Congressman Frank:

 When you asked us all to have faith in a very inexperienced candidate Obama, one of his own selling points, he assured us, was that we should judge him by the people he was surrounding himself with retired Gen. Jim Jones for military matters, Warren Buffet on the economy
Joe Biden & Republican Tom Coburn on foreign affairs.
That being said Congressman,  I now know people like Rahm Emanuel's brother Dr. Ezekiel Manuel who is also the President's chief health-care adviser, had this to say about how to achieve cost effective medical practices, in the January in The Jan 31st  2009 edition of the British medical journal Lancet
 
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"When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated."

 I want to emphasize and to be clear about what he means when Dr. Emanuel expounds: 

"Strict youngest-first allocation directs scarce resources predominantly to infants. This approach seems incorrect. The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.... Adolescents have received substantial substantial education and parental care, investments that will be wasted without a complete life. Infants, by contrast, have not yet received these investments.... It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does."

Emanuel proclaims his new "Complete Lives System" to be an advancement over previous death-selection models such as Quality-Adjusted Life Years and Disability-Adjusted Life Years.  At first I couldn't believe the chief medical adviser to the President of the United States was seemingly advocating, not only a Geriatric medical selection process "Death Panel", but also a selection process for infants & children under the age of two.

How can this be?  It seemed so down right, Soylent Green-esque... So I did a little research & quickly found this concurring position written in a book titled "Human Ecology" which was co-authored by none other than Science & Technology Czar John P Holdren ...

“The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth, and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being,”
 
  Congressman Frank, Mr. Obama was quite clear when he asked The American people to give him a chance, he urged us to judge him not by his body of work to date, but more importantly by the people he surrounds himself with.
I've done that as it pertains to the issue of Health Care Reform... 
 
My question for you Sir & any other politician supporting this Health Care Reform Bill is:
How in the hell do you sleep at night?
 
Bob Grant