Every time this fellow has a brain storm your life expectancy shrinks.
If you had seen a doctor who misdiagnosed your illness, prescribed a remedy that made it worse, and subsequently falsified the record, would you return to him for medical advice? The legacy media have done precisely that in the case of Ezekiel Emanuel. Dr. Emanuel is best known as an advocate of health care rationing and a key architect of the “Affordable Care Act.” In other words, he believes the malady troubling American medicine is that we provide too much of it. The treatment he prescribed — Obamacare — was a disaster and he consistently overstates the efficacy of that cure in writing and on television.
Despite these failures, Emanuel has no difficulty finding media outlets willing to give him space to promote his quack nostrums. The latest example is the New York Times, which published an op-ed in which he suggests that hospitals are obsolete. He bases this bizarre claim on statistical sleight of hand, liberal use of non sequiturs, and a tendentious portrait of the modern hospital that implies it is a quaint 19th century antique. In reality, the good doctor is making a thinly veiled pitch for health care rationing, wherein millions of inpatient medical procedures can be done better by home health nurses and outpatient medical clinics.