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In life, there are occasions when the presence of evil can clearly be felt: in a person, a place or even the written word. Washing won’t remove the feeling of darkness that temporarily swirls around the soul.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, health care policy advisor to President Obama and brother of the President’s Chief of Staff, advocates “The Complete Lives System”.
Studying this depraved plan compels one to wonder from what pit of hell these ideas emerged.
Liberty Forged knows. Complete Lives System is the softer, gentler version of the eugenics embraced by Progressives in the early 20th century. Research of that period is mandatory for those who want to save our medical system today. Below is an example of horrors our most vulnerable experienced in order to assure the excellent prospects of our society:
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/29/60minutes/main614728.shtml
Progressives have embraced Emanuel’s system. They believe it to be morally relevant. It replaces several methods of rationing health care that some ethicists were unable to completely embrace. Examples of currently used methods include:
Rewarding and promoting social usefulness – parents are favored over single people, involvement in religion is valued over atheism, career’s that improve society are valued over the habitually unemployed;
Reciprocity – preference is given to those with healthy life styles, to medical professionals who work with highly contagious diseases, to people who have donated organs; the nobility of the sacrifice will guarantee health care;
Quality Adjusted Life Years – measures the quality of a life of perfect health against an impaired person with mobility issues, blindness, and mental disabilities.
Now, how could one not embrace these answers to our health care dilemma?
Ah, but enter Dr. Emanuel, carry a plan in which he has determined that the life years given to the elderly and the disabled are simply not as valuable as those productive 15 to 40 year olds.
The Complete Lives System advocates a thesis that, for most loving parents, is anathema. In Emanuel’s world, health care should favor the youngest first. Not the very youngest, though. Dr. Emanuel would favor adolescents to young adults first because people have made personal investments in adolescents and young adults. That age group has received education and their parents have invested emotional care. Newborn’s and babies, not so much. Emanuel’s plan, supported by “empirical evidence” has determined that although it would be regretful when a baby dies, it would be horrible when an adolescent dies because they have had the opportunity to make plans!
In Emanuel’s plan, should you have the misfortune of being older than forty; mentally or physically disabled, no matter the age; or elderly and infirmed, you are considered to be of less economic potential and will perhaps, be irreversibly prevented from being a participating citizen. Therefore, you should not be guaranteed health services.
There is value of and reason for every human life. Babies, adolescents, young adults, mature adults, elderly; all need the best, most equal health care available.
We have been provided Divine lessons in every one of these circumstances. Some of us are wise enough to learn those lessons during crisis; some are unable to find answers until shortly before death. Many of us leave this life hoping to find resolution at a later time.
Plans to ration the health care of the disabled, the infirmed, and the elderly, interfere with our opportunity to experience Holiness in our lives and the lives of those we uphold.
Most parents of mentally or physically handicapped children know that there is a spiritual aspect to the life they share with these special children.
Parents of disabled children know the lesson of a special kind of servant love not generally experienced with their healthy children. They are somehow gifted an emotional strength so much greater than they could have imagined.
Disabled children, no matter the severity, can feel their parents and their God’s love in unique ways. Their smile, their laugh, their touch can be as productive in their small society as any Wall Street banker or Ethicist.
Emanuel’s kind of health care rationing could deprive parents and children of lessons they both must learn.
Many spouses or adult children who hold the hold the hand of their dying loved one know, perhaps for the first time, the presence of their Creator.
Men and women, diagnosed with a long-term terminal disease, whether elderly or young, walk a unique path. With excellent medical care, they are often gifted time, closure with family and friends, the opportunity to share love, remember life and seek forgiveness.
Caregivers discover their own strength, face unknown weaknesses, have the time to say their good-bye’s and assure their family member or friend of God’s love for them. Of His forgiveness.
The Complete Lives System removes the time that families and patients need for the Holiness of Divine closure.
There is no place for Dr. Emanuel and his Complete Lives System in the health care plan for American citizens.
God, the patient, the family, and the trusted personal physician are the only entities responsible for managing the end of life.
American’s must fight this good fight. Any health care plan that includes rationed care, under any name, or label, must be defeated
Liberty Forged will continue to provide information that you will need to conquer a health care plan that will harm our country.
Recent Wisdom From Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel
"Substantively, it suggests services that promote the continuation of the polity—those that ensure healthy future generations, ensure development of practical reasoning skills, and ensure full and active participation by citizens in public deliberations—are to be socially guaranteed as basic. Covering services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic, and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia."
Hastings Center Report, November-December, 1996
"However, other things are rarely equal—whether to save one 20-year-old, who might live another 60 years, if saved, or three 70-year-olds, who could only live for another 10 years each—is unclear. When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get changes that are attenuated." ""Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination. . . . Treating 65 year olds differently because of stereotypes or falsehoods would be ageist; treating them differently because they have already had more life-years is not."
The Lancet, January 31, 2009
"The progression in end-of-life care mentality from 'do everything' to more palliative care shows that change in physician norms and practices is possible."
JAMA, June 18, 2008
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Cheri-10/04/2009 at 5:51 AM
I too have read the proposal by Emmanuel. Long winded as it was... As a parent of a mentally handicapped child it was very disturbing to read and no doubt that it would eventually go that far should universal health care pass. I am also a nurse in cardiac care for over 25 years and see the rationed health care in medicare, how we try to balance what we do to provide care. The new buzz word in medicine is "appropriateness of care" and how we must document everything to justify the care given. People are not aware of what is going on everyday in medicine to justify basic patient care. It is frustrating. How many people have heard of RAC audit going on now around the country? How medicare has come in looking at past records and demanding money back. I see things done by non-medical persons who don't have a clue to what was necessary for patient care. It will go that far based on money and not on individual care. This has been going on for years and has gotten worse this past few months. Everyday we must do something more for the medicare patients in how we admit them, treat them, base the testing done for them. It is only a keyhole view of what will happen if universal health care passes. Doesn't anyone remember when the HMO pushed forward in the 80's and 90's and how hard it was to get specialized care? I do! Trust me not all nurses and physicians support the health care reform that is currently be pushed. To have taken an oath to treat all individuals the same, that human life is sacred to all. The thought that a 17 year old is more valuable than a mentally handicapped or a 70 year old is nauseating to say the least.
Bob Farrell-10/01/2009 at 7:17 AM
I utterly fail to see how the proposed healthcare reforms will harm your country. Do please free to respond.
Steve Lawrence-09/20/2009 at 8:13 AM
Liberty, Keep up presenting the great information on this web site. Excellent article about Emanuel's influence on Obama.