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Old 08-27-2009, 06:55 AM
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Article in today's WSJ in the "Opinion" section;

Showed a charted that Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (Rahm's brother and health advisor to the President) used in a Lancet article he wrote; it showed that he believes that healthcare should be generally be denied to the elderly because they are not as good as an investment as those in their 20s and 30s. Commissions would be set up to decide who gets the treatments. He thinks that the Hippocratic Oath causes doctors to overuse health care on the elderly...