McCaughey vs. Emanuel on Health Care Ethics
Published On: August 27th, 2009
Betsy McCaughey, the former lieutenant governor of New York and long-time voice on the health-care scene, takes on Obama health adviser Ezekiel Emanuel in a WSJ op-ed this morning.
Emanuel says that doctors should serve both the patient and society, according to McCaughey. She cites a JAMA article in which Emanuel wrote of the rapidly escalating cost of U.S. health care and described the need “to provide socially sustainable, cost-effective care,” adding that “the progression in end-of-life care mentality from ‘do everything’ to more palliative care shows that change in physician norms and practices is possible.”
His beliefs about making decisions based not only on the good for the individual but also on conserving societal resources discriminate against the old and the very young, McCaughey argues.
A New York Times piece the other day addresses some of the criticisms McCaughey has levied at Emanuel.
Gail Wilensky, who ran Medicare under the first President Bush and who has been critical of Obama’s health plans, said this about the controversy over Emanuel: “He is a serious oncologist and bioethicist, so the kinds of charges that have been raised against him are particularly inappropriate.”
Emanuel told the NYT that “You can only call me someone who’s interested in euthanizing patients and denying care to patients by willful distortion of my record.”
Bonus Emanuel: Here’s what Emanuel himself wrote in a 1997 WSJ op-ed about some of these issues.
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