As nations around the world push to introduce and expand liberal euthanasia laws, the plans are sounding eerily similar to the “assisted suicide” agenda billionaire Bill Gates has been promoting for several years.
This from slaynews.com.
The Microsoft co-founder argues that it is not cost-effective to provide individuals with long-term healthcare.
Instead, Gates believes his fellow human beings should be euthanized to reduce healthcare costs so that the money that would have been used for treatments can be spent elsewhere.
In 2010, Gates weighed up the cost of keeping “terminally ill” Americans alive versus paying for teachers’ salaries.
Gates lamented:
Americans are unwilling to question if spending money on people in the last three months of their lives was cost-effective.
He suggested:
[T[here wasn’t a benefit in end-of-life care and a decision should be made to end people’s lives instead of providing costly palliative care.
He argued:
[A] panel of bureaucrats should decide whether a person deserves to receive treatment, with those who are not ‘worthy of healthcare’ being euthanized by the government to save money.
Concerning the group who would decide whether people get to live or die, he said:
That’s called the ‘death panel.’
Gates made the remarks during an interview at an Aspen Ideas Festival in 2010.
He said:
[T]he United States must get medical costs under control and re-examine its funding priorities to prevent its education system from further erosion.
Further:
[M]edical costs are dominating state and federal budgets in the form of Medicare and other payments, and fewer funds are available for education.
However, Gates failed to note that reducing government waste by ending the funding of foreign wars, securing the border, gutting federal bureaucracy, and reducing financial commitments to globalist organizations such as the United Nations and NATO could save far more money than the cost of treating sick Americans.
Of course, saving money through government efficiency does not align with the eugenics agenda of Gates and his globalist/depopulationist allies.
Click HERE to watch the full 60-minute interview.
Gates used the term “death panel” to take a swipe at Republican critics of the radical euthanasia agenda.
NOTE: “Death panel” is a political term that originated during the 2009 debate about federal healthcare legislation to cover the uninsured in the United States.
Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate, coined the term when she charged that proposed legislation would create a “death panel” of bureaucrats who would carry out triage, i.e. decide whether Americans—such as her elderly parents, or children with Down syndrome—were “worthy of medical care.”
Palin’s spokesperson pointed to Section 1233 of bill HR 3200 which would have paid physicians for providing voluntary counseling to Medicare patients about living wills, advance directives, and end-of-life care options.
Some prominent Republicans backed Palin’s statement.
One poll showed that after it spread, about 85% of respondents were familiar with the charge and of those who were familiar with it, about 30% thought it was true.
Owing to public concern, the provision to pay physicians for providing voluntary counseling was removed from the Senate bill and was not included in the law that was enacted, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
In a 2011 statement, the American Society of Clinical Oncology bemoaned the politicization of the issue and said the proposal should be revisited.
However, HR 3200, also known as America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, did not become law.
Instead, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, built upon some of the provisions in HR 3200.
Obamacare was signed into law on 23 March 2010.
By referring to “death panels,” Palin was referring to committees or panels that would decide whether to withhold life-sustaining medical treatment from patients based on cost or age considerations.
American Thinker wrote:
They laughed when Sarah Palin said Obamacare would require death panels to control medical costs.
But for some reason no one laughs when New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says the same thing …
Yesterday he did it again both on This Week with Christiane Amanpour and then further explained in his New York Times column that no, he didn’t really mean death panels just because he called them … death panels.
Death panels already exist in several countries that have incorporated euthanasia, or “assisted suicide,” into their “healthcare” systems.
Wherever euthanasia is being legalized, by default, death panels are being created.
In countries that have not passed statutes that permit doctors to kill their patients, death panels will continue to exist in one form or another if the misanthropic death cult has its way.
Sarah Palin—although her opponents laughed at her—was not only correct in 2009, but her words also served as a chilling warning to the world of what was to come.
