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The serious, and sometimes chilling, provisions of the medical care legislation that President Obama has been trying to rush through Congress are important enough for all of us to stop and think, even though his political strategy from the outset has been to prevent us from having time to stop and think about it.
What we also should stop to think about is the mindset behind this legislation, which is very consistent with the mindset behind other policies of this administration, whether the particular issue is bailing out General Motors, telling banks who to lend to or appointing "czars"...
Whose Medical Decisions? Part IV
The answer is absolutely yes. Ezekiel would apply the rules meticulously and make sure that his brother got whatever treatment was necessary.
In his paper for "The Lancet" Ezekiel Emanuel stated that in times of emergency (which is whenever you need to do something that the law forbids you to do) the lives of "irreplaceable" individuals take precedence over the lives of ordinary peons.
EE would simply state that there is an emergency, that his brother was "irreplaceable" and the transplant...