Shannon Brownlee
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 Doctors viewed Medicare as the first step on the path toward socialized medicine, which they feared would lead to a loss of income. The most recent effort to reform health care came during the Clinton administration, and foundered in part because of Harry and Louise, characters who appeared in television ads paid for by the insurance industry. The ads scared Americans into thinking that covering the uninsured would mean the rest of us would lose some of our coverage, in order to pay for all those new bodies coming into the system. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Even a massive switch to socialized medicine, if it could be pulled off, is still useless unless we start teaching disease prevention. Unless you actually prevent disease and fundamentally improve the health of the American people, no structure of health care coverage will save us from a near-certain future: a mutant population, trapped in a system of disease proliferation that will ultimately cause the collapse of the U.S. economy and the end of America as we know it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's called universal health care (or "socialized medicine"), and it's a system followed by nearly every modern nation in the world... and even some not-so-modern nations. Only America practices medicine in the Dark Ages, tied to a hopelessly corrupt system of financial exploitation and monopoly price controls, where Big Pharma gets richer, the FDA gets more powerful, and the American people get the shaft. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Canada practices socialized medicine, and drug costs are kept down by government intervention. How strange it was, then, to see the diabetics' advocacy group, the CDA (Canadian Diabetes Association), align themselves with the pharmaceutical corporations.
After the Marketplace segment aired, Eli Lilly posted a response to the website5 maintained by the program. Speaking on behalf of Eli Lilly, Dr. Grossman's inane reply was inaccurate, and followed routine corporate tactics of blame the disease, blame the diabetic.
This is the same Dr. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| The act's passage was the culmination of one of the most bitter, divisive, drawn-out fights in congressional history, during which the American Medical Association spent fifty million dollars campaigning against what it called at various times, a "dangerous device, invented in Germany," a "communist plot," and "socialized medicine. |
| The AMA leadership persuaded the rank and file that one of the effects of "socialized medicine" would be to lower their incomes. As the chairman of a California commission set up to look into a statewide health insurance program wrote in 1938, "My own experience in speaking to physicians is that the only questions they ask are . . . how much money they would get, whether they would have to get up nights at the demand of whoever called them . . ."
Only a few decades before, doctors were paid little more than the laborers they took care of. |
| AMPAC took out ads, warning citizens that proponents of "socialized medicine" viewed Medicare as just the first step toward universal health insurance—which was true. It exerted constant pressure on its friends in Congress, most of them Republicans, but also many powerful "Dixiecrats," Southern Democrats like Tennessee's Albert Gore Sr. The group arranged for incessant phone calls from influential constituents and organized letter-writing campaigns by physicians back home. |
| D7 health care reform had only to point to theVA system and say the words "socialized medicine" to scare Americans into sticking with the status quo. Back then, the VHA's bad reputation was well deserved. Underfunded, overbed-ded, and poorly administered, it was a model of waste and inefficiency Workers were dispirited and patients neglected. In 1992, three decomposing bodies were discovered on the grounds of a veterans' medical center in Salem, Virginia. Two of the bodies were of men who had wandered off a few months earlier. |
| For all their worries about socialized medicine imperiling their livelihoods, doctors would in the end reap a bonanza from Medicare, a windfall that would last until 1992, when a new payment system would lead to cuts in reimbursements. One of the great social programs of the twentieth century, Medicare made health care available to millions of elderly citizens, but it also spurred the desegregation of hospitals in the South—and brought down infant mortality rates among blacks as a result. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 It's a "Catch-22," bureaucratic socialized medicine at its best.
Clearing the Body of Lead
One of the problems with chelating lead is that during early stages of treatment, blood levels can actually increase due to release of lead from bone. Care must be taken to remove this newly released lead quickly so that it isn't redistributed to another organ or the nervous system. Furthermore, removal of toxic metals, especially from the nervous system is not an easy matter. Very exacting methods are required for proper chelation of each metal. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As such, socialized medicine will simply mean long wait times to get the same harmful treatments being dished out today.
