Hitler's
T4 Program Revived In Obama's Health-Care `Reform'
“The
degeneration of our culture is preparing our population to accept Nazi
euthanasia.”
Health and Human Services
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
by Nancy Spandau
In
July of 1939, a conference of medical professionals was held in Berlin,
Germany. Participating were the professors and chairmen of the departments of
psychiatry of the leading universities and medical schools of Germany, many
of them, the most respected professionals in their fields. The subject?
What would be the
criteria for determining what patients would be considered to have
"lives unworthy to be lived," and what was the most
"practical and cheap" manner of manner of removing removing them
from being burdens on the health-care system—by death?
Thus, the
bureaucratic machine began to be cranked up for what is known as Adolf
Hitler's program of genocide through "euthanasia," a program which
killed hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish Germans, and eventually, millions
of Jews and non-Germans as well.
That program, which
had already begun years before, against concentration camp inmates and
handicapped children, was officially put into effect in October 1939, when
Hitler penned his own personal, and secret, authorization for the program,
under the title, "The Destruction of Lives Unworthy of Life".
Reichsleiter
Bouhler and Dr. Brandt are charged with the responsibility for expanding the
authority of physicians, to be designated by name, to the end that patients
considered incurable according to the best available human judgment of their
state of health, can be accorded a mercy death.
To carry out this program, Hitler and his fiendish Nazi
associates would fully utilize the "professional" apparatus which
had been put in place, as well as the popular, British-eugenics-spawned
ideology which had been increasingly dominant in Germany since Hitler seized
power with the aid of powerful British-Wall Street financiers. The killing would
proceed with the utmost "cost-effectiveness" and professionalism,
in order to save funds for the Nazi state's preferred projects, and not waste
them on "ineffective" medical treatments.
If that sounds familiar, it should. For the proposals
which the Obama Administration has currently put on the table, follow them in
virtual lockstep. First,
the "experts" decide what is "effective" care, with
"cost-effectiveness" foremost in mind, ruling out
"inappropriate" treatments. These standards become the law, in
terms of what medical care will be paid for. Then other experts efficiently
implement those decisions, through the existing hospital apparatus.
The result, as in
Nazi Germany, is that millions are, with the stroke of a pen, consigned to
death.
The
T4 Program
The T4 program,
which was established following Hitler's secret order, took its name from its
Berlin office address, Tiergarten 4, which address housed the coordinating
organization for the program, the Reich Work Group of Sanatoriums and Nursing
Homes. In charge were Philip Bouhler, chief of the Chancellery, and Dr. Karl
Brandt, Hitler's personal physician and chief medical officer of the land.
Their first task
was to devise the questionnaires which would be used to categorize the
targeted institutionalized populations. Four categories were specified:
While including
these categorizations, the questionnaire overall gave the impression of a
rather neutral statistical survey, which also delved into the patients'
biographies, their financial situations, and the like (Figure 1). It
was accompanied by a questionnaire for the institution in which the patient
was housed, which asked about staffing, beds available, and budgetary
questions. A significant stress was also put on detailing the patients'
abilities to work.
The first questionnaires
went out in October 1939, the month Hitler signed his order, to state
hospitals and other public and private institutions where mental patients,
epileptics, the mentally retarded, and other handicapped persons resided. The
responsibility for filling them out, often in a very short period of time,
fell on the physicians at those institutions.
The questionnaires
were then sent to panels of three or four psychiatric experts, who indicated their opinion about whether
the patient (whom they had never seen, much less examined, and whose medical
history they were unfamiliar with) was to live or die. Each
"expert" made his or her decision independently, and passed on the
questionnaire to the next. The choice for the experts was effectively only
one of two options: a plus sign in red, which meant death; or a dash in blue,
which meant life. Occasionally, a psychiatrist would put a question mark in
the space provided.
The questionnaires
were then sent to a chief expert, who passed the final judgment. At this
"higher" level, there was no alternative other than life or death.
In fact, the "senior expert" was not bound by the recommended
decisions. From his judgment, there was no appeal. From that point on, it was
merely a matter of sending back the decision to the relevant institution,
where the final dispensation of the patient was carried out, and, if so
ordered, sending him or her to one of the designated "killing
centers."
These centers were
supervised by medical personnel, who oversaw the killing, and were responsible
for devising the fraudulent death certificates which were sent to the
families of those who had been determined to have lives "not worthy to
be lived."
Councils
of Experts
Shift now to today, where we are in the first phases of
the Nazi euthanasia program (called "reform") being promoted by the
Obama Administration and its behavioral psychologist "experts." It starts with the
dictum that there are insufficient resources to provide medical care for all,
especially those at the "end of life," or not able to be
"effectively" rehabilitated. In other words, the Nazi assumption
that there are lives "not worthy to be lived." At least according
to the priorities for spending which the Administration has set—i.e., the
banks must be saved first.
