HEALTH CARE...THAT'S A PERSONAL ISSUE. IT'S A PRIVATE ISSUE. THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO LIMIT CARE, NOT INCREASE CARE. ONE HEALTH ADVISOR, Ezekiel Emanuel (Raum Emanuel's brother), to President Obama has written this view on healthcare:
"Allocation of very scarce medical interventions such as organs and vaccines is a persistent ethical challenge. We evaluate eight simple allocation principles that can be classified into four categories: treating people equally, favouring the worst-off, maximising total benefits, and promoting and rewarding social usefulness. No single principle is sufficient to incorporate all morally relevant considerations and therefore individual principles must be combined into multiprinciple allocation systems. We evaluate three systems: the United Network for Organ Sharing points systems, quality-adjusted life-years, and disability-adjusted life-years. We recommend an alternative system—the complete lives system—which prioritises younger people who have not yet lived a complete life, and also incorporates prognosis, save the most lives, lottery, and instrumental value principles."
For the entire text visit HERE.
Personally? I don't care what Ezekiel thinks. But since President Obama has not presented his own bill for health care reform, it's worth noting that this kind of philosophy effects the outcome of particulars in a health care reform bill. Obama gives Congress a set of principles and then lets them work it out. Like they did the Stimulus Bill, and the Cap and Trade Bill. Seems our President, bless his heart, is still a community organizer. He organizes a group of Czars to advise him on the principles, then delivers the principles to the congress to organize it all into *a bill that he can simply sign in the Rose Garden. Wonder if he reads it before he signs it? selahV
*[ANECDOTE: Raum Emanuel, President Obama's main man, was asked regarding legislation to define "victory". Emanuel replied, "Anything we can sign in the Rose Garden."]