The key question remaining, then, is how long will it take for the United States to go bankrupt due to health care costs? On that question, it really doesn't matter who's in power: both parties are driving us towards financial ruin for one reason or another, and neither party is interested in fundamentally reforming the health of the American population. As such, the final outcome is not in question. It's only a matter of when. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's called socialized medicine, and what it means is that everybody is still just as sick as they were before, but now the whole system is streamlined, with astounding new efficiencies, because it will be managed and coordinated by the most efficient, compassionate administrative system in the world: the U.S. government.
I can't wait to start standing in line.
And nowhere will you hear anything about what should really be done to prevent chronic disease and enhance health in this country. |
Jacky Law
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 And if there is one argument in favour of socialized medicine, it is that it creates some real dynamic within the system to curb unnecessary drug spend. With more than half of all visits to surgeries and hospital outpatient departments in the UK (arguably more in the US) said to have no good medical reason, it can be helpful to have some restrictions placed on a rampant collective anxiety about health.
A report released by the Btitish Medical Association in August 2005 confirmed the downside of ruling out every health fear by checking it out privately. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If, by some rare alignment of heavenly bodies, the Democrats take control of the House, the Senate and the office of the President, it would set the stage for sweeping reforms in the direction of socialized medicine (i.e. the system in Canada, Taiwan, and most other industrialized nations). But as I've stated repeatedly, no such reforms will be meaningful unless they address the cause of disease and start teaching prevention of disease rather than "management" of disease through pharmaceuticals.
And that's not likely to happen any time soon. |
Martin L. Cross
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 In the 1980s, doctors' incomes were rising some 10 percent per year and satisfied physicians were sure it would last—unless, of course, America followed the primrose path down to socialized medicine.
We didn't get socialized medicine but in the 1990s, managed care and HMOs took off and doctors complained again, fearful that discounted medicine was not the way to get rich.
For a while they were right. The AMA reported that in
1994, for the first time in recent history, doctor income dropped nearly four percent. But doomsday has since been put on hold. |
G. Edward Griffin
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 Under the beguiling excuse of "Let us defeat total socialized medicine by promoting partial socialized medicine," it has provided the model legislation for the nation's largest single step toward total government control ever taken in this area.
The legislation was known as Public Law 92-603, passed by Congress and signed by President Nixon on October 30, 1972. It was more commonly referred to as PSRO, which stands for Professional Standards Review Organization. |
Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H.
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 After receiving treatment for cancer of the esophagus in France, he wrote about his experience with the French health care system, and related how he had been converted to the merits of "socialized medicine." He wound up paying $6.50 out of pocket for medical care that an American physician friend told him would have cost over a half million dollars in the U.S. And Burgess praised the quality of care as excellent.
Fve heard accounts from several Americans who were traveling abroad (specifically, stories from France, Spain, and Italy—as well as a personal one of my own from Switzerland). |
Sheldon P. Blau, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.R. and Elaine Fantle Shimberg
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 If ever there was an argument for socialized medicine, it's the insurance industry itself Managed care means managed economics. My insurance policy cost $12,000 a year. Despite the premium, the number-one priority of the insurance company is not to pay the claim or to pay less of it than it costs. Words like "deductible," "co-pay," "reasonable charge," and "prevailing fee" are created by the insurance company to give you less than you thought you were going to get. |
Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H.
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| Full choice of providers in a delivery system that remains a mix of private and public. Not socialized medicine, but national health insurance in the same way Medicare is a national insurance program.
• Elimination of the odd link between employers and health insurance coverage.
• Coverage for all necessary services, including inpatient and outpatient care, emergency care, long-term care, mental health, treatment for substance abuse, prescriptions, and basic dental and eye care with no discrimination by type of illness or ability to pay. |
Kenny Ausubel
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 Decrying the greed that was subsuming the profession of healing, he threatened to run for legislative office on a platform of socialized medicine in 1941.28
Robert Heath of the Dallas County Medical Society remembered his father's official stance toward Hoxsey's plea for an investigation. "The challenge most often offered was to send a group to come and test our theories. Truthfully, that really never took place because the medical establishment felt that any effort on their part to go and review the work or the material that Mr. |
Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H.
