In my lifetime I have witnessed the death of independent medicine and fair trials

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

I often refer to how much of America has been eroded away during my lifetime, so much so that the country  into which I was born no longer exists.  Younger people don’t know what’s been lost as they never experienced the real America.  What is normal to people is what they are born into and grow up with.  The numerous infringements on individual freedom, for example, that exist today as normal and unquestioned would have been impossible in my youth.

Is your doctor in private practice or is he an employee of a HMO or a health care provider such as a hospital’s corporate empire?

Why does it matter?  If he is a corporate employee, he has lost his independence and has to comply, regardless of his judgment, with protocols handed down by the likes of Tony Fauci and Big Pharma as in the restrictions placed on Covid treatment.  Corporate employees were prohibited from saving lives by treating Covid patients with Ivermectin or HCQ.  Those who thought the Hippocratic Oath protected them and ignored the protocols in order to save lives did so at the cost of their jobs and medical licenses.   Doctors in private practice  cannot be fired, but medical boards can still go after them, but it is not as easy.

Over the course of my life I have watched the gradual erosion of medical independence.  It has occurred through a variety of means.  Medicine in the US today is a price controlled business.  Medicare and private insurance companies set the prices doctors are paid for the range of services and treatments.  The prices discriminate against doctors in private practice. There is one set of prices for corporate medical practice and another set with lower prices for doctors in private practice.  The intentional effect is to drive doctors out of private practice.  I have watched it happen to my doctors.

A study in 2021 found that “Physician reimbursement for services performed by a doctor working for a hospital or health system is significantly higher than that paid to independent physicians for the same services, according to a recent Health Serves Research study.”  https://revcycleintelligence.com/news/major-physician-reimbursement-gap-for-independent-vs-hospital-docs

The report states: ” Medicare reimbursement for physician services would have been $114 000 higher per physician per year if a physician were integrated compared to being non-integrated. Primary care physicians faced a 78% increase, medical specialists 74%, and surgeons 224%.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1475-6773.13613

It is the same with private insurance. HMOs are reimbursed more than doctors in private practice.

Notice the use of language as well as the massive difference in payment rates.  A doctor who is an employee and has lost his independence is “integrated,” while a doctor in independent practice is “non-integrated.”  To me “non-integrated” sounds like someone who is positioned outside the approved way of practicing medicine and most certainly is not a profit maximizer. The onus is on him to get “integrated.”

Ask yourself what reason could there be for the massive difference in payments other than to terminate the independence of medicine by driving  doctors out of private practice?  It is an expensive undertaking with integrated doctors costing $114,000  more each annually, but worth it to someone.

This is Big Pharma’s agenda.  Once private practice is extinguished, Big Pharma and its marketing agents–NIH, CDC, FDA, WHO–can control treatment protocols for the purpose of maximizing Big Pharma’s profits or injecting people with “vaccines” that reduce population in accordance with the agenda of WEF, global warming, and Bill Gates.  Big Pharma already controls most medical research and thereby the findings as 70% of medical research is funded by Big Pharma research grants.  Former editors of the two most prestigious medical journals have said that the articles published in the journals cannot be trusted because of Big Pharma’s funding.

Think back to the way that the fear that drove people to be vaccinated with an untested substance was whipped up by financial incentives given to hospitals to report every death as a Covid death.  Think back to the use of the inappropriate PCR “Covid test” that produces 97% false positives. Both were orchestrations that drove people to be vaccinated.  Remember also that you couldn’t use airlines to travel without being vaccinated, or go to school, or play on a sports team, or work for government, or be in the military, or be a hospital nurse, hospital doctor, or airline pilot, etc.

All of this and more was used to achieve as complete a vaccination of the population as was possible despite the known fact that you never mass vaccinate in the face of a pandemic because the result is numerous variants and the undermining of natural immunity.

In other words, already there is enough control over medical science as to effectively silence the truth.  This is especially easy as the Western world does not have an independent print and TV media and as many Internet sites  are funded by entities interested in controlling explanations.

I don’t yet know the full history of the organized attack on private practice.  I am not speaking of “socialized medicine” as corporate medicine is private.  I do know that ObamaCare caused payment differences between private practice and corporate medicine to grow larger because independent doctors and physical therapists told me of their attempts to become affiliated with corporate medicine so their billings could be sent as corporate and failing this sold their practices to HMO chains and retired on the proceeds.

In short, and without any doubt, independent medicine in the United States (in these days of Identity Politics an oxymoron) is doomed and on the way out.

What does it mean for us?  It means that in place of the Hippocratic Oath there will be Big Pharma’s profit-serving or the elite’s population control agendas.

