LPAC Representative Confronts the White House Health Care "Reform" Crowd

June 3, 2009 (LPAC)—A noontime event at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. yesterday, was staged as a promotional platform for the intended Obama Administration Hitler-health care "reform" legislation and edicts. The lead speaker was Christina Romer, Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, who released a 56-page document on, "The Economic Impact of Health Care Reform." After Romer's presentation, and speeches by three others (including two from the National Bureau of Economic Research, for which Romer is a board member), the second questioner from the audience, LPAC leader Michelle Lerner, identified herself as with the LaRouche PAC, and proceeded to read the quotation from Dr. Leo Alexander, attacking the Nazi doctors, and the evil policies being promoted today. Lerner was cut off by the moderator, but the impact of what she said got through and provoked tremendous nervousness in the entire group. Romer tried to smooth it over, but the effect was made.

(Lerner's intervention had special meaning for Romer, who just came an hour earlier from a full-dress White House event (Summers, Orszag, Baucus, Dodd, DeParle) on the CEA report, where she was confronted by EIR's Paul Gallagher, for taking a "Nazi-medicine" approach to so-called reform. He said that the White House plans were based on eliminating treatment for "lives not worthy to be lived." Note also, at the end of this report, a THIRD high-profile LaRouche intervention against Obama Nazism on Tuesday.)

The gist of the Romer presentation to Brookings, and that of others on the panel, was the now-customary, terrible, sophistic speeches praising the proposed plan as cost-saving, cutting the deficit, and all the fascistic lingo. Besides Lerner's intervention into what was to have been a 15-minute, tightly controlled question-and-answer period, for an audience of 200, a second opportunity for the truth came during a post-event media briefing.

Ms. Romer: Why Are You Using a Nazi-, British- "NICE" Model?

There was a private press conference afterwards, to which came Stu Rosenblatt, representing EIR. Present were Romer, the other three speakers, and 25 staff and press. Asking the second question, Rosenblatt posed it directly to Romer:

"Ms. Romer, your report and policy are all premised, as you say, on cost-cutting and budget-cutting for the purpose of bailing out the deficit, which was itself caused by the bailout of the banks. The model you are using is the British NICE model, involving broad, massive cuts in care, and rationing of services. This policy has been denounced all across Europe as denying care to people, cutting out medicines, curtailing treatment of cancers, and most importantly, increasing the death rate. Cancer rates skyrocket in England and people die early. This is genocide, a Nazi policy. Hitler said there are 'lives not worth living,' and people were put to death because cost-benefit analyses done in Germany said that it was costing too much to keep people alive. People were put to death for this reason. (There were audible gasps and grimaces). Lyndon LaRouche is our editor-in-chief and he has denounced this policy as 'Nazi' and 'genocide.'"

(The moderator began to goad: ask your question, what is your question?)

Rosenblatt continued: "I have two questions. First, Ms. Romer, will you denounce your policy as Nazi, genocide, and fascist? Second, will you call for the immediate firing of Summers, Geithner and Orszag, the authors of the plan?"

Romer's first response was that of startled shock, which was not easy, given the impenetrable, painted-on persona that she gives off. She then replied, "Let me say that I am not calling for these types of cuts. I am calling for only cutting redundant services, not cutting the standard of living. Our plan is aimed at only cutting that which can be trimmed, but not to affect people's care, etc."

Romer was very nervous and moved on quickly to take the next question.

When the press conference was shut down, Rosenblatt went over to meet with Romer privately and got a quick minute with her. He said: "Look, your policy is a nightmare; it should be stopped. If you want to save money, you should eliminate the HMOs and save $400 billion right away. But you know that, and yet you push your policy. You consider yourself an expert on Roosevelt. [She smiled, nodding her head.] Well, the first thing that FDR did was bankrupt the banks, and the first thing you did was bail out the banks. We need bankruptcy reorganization. We need Glass-Steagell, but Summers repealed, that and we are in the mess we are in now because of that. Summers has to go and the policy you are advocating has to be halted."

Romer replied: "Well, at least we both think FDR was important." And she scurried off to her next meeting.

Yet another Tuesday event to try to ram through the Nazi healthcare "reform" was a 2:00 PM joint press conference of Tom Daschle and former HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt at the National Press Club. The first question was to Daschle from EIR's Bill Jones, who asked him how he answered the objection that the objective of his health care program was to support the bailout of Wall Street by cutting medical care to the crippled to balance the budget, and then asked him, what was the difference between his plan and Hitler's "T4" order of 1939 to eliminate the so-called 'useless eaters.'

The podium and the audience were taken aback; Leavitt told Daschle that he was glad the question was to Daschle rather than himself. Daschle's answer will be reported tomorrow. One of the final questions was from Paul Gallagher. More tomorrow.