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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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What Ezekiel Emanueal Wrote on the WSJ Op-Ed Page
By Jacob Goldstein
August 9, 2009

Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist who is advising the White House on health care, has become a target for those arguing that the Democrats’ health care plans would lead to withholding care for the sick and the elderly.

Emanuel has written extensively on bioethics and end-of-life care, and this morning’s WSJ notes that parts of some of his articles — particularly one from 1996, discussing which medical services should be guaranteed — have provided fuel for opponents of President Obama’s health-care agenda.

One article that hasn’t come up much is a piece he wrote in 1997, for the WSJ’s op-ed page. We’ve pulled it out of the archive, and you can read it in full ( online.wsj.com if you’re a WSJ.com subscriber.

That piece ran just before the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case over euthanasia and assisted suicide. Anecdotes cited by euthanasia advocates represented a “biased perspective” by suggesting that most patients seeking euthanasia are in great pain, Emanuel argued.

Instead, his own research and other studies found that psychological factors such as depression and anxiety were far more often the motivating factors for patients seeking euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide.

For the vast majority of dying patients, Emanuel wrote, “legalizing euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide would be of no benefit. To the contrary, it would be a way of avoiding the complex and arduous efforts required of doctors and other health-care providers to ensure that dying patients receive humane, dignified care.”

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