The Public Healthcare Option and the Catholic New York Medical College
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: The Public Healthcare Option and the Catholic New York
Medical College
Date: Jul 8, 2009 1:24 PM
People are missing the point (Article Below).
Kaiser-Permanente took over the formerly Catholic Medical
School, NYMC:
http://xnet.kp.org/permanentejournal/spring98pj/strategy.html
CATHOLIC MEDICAL SCHOOL:
http://www.nymc.edu/today/today.asp
Mission
Advancing Your Health through Medicine, Science and Education. New
York Medical College, a health sciences university in the Catholic
tradition, exists to advance your health. We educate physicians,
scientists and healthcare professionals. We conduct research and
provide service. We have one goal: your well-being. "
It would not be the Catholics behind the Lyme crymes,
but Kaiser-Permanente and the ALDF.com profiteers
who decided "BigInsurance is just taking over medicine
and the MD groups are just going to have to get used to
the idea."
NYMC supplied the New York Medical Board with their
"experts" against Joe Burrascano (Peter Welch):
http://www.actionlyme.org/OPMC_CORRUPTION.htm
^^You can see from the above CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
complaint and the reply by the New York Medical Board,
that I was complaining about the OPMC's "experts," and
that I hope none of them were the ALDF.com profiteers.
At one time, BigInsurance's influence was so strong
in creating and managing medicine, they had a draft
plan (at AHRQ.gov, which is a fake dot guv) to make
it law that *** "any medical expert who testifies as an expert
in a court of law, has to recite the guidelines, and may NOT
offer his own private opinion about a case." ***
BigInsurance was intending to write medical "guidelines"
and they were going to enforce them to that extent.
The Obama plan is a slow phase-out of BigInsurance
because everyone will eventually decide they don't like
being screwed by BigInsurance. This plan is a way to
retract BigIns employment rolls gradually, rather than
dump all the BigIns tards and psychopaths into the
already bloated BushCo jobless population.
BigInsurance is going. It's just going to go away more
slowly than we'd hoped.
And I would imagine the likes of Yale will rethink
doing business again with Kaiser as a partner
since they now have nothing going on. No grant money
no fake vaccines or RICO testing monopolies or
LYMErix-induced monopolies on ALL THE GOODIES
in the blood:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CORIXARICO.htm
But anyways, NYMC was meant to be a Catholic Medical
School, so I doubt very much the Catholics were behind
the ALDF.com international Lyme crymes, which were intended
to take out the weak (Pam3Cys OspA New Great Imitator-Inducing
vaccines) and send them all over to the Social Security
Disability and Medicare dole, so BigInsurance would not
have to pay for us.
'Musta been the usual crooks.
'Seems like the usual schemes from the usual suspects:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CONNOLLY_FISH_WEINSTEIN.htm
They clearly thought the Catholics were stupid enough
to believe the ALDF.com's lies and BS.
The reverse turned out to be true and now the ALDF.com
crooks have nothing and BigInsurance has one foot in
the grave, themselves.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/08-6
Published on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 by McClatchy Newspapers
Advocates of Full Nationalized Health Insurance Fight On
by Rick Schmitt / Kaiser Health News
WASHINGTON - The YouTube video shows Donna Smith pulling on a white
hazmat suit and protective rubber gloves. She's going to work, trying
to clean up the nation's health insurance industry.
With a bullhorn in one hand and a picket sign in the other, she leads
a group of a dozen or so similarly attired activists in marching
outside a Chicago hotel on a windy morning last fall.
The "Health Care Hazard Cleanup Team" has come to protest an industry
it sees as toxic to the health of Americans. Today's target is an
insurance company trade group that's meeting inside.
"Hey, hey, ho, ho," a chorus erupts. "Private insurance has got to
go."
Smith is a cancer survivor whose personal experience with insurance
has driven her to lead rallies such as this one. She's a foot soldier
in the battle over health care, and hers is the most radical
prescription for change.
The idea, which advocates call "single payer," would replace private
insurers with a single, tax-funded government program. They envision a
national health program in which every American would be guaranteed
coverage, regardless of ability to pay or medical history, and all
patients would be free to pick their doctors.
