Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Will You Be Selected?

Paul Hsieh links to an essay penned by John David Lewis titled Arbitrary Power, Dictatorship and Health Care which should be read.

Within Lewis’ essay, he highlights just a few of the dangers of government decreed healthcare, specifically the dangers of the arbitrariness implicit within the bill, H.R. 3962.  Here is one example.

“If the secretary estimates for any fiscal year that the aggregate amounts available for payment of expenses of the high-risk pool will be less than the amount of the expenses, the secretary shall make such adjustments as are necessary to eliminate such deficit, including reducing benefits, increasing premiums, or establishing waiting lists” (Sec. 101). Who gets care, and what it will cost, will be up to the secretary. (bold by ed.)

When I read those words from the bill, and Lewis’ comment (in bold), I immediately recalled the selection process of the Nazis in the concentration camps, and Googled the following:  nazi deathcamp selection procedures, and discovered the following essay written by William E. Seidelman MD.  Nuremberg Lamentation: For the Forgotten Victims of Medical Science from which the below quote is gleaned.

Half a century after Nuremberg it is opportune to go back to the beginning and examine how the best and the brightest people in medical science could become parties to evil. Physicians need to examine the historical, social, and legal basis of their profound powers and influence, including the tragic example of the exploitation and abuse of those powers by the foremost medical and research communities of the day. The medical profession needs to examine what can happen when medicine is influenced by political ideology.

Don’t kid yourselves.  There is a real and extreme danger, an evil danger, to all Americans if the United States government implements any type of health care bill.

Will you be selected?

Posted by John Venlet on 12/23 at 11:39 AM
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