Meet Dr. Death & His

“Complete Lives System”

Brought to you by, none other than Rohm Emanual's brother Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Obama's Health Policy Advisor. He was appointed to the Federal Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research March 19

“Such an approach accepts a two-tiered health system-some citizens will receive only basic services while others will receive both basic and some discretionary health services… 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. Conversely, 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.”

“When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated.” This may be justified by public opinion, since “broad consensus favours adolescents over very young infants, and young adults over very elderly people.”

“Strict youngest-first allocation directs scarce resources predominantly to infants. This approach seems incorrect. The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects…. Adolescents have received substantial substantial education and parental care, investments that will be wasted without a complete life. Infants, by contrast, have not yet received these investments…. It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.”

“The ‘complete lives’ system also considers prognosis, since its aim is to achieve complete lives. A young person with a poor prognosis has had few life-years but lacks the potential to live a complete life. Considering prognosis forestalls the concern that disproportionately large amounts of resources will be directed to young people with poor prognoses.”

“the complete lives system is least vulnerable to corruption. Age can be established quickly and accurately from identity documents.”

You can read it for yourself in the good doctor's “Principles for Allocation of Scarce Medical Interventions.” published in the Jan. 31, 2009 in the British medical journal Lancet.

This guy is an oncologist and a medical ethicist??????. His ethics are sure different from mine! And people wonder where Palin came up with Death Panel?
Although there is nothing in HR3200 that actually says Death Panel, after reading both HR3200 and Dr. Emanual's “Principles for Allocation of Scarce Medical Interventions.” , it sure isn't hard to figure it out.

I am POSITIVE Ezekiel Emanuel is evil!

If you read some of the articles he published before Obama was even president, you knew these "death panels" were coming.

And his brother, served in a FOREIGN army, and now works in the White House.

Does anyone else see anything wrong with that???

And before you say israel is our friend, remember that we have prosecuted more israelis for espionage than Russians and Chinese combined!!

Of course the israelis are mostly sent back to israel with no punishment.

Great find OP, star and flag!


[edit on 15-8-2009 by breakingdradles]

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Welcome to government run healthcare people.

Read and weep.

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We're in deep dog doo....I think a lot of govrnment conservatives know what's coming down the pike....Three 'officials' have resigned within a short amount of time....Sarah Palin, LAPD Chief & a Republican congress person (can't remember the name) They all know 'something very bad' is coming, and want NO part in it....

This is an astonishing find....Thank you! S&F for you

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We probably aren't gonna be smilin' if this piece of crap gets passed!

This guy is so evil, as are those that support his "ethics" and this trash, it is just beyond the pale.

I am so sickened and livid by what this so-called doctor and medical ethicist has written I could run dang near all the way to DC and slap him into the next century.

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The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects

This excerpt, from your source, is why legalizing abortion was so abhorrent, to many people. One of the arguments against legalizing abortion
claims that abortion introduces the "slippery slope" to euthanasia. Dr. Death's quote proves that they were correct. The right to LIVE now is being expressed in terms of economic contribution to the state. Sound familiar?

"Arbeit macht frei" was on the entrances to the Nazi concentration camps. If you want to live, continue to work. Otherwise, it's off to the ovens.......