Not just the elderly. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel advocates making unavailable anything more than palliative care (“take an aspirin and rub some mud on it”) to all who are not financially more productive to society than they consume, including the poor, the young, the handicapped, the housewives... He would have been responsible for Hitler-level death numbers had he only been allowed, all as a matter of bioethics, his academic specialty.
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