It is now clear that the plans being forwarded to "reform " health care in the US involves rationing . How do I know this ? Because the people the President assigned to create a new plan make no bones about it .
Ezekiel Emmanuel MD, Rahm Emmanuel’s brother,is Barack Obama’s “Special Advisor for Health Policy”.
He recently penned an article in Lancet (registration required) co-authored with Govind Persad and Alan Wertheimer where they detail their thoughts on creating a model for health care rationing ;a system they call “The complete lives system” .
Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions : The Lancet
They describe this as a better way for an unnamed bureaurocrat to determine who has the right to care in a rationed system than previous models ;that “the complete lives system is least vulnerable to corruption” .Quote:
This system incorporates five principles: youngest-first, prognosis, save the most lives, lottery, and instrumental value. … 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 … the complete lives system is least vulnerable to corruption. Age can be established quickly and accurately from identity documents. Prognosis allocation encourages physicians to improve patients’ health, unlike the perverse incentives to sicken patients or misrepresent health that the sickest-first allocation creates.
But the bottom line is that such a decision is being taken from the patient and the health care provider.
On a scale from 1-10 I wonder what my instrumental value is ? Who's friend do I have to be to move my base number up ?
Instrumental value allocation prioritises specific individuals to enable or encourage future usefulness.
Yeah that's what I thought . This bureaurocrat will decide my fate on my usefulness...
where a specific person is genuinely indispensable in promoting morally relevant principles, instrumental value allocation can be appropriate.
So whatever you do ;make sure you are useful to the Obots.
I don't know .Wouldn't it be simpler for Dr Emanuel to dress up in appropriate Nazi garb and just point his swager stick at those who are lebensunwertes ?