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Monday, August 10, 2009
John Dingell confronted at a Michigan Townhall: Mike Sola's clash with Dingell earns him some late-night Obama-thug visits.
Posted by kotang at 9:00 PMCongressman John Dingell, an 83-yo 52-year, 27-term Michigan Congresscritter is a conceited old bugger, isn't he? Dingell is a poster child for term limits. Long ago this old battleaxe should've been put out to pasture. He's been socializing and buggering our Constitution since 1955.
Mike Sola, in that linked video, recommends that 'every American' read the New York Post op-ed by Betsy McCaughey, 'Deadly Doctors', one of whom, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (yes, that's Rahm Emanuel's brother) is one 'Doctor' I wouldn't want washing my feet; but our President has installed him in his White House.
Mike Sola argued forcefully with the old dodger Dingell; something Republican Congressmen obviously don't have the cojones to do.Emanuel bluntly admits that the cuts will not be pain-free. "Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely 'lipstick' cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change," he wrote last year (Health Affairs Feb. 27, 2008).
Savings, he writes, will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, "as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others" (Journal of the American Medical Association, June 18, 2008).
Yes, that's what patients want their doctors to do. But Emanuel wants doctors to look beyond the needs of their patients and consider social justice, such as whether the money could be better spent on somebody else.
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Emanuel, however, believes that "communitarianism" should guide decisions on who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those "who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens . . . An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia" (Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. '96).
Translation: Don't give much care to a grandmother with Parkinson's or a child with cerebral palsy.
He explicitly defends discrimination against older patients: "Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years" (Lancet, Jan. 31).
Say, Mike, how about challenging that old coot in 2010? You are the sort of Representative that's needed: someone who has purpose and convictions, and isn't afraid of wolves. You might not get a lot of votes in socialist Looterville (Detroit), but you'd be fun to watch, confronting that old leftist and giving him a piece of our minds.
