Remember Soylent Green? It was a 1973 science fiction movie set in a future, fascist, overpopulated world.
“Soylent Green” was a food product provided by the government to its starving citizens. Police detective Charlton Heston discovered that people were mysteriously disappearing and attempted to find out why. In the end, as shown in this clip, he revealed the horrible secret of Soylent Green as he was being taken away by authorities.
Is it just us or is the plotline for ObamaCare starting to sound a lot like the plotline of Soylent Green? Medicare will be cut. Medicaid will be cut. End of life care will be denied. Bodies of the elderly will begin piling up and the government will have to figure out how to get rid of them.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, wants doctors to look beyond the needs of their patients and consider social justice, such as whether the money could be better spent on somebody else.
Emanuel thinks doctors’ decisions on who gets care should be based on “communitarianism.” Medical care, he said in a Hastings Center Report in 1996, should be reserved for the non-disabled and kept from those “who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens … An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.”
What’s the difference between Soylent Green and ObamaCare?
Soylent Green is people, but ObamaCare is anti-people.
Source: New York Post
This post was last modified on October 18, 2023
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In medical crises, when the patient load is too large for the staff & supplies, the first thing is Triage; That is to quickly sort out those able to profit from immediate care, those that need little attention, and those that limited care cannot save. Best to be in group 1 or 2. Group 3 will be lucky to get 1/4 grain of morphine to ease their passing.
"1984" is here today, "Soylent Green" no longer appears impossible.
Obamacare will make every request for medical care a triage situation.
It sure will. It will be based on one's tax-generating capabilities.
Baby-boomers (BBs) have betrayed younger citizens by perpetuating “Social Security” after that system was exposed (1970s) as a ponzi-scheme. As the unconscionable amount of Federal Government debt accumulates and failed social programs debilitate the economy, younger citizens will consider (unofficially) retaliation through the health care apparatus as justified.
After genX and Y individuals watch (most are oblivious now) as a larger and larger portion of their income is siphoned-off (paycheck with-holding of producers) and squandered on counter-productive unconstitutional social programs …
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If so will the old expire peacefully or attempt in their crusty vengeance to ruin society on the way out?
If a person were denied care and still was still ambulatory would they not attempt to extract "payment" from the public for the lack of care they were foisted?
Great article. At the time I saw the movie I thought it was fantasy- who knew it was Obama's reality. Ironic that Charlton Heston was the star. No one listens to conservatives!
They'll be stacking us old folks next to the disabled, the 'retarded' and the aborted babies. BUT, they'd better be careful, because they are going to be next. I really hope this 'obamacare' doesn't pass. It will be the nail in the coffin.