Jim Brown,OneNewsNow
A health economist warns that President Obama’s government-run healthcare plan may result in denying care to a significant number of Americans,especially senior citizens.
Conservative opponents of President Obama’s healthcare plan have been arguing that a government takeover of healthcare will allow Washington bureaucrats to use "comparative effectiveness research"to dictate to doctors which treatments they should prescribe and how much those treatments should cost. Critics say this will lead to rationing of care.
In the medical journal The Lancet,Obama’s special health policy advisor Ezekiel Emanuel wrote that if healthcare has to be rationed,he prefers the "complete lives system,"which "discriminates against older people."
Dr. Devon Herrick,a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis,says Emanuel believes young adults should be given preferential care over seniors because they have more years of their life ahead of them. "I guess the implication of that is if you’re older,you will be assumed to have lived a complete life;whereas if you’re younger,you’d have yet to live a complete life,"Herrick suggests. "So in a way I kind of see it as a method to ration care to the elderly,but trying to use an ethicist’s view to justify it."
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