If the points I am making have been made before, I have not seen any sign of them. And I don’t expect this article to get the attention of any investigative journalist in the print and TV media.  We are silently losing the ability to get medical care and are slated to be used for private agendas.

But this must be illegal you say!  So what?  Don’t expect any action by the legal system.  US Senator Ron Johnson held hearings on the alleged pandemic and the adverse effects of the mRNA “vaccines.”  But he was smeared, and the hearings were ignored.

The House Republicans have promised an investigation, but it is unlikely to happen.  The presstitutes will label them “conspiracy theorists” and Big Pharma will target them with political campaign contributions to their election opponents.

In my book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions (2000) I showed that Justice is a thing of the past.  It has been a long time since trials were held to determine innocence or guilt.  Today innocence or guilt is resolved with plea bargains.  According to US Department of Justice (sic) statistics, 97% of felonies are settled by plea bargains.

A plea bargain, not a trial defense, is the work of defense attorney’s today.  The defendant faces a charge, and his lawyer works with the prosecutor’s office to reduce the charge to a less severe one in exchange for not contesting the charge.  This provides the prosecutor with a conviction which builds his effectiveness and chances of running for public office, while freeing his time and the trial judge’s from trial use.  A week or longer of time is saved in an hour or two of negotiation.

The defendant even if innocent submits to incriminating himself, a Constitutional prohibition, because his attorney tells him that if he goes to trail, exculpatory evidence can be withheld, prosecutors can bribe people to give evidence against him, that the judge will tolerate all this, and that the system exists to produce convictions, not innocence or guilt.  The defendant’s attorney tells him from experience that the longer he holds out on a plea deal the greater the chance that the charges will increase in order to pressure him and the harder to negotiate a light sentence.

The result of plea bargain deals is that police evidence and the prosecutor’s case are seldom tested.  As they are seldom tested before jurors, we have no idea of the justice of any conviction.

As I have previously informed readers, when I was young a defendant who experienced conviction in the media, as did Derek Chauvin, would have had the case against him dropped by the judge on the grounds that it was impossible to swear in an objective jury.

But this protection of defendants against the media has also been discarded.

I am confident that many of those who submit to plea bargains are innocent.  I am also confident that those who are guilty are not guilty of the negotiated crimes to which they confessed as these “crimes” were invented in negotiation to take the place of the original charges.  In this sense, everyone imprisoned, unless convicted by an objective jury with all evidence both for and against considered, is innocent.

So to conclude this essay, in my lifetime we have made a mockery of the Hippocratic Oath and Justice.  Not long ago I read an article by a Harvard professor, perhaps from the Medical School, perhaps underwritten by a Big Pharma grant, that the Hippocratic Oath was a fiction, that the oath doesn’t say what it is represented to say.  If there never was a Hippocratic Oath, it doesn’t matter that Big Pharma and Corporate Medicine are taking it away.

What can be done?  I do not know.  Thomas Jefferson, a discarded Founding Father, said 200 years was as long as freedom could live without being refreshed with revolution against the tyranny that again shows us its head.

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B_MC
B_MC

I do know that ObamaCare caused payment differences between private practice and corporate medicine to grow larger

Here’s a dirty little secret about recent attempts to fix ObamaCare. The “reforms,” approved by Senate and House leaders this summer and set to advance in the next Congress, adopt many of the Medicare payment reforms already in the Affordable Care Act. Both favor the consolidation of previously independent doctors into salaried roles inside larger institutions, usually tied to a central hospital, in effect ending independent medical practices.

ObamaCare’s Threat to Private Practice

https://www.wsj.com/articles/scott-gottlieb-obamacares-threat-to-private-practice-1417990367

Anonymous
Anonymous

The Faux Faith of Modern Science

EXCERPT:
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines,” stated Dr. Marcia Angell, the former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine. “I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor,” she wrote in a 2009 piece titled “Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption.”

Years later, Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet echoed this sentiment: “… Something has gone fundamentally wrong with one of our greatest human creations … The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.”

Paleocon
Paleocon

Most research these days is fake and gay- even in the basic sciences. Fraud abounds.

eckbach
eckbach

As a meteorologist I can assure you, this is most certainly true of fossil (not) fuels
and The-Sky-Is-Falling.

eckbach
eckbach

Al Gore meets Gretard
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Ginger
Ginger

What has happened is the medical field has become exactly like the public education field, completely controlled and out of the hands of the very people they supposedly represent. This is true fascism, government picks the corporations, the winners and the losers, and that is what both these entities are, institutionalized corporations, and you are the consumer.
Just wait to social credits become the thing. If you are white, forget it. I saw this on a dorm bulletin board when I took my daughter to college four years ago, it had a list of ‘privileged’ people, and at the bottom in large letters “If you are satisfied you are privileged”. That is their war cry.
Just so you know my daughter was brought up right and knows all that crap is exactly that, crap. She is going for a Masters in Construction Management, which I did not even know was a field of study.

