Just Let the Oldsters Die
In today’s Wall Street Journal is a devastating piece on the deadly ideas pushed by Obama’s healthcare advisor, Dr. Zeke Emanuel (Rahm Emanuel’s brother). Zeke is not a fan of the idea that physicians should do everything they can for their patients. He argues that society’s needs have to be factored in. In practical terms this means if you’re old, disabled or an infant you are not sufficiently useful to society and should not receive advanced care.
He was even nice enough to quantify it and provide a graph which he published in a paper in Lancet. Meet the Reaper Curve. It’s deadly if it drives your healthcare system.
Chilling. The only thing missing are a few other qualifiers popular in the 1930’s to join “old, disabled, or infants”, such as “deranged”, “morally deficient”, and hell, why not, Gypsies, homosexuals, and Jews to go the full Nazi. Disturbing when people set out to “perfect” society, isn’t it?
So true. What I find equally disturbing is that these lethal “perfection projects” are alternately scrubbed from history (except for the Nazis) or the ideological affiliation of their promoters (left leaning) is misrepresented to imply they are right leaning.