2846-2848: Tricky Dick and Health Care Profiteering from Lincoln County Watch
By Anna Von Reitz
Earlier
today we touched upon one of the centerpieces of the Nixon
Administration --- the Petrodollar, and the results it has had on world
business and political events that have been "de-coupled" from the gold
standard and lashed up to the oil standard instead.
It
isn't a pretty picture. What emerges is that the corporate governments
of the West and Middle East are using bogus conservationist narratives
to justify new taxes on a vital commodity, the sole purpose of which is
to bulk up their own coffers with artificially created profits.
Increase
the price of oil and gas by any means and the beneficial result is the
same for the producers and middlemen --- and the consumers pay for it
all.
This
is an odd reprise of Teddy Roosevelt's conservationist policy, which
was a thinly veiled means to an end --- restrict access to American
resources to prop up prices and benefit cronies who already held
interests in similar or competing assets.
Again,
the people of this country pay through the nose, both by not being able
to sell or develop their own resources for their own use and profit,
and second by paying more for the end products provided by other
sources.
A similar pattern of havoc and destruction followed Nixon's changes to the Health Care System.
Prior
to Nixon's 1973 Health Care Maintenance Organization (HMO) Act, private
sources were paying 75% of health care costs, and half of that was
funded out of pocket by the individuals receiving the care. Prior to
Nixon, health care costs followed the normal Consumer Price Index.
Today,
less than 10% of healthcare costs are privately funded. And health
care costs are rising 16 to 20 times faster than the Consumer Price
Index overall. This demonstrates truly explosive cost inflation in the
healthcare industry since the mid-1960's, and that has followed an
equally dramatic shift from private to public healthcare funding.
Why?
Prior to 1973, it was illegal to profit from healthcare.
Nixon's
HMO Act changed all that, and the government predictably got into the
action. Nixon never met a chronic illness he didn't like. Treating the
symptoms with expensive drugs instead of aiming for cures became the
watchword of the day, and government interference in every step and
process of healthcare from regulating drugs via the FDA to funding
hospitals to mandating healthcare standards and profiting from
health-related grant money, to the endless nightmare of
Medicare/Medicaid billing practices---it all added to the "Ca-Ching
Effect".
Along
with the interjection of "the government" into the administration and
regulation of healthcare profit-making streams as middlemen, we've have
the government investing in healthcare profiteering via public-private
joint ventures, in which private organizations like the National
Institutes of Health or the Center for Disease Control are given large
blocks of "government" investment money and then parcel this out on
profit-making projects, like the NIH's investment in the Wuhan, China,
debacle.
Along
with allowing health care to descend from being a non-profit social
care sector of our economy into being a fecund profiteering jungle, and
aside from profiting itself from that jungle, the government's shifting
of the burden of healthcare onto the public dole has encouraged a vast
amount of waste.
Turns
out that consumers who don't have to pay for services don't care much
about the cost of services and all the normal considerations of cost,
cost-effectiveness, quality, and care setting went right out the window
at the same time that "the government" started building its inroads into
the healthcare sector.
Of
course, the taxpayers are ultimately expected to pick up the tab for
the government corporations, but the connection between healthcare
services and taxation has been glossed over.
And people who aren't taxpayers could care less about the cost of healthcare that they receive.
I
noticed this directly back in the 1970's. Suddenly, there were unwed
Mothers all over the place, and most of them had three kids, because if
they had more than three, they didn't get any extra welfare money.
These women were constantly taking their kids to the Emergency Room of
the local hospital with every case of sniffles, every stubbed toe,
completely oblivious of the cost of these Emergency Room visits.
At $1,800 per visit charged off to "the government" the hospitals weren't complaining.
So
one day, I, the lowly teenage waitress---- whose wages were helping to
pay for all this, had the temerity to speak up and suggest that instead
of taking their kids to the Emergency Room, they should develop a
relationship with a family doctor instead. They laughed at me. Why
go to the trouble of observing office hours and working with a GP?
Because a GP visit might cost a hundred bucks instead of $1,800. Uh-duh.
They
looked at me like deer in the headlights. They had no idea what their
visits to the Emergency Room were costing and they didn't care. The
hospital was making out like a bandit, so the hospital didn't care,
either. It was all being charged off to "the taxpayers".
Shame-faced and stunned, the Welfare Moms bundled up their kids and trouped out into the snowy winter afternoon.
And
I thought then what I am still thinking now: (1) health care should be
non-profit to prevent corporate profiteering; (2) if we want health, we
can't let people profit from disease; (3) people need to know and feel
the cost of the services they are receiving, even if they can't pay; (4)
hospitals need to be held accountable; (5) the rest of us need to get
up on our hind legs and pay attention.
A
couple weeks later one of the Moms came in and told me she now had a
family doctor and wasn't going to the Emergency Room anymore.
One small step for mankind...
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A Brief, Brutal Review
By Anna Von Reitz
Bretton
Woods died in 1971 with the advent of the Petro Dollar. Oddly, many
Americans haven't noticed that this was a watershed event, much less
tracked the results of Tricky Dick Nixon's multitudinous "contributions"
to our present situation.
The
concept that other goods could be used as the "money standard" --- in
this case, barrels of oil --- toppled gold and silver from their
pedestal, and opened up an era of wealth for the Middle East that the
Middle East reinvested in gold, silver, land, and business opportunities
all over the world.
