Boy from the Bronx wrote:
Oh really? Name one "progressive" who has advocated making children commit suicide when they reach a certain age, or wants to deny medical care for the elderly because now, they're allegedly "useless." I thought the progressives were all in favor of affordable medical care for anyone who can't afford it, including senior citizens.
Since when is either leaving a baby to die without sustenance, or harvesting parts while baby is still alive, suicide? The first has been endorsed by multiple government officials including Virginia govenor Governor Ralph Northam. New York Governor Cuomo signed into law a bill to allow abortion until birth; it even removes penalties for infanticide. A vote to prevent after birth abortions was passed in the Senate with ALL but 3 Democrats voting in AGAINST preventing after birth abortions. I've provided a list.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/03/13/feminism-radical-liberal-feminists-embrace-abortion-infanticide-vagina-sculpture-column/3084414002/The second was admitted to by an abortion dictor with planned parenthood. Dr Forrest Smith, an obstetrician-gynecologist who performed abortions in California who has performed about 50,000 abortions, testified not only that Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics were selling aborted baby parts for profit, but babies were often born alive, then murdered, in order to ensure the organs to be sold were more fresh and intact.
As for progressives denying care for the elderly and disabled, there are several examples. The most widespread is the UN pressuring NHS to adopt guidelines prioritizing medical care for those under 65. Although the guidelines will not be binding, health experts warn that the UN will disapprove of countries who do not follow them.
In Canada, assisted suicide is not onlylegal, it is encouraged and provided by the state for elderly and disabled.
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/08/21/disabled-41-year-old-man-is-euthanized-after-funding-for-home-health-care-runs-out/ Health care rationing is also accepted in the UK. And legislators in the US are speaking in favor of similar legislation.
This is from a Wikipedia article on health care rationing.
By age
In the US, the discussion on rationing healthcare for the elderly began to be noticed widely in 1983 when economist Alan Greenspan asked "whether it is worth it" in referring to the use of 30% of the Medicare budget on 5–6% of those eligible who then die within a year of receiving treatment. In 1984, the Democratic governor of Colorado, Richard Lamm, was widely quoted but claimed to have been misquoted as saying that the elderly "have a duty to die and get out of the way."[33]
Medical ethicist Daniel Callahan's 1987 Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society[34] discusses whether healthcare should be rationed by age. He calls the elderly "a new social threat" and selfish and for age to be used as a criterion in limiting healthcare. Callahan's book has been widely discussed in the America media, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and "just about every relevant professional and scholarly journal and newsletter."[35] One of the major arguments against such age-based rationing is the fact that chronological age, by itself, is a poor indicator of health.[36] Another major argument against Callahan's proposal is that it inverts the Western tradition by making death a possible good and life a possible evil. Amherst College Jurisprudence Professor Robert Laurence Barry called Callahan's view "medical totalitarianism."[37][page needed] One book-length rebuttal to Callahan from half-a-dozen professors who held a conference at the University of Illinois College of Law in October 1989 was in 1991's Set No Limits: a Rebuttal to Daniel Callahan's Proposal to Limit Health, edited by Robert Laurence Barry and Gerard V. Bradley, a visiting professor of religious studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[37][page needed]
Obama quote after denying his grandmother hip surgery due to her age, “We as a culture and as a society [can start] to make better decisions within our own families and for ourselves,”
Billionaire Bloomberg, now attempting to purchase the U.S. Presidency for himself, also supports rationing healthcare for American seniors, saying providing them access will “bankrupt us.”
Socialist Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-For-All scheme would radically change the way health care is covered, doing away with all private health insurance, replacing it with a government run system, would include limitations on medical services for the elderly or infirmed (i.e. disabled).
Elizabeth Warren also supports health care rationing for the high cost users such as elderly and disabled.