Ezekiel Emanuel's Nazi Euthanasi: "Triumph of the Living Will"

June 17, 2009 (LPAC)—White House medical advisor Ezekiel Emanuel is a leading U.S. euthanasia advocate, a chief strategist for the Living Will created by the Hitlerian euthanasia movement.      

It must be remembered that American authorities had punished Nazi leaders after World War II for euthanasia killings of patients to cut costs.      

While U.S. government officials do not openly propose the killing or "assisted-suicide" of patients, Dr. Emanuel calls for denying life-preserving medical care to the elderly and others, to carry out President Obama's demand for $2 trillion cuts in health care. Meanwhile, patients are advised to sign Emanuel's well-known Medical Directive, to consent in advance to such denial of care, and to allow their deaths to proceed.      

In fact, euthanasia to cut costs has been put forth for three decades as a government cost-cutting strategy. Now it has become the central tenet of the Obama administration.                   

- The Memo Tests the Waters -        

The notorious Derzon Memorandum was leaked to the media in 1977, perhaps to cautiously test public reaction to a revival of Nazism.       Robert A. Derzon, head of the Health Care Financing Administration, sent the Memo on June 4, 1977 to his boss, Health Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano.      

Derzon wrote, "The 'Living Will' concept allows patients to legally require the cessation of the employment of extraordinary means to prolong life ... The first such law was enacted in California.... Encouraging States to pass such a law or, more strongly, withholding Federal funds without passage would serve to heighten public awareness of the use of such resources and would also lower health spending when such wills are executed....      

"The cost-savings from a nationwide push toward 'Living Wills' is likely to be enormous. Over one-fifth of Medicare expenditures are for persons in their last year of life. Thus, in [fiscal year] 1978, $4.9 billion will be spent for such persons and if just one-quarter of these expenditures were avoided through adoption of 'Living Wills,' the savings under Medicare alone would amount to $1.2 billion. Additional Federal savings would accrue to Medicaid and the VA and Defense Department health programs...."      

The memo also advocated reducing the number of doctors and hospitals, forcing people into HMOs to slash medical care, and increasing abortions to cut the population and thus cut costs.      

Public outrage led Derzon to announce it "was merely an idea paper," not yet government policy. But the killers would keep trying.       Back in 1967 — only 19 years after American authorities executed Hitler's physician Karl Brandt and other Nazis for euthanasia killings — the Euthanasia Society of America had devised the Living Will.      

Euthanasia Society member Luis Kutner published his article, "Due Process of Euthanasia: The Living Will, A Proposal" in the Indiana Law Journal in 1969, and the Society created the Euthanasia Education Education Council to promote the Living Will with pamphlets and lobbying. The Euthanasia Society's Living Will was then adopted in California and other states, in legislation to which the 1977 Derzon Memo refers.                       

- Emanuel's Directive -        

In 1987, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Otis Bowen testified to the Senate Finance Committee that the only way to attack high health care costs was to get Americans to write living wills.      

In 1988, Harvard graduate student Ezekiel Emanuel devised the Medical Directive, a "third generation" version of the Living Will that has since been endorsed by the Wall Street Journal and other media.      

By 1991, it was made compulsory for all patients admitted to U.S. hospitals to be presented with Living Will forms.      

In 2005, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said that getting the elderly to write living wills could dramatically cut Medicare's costs.      

According to the Washington Post (May 6, 2005), Leavitt told hospital administrators, doctors should perhaps be compelled to advise their patients to do the death consent.      

Leavitt said, "It may be that we could build [this] into Medicare.... [I]t would ... likely save the system a remarkable amount of money, allowing that money to be spent in other ways and in other places."      

The same 2005 Washington Post article quoted Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, as "an authority on end-of-life care and the creator of a widely recognized advance directive form": "I'm a big advocate of living wills because they give people the power to make decisions,... not ... because they save money."       The article further notes on Emanuel, that "in his previous work he has advocated a one-time [Federal] consulting payment to doctors for discussing advance directives with their Medicare patients."      

During the 2008 Obama Presidential campaign, former Senator Tom Daschle — then Obama's prospective Health Czar — wrote Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis, urging an independent Federal agency that would save vast sums by dictating cuts in life-preserving medical care. Daschle wrote that the agency should require those who register for Medicare to sign a Living-Will-type document outlining the degree to which they consent to be killed in an "end of life" situation.      

This combination of murderous cost-cutting, and the Euthanasia Society's Living will, is now being thrown upon the public as government policy in a catastrophic economic collapse, under the hands of Ezekiel Emanuel and his boss, White House Budget Director Peter Orszag. A respect for history's tragic lesson must guide Americans to fight and force them out.