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The media is way overplaying the virus that we are currently dealing with. Not so coincidentally there is a renewed out cry of "Medicare For All". Lets call it what it is "Socialized Medicine". Socialized medicine does nothing to stop the spread of this as we have seen in other countries. It will however ration the care that is given.
Dr Eziekiel Emmanuel (Rahm Emmanuel's brother) one of the architects of ObamaCare has co-authored a book "The Complete Lives System" outlining how the system would work.......
It is based on five underlying principles: Youngest First, Prognosis, Save the Most Lives, Lottery, and Instrumental Value.The aim of the system is to achieve equal outcomes so as to achieve “complete lives.” The system basically seeks to redistribute “life years” from older individuals to younger individuals. The proposed mechanism to achieve this is a centralized system of rationing medical care that limits care for older individuals in favor of providing it to younger individuals. The authors of the Complete Lives article claim this is not age discrimination because all individuals are subject to aging and older individuals have already lived through the age of younger individuals and thus have a greater number of life years.The Youngest First principle is actually a misnomer, as not all younger individuals are deemed worthy of receiving needed medical care. Children and infants, for example, are deemed to be less worthy of receiving medical care than adolescents and young adults because society has invested more in adolescents and young adults than it has in children and infants.
In addition, the Complete Lives System advocates rationing care based on prognosis, or potential for living a complete life—a subjective, sometimes inaccurate judgment. Withholding treatment from those deemed to have a low potential of leading a complete life and transferring those resources to those deemed to have a higher potential is said to be “justifiable,” because it avoids wasting society’s limited resources on those from whom society’s chance of return on investment may be low.
An 18 year old illegal Alien who crossed the border a week ago , who "needs" gender reassignment surgery, would be a higher priority than a 60 year old natural born citizen's knee replacement.
We are seeing this play out in Italy right now.
Dr Eziekiel Emmanuel (Rahm Emmanuel's brother) one of the architects of ObamaCare has co-authored a book "The Complete Lives System" outlining how the system would work.......
It is based on five underlying principles: Youngest First, Prognosis, Save the Most Lives, Lottery, and Instrumental Value.The aim of the system is to achieve equal outcomes so as to achieve “complete lives.” The system basically seeks to redistribute “life years” from older individuals to younger individuals. The proposed mechanism to achieve this is a centralized system of rationing medical care that limits care for older individuals in favor of providing it to younger individuals. The authors of the Complete Lives article claim this is not age discrimination because all individuals are subject to aging and older individuals have already lived through the age of younger individuals and thus have a greater number of life years.The Youngest First principle is actually a misnomer, as not all younger individuals are deemed worthy of receiving needed medical care. Children and infants, for example, are deemed to be less worthy of receiving medical care than adolescents and young adults because society has invested more in adolescents and young adults than it has in children and infants.
In addition, the Complete Lives System advocates rationing care based on prognosis, or potential for living a complete life—a subjective, sometimes inaccurate judgment. Withholding treatment from those deemed to have a low potential of leading a complete life and transferring those resources to those deemed to have a higher potential is said to be “justifiable,” because it avoids wasting society’s limited resources on those from whom society’s chance of return on investment may be low.
An 18 year old illegal Alien who crossed the border a week ago , who "needs" gender reassignment surgery, would be a higher priority than a 60 year old natural born citizen's knee replacement.
We are seeing this play out in Italy right now.
