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Quotes by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Health Czar of the Obama Administration:
“Medical care should not be given to those who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.”
“Unlike (health care) allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not discrimination.”
“Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or the effects on others.”
Does the name Joseph Mengele ring a bell?
Does the name Politifact.org ring a bell?

Like other groups criticizing health care reform, the conservative Club for Growth is using the August recess to try to stop the congressional effort to create a government-run health insurance option.
Part of the Club's strategy will include a $1.2 million ad campaign aimed at Democrats who may be wavering about the plan.
In the ad, a man weeps over someone lying in a hospital bed while the announcer says, "$22,750. In England, government health officials decided that's how much six months of life is worth. Under their socialized system if a medical treatment costs more, you're out of luck. That's wrong for America."
That footage is interspersed with shots of the Capitol building and the whole thing is set to some very ominous music. You can watch it here.
The carefully worded ad doesn't directly say that the government is planning to put a price on our lives, but the implication is clear: The reform plan will lead to callous decisions that would allow people to die if they face a costly treatment. So that's what we're going to check — whether the reform plan would impose those kind of caps on treatment.
At its heart, the Club for Growth's ad criticizes a medical approach known as comparative effectiveness research, which aims to find the most effective treatments for the lowest cost.
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http://www.politifact.org/truth-o-m...b-growths-health-care-ad-campaign-misleading/