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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: gronieel2 who wrote (118225)	11/24/2011 10:40:55 AM
From: joseffy	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 224748

“They don’t call them patients, they call them units” ............................................................................................................................. November 24, 2011 by Rick Rice wizbangblog.com Remember when they laughed off, ridiculed and otherwise denied Sarah Palin’s assertion that Obamacare would usher in death panels? Listen to this neurosurgeon, fresh from a seminar in Washington DC, tell about what it is that the HHS has in store for seniors: The Anchoress calls it what it is. Evil: *So if you are a 70 year-old Nancy Pelosi, or Paul Krugman — with a potent private health insurance plan such as the one enjoyed by Members of Congress and other bureaucrats* — you will get every appropriate surgery and treatment applicable. *But if you are a 70 year-old former bookkeeper or waitress* on Medicare, well — you have swung your last golfclub or danced your last waltz, because the “ethics panel” that assesses your unithood will have no problem inventing a equation that goes something like, “Potential-Tax-revenues-minus-potential-cost-divided-by-social-and-political-value-equals… a negligible unit. And you’ll be shuffled off to the room with the big screen full of daffodils and excellent speakers blasting Vivaldi, and made “comfortable.” *Assessing human beings as “units” is Evil.* Period, full stop. It is a diabolical disorientation. The only people who do not understand that are people who also have difficulty with that inconvenient old “conscience thing“. The caller to Levin’s show said he was a neurosurgeon, and of German descent. He mentioned his ancestry at the same time he discussed “units” and admitted he was distressed. The source of his distress was very likely his recognition of a the sort of ruthless efficiency someone in his family once knew first hand, either from one side of the ledger, or the other.

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