinking. But now I am finally scared of a White House administration.
President Obama's desired health care reform intends that a federal
board (similar to the British model) — as in the Center for Health
Outcomes Research and Evaluation in a current Democratic bill — decides
whether your quality of life, regardless of your political party,
merits government-controlled funds to keep you alive. Watch for that
life-decider in the final bill. It's already in the stimulus bill
signed into law.
The members of that ultimate federal board will themselves not have
examined or seen the patient in question. For another example of the
growing, tumultuous resistance to "Dr. Obama," particularly among
seniors, there is a July 29 Washington Times editorial citing a line
from a report written by a key adviser to Obama on cost-efficient
health care, prominent bioethicist Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (brother of
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel).
Emanuel writes about rationing health care for older Americans that
"allocation (of medical care) by age is not invidious discrimination."
(The Lancet, January 2009) He calls this form of rationing — which is
fundamental to Obamacare goals — "the complete lives system." You see,
at 65 or older, you've had more life years than a 25-year-old. As such,
the latter can be more deserving of cost-efficient health care than
older folks. MORE>>>>>