Zeke is an Evil S.O.B.

I am glad it isn't just the right that has taken issue with this twerp's article which has echoes of Peter Singer, politician Richard Lamm, and Adolf Hitler in the guise of thinking older people have outlived their usefulness by the time they hit their early sixties.

It's all about providing cover for what he REALLY wants, and that's health care rationing for the masses while rich bastards like him have all kinds of goodies no matter how sick they are.

The WSWS calls him out on his bullshit:

He claims that he is not trying to convince anyone that he is right, or saying that anyone who chooses otherwise is unethical. He then insists: “And I am not advocating 75 as the official statistic of a complete, good life in order to save resources, ration health care, or address public-policy issues arising from the increases in life expectancy.” Excuse us for rejecting this disingenuous disclaimer, based on Dr. Emanuel’s long record of promoting the “free-market” model of health care delivery.

In the same Hastings Center Report quoted above, Emanuel advises that under conditions where the “free market,” i.e., for-profit health care under capitalism, limits resources, he favors “a two-tiered health system—some citizens will receive only basic services while others will receive both basic and some discretionary health services. Within the discretionary tier, some citizens will receive very few discretionary services, other richer citizens will receive almost all available services, creating a multiple-tiered system.” According to Emanuel’s “Hope to Die at 75” vision, it is the wealthy who would have the “choice” of life-prolonging treatments for themselves and their families, while workers and the poor would be relegated to substandard palliative care in understaffed nursing homes.

Which brings us to the doctor’s conclusion, where he writes after badgering his readers on the correctness of his viewpoint: “I retain the right to change my mind and offer a vigorous and reasoned defense of living as long as possible.” What cynicism! But it is not surprising, as his argument was never really about him. Rather, the promotion of early death is a particularly sinister component of a campaign aimed at realigning health care in America even more heavily in the interest of the rich.

Eugenics has no place in any civilized society.

The ACA is a Neoliberal Wet Dream

There is no doubt whatsoever the whole point of the "Affordable Care Act" is to do to company-sponsored health insurance what loopholes in ERISA did to defined benefit pensions.

Obama is one rotten son of a bitch. His education policies are horrible enough, but now he is giving corporate America the right to steal and kill people by forcing them into unaffordable "health care" exchanges and in effect rationing health care for all but the richest among us.

Meanwhile, corporations will make a killing off ACA.

The book mentioned here is worth checking into:

Perhaps the most insidious component of the legislation is its impact on health care delivery in the not-so-distant future. In his new book, Reinventing American Health Care, Ezekiel J. Emanuel outlines how the ACA lays the groundwork for the virtual elimination of employer-sponsored health insurance in America over the next decade.

Emanuel is a close ally of President Barack Obama, having served from January 2009 to January 2011 as a special adviser on health care reform to the White House. As we wrote in 2009, “An examination of Emanuel’s vision of health care restructuring reveals that Obama’s proposals have been informed by many of its guiding principles. Key among them are the defense of a health system based on private profit and the delivery of class-based, rationed medical care for the majority of Americans.”

In a section near the end of his book, titled “The End of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance,” Emanuel explains that before Obamacare, some 150 million people—close to half of the US population—received their health insurance through their employer or a relative’s employer. This was despite the fact that no “employer mandate” existed requiring businesses to do so.

“The ACA changes all of that,” Emanuel writes approvingly. He states categorically: “By 2025 few private-sector employers will still be providing health insurance.” He predicts that traditional employer-sponsored coverage will be replaced by a combination of defined contributions to employees to purchase coverage on private exchanges, basically vouchers, or the elimination of insurance coverage altogether.

Tell me there is a fucking difference between the two political parties now.

And that last name. Just WHO is "Zeke" Emanuel related to?

You guess it: the corrupt mayor of Chicago and former Obama White House official Rahm Emanuel. They are brothers.