This
means that we are now dealing with a disproportionate number of
heavy-hitting Arab and Muslim investment interests counterbalancing
would-be Chinese investment interests that have hitched their wagon to
the gold standard.
This
is a situation so far removed from the typical American egocentric
viewpoint of the world as to be ironic. The Middle East and China are
the power players in this drama, despite the USD being the reserve
currency.
Naturally,
"the US" having made its bed back in the 1970's, sides with the Arabs
and the oil industry. Just as naturally, China resists because China
has virtually no natural oil reserves and is in constant crisis and
under pressure to meet its own energy needs.
And
all of this drama centers around what commodities are to be used as the
"money standard" --- oil or gold? Or something else entirely?
Get
a clue, folks, the New Green Deal isn't about the environment. It's
about making oil and all other sources of hydrocarbon energy more
expensive. And using the destructive power of taxation to artificially
make it so.
Higher
oil prices, even artificially bumped up oil prices, bulk up the coffers
and empower western corporate governments and their Middle Eastern
business partners. This creates a "strong dollar" even if it promotes a
weak economy.
You
may not have noticed that the New York Stock Exchange is no longer in
New York. It has moved to Tel Aviv. No joke. The tickers stopped
ticking three years ago. The financial district is missing the Stock
Exchange and the Federal Reserve, both. This observation should give
Americans cause to pause.
The
Source of all the military script known as Federal Reserve Notes, is
now just an adjunct account under the auspices of the IMF, and the IMF
is just an adjunct of the World Bank. And the stock market is booming
during a bizarre, and apparently, pre-planned, "live exercise"
pandemic.
The
portfolio managers of unimaginably huge pension and "public
association" slush funds are "self-investing" --- a process by which
millions of investors who don't really exist except on paper, plunk
money --- that doesn't exist, either, down on already grossly overvalued
stocks in order to bulk up the apparent value of all those stocks.
The
stocks and the trading boards are, of course, managed via the virtual
trading network located in Tel Aviv, and that virtual stock market
syndicate can do whatever in the world it likes to stock prices no
matter who is flowing what form of money into the market.
Controlling
the outcome of political elections is small beans compared to
controlling the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, nee NYSE. All the dirt about
to be released about stuffing electronic ballot boxes pales by
comparison when you realize that the same thing, the same kind of
computerized fraud, has been applied to the value of stocks and bonds.
While
the Chinese stubbornly hold onto the tail of the gold standard, the
West just as tenaciously defends the oil standard, even while appearing
to repudiate it with the New Green Deal, which is just an excuse to
artificially increase oil prices --- with the guilty Western Government
Corporations and the Middle Eastern business partners splitting the take
---- and all of us paying the price.
There is nothing "New" about the New Green Deal. It's just another oil industry rip off coming through the backdoor.
Wake up, people. The value of Free Markets as a standard of reality has never
been more clear.
The
urgent need for reform in all aspects of our planetary business life
and the dangers of computer tampering and inappropriate politicking in
every aspect of our lives from the stock market to the election box to
healthcare are self-evident.
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No Fault
By Anna Von Reitz
No, America is not at fault for what has befallen it at the hands of greedy, selfish, and traitorous men, dishonest and immoral “relativist” trustees, and people who have fallen victim to crime.
I am here to bear witness that the victim is not to blame.
There is no way for a Territorial U.S. Citizen to at the same time be a Municipal citizen of the United States—- unless you are a Territorial U.S. Citizen operating a Municipal Corporation for profit.
Let that sink in.
So all the Municipal Corporations created as “US CORPORATIONS” that should not exist are in terror for their corporate “lives” because their existence is unlawful. And all the disloyal military-industrial-banking interests who are the de facto owners of these US CORPORATIONS are right at the front of the pack, howling.
But why do they exist, if not to create profit for their shareholders? And who are their shareholders if not Territorial U.S. Citizens?
Oh, wait— you mean the fake U.S. Territorial Citizens that never actually existed? The American babies that were “misidentified” accidentally-on-purpose and registered as British Commonwealth citizenry?
Yes.
It all belongs to Americans and Aussies and Canadians and Germans and Italians and Japanese.... to all the people worldwide who have been defrauded and impersonated and made to pay the taxes and war reparations and mortgages of these real life monsters.
They can’t believe it has come to this. They can’t fathom that they have been discovered after 160 years of this most profitable scam.
They are losing their stranglehold. In the end, people are not corporations and everyone can see that.
That’s why the desperation to find any means, fair or foul, to justify a claim that these corporations own you. That’s why they are trying to inject you with patented messenger RNA—- to turn you into just another “GMO Product”. It’s all about ownership “interest”—- and slavery.
If you never had a spine before, it’s time to grow one. Grit your teeth and smile and say, “My body, my choice.”
Feed back the very poison they have used to justify the deaths of millions of babies. Let them now eat the fruits of their silent Holocaust.
It is time to put the kibosh on all these Doomsayers who pretend that any of this is “Justice” being meted out to “America” by God.
This is nothing but the fruits of crimes committed against us by criminals acting under color of law and in Gross Breach of Trust.
Ours is a just and knowing God, a God that is not confused by the lies and tricks and verbiage. He will not hold America accountable for what “the US” has done.
Next time someone tells you that “America is under judgement” — do me a favor and correct them for me. America is the victim and this time around, the victims won’t be blamed.
This time the ax is going to fall exactly where it belongs.
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