KJ
KJ

After seeing that bulletin board, I would’ve turned around and taken my daughter home. By participating (and paying for the “privilege” of doing so), you perpetuate the cultural marxism.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams

Many, many parents do this. They don’t believe in what the universities preach, yet they pay an insane amount of money to send their children to the indoctrination centers….for that “valuable” piece of paper that says their child is worthy of a job.

Better idea…go to trade school & start your own business.

This is why we’ll never win against the Marxist ideology. People just can’t stop participating for the life of them…or their children.

This is a conversation I have almost daily in my job. Very, very difficult to talk parents out of using the universities and going a different route.

KJ
KJ

Most people aren’t very aware or alert. They’re very dim bulbs. Yes, they’re able to function day to day, perform a job, etc, and their hearts might be in the right place, but they’re just not that bright, and they’re just plain greedy. They only see what’s right in front of them, they can’t visualize a few steps ahead.

However, the Darwin Award committee doesn’t factor in hearts being in the right place when they pass out the awards…

For example, I have a cousin who was extremely anti-“vax,” until he was offered a lucrative job that required the “vax.” He did a 180 when the $$ was dangled in his face and went and got the jab, but didn’t end up getting the job.

I told him he’s a FUCKING IDIOT and deserves whatever happens because he knew better.

A friend of mine’s father now has blood clots in his legs post-“vaccine.” Another one who knew better, but rushed out to get the jab because he “works for the town” and they mandated it. This is a 70 year old man who should’ve retired by now, but greed is greed. Let’s see how much fun he has in his forced blood clot retirement (and soon-to-be dirt nap).

VOWG
VOWG

See George Carlin quote about stupid people. It has never proven to be more accurate than during the last three years.

ken31
ken31

I remember deducing that Carlin joke as soon as I learned what an average was, and I went around a few days telling people what I thought was funny, but they just looked disturbed.

Anon y mous
Anon y mous

“This is a 70 year old man who should’ve retired by now, but greed is greed”.

After watching my retirement investment savings plummet over the past two years, I may be working until or beyond age 70 in order to care for my family. Does that make me greedy?
And, as I have posted on this site previously, my employer mandated the jab. If I had not been granted a religious exemption, I may have acquiesced and taken it in order… again, to care for my family.

KJ
KJ

Sucks to be you.

Laura Ann
Laura Ann

Anon: all you have is a wife now I assume, but any adult offspring you have you are not responsible for or their kids. Adults over 18 should be self supporting. In my day, college students worked while going to college or trade schools. Then went to work. The sorry young adults today are lazy according to employers I know who no longer hire them, many live at home as adults and loaf. Parents need to kick the out.

Laura Ann
Laura Ann

KJ: Hubby and I chose to be social recluses in retirement, not members anymore of church or civic org. So many doofus/dimwit folks as over 80% took the covid jabs and boosters later. Most people lack left brain function/critical thinking skills. They prefer to stay dumbed down and uninformed about anything real. They trust corp. news and believe and trust politicians who lie constantly (both parties=uniparty). In these trying times, I have culled out most my contacts, some known for decades. Most cannot carry on intelligent conversations anyway, glued to cell phones and social media.

ken31
ken31

I’ve wondered how trust correlates to people who don’t think about the why’s and the how’s.

Laura Ann
Laura Ann

People who can’t think and reason are not trustworthy and I try to avoid them.

Ginger
Ginger

First of all she had a full ride with assorted scholarships to a major university, which she had earned, one even from the county builders’ association. She is quite intelligent. If a person doesn’t call managing construction of large projects a trade, I do not know what would be one.
Second what are people supposed to do, run away, just surrender to the communist? That bulletin board is what opens the eyes of people, to see just how insane this world is, and who to avoid.
Screw that.

KJ
KJ

I’m sure they’ll be teaching her about minority set-asides for gov’t construction projects, as well as DIE (“Diversity, Equity & Inclusion”) requirements for construction worksites in her “Construction Management” Masters program.

(BTW, has she ever picked up a hammer, poured concrete, run electric or plumbing? Or is does she just want to be a Boss Girl, telling the boys what to do?) SMDH….

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams

Honestly Ginger, I can’t even comprehend that comment.

Side note: My father runs a building company. Runs it, as in owns it. Very successful. He was once homeless & served time in prison. He’s very intelligent too. Anything is possible without going the university route. Think outside the box.

