'Life Unworthy of Life': Rationed Care Through Democrat Eugenics

Nazi Germany enacted social policies to target certain human beings as "life unworthy of life" (German Lebensunwertes Leben). Among the targeted groups were the disabled and mentally ill. These programs were called Nazi Eugenics.

This poster promotes the policies of the era. It reads:

60000 Reichsmarks ... this is what this person suffering from hereditary defects costs the Community of Germans during his lifetime ... Fellow Citizen, that is your money, too ... Read '[A] New People' ... The monthly magazines of the Office for Race Politics of the NSDAP

It's hard to imagine government having the power to gauge the value of a human life, isn't it?

Yet the health care bill being contemplated in the United States Senate slashes $500 billion from Medicare. It is clear that these huge cuts will be accompanied by rationing. How will the new "Health Benefits Advisory Committee" decide who gets treatment? How do you assign a dollar value to a human life? What happens when a 'public option' becomes the only option for care?

This white paper by presidential adviser Ezekiel Emanuel places arbitrary values on human lives in order to ration care. It describes -- quite precisely -- how the public option rationing will work.

Emanuel's algorithm -- called "the complete lives system" -- discriminates against the disabled, the mentally ill, the elderly and even very young children.

Emanuel says of his system: "When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated... The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a two-month-old girl."

I doubt the parents of the two-month-old agree.

And, if you are a child with disabilities, the government has already completely given up on you. Emanuel believes "services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed."

...What’s worse, since he does not believe in “guaranteeing neuropsychological services to ensure children with learning disabilities can read and learn to reason," once the public option puts the private sector out of business, these types of life-changing services for children will no longer exist.

Years of research in treating children with autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and dyslexia are in jeopardy of being rendered null and void. Years of progress in passing anti-discrimination laws may be undone in one single bill.

It's hard to imagine such a system in the United States, where Americans could once choose their own treatment, pay for the health insurance they felt they needed and the procedures they required.

Where they could make decisions for their parents, their children and themselves.

But such a system is coming, whether you like it or not.

The Democrats' plans are pure evil, which explains the resemblance to Nazi Eugenics. They are willing to destroy every last vestige of our health care system -- the finest such system in the world -- in order to control you and your family.

Ask not for whom the distant bell tolls. It tolls for thee.