That Obamacare is a
complete failure is indisputable. Nonetheless, many of our head in the
sand political elites beg to differ. Facts mean nothing to them even
though another health insurance giant is pulling out of all Obamacare
coverage. Quote: "Aetna's CEO Mark Bertolini said that if Obamacare
does not get fixed and nothing happens to it, "it is going to continue
to deteriorate." Speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Health Conference,
Bertolini said the Affordable Care Act needs to be fixed since it cannot
be repealed. "We have a bill that's been passed and quite frankly the
current legislature, the House can but not the Senate, cannot repeal
it," Bertolini said. "I've spent enough time inside the legislative
labyrinth understanding what can be done or what cannot be done under
reconciliation, and we cannot repeal Obamacare, ACA, whatever you want
to call it, without 60 votes in the Senate." "What we need to do is
admit that it needs to be fixed," he said. "Eight years without touching
it, no piece of major social legislation has ever had that happen." And
he continues, "...Bertolini said that Aetna planned to exit the Iowa
and Virginia health care exchanges due to the financial losses. Now, the
company is removing itself from the Obamacare markets entirely next
year (via Bloomberg)" And lastly, Blue Cross Blue Shield "CEO Brad Wilson told The News and Observer
in February of 2016: “In year one [2014], five percent of our ACA
customers consumed $830 million in health care costs. That’s how much
money went out of our door to pay for the heath care for the sickest
five percent of the ACA population that we had; we collected $75 million
in premiums–between what they could contribute and the government
subsidy. Any way you cut it that’s an unsustainable business model.” https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/05/10/see-ya-aetna-to-completely-withdraw-from-obamacare-markets-next-year-n2325195? Do you trust self serving politicians to tell us the truth?
This may be a surprise to
some people. Obamacare was not the first federal government intrusion
into our nations health care system. Quote: "The feds first got involved
in the healthcare industry over 80 years ago with the Social Security
Act, signed into law in the 1930s during FDR’s administration. This
created both the Social Security system, as well as the Social Security
Administration. Although this didn’t directly affect healthcare, SSA was
followed by the 1965 Social Security Act Amendments, which created two
federal medical programs, Medicaid (for low income families) and
Medicare (for people age 65 and older). In the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons,
Dr. Donald W. Miller, Jr. writes on the effects these programs had on
the healthcare industry through its introduction of a third party payer
that guaranteed artificially high prices." And, "Today, Medicare faces
unfunded liabilities approaching $48 trillion.
“If we return to double digit health care inflation, we could see
Medicare’s liabilities swell to more than $88 trillion,” writes Cato
Institute senior fellow Michael D. Tanner. And that’s just Medicare.
According to a report by the National Center for Policy Analysis,
there is more than $30.3 trillion owed in Social Security and Medicaid
benefits. In addition to Medicaid and Medicare, under Social Security
there is also Federal Old-Age (Retirement), Survivors (OASDI), and
Disability Insurance, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, (TANF),
State Children’s Health Insurance Program for low income citizens,
(SCHIP) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Despite SSA and its
amendments being signed into law by Democratic Party presidents, and
despite Republican opposition to “Hillarycare” in the early 1990s, the
GOP has also backed socialized medicine. In an article on the passage of
Medicare Part D in 2003, Laurence Vance writes
how it was “instituted by a Republican-controlled Congress with the
full support of the Republican leadership and signed into law by a
Republican president.”
It takes this writer to
explain insurance to a medical doctor. A very interesting piece. Quote:
"Oh by the way best guess is that this crap in aggregate costs Medicare
and Medicaid alone — not including private expense — some $400 billion a year. If you stop it essentially the entire federal budget deficit disappears. This **** needs to stop folks, and it needs to stop now. Yeah, that’s just two people but damnit you know it’s everywhere at present and has been for decades. The people in the so-called “medical profession” responsible for this, and that’s most of them, need
to be asset-stripped to their underwear and locked in the stocks for us
to throw rotten tomatoes at. It’s our fault folks. It’s our fault
that not only are people dying miserably by the boatload but our government is going to fail on a fiscal level within years if we don’t demand it stop. It’s
our fault because we won’t hold people accountable for the misery and
financial******they serve on all of us — and the screwing it imposes on everyone both privately and through the federal government." https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/05/27/insanity-on-health-care-continued/
This item continues the
discussion regarding collusion between government agencies and
pharmaceuticals. Quote: "It turns out every new medical drug should
contain a warning: “The FDA approved this medicine. Watch out.” Perhaps
the warning should be more extreme: “If you’re taking this drug, have
an emergency medical crew on stand-by.” A new study, published in the Journal of American Medical Association,
examined all 222 drugs approved by the FDA between 2001 and 2010. The
finding? Years after approval, roughly a third of the medicines were
then labeled with warnings about serious adverse effects; and some of
those warnings indicated life-threatening complications. For example,
cancer and liver damage. For example, death—which, the last time I
looked, is life-threatening. The Washington Post reports:
“Among the drugs with added warnings [years after the drugs were
approved, as safe, for public use]: Humira, used for arthritis and some
other illnesses; Abilify, used for depression and other mental illness;
and Pradaxa, a blood thinner. The withdrawn drugs [taken off the market]
and the reason: Bextra, an anti-inflammatory medicine, heart problems;
Raptiva, a psoriasis drug, rare nervous system illness; and Zelnorm, a
bowel illness drug, heart problems.” https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/05/11/new-study-fda-approved-drugs-are-dangerous/
All of us should really be
concerned about what medical professionals tell us about diseases and
what may be wrong with us. The need to be challenged to defend what
they say and then independently verified by a separate so call expert or
two. This item should provide one example of why that is so. Quote:
"Consider this: In the wake of microbiologist Frank Plummer’s
astonishing remarks to the press in 2003, not one major media news
outlet in the world followed up and launched a probing investigation of a
SARS scandal. It didn’t happen. It hasn’t happened since. “A newly
discovered disease” with the same symptoms as ordinary seasonal flu is
said to be unique, because every person who has it also has a
never-before-seen virus EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT EVERY PERSON DOESN’T
HAVE THE VIRUS. Memo to college and medical school students: write a
thousand words on the logical implications of the above paragraph. If
you can’t, turn around immediately and go back to high school. Stage
protests until the school offers a mandatory course in logic taught by a
competent instructor." https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/when-the-most-basic-logic-fails-to-penetrate-the-mind/
And yet more. Quote: "BUT
suppose the drugmaker and the government (FDA) both cheated and lied
and committed multiple crimes, during the clinical trials of the drug
leading up to its approval for public use? It turns out someone has
been investigating those clinical trials o f Xarelto, and he has
uncovered stunning secrets. His name is Charles Seife.
He is a professor of journalism at New York University. Lawyers for
the plaintiffs in the 18,000 lawsuits against Xaraelto, take notice.
This is information you want to have at your fingertips. Seife can
provide many details—here I’m just presenting his overview." https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/the-stunning-secret-behind-the-thousands-of-xarelto-lawsuits/
This piece should prove
that it is not a good idea to believe anything Democrats say about how
great Obamacare is and how bad the Republican plan will be. The
Democrats long ago lost all credibility to claim they are the party that
best serves our country. In truth that claim is a really bad joke. http://www.restoreamericanglory.com/health/trump-lays-out-the-shocking-truth-about-obamacare-are-dems-listening/
This is a matter that has
been bubbling beneath the surface for some time. Jon Rappaport does a
good job of summarizing some disconcerting facts about medical matters
in the European Union and a bit of the United States. Provided for
your review...you may or may not disagree. https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/06/07/exposed-the-nazi-roots-of-the-european-union-2/
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