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| Single payer is not "socialized medicine," nor does it need to be "big government."
Unfortunately, the term "single payer" is oversimplified. Even advocates for universal coverage disagree on the use of the term. But in general, "single payer" identifies an approach based on "one risk pool" with everyone included, like national health insurance. A summary of the principles that comprise the "single-payer" with "one risk pool" type of solution is found at the end of the Introduction to this book. |
Jane M. Orient, M.D.
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 Although socialized medicine is sold by appealing to people's fears of serious illness, the system in operation ends up being inundated by people in search of checkups or a prescription for cough syrup. There is supposed to be easy access to a doctor. What this really means is easy access to a spot on the assembly line. The doctors end up having to see huge numbers of patients every day, spending an average of just a few minutes with each, including time spent completing paperwork. |
Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H.
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| Myth #8: We Don't Want socialized medicine Like in Canada
Canada's health care system is terrible and failing. Americans largely dismiss the Canadian system as not worth looking at because the American media campaigns to discredit Canada have been so effective. The U.S. has a high degree of ignorance about the Canadian system. Even some of my friends who are actively working in health care look down on it. "We don't want Canadian-style health care in America," they say. Often we hear such truisms as, "There are more MRI machines in Houston than there are in all of Canada. |
Jane M. Orient, M.D.
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| The price for socialized medicine may not be as high.
The perceptive reader will surely observe that I am making an assumption: that medical goods and services are governed by the same laws of economics as food, shelter, transportation, and other things that meet human needs. That goes contrary to the popular wisdom that medical services are just different. Because medicine is supposed to be different, people assert that a free market will not work in medicine and that socialism will.
But let's leave theory aside and look at some specific results. |
Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
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 The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he was formerly Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Lambo praised socialized medicine, disease prevention, and natural-spiritual healing, as opposed to other forms of health care inspired by western medical industrialists. |
Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H.
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| They will invoke the "mantra" of "socialized medicine" to attack any increased role for government. Yet government needs to have a role—at the very least in oversight, coordination, and leadership—if we are to fix our failing health care system.
We are hearing increasingly about incremental or "piecemeal" reforms, about vouchers, tax credits, medical savings accounts, and "defined contributions" from employers. There are now a plethora of ideas about how to "cover more Americans. |
G. Edward Griffin
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| The pharmaceutical cartel that controls the medically oriented foundations has not overlooked this fact, and we can be certain that the history of foundation pressure for socialized medicine in the United States is no accident.
The Milbank Fund was created by Albert G. Milbank who was Chairman of the Borden Company and also the leading partner in the Wall Street law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hope, Hadley and McCloy. Milbank was no stranger to the cartel. John J. |
Martin L. Cross
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| We didn't get socialized medicine but in the 1990s, managed care and HMOs took off and doctors complained again, fearful that discounted medicine was not the way to get rich.
For a while they were right. The AMA reported that in
1994, for the first time in recent history, doctor income dropped nearly four percent. But doomsday has since been put on hold. A recent study by the AMA covering the full year 1996 shows that doctor income has not only rebounded, but has hit an historic high. |
| His work came to the attention of President Nixon, who saw in the HMO the chance of a medical revolution that relied on the private sector and not on the government, which some feared might someday promote socialized medicine. The cost savings of Elwood's Utopian concept of prepaid groups also appealed to the White House, and to the corporate people who attended his confabs.
In 1973 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare reprinted a forty-year-old document drafted by the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care. |
| But instead of the bete noire of socialized medicine, the medical profession, and its patients, were faced with an unexpected ogre—the HMO.
The Health Maintenance Organizations—a misnomer if there ever was one—moved quickly into the morass of excessive costs, exploiting the market to the hilt with low premiums to the employer. To businesses, which were involved in steep downsizing and cost cutting themselves, the HMO looked very familiar and was a godsend. The savings became more important than any loss of care or excessive medical controls, things they knew nothing about. |
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