fossten
Dedicated LVC Member
Yes, he's Rahm Emanuel's brother. So there's cronyism here as well.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel (advising the Obama administration on health care reform):
“Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.”
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Where_Civic_Republicanism_and_Deliberative_Democracy_Meet.pdf
“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, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated. The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value.”
“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. Treating 65-year-olds differently because of stereotypes or falsehoods would be ageist; treating them differently because they have already had more life-years is not.”
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60137-9/fulltext
Cass Sunstein (head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs):
“I urge that the government should indeed focus on life-years rather than lives. A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.”
http://www.papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=421341
Ezekiel J. Emanuel (advising the Obama administration on health care reform):
“Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.”
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Where_Civic_Republicanism_and_Deliberative_Democracy_Meet.pdf
“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, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated. The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value.”
“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. Treating 65-year-olds differently because of stereotypes or falsehoods would be ageist; treating them differently because they have already had more life-years is not.”
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60137-9/fulltext
Cass Sunstein (head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs):
“I urge that the government should indeed focus on life-years rather than lives. A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.”
http://www.papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=421341
