Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Bill Gates: Proud Champion of “Death Panels?”



Bill Gates Supports Death Panels, Rationing Medical Advances
by Wesley J. Smith | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 3/14/14

It is funny—in both the ha-ha and ironical senses—that those who often scream most loudly against the ‘death panel’ meme often follow, sotto voce, ‘But we need death panels.’ The fact is that most of those in the technocratic classes want to medically discriminate against those who are seen as health care ‘takers’ or perceived to have a lower quality of life (Or seen as peons to the eliteof society!—my addition).

They’re just not sure how to get from ‘here’ to ‘there,’ and retain popular support. (Hint: They can’t.)

Now in a Rolling Stone interview, Bill Gates joins the chorus (He has been there for some time. Just hiding in the background! Using his money and influence! Who said big business is Republican? Bill Gates is a baby MURDERER who supports the radical homosexual agenda and other Leftist agenda items!—my addition). He says—like bioethicist Daniel Callahan—that we have to be careful about making technological improvements in medicine because we wont want to make them available to all (Of course not! Just for him and his ilk!—my addition). From the interview:

‘G: … If you accelerate certain things but aren’t careful about whether you want to make those innovations available to everyone, then you’re intensifying the cost in such a way that you’ll overwhelm all the resources.

RS: Like million-dollar chemotherapy treatments.
G: Yeah, or organ transplants for people in their seventies from new artificial organs being grown. There is a lot of medical technology for which, unless you can make judgments about who should buy it (Buy it! Only the deserving wealthy?—my addition), you will have to invade other government functions to find the money. Joint replacement is another example. There are four or five of these innovations down the pipe that are huge, huge things.

RS: Yeah, but when people start talking about these issues, we start hearing loaded phrases like death panels and suggestions that government bureaucrats are going to decide when its time to pull the plug on Grandma (Because it is true!—my addition).

G: The idea that there arent trade-offs is an outrageous thing. Most countries know that there are trade-offs, but here, we manage to have the notion that there aren’t any. So that’s unfortunate, to not have people think, ‘Hey, there are finite resources here (Obama doesnt think there are limited resources! Just look at the National Debt!—my addition).’’

But they do want to have the government (or bioethics committees delegated the task by government) decide ‘when to pull the plug on grandma.’ Moreover, ‘trade offs’ is a code term in this context for death panels (Of course! Someone has to decide who gets what in a government run system! You get the blue pill! I get the heart transplant!—my addition).

A few points I made about these matters at the World Affairs Council symposium on Obamacare earlier this week:

‘Patients should be treated based on their individual circumstances, not as members of a ‘class’ or group.

Refusing wanted efficacious non-elective treatment is coercion–in essence, a duty to die (MURDER them before they are born! Allocate them till they die!
—my addition).

Death panels will destroy what shaky trust remains in our health care system, particularly, I think, among minority communities.

Death panels undermine Hippocratic values and deprofessionalize medicine.

Education is already promoting better, less expensive care decisions. Very few terminally ill people insist on ICU treatment at the end. Hospice participation now exceeds 40%.

How can we justify refusing non-elective treatment based on invidious classifications when we keep expanding what we call basic health care to elective, life-style enhancing procedures and interventions? For example, in California today, gay and lesbian persons are legally entitled to expensive fertility treatments if they are covered by group health insurance—whether they are actually infertile or not (They are infertile as far as their homosexual partner is concerned. WILL NEVER HAVE CHILDREN TOGETHER!—my addition). I only see this trend growing.

If we have to cut back through regulatory changes, how about starting on elective interventions that dont impact physical health? Medicare has paid countless millions on penile pumps and Viagra to allow 75-year-old men pretend they are 18 in the sack. I mean, c’mon!’

Yes, we have to find ways to control medical costs. But not through death panels! Not through invidious discrimination depriving people of non-elective or necessary care, while payment for coverage of life-style enhancers continues to increase (Do not expect logic out of government!—my addition).

CLICK LIKE IF YOURE PRO-LIFE!

That approach is both morally wrong (This administration does not care about morality!—my addition) and politically unsustainable.

LifeNews.com Note: Wesley J. Smith, J.D., is a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture and a bioethics attorney who blogs at Human Exeptionalism.



From: http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

“Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Florida, is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following ‘Current Communist Goals,’ which she identifies as an excerpt from ‘The Naked Communist,’ by Cleon Skousen:

[From ‘The Naked Communist,’ by Cleon Skousen]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
“15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.”

“24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them censorshipand a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as normal, natural, healthy.’

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with ‘social’ religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a ‘religious crutch.’

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of ‘separation of church and state.’

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the ‘common man.’”



This is my two part suggestion to Tea Party groups, social conservatives, Constitutionalists, and anyone else who wants to save our Republic from the approaching destruction.

1) Run as many conservative candidates in as many Republican primaries as possible.

2) Then, run as many independent and/or third party candidates as possible in as many races as possible where we did not win the primary.

Competition is good for the economy and competition is good for the Republican Party!!! Competition keeps Congressmen committed to we the people!!! Primary Republicans who do not support the Constitution as written.