Joe in Missouri

This is what happens when you illegitimately “delegate” (often without real consent) your rights and obligations to others.

BabbleOn
BabbleOn

The Gov’t is plea bargaining out of existence, Peoples Businesses, People, and Freedom. Shut down your business and we will cover some expenses. Take this lethal Jab or find a new job. Lock down your expectations and don’t even think of driving 20minutes. Then the Gov’t keeps demanding more and more of each counter-party, as they want a new deal everyday. You want to keep your business? Pay tax and hire only LGBTQ Bipoc. You want to see your own family, or go to work again, get the 2nd booster. You want your breakfast cooked? Turn off and in your gas stove. On and in it goes with a Gov’t never satisfied with yesterdays plea bargaining. Tomorrow since you took todays deal, will be renegotiated even worse. Stop Negotiating with Terrorists. They are just Terrorizing us more and more as we try to plea and bargain with them. Reminds me of a line from Romania.
“Today is worse than yesterday, but it is better than tomorrow.”

VOWG
VOWG

Have I mentioned before that we should kill our enemies before they kill us, ah, yes I did.

BabbleOn
BabbleOn

Most will not “see”. Even when they are pleading on their knees.

Laura Ann
Laura Ann

I really didn’t realize until the covid mess, how stupid people really are. It is an enigma to say the least, which is why I culled out casual friends over the last two years who put all their trust and confidence in politicians in the uniparty. They are all puppets of the globalists and most don’t understand anything about globalism. Church leaders who are mainly apostate, remain silent refusing to expose evil.

Euddolen ap Afallach
Euddolen ap Afallach

How and when was the current
medical system created?

See:
“Rockefeller Medicine Men
Medicine and Capitalism in America” (1979)

https://www.ivantic.info/Ostale_knjiige/Zdravlje/brown-rockefeller_medicine_men_medicine-and-capitalism-in-america.pdf

“THE crisis in today’s health care
system is deeply rooted in the
interwoven history of modern
medicine and corporate capitalism.
The major groups and forces that
shaped the medical system sowed
the seeds of the crisis we now face.
The medical profession and other
medical interest groups each tried
to make medicine serve their own
narrow economic and social interests. Foundations and other corporate
class institutions insisted that
medicine serve the needs of “their”
corporate capitalist society. The dia-
lectic of their common efforts and
their clashes, and the economic and
political forces set in motion by their
actions, shaped the system as it grew.
Out of this history emerged a medical
system that poorly serves society’s
health needs.”

Paleocon
Paleocon

My all-cash doc got bought out by an independent health provider vacuum. She pretty quickly beame part of the system.

BabbleOn
BabbleOn

Most people are walking over to the Borg. Sad.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

What was that thing that is the root of all evil? “You know…the thing.” – FJB

VOWG
VOWG

It would be the love of that particular thing. “You know…the thing”. I think that line will be around for a long time.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

It will certainly outlive him!

Laura Ann
Laura Ann

I am so old I remember paying $5. cash for a general office visit at 22 yrs old, (during the Marcus Welby times).

VOWG
VOWG

Most doctors in canada are paid by the government even those that seem to run “private” clinics. It is all controlled by bureaucrats, not politicians.

BabbleOn
BabbleOn

Public Private Partnership.
Private profits.
Public upkeep and debts.

anonomus prime
anonomus prime

I have seldom seen anyone making the case that corporations should be returned to the original limited life span statute. Nothing and I mean NOTHING should live forever. This unlimited life of the corporation has given rise to what we are seeing today, corporate fascism at all levels of society.

Mark Stefanelli
Mark Stefanelli

Paul,
Thank you for putting in words what no one else gets. This is the second Medical article of your’s I have read that nails it.
I started an urgent care where I had documentation of the local hospital being paid $110 for the same service, by the same insurance company that paid me $12. I was later driven out of business by that hospital’s corporate owner.
More recently I was fired by a hospital for treating Covid patients.
Thank you,
Mark Stefanelli MD

anonomus prime
anonomus prime

Your still a doctor with the skills to help people. May I suggest you use them wisely. God bless all those health care professionals that want to act as a healer & not give in to being co-oped by corporate structure. Do the work-a-round. Push back at the control.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams

I would gladly go back to the old days of house calls and paying cash for doctor visits. Maybe those without insurance are a market to target? Don’t know, maybe they don’t have enough money to pay a doctor.

But, in my experience, it is the self-employed (mostly) who do not have insurance and can afford to pay a doctor for necessary services.

Thinking outside the box – if you want to still care for people, target those without insurance and offer a discount over regular doctors