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Originally Posted by 92bDad
Dr. Ezekial Emanuel is a key health care advisor to President Obama and the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Earlier this year, Dr. Emanuel wrote an article that advocated what he called “the complete lives system” as a method for rationing health care.
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Dr. Ezeliel Emanuel works as an ethicist at the NIH. he is against physician assisted suicide, and the right has turned its aim on him in a very disappointing manner.
emanuel is a highly educated and honored physician.
the "complete lives system" is not a formula for "rationing health care", as it explains it is an ethical discourse on how to allocate finite resources in a consistent, moral and ethical manner. we allocate these resouces every day, and this will not stop with or without any changes to our health care system. to quote from the summation:
[T]he complete lives system combines four morally relevant principles: youngest-first, prognosis, lottery, and saving the most lives. In pandemic situations, it also allocates scarce interventions to people instrumental in realising these four principles. Importantly, it is not an algorithm, but a framework that expresses widely affirmed values: priority to the worst-off, maximising benefits, and treating people equally. To achieve a just allocation of scarce medical interventions, society must embrace the challenge of implementing a coherent multiprinciple framework rather than relying on simple principles or retreating to the status quo.
read it for yourself:
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/PIISO140673609601379.pdf