No matter what President Obama, his Agency heads or the mainstream media is saying about the proposed healthcare system, it does include a plan for rationing healthcare.

The facts are simple:

Large government medical programs such as Medicare are already broke and broken. This proposed healthcare system is Medicare for the rest of the population.

Nobody really knows what this program will do because it does not exist except in the form of legislative drafts being circulated for comment. These drafts are little more than paragraph headers outlining the major program provisions.

The real power and authority is ceded to Administration Agency heads and un-elected czars who will provide the implementation details.

The brother of Rahm Emanuel, a well-qualified physician/ethics expert is proposing a healthcare rationing system which is likely to be adopted into the current legislation.

Reality and the laws of supply and demand mandate that: if you increase the number of covered lives without a corresponding increase in medical facilities, physicians and healthcare workers, you must: ration healthcare on a prioritized basis or lengthen the waiting line – with some people’s chance at life running out before receiving assistance.

The President and Administration must rush this flawed package through Congress because if the proposal is read, understood and debated, it will be less likely to pass the “smell test.”

The President is using socialist organizing tactics including staged town hall meetings and union thuggery to push his line of government propaganda.

The President does not know what is in the healthcare package – nobody does. The President is a classic example for failing upward. Great initial achievements – but little or no follow-through. He is content to sit back and let his minions make him appear to be the great wizard when the truth is “the emperor has no clothes.” A classic case of style over substance.

Let’s see what Dr. Ezekiel "E-Z Kill" Emanuel is thinking …

From the well-respected, peer-reviewed British Medical Journal, Lancet (2009; 373: 423–31) we find an article titled “Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions” which was authored by Govind Persad, Alan Wertheimer, and Ezekiel J Emanuel who are employed by the Department of Bioethics, The Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health located in Bethesda, Maryland.

The introduction …

“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, favoring the worst-off , maximizing 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 multi-principle 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 prioritizes younger people who have not yet lived a complete life, and also incorporates prognosis, save the most lives, lottery, and instrumental value principles.”

No matter how you slice-and-dice the programs merits, features, applicability; it all says – healthcare rationing! No matter which elected official or media pundit tells you different, it all says – healthcare rationing.

Where are YOU on the “Curve”  

Under 15 and over 50 – you are targeted to receive less medical attention than you need, can pay for or deserve!

What do I know?

Personally, I can recognize common-sense arguments and professionally, I have been trained to recognize the adverse consequences of man-made disasters.

As for the healthcare program, I have read two of the Obamacare drafts and do not like what I see – and like even less what I don’t see – actions that will be implemented by Agency heads and czars.

I know that I am in the targeted range and that my chances of receiving life-saving or life-sustaining care are rapidly dwindling as I go older and possibly sicker.

I also know that President Obama is not an honorable, ethical person and is hell-bent on moving the United States towards his community organizer’s dream of a socialized America – where equal opportunity gives way to government-mandated equal outcomes.

As for the destruction of the current healthcare system which serves 85% of the population to gain additional coverage of approximately 36 million people; 12 – 20 million of whom are illegal aliens – I am dead set against it. I paid for Medicare and am almost at retirement age. I want the government to keep its promise – not change the rules at the last minute to secure political power and buy votes.

The exact details of this medical paper are relative unimportant at this stage of the discussion. But those who are willing to read through this scholarly proposal, it can be found here.

To be fair to Dr. Zeke, here are the author’s conclusions …

Conclusion

“Ultimately, none of the eight simple principles recognise all morally relevant values, and some recognise irrelevant values. QALY and DALY multi-principle systems neglect the importance of fair distribution. UNOS points systems attempt to address distributive justice, but recognise morally irrelevant values and are vulnerable to corruption.”

“By contrast, the complete lives system combines four morally relevant principles: youngest-first, prognosis, lottery, and saving the most lives.”

“In pandemic situations, it also allocates scarce interventions to people instrumental in realizing these four principles. Importantly, it is not an algorithm, but a framework that expresses widely affirmed values: priority to the worst-off , maximizing benefits, and treating people equally. To achieve a just allocation of scarce medical interventions, society must embrace the challenge of implementing a coherent multi-principle framework rather than relying on simple principles or retreating to the status quo.”

The major fallacy in the report …

With all due respect to the paper’s authors, they all have their heads up their collective socialist asses. That is they look at the problem of healthcare in America and accept the socialist premise that we must ration healthcare in order to be “fair” to all constituents. To which I reply, screw you and your learned bullshit. We are the most powerful country in the nation and we should be looking to expand healthcare to everyone – not ration healthcare to select individuals.

You Congressional asshats want to talk about bailing our General Motors and General Electric. We’ll how about giving them subsidies to produce more medical equipment like the GE LightSpeed Scanners? Let’s increase our medical personnel by improving education – throwing out the unions who are holding children hostage in favor of their own salaries and benefits. In fact, throw out the socialist unions whose work rules, policies and costs have crippled American industry and promise to do the same to a unionized government.

The way it works using the classic Chicago political model …  

Bottom line …

There are solutions, but Obamacare is not one of them. Likewise, Obama’s toxic influence on our country cannot be overstated. Not to let a toxic Congress off the hook, but there is only one real solution to get their attention and effect real change we the people can believe in.

You want real change ... Let the bastards who allegedly cooked the books at General Electric and who were fined $50 million -- provide $50 million worth of medical equipment (at cost) to second-tier medical facilities instead of donating it to the government's black hole. Now that's change I can believe in.

Until then ...

Be well, be safe and take care of yourself and your family first.

-- steve

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OneCitizenSpeaking: Saying out loud what you may be thinking …

Reference Links:

Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions

"The Complete Lives System" - by Dr. Emanuel - Advisor to Prez - News & Current Events - Comcast.net Community