The second step is for the Administration to set up
those "panels of experts" who will determine the criteria for who
will get medical care, and who won't. Already, the so-called Obama stimulus
package has created one such panel, the Federal Coordinating Council for
Comparative Effectiveness Research. This 15-member council is comprised of
highly credentialed "experts," many of them medical doctors, who
are tasked with "coordinating research" on the relative values of
treatments. While explicitly claiming that the Council will not directly
pronounce judgments on treatments and payments, it is clear that the research
that they are supervising is intended to do precisely that.
Particularly ominous is the fact that one of the
Council's members, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, is trained in "bioethics,"
a discipline dedicated precisely to determining criteria for deciding who
should live, and who should die. Crucially significant as well, is that
Obama's head of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag, has
already set out his genocidal judgment that around 30% of current health-care
services and procedures are unnecessary.
The model for their
work, as reflected in statements by many of the relevant officials, is the
British National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the
Orwellian-named agency which has central control over what medical care will
be provided to British subjects within the British National Health Service.
As the following article explains, NICE's
directives have systematically denied Britons quality care, on the basis of
its being "too expensive," and have singled out, especially, the
elderly, for being undeserving of intensive medical care.
The Comparative Effectiveness Council is clearly only
the beginning of the genocide—if this Nazi plan is not stopped cold.
Let's look at a
number of other proposals.
One has been made
by former Sen. Tom Daschle, the man whom President Obama wanted to appoint
Secretary of Health and Human Services, and special health czar in the White
House (his appointment was derailed over tax problems). Daschle's plan, as
laid out in his 2008 book Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care
Crisis, centers around the creation of an all-powerful Federal Health
Board, which would be able to act without political interference, as
the Federal Reserve does in the monetary system.
Daschle's Federal
Health Board would have a board of governors ("clinicians, health
benefit managers, economists, researchers, and other respected experts")
which would command a huge staff of analysts that would come up with policy
diktats in the areas of health insurance and medical care. The board would
determine which treatments are, in its view, "the most clinically
valuable and cost effective." They would promote "quality," by
"using evidence-based guidelines and cutting down on inappropriate
care." In addition, the Board would "align incentives with
high-quality care," an obfuscatory term which means paying doctors to
keep costs down, and withholding payments for unapproved (read:
"expensive") procedures.
Daschle calls the Federal Health Board a "standard
setter," but, in fact, it would become the dictator as to who lives, and
who dies.
Paralleling
Daschle's proposal is a piece of legislation which was introduced by Sen. Jay
Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) on May 20. Rockefeller proposes that the Medicare
Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC, created in 1997), move beyond its
current mandate to advise on rates of payment for the 44 million enrollees in
Medicare, to set lists of approved treatment standards, and enforce
compliance with regulations on health-care delivery and reimbursement.
Rockefeller's press release states that he wants MedPAC
to be made up of "independent experts," as an "executive
agency modeled after the Federal Reserve."
He adds:
“We must take
Congress out of its current role.... It is inefficient and ineffective; we
are not health-care experts, and being a deliberative body means that we
cannot keep pace with the rapidly transforming health-care marketplace.”
Knew
or Should Have Known
When the Nazi
doctors, and others, were tried for crimes against humanity and genocide at
the Nuremberg Tribunal after World War II, many claimed that they only had
the most noble intentions; others, that they were only following orders. In fact, they were wittingly serving as
"expert" or bureaucratic cogs in a mass-murder machine, of whose
outcome they were fully aware.
While there is no
doubt that the degeneration of our culture, in terms of the valuation of
life, has proceeded quite a distance over the last decades, thus preparing
our population to accept Nazi euthanasia today, the apparatus parallel to
that which Hitler set up can still be stopped. It must be done now—before the medical and economic
"experts" carry out genocide again.
Among the sources
for this article were, “A Sign for Cain, an Exploration of Human Violence”,
by Fredric Wertham, M.D.; and “The Nazi Doctors”, by Robert Jay
Lifton.
This
article appears in the June 5, 2009 issue of Executive
Intelligence Review.
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They always want you to sacrifice your life, but they never want anyone to ask them to change their system of governance from tyranny to lawful consitutional rule.
Overpopulation? Well let's kill people through Agenda 21 since you've lived a good life. But let's never question tyranny, which, by the way, tends to breed more people, since, in the absence of political rights, people replace those with increased sexual freedom. This is why tyranny is very bad and always destructive and will eventually destroy itself. You might think of this as merciful euthenasia of a form of government.
There are variables in these situations that they do not want you to even know about let alone think about. They just want you to accept that the way they govern and the way you live is the only possible way, completely a-historical, as though it were water or air, not to be thought about.
Well, you better start thinking about it.
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