Despite its appeal to many, "single payer" is DOA as an option in the
debate in Washington. More of its advocates have been arrested on
Capitol Hill than have testified at congressional hearings. President
Barack Obama, who said years ago that he supported the idea of single
payer, now favors bolstering the employer-based insurance system.
Without a seat at the bargaining table, single payer proponents are
still looking to influence the process, if only to raise red flags
about proposals that they say would make the current system worse. The
Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care, a coalition of
single-payer advocacy groups, is planning a major rally July 30 in
Washington in an effort to demonstrate the widespread support that
they say their cause has garnered.
Most political experts say that a single-payer plan isn't feasible in
the current environment. Public ambivalence about the role of
government combined with the upheaval that would result from
dismantling the insurance system make radical change highly unlikely,
they say. In addition, there'd be strong opposition from congressional
conservatives, who dispute the rosy picture of single-payer benefits
that advocates describe.
The decision not to consider a single-payer scheme "speaks to the
pragmatism not just of the Obama administration but the Democratic
leadership in the House and the Senate," said Jonathan Oberlander, a
health policy expert and visiting scholar at the Russell Sage
Foundation, a social science research center in New York. For them, a
single-payer plan "would be too controversial," especially when
they're trying to reassure anxious Americans that they can keep their
existing insurance if they like it.
For proponents, however, the failure of a single-payer proposal to
advance shows the grip that the health care lobby has on Washington.
At best, in their view, the options that are on the table amount to
tinkering with a failed system; at worst, they further empower an
already entrenched insurance industry.
Smith, who's 54, may seem an unlikely candidate to lead an attack on
the health care status quo. She grew up in suburban Chicago in what
she describes as "a very Republican family."
Like many single-payer supporters, though, she comes to the fight
seeing herself as a victim of the insurance system.
She and her husband landed in bankruptcy court, she said, snowed under
by bills when he had a series of heart attacks and she developed
uterine cancer. She was a newspaper editor in South Dakota; he was a
machinist. Besides jobs, they had plenty of health insurance, or so
they thought.
She became a full-throated single-payer advocate after she and her
husband were featured in "SiCKO," the 2007 Michael Moore film about
the health care crisis.
Attending the New York premiere, she ran into a busload of nurses who
saw the event as a vehicle for promoting a single-payer plan. That
inspired her to begin speaking to groups around the country about her
film role and her personal experience. She even testified before
Congress. The California nurses made her an organizer and legislative
advocate in their Washington office.
A single-payer system, Smith said, is an elegantly simple solution.
Eliminating the tangle of for-profit insurers would save billions of
dollars in administrative costs and executive salaries. Those savings,
the thinking goes, would be large enough to cover most, if not all, of
the nation's uninsured.
Some experts say those savings are vastly overstated and that single-
payer advocates don't have a plan for dealing with the rapidly rising
cost of health care, which is at the root of the crisis.
"It is nonsense, absolute nonsense," said Stuart H. Altman, a
professor of national health policy at Brandeis University. "The
reason health care costs are high is that we spend a lot of money on
health care. It is not all on the insurance side."
Critics of single-payer plans say they'd concentrate too much power in
the government, including decisions on which treatments qualified for
coverage.
Robert Book, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a
conservative research center, put it more strongly. He wrote in an
April issue brief that a single-payer system would result in lower
payments for physicians and other health care providers, which would
lead to "reduced access and lower quality health care for future
generations" of Americans.
Countries with national health programs, said Uwe Reinhardt, a health
policy expert at Princeton University, have tended to short-change
them. "There is a tendency to under-fund them," he said, "and so care
ends up falling short of the ideal."
Smith concedes that single payer may not be perfect, but she said it
was far superior to any other proposal out there. She's frustrated
with the way that Congress has dismissed what she views as the most
just and noble option.
"But I still have tremendous hope," she added. Ultimately, she said,
paraphrasing words of Martin Luther King Jr., "the long arc of history
bends toward justice."
(Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a
program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care
policy-research organization that isn't affiliated with Kaiser
Permanente.)
McClatchy Newspapers 2009
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci
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