To: gronieel2 who wrote (118225 ) 11/24/2011 10:40:55 AM From: joseffy 3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) | Respond to “They don’t call them patients, they call them units” November 24, 2011 by Rick Rice wizbangblog.com 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 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 “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.
