FT Writer on "Primitive Debate" Is Wife of Fascist Nailed By LaRouche Intervention

September 17, 2009 (LPAC)—The author of the Financial Times article on the "NICE approach," Tsung-Mei Cheng, is the wife and political partner of Uwe Reinhardt, a top U.S.-based fascist operative who recently humiliated himself in a public clash with LaRouche representatives in Washington DC.

Uwe Reinhardt spoke June 25, 2009, along with death cultist Daniel Callahan, on behalf of the Obama program, at a forum sponsored by the pro-euthanasia Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

EIR's Anton Chaitkin asked about the eugenics background of the proceedings and the fitness of the speakers for a Nuremberg Tribunal. He said his question applied particularly to "the German fellow" — i.e., Reinhardt, who had previously written that the belief "that health and life are 'priceless'... is an utterly romantic notion and ... an utterly silly one.... [No] health system can forever escape the troublesome question, 'At what price human life?'"

Reacting nervously to the noting of his pronounced German accent, Reinhardt attempted sarcasm: "Of course, I'm German, and we Germans are well known for promoting euthanasia. Ha ha!"

The LaRouche Youth Movement's Michelle Lerner asked, "How can you put a price tag on life?" Reinhart blurted out, "I can answer that! You already put a price tag on life when you don't put in street lights and people are killed as a result. Health is the only area where we don't do it, and we have to do it in health, too." Even after the LaRouche reps were ejected, Reinhardt rambled on about putting a price tag on life, until a fellow panelist advised him to shut up.

Reinhardt is #32 on the "LittleSis" list of the 50 most powerful people in America on health-care. He's a Senior Associate of Cambridge University, England; Commissioner of the Kaiser Family Foundation Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured; a Princeton professor of fascist political economy; and a wealthy director of many healthcare corporations.