abstract:Ezekiel Jonathan "Zeke" Emanuel (born 1957) is an American bioethicist and fellow at the nonprofit bioethics research institute The Hastings Center. He opposes legalized euthanasia, and is a proponent of a voucher-based universal health care.
But another more liberal school of thought, popularized by Obama's budget chief Peter Orszag, health advisor EzekielEmanuel and the new Medicare administrator Donald Berwick, says that the government should play a role in studying the "comparative effectiveness" of different treatment options.
EzekielEmanuel, a doctor whose brother is Mr Obama's chief of staff, wrote a paper for the Lancet, a medical journal, in which he proposed a system for determining who should be first in line for such things as liver transplants or vaccines during an epidemic.
EzekielEmanuel, a health policy expert whose brother is former White House chief of staff (now Chicago mayor) Rahm Emanuel, has an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal offering advice for dealing with one of ObamaCare's biggest impending problems: the inevitability that medical insurance premiums for the young and healthy will rise so high that it's economically irrational to purchase policies.