Allocating Scarce Medical Interventions: Ezekiel Emmanuel Places a Value on Your Life.

Ezekiel Emmanuel, M.D./Bioethicist, is the architect of the looming healthcare / death allocation bill now in Congress. The 1000 page bill is just now being analyzed and leaked out to the public, the one thing that Obama did not want to happen in his panicky rush to get it passed without being read. The author of this bill, health advisor to Obama and brother of Rahm Emmanuel, revealed his ideas about health care management in an article co-published in Lancet on Jan 31, 2009, where several types of healthcare rationing algorithms are analyzed.

Most, like the “First Come First Served” algorithm are rejected, FCFS being disliked due to favoring the wealthy and the “connected”.

However, one method stands out. This is the “Complete Lives System” which places values on people based on how much of their life they have completed, along with the relative initial value of the person. For instance old people have completed much of their lives and are of little retained value. Babies have not received any social and personal investment compared with teenagers, so babies are worth very little while teenagers are worth much more due to the investment placed in them.

Fortunately they included a graph to allow us all to evaluate our personal values according to the “Complete Lives System” of Medical Allocation:




It should be clear that unborn humans have no value whatsoever in this scheme, and that care for people over 40 is iffy. And once you retire, well, you’re done, aren’t you?

Keep in mind that this man designed the 1000 page health plan which the nation is about to received in suppository form. The one thing that is known about the bill so far is that it requires “death counseling” for elders to show them their options for dying. And suicide was specifically kept off the codicil of unacceptability by a Democrat majority vote. An abortion amendment, also by Democrat majority vote, does a deceptive two-step to allow abortion coverage and to require it to be available in all regions.

There will be more revealed about the bill soon, as it gets fully read and sorted through. No doubt there will be many of our current rights that are relieved for our own good, as the statist "ethicists" determine is proper.