|  Most Americans do not want faceless,namely presidentially-appointed bureaucracy deciding their medical care from a command post some where in the world.
Sarah Palin brought up a very serious concern in regard to Ezekiel Emanuel health adviser to Barack Obama who wrote this in the Hastings Center Report, Nov/Dec 1996, he says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled,not given to those "who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens.
The hard core democrats left wing liberals and Sarah Palin haters have attacked her because she believes this kind of thinking is very dangerous for the American people.
Watching the polls,town hall meetings two in which I have attended more then half the American people are in agreement with Sarah Palin,what say you?
(Obama health care bill H.R.3200)
(Cut cost with hold care to the disabled,elderly)
Ezekiel Emanuel Obama's health adviser:
Ezekiel Emanuel Obama's health care adviser wants doctors to look beyond the needs of their patients and consider social justice, such as whether the money could be better spent on somebody else.
Many doctors are horrified by this notion; they'll tell you that a doctor's job is to achieve social justice one patient at a time.
Emanuel, however, believes that "communitarianism" should guide decisions on who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those "who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens . . . An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia" (Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. '96).
Translation: Don't give much care to a grandmother with Parkinson's or a child with cerebral palsy.
He explicitly defends discrimination against older patients: "Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years" (Lancet, Jan. 31).
The bills being rushed through Congress will be paid for largely by a $500 billion-plus cut in Medicare over 10 years. Knowing how unpopular the cuts will be, the president's budget director, Peter Orszag, urged Congress this week to delegate its own authority over Medicare to a new, presidentially-appointed bureaucracy that wouldn't be accountable to the public.
Since Medicare was founded in 1965, seniors' lives have been transformed by new medical treatments such as angioplasty, bypass surgery and hip and knee replacements. These innovations allow the elderly to lead active lives. But Emanuel criticizes Americans for being too "enamored with technology" and is determined to reduce access to it.
(Dr David Blumenthal Health Adviser to Obama)
Dr. David Blumenthal, another key Obama adviser, agrees. He recommends slowing medical innovation to control health spending.
Blumenthal has long advocated government health-spending controls, though he concedes they're "associated with longer waits" and "reduced availability of new and expensive treatments and devices" (New England Journal of Medicine, March 8, 2001). But he calls it "debatable" whether the timely care Americans get is worth the cost. (Ask a cancer patient, and you'll get a different answer. Delay lowers your chances of survival.)
(Sources of Information)
(Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. '96)
(New York Post July 2009)
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