Obama's Health Care Rationer-in-Chief

My posting on Tuesday August 11, 2009, discussed the plan from Obama's Health-Care Rationer-in-Chief, Dr. Zeke Emanuel (brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel) for who will get health care and who will not under ObamaCare. A full article on this same subject, showing Zeke's actual curve for who will get how much health care, was published in the Wall Street Journal, on Thursday August 27,2009 page A15. The discussion in the WSJ is naturally much more extensive than in my posting, but it makes many of the same points. However, three important new points are revealed in the WSJ article:
1. Zeke wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association in February, 2008: "Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic records are merely 'lipstick' cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change". AT THE TIME, ZEKE DIDN'T KNOW THAT OBAMA'S SPEECHES IN 2009 WOULD EMPHASIZE THESE 'LIPSTICK' PROMISES. Even Obama's top advisor on a new health care system recognized that Obama's promises were phony.
2. Zeke has been fighting for a GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF HEALTH CARE and for HEALTH CARE RATIONING for over a decade. Clearly, OBAMA KNEW this background on Zeke and yet he appoints Zeke as his top advisor on the overall philosophy of a health care system. Thus can be NO DOUBT THAT ZEKE IS IN LOCK STEP WITH OBAMA on the end game for health care, sneaking up to it through the "public option" or "government supported cooperatives". As in my earlier posting, the WSJ article shows that the ZEKE-OBAMA PLAN will call for RATIONING FOR ALL, but the worst hit will be the very young (under 10 years of age) and those over about 50 to 55 years of age.
3. Zeke's has written that medical school education is on the wrong track; Doctors are trained to "emphasize thoroughness" and in the Doctor's Hippocratic Oath they are trained to use their power to heal the sick to the best of their ability and judgment. Instead, Zeke thinks that doctors should be trained to control cost even if it means withholding certain drugs, tests and procedures and to consider the age and health condition of a patient before providing health care to the best of their ability. If you have been a patient for any serious illness or injury, or are related to some one who has, then I think you would prefer the approach that doctors are now trained to take rather than the Zeke-Obama philosophy of rationed health care.