If you are elderly or disabled or will become elderly (all of us), watch out for national healthcare. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is a Bioethicist and is President Obama’s health policy advisor. Dr. Emanuel wrote an article for the Hastings Center in 1996 in which he argued only people that were capable of being participating citizens should be guaranteed basic healthcare benefits. An example of his beliefs would be a person that suffers from dementia. Dr. Emanuel believes a person that suffers from dementia should be denied health benefits. Does this mean the aged or the disabled should be denied benefits because they are not “participating” citizens? Would the person who becomes unemployed be denied because he was not a “participating” citizen? Dr. Emanuel believes “25 year olds should be given preferential treatment over 65 year olds because 65 year olds have already had their 25 years”. Great if your are 25, not great if you are 65. Dr. Emanuel has developed a hierarchy of care that emphasis’ care to 5 groups of people. 1.Youngest 2.prognosis 3.Save the most lives 4.Lottery system 5.Instrumental value. His hierarchy gives 15 to 40 year olds preferential treatment. Sounds like fascism to me!