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Oh, how the elites laughed and scorned and mocked Alaska’s former governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s warning, more than a decade ago, that President Obama’s proposal for a government takeover of health care would result in “death panels” deciding who would receive medical care and who would not: who would live, who would die.
The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
Health care by definition involves life and death decisions. Human rights and human dignity must be at the center of any health care discussion.
That was 2009; fast-forward to 2020, and lo! in the Italian government-dominated health care system, we learned last week:
Italians over 80 ‘will be left to die’ as country overwhelmed by coronavirus
Hardest-hit region drafts new proposals saying who will live and who will die
Coronavirus victims in Italy will be denied access to intensive care if they are aged 80 or more or in poor health should pressure on beds increase, a document prepared by a crisis management unit in Turin proposes.
Some patients denied intensive care will in effect be left to die, doctors fear.
The document states:
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See Also:
(1) Italian hospital makes heartbreaking decision not to intubate anyone over the age of 60
(2) EU to crumble? Vote Leave insider exposes ‘sheer stupidity’ of decision-makers
(3) Coronavirus forces police to be deployed in supermarkets to stop fights breaking out
(4) Greece dubbed ‘tinderbox set to EXPLODE’ as coronavirus sparks EU crisis
(5) Brexiteer reveals reason UK will deal with coronavirus better than EU: ‘We’re sovereign!’
