Florida Kill-Patient Guidelines Echo Obama's Dr. "E-Z Kill"

October 22, 2009 (LPAC)—The Florida Department of Health has issued preliminary instructions for the state's hospitals, in case of an "overwhelming" influenza pandemic, to turn away and thereby knowingly kill life-threatened patients in selective categories, and to remove some patients from life-preserving ventilators in favor of other, approved categories of patients.

According to Propublica.org reporter Sheri Fink, the draft guidelines were sent out in June to 16 state medical organizations for comment, but have not been released to the public. (The reporter put the guidelines on the internet).

As originally printed on March 11, 2009, the guidelines carry the title, "Pandemic Influenza: Triage and Scarce Resource Allocation Guidelines," with the author(s) identified only as the "Pandemic Influenza Technical Advisory Committee."

Among those who are to be killed by exclusion from Florida hospitals are any patients who are in a "do not resuscitate" status, that might stem from having signed a Living Will; people with "severe burns with less than 50% anticipated survival" chances; "known ... untreatable disorders that are uniformly fatal in the first 2 years of life"; etc.

The Florida draft guidelines appear to reflect the work of Obama medical-policy strategist Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who chairs the Bioethics department of the National Institutes of Medicine, and serves as the chief advisor on health policy to President Obama's budget director Peter Orszag. In his May 12, 2006 Science magazine article ("Who Should Get Influenza Vaccine When Not all Can?"), Emanuel called for letting old people die as "an alternative ethical framework." He called this a "refined life-cycle allocation principle": persons between 13 and 40 years are given priority because their lives have more value; the older ones' value is used up, and the very young have not had much investment in them yet.

This strategy re-emerged in Emanuel's infamous Jan. 31, 2009 British Lancet article ("Principles for Allocation of Scarce Medical Interventions"), which set out the euthanasia strategy for the new Obama administration: he then called it the "complete lives system," with the age range for those who would NOT be killed shrunk a bit, to 15-40.

Emanuel's Lancet article serves as proof positive to competent experts that his protestations that he opposes euthanasia are outright lies, and that he has effectively admitted that he advocates genocide. While it is clear that Emanuel is building his policy into Obama's Nazi health care reform, it is now crucial to consider whether he is also shaping a genocidal response to the flu pandemic.

The pro-euthanasia authorities in Florida are led by University of Miami Professor Kenneth Goodman, director of the Florida Bioethics Network. Goodman is one of those to whom the state is looking for guidance on revising the preliminary triage guidelines.

And Goodman's Bioethics department at the University of Miami is now bringing in Ezekiel Emanuel himself, for a by-invitation-only brainstorming session on whom to kill. Emanuel will deliver an Ethics lecture on Friday, October 30 at 6 p.m. in Storer Auditorium, with the title, "Who Should Get The Liver for Transplantation? The Ethics of Allocating Scarce Resources."