Michael Scherer is Time Magazine’s White House Correspondent. Prior to working for Time Magazine, Michael Scherer wrote for a host of left-wing publications including Salon, the Nation, and Mother Jones.
It should be no surprise that Time put an Obama fan in the White House to serve as an Obama apologist. And it should be no surprise that Scherer would try to apologize for Ezekiel Emanuel, the man whose advice is rapidly leading us to a country that balances its budget with assisted suicide.
What should be surprising is just how poorly Michael Scherer is able to defend Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm’s brother.
One particularly egregious misrepresentation of the legislation is this passage from Scherer’s article:
The health-care bill that recently passed the House does not contain, as some have suggested, any provisions that would deny treatment to the elderly, infirm or disabled like Sola’s son. One provision allows doctors to be reimbursed for voluntary discussions of so-called living wills with patients, but does not in any way threaten to deny treatment to dying patients against their will.
Sure, a doctor will be reimbursed for “voluntary discussions”, but a senior citizen will go through these discussions every five years minimum.
, which supposedly advocates adopting a system where “approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides the cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to benefit.” In other words: the older you get, the cheaper your treatment has to be in order to get the same consideration as someone younger than you. A helpful reminder of the bureaucratic wonders that can breed in the British health care system, and a suggestion that Daschle snuck this in deliberately because of his experiences with Clinton’s health care fiasco, and away we go.
