When Adolf Hitler set up his T4 program, dedicated to eliminating "useless eaters" from Germany's hospitals and nursing homes, he turned to a "non-political" body of medical experts to make the decisions as to who should live, and who should die. It is becoming increasingly obvious that this same model is being adopted by the Obama Administration, in its zeal to ram through its genocidal health care "reform."
The latest statement to this effect comes from Nancy-Anne DeParle, Counselor to the President and Director of the White House Official of Health Reform. Speaking to the Congressional Quarterly Healthbeat conference in Washington today, DeParle stated that the President is open to giving special consideration to recommendations coming from the Medicare Policy Advisory Council (MEDPac), for dealing with health care costs. These recommendations involve making MedPac decisions on which medications and procedures will be reimbursed mandatory, unless they are opposed by a joint resolution of the Congress. This mirrors a bill introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, which seeks a procedure to cut health costs "insulated from political pressure" as is the Base Realignment and Closing Commission.
A more-elaborated policy to the same effect, has been in circulation since 2008 from Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, currently special health adviser to the President's Office of Management and the Budget. In his book "Healthcare, Guaranteed," Dr. Emanuel calls for phasing out Medicare, Medicaid, and the children's health program SCHIP, and replacing it with government-paid for private insurance. But the oversight on the health care payments, procedures approved, and the like, will be made by an "independent" National Health Board. "To reduce political interference and allow the necessary tough choices to be made," Emanuel says, this board will be nominated by the President, and confirmed by Congress, but otherwise be insulated, even getting its funding independent of Congressional appropriations.
Put in the context of the stated Administration policy to slash health care spending, starting with $300 billion out of Medicare and Medicaid, it is clear that these proposals will achieve that purpose by establishing a health dictatorship—for genocide.
