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Carnage in the Hospitals

CommentaryHealth care, the most error-prone, deadliest industry in the world, may also be among the most poorly regulated. Medical errors claim more lives than suicides, motor vehicle accidents, and firearms—more than all causes other than heart disease and cancer, making them the third leading cause of death in the United States. Yet, they're largely invisible. https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/carnage-in-the-hospitals-5463696

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The legislation, which passed the House and Senate on voice votes recently, would break up the monopoly held by the Organ Transplant and Procurement Network. This network, which oversees the nation’s 56 organ procurement organizations, has long suffered from archaic computer systems and an unaccountable bureaucracy.

Individually and collectively, these new policies will revolutionize the organ donation industry — a sorely needed effort. An average of 16 patients die every day awaiting an organ transplant, in large part because the system fails to optimize its performance. Doctors discard organs viewed as less-than-perfect, choosing to keep patients waiting and often dying. In other cases, bureaucratic snafus mean the organs fail to get to their intended destination in time, meaning they must be discarded for safety reasons.

These reforms will save not only lives but taxpayers’ money. More efficiently allocating

Biden’s rule proposal, it will “increase premiums, increase the number of the uninsured, increase health care spending, and burden states”:

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What could possibly go wrong

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“Dramatic growth” in Illinois’s illegal alien population and their enrollment for healthcare benefits “will require nearly a billion dollars in general revenue funds to support this program in Fiscal Year 2024.”

The United Kingdom’s £180-billion a year National Health Service (NHS) is so struggling to keep up with demand, a full 13 per cent of British households have used private healthcare in the past year. A further 27 per cent have considered using it but didn’t because they couldn’t afford it, with those who can effectively paying twice, once through taxes for a system that fails to deliver and again for direct private provision.

Knowledge is powerfully manipulated by harmful corporations, whose goals are: 1/financial; 2/to suppress our ability to make choices to acquire global control of public health.

Tony Fauci will be working over time to kill this.

Big Pharma cannot make money out of a $3 drug

U.S. per-capita healthcare spending (including public and private as well as compulsory and voluntary spending) is higher than anywhere else in the world, with second-placed Germany trailing quite far behind.

America is facing a shortage of four key medications used for common illnesses in children as virus season comes back in full force.

Officials have declared a shortage of first-line antibiotics amoxicillin and Augmentin, which are used to treat bacterial infections. Tamiflu, the most common flu medication in the US, and albuterol, an inhaler for asthma and to open airways in the lungs, are also in short supply, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

Also children’s Tylenol shortage currently affecting Canada has carried over into the United States, pharmacists in multiple American cities have warned.

My understanding is that insurance is where you pay a small premium to the insurance company so they take on the risk of something catastrophic unexpectedly happening. Currently "health insurance" covers lots of things that are known and predictable (physicals, screenings, etc)” ... “I hear from a lot of people is if preventative care isn't covered under insurance then people won't pay for it which would then lead to higher expenses down the road. I am not sure if I agree with that counter argument since people get ‘preventative care’ all the time for their vehicles since they do not want to have to pay for more expensive repairs in the future.”

Big Pharma’s refusal to offer drug discounts that are required under federal law is hurting those rural hospitals financially— and by extension, conservative Americans, since conservatives make up the bulk of rural America.

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Despite the NIH’s neutral statement on ivermectin for most of 2021, the FDA actively campaigned against using ivermectin in COVID-19 patients. On Aug. 26, 2021, the CDC sent an emergency warning against using ivermectin; a few weeks later, the American Medical Association and affiliated associations called for an end to ivermectin use.

Many doctors were thus discouraged from using ivermectin, and pharmacies refused to prescribe it. State health agencies warned against using ivermectin, and medical boards removed the medical licenses of doctors who prescribed ivermectin, alleging misinformation.

Yet using the FDA’s statement against ivermectin to ban its use in COVID-19 cases would be considered an overreach. Since the FDA approved ivermectin in 1996, this made the drug acceptable for off-label use.

“The fact that it’s not FDA approved for COVID is irrelevant because the FDA endorses the use of off-label drugs

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Imagine that, enforcing the covid death protocol and isolating patients from family is bad for business.

Now hospitals want you to bail them out.

While you’d generally gain the freedom to go to any doctor or other provider you want instead of only those in a plan’s network, the switch likely would include new costs.

“It’s important to compare [coverage options] not only on a provider and medication basis but also on your total financial picture,”

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The few available studies into the technology claim that voice biomarkers can help detect a myriad of health problems, including depression, respiratory illnesses like asthma and Covid, and cardiovascular conditions. However, the technology does raise ethical and privacy concerns.

Insurance companies and hospitals are installing the voice biomarker technology at their call centers and after getting the patient’s consent, they can detect in real-time if the patient has a mental health condition like depression or anxiety.

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The modern iterations of perverse incentives and unintended consequences generally follow this line of development:

• Massive new funding is made available to address a pressing problem: higher education, healthcare, homelessness, intelligence-gathering, national defense, etc.
• This massive influx of new funding creates a new ecological niche free of predators and full of food, enabling the explosive growth of administrators, support staff, consultants and con-artists, all of whom have zero incentive to actually solve the problem and every incentive to expand the problem so their protected Paradise gets more funding.

This is higher education, healthcare, homelessness, intelligence gathering and national defense in a nutshell.

America’s health care industry has a big problem on the horizon — namely that Americans do not trust “Big Health Care” with their personal health decisions. One silver lining to the Covid pandemic is that it lifted the veil of the public health bureaucracy, behind which lies a bloated, unaccountable, and opulent industry comprised of public health “experts,” Big Pharma, insurance companies, and large hospital corporations. But this problem presents us with a world of opportunity through its very simple solution: health care freedom.