Ezekiel Emanuel is presenting in sanitized terms the rationale for 'death panels' and eventual euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (although he claims to oppose legalizing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide). He is co-author of Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet...?_eventId=login
which proposes concentrating health care resources on those between 15 and 40 based upon 'the complete lives system'

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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,

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ObamaCare architect Ezekiel Emanuel has anounced the ‘optimal age of death’ - you won’t like it
By Robert Laurie Friday, September 19, 2014

Democrats seem to love death. Whether they’re yammering about abortion or “end of life” planning, they just can’t get enough of talking up the myriad ways people can exit life’s stage. They always claim this is simply a discussion about personal responsibility and individual choice but, since they despise those ideals in virtually every other matter, it’s a hard argument to buy.

Enter Ezekiel Emanuel.

Emanuel was one of the chief architects of ObamaCare and is, of course, the brother of Rahm. Over at The Atlantic, he’s penned an article about his own death and he’s made a shocking announcement about the perfect age at which he hopes to die. While he very specifically rules out euthanasia, Emanuel says he hopes his ticker shuts down at the not-particularly-old age of 75.

The reason? 75 is, apparently, the perfect age for a human to buy the farm. According to Emanuel, people who live longer than that risk struggling through a less-than-perfect existence.

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Doubtless, death is a loss. It deprives us of experiences and milestones, of time spent with our spouse and children. In short, it deprives us of all the things we value.

But here is a simple truth that many of us seem to resist: living too long is also a loss. It renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived. It robs us of our creativity and ability to contribute to work, society, the world. It transforms how people experience us, relate to us, and, most important, remember us. We are no longer remembered as vibrant and engaged but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic.

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Emanuel rambles on in a painfully long-winded argument about how modern medicine is extending lives but, in his view, does so by keeping people in a sad, miserable, and often painful state. The elderly are not enjoying being alive and - according to Emanuel - become burdensome shadows of their former selves.

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http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/print-friendly/66152

You can read the original article by Emmanuel at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/arch...e-at-75/379329/

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The reason? 75 is, apparently, the perfect age for a human to buy the farm. According to Emanuel, people who live longer than that risk struggling through a less-than-perfect existence.

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Raquel Welch - Age 74

You have one year left, baby...

...make it a good one.

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Democrats seem to love death.

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But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Proverbs 8:36 (KJV)

Quote: conservgramma wrote in post #9

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which proposes concentrating health care resources on those between 15 and 40

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So does this mean that if you're under 15 and over 40 its a 50/50 crap shoot if you'll get care or not?

I'm thinking Logan's Run here.

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Yup ... Logan's Run was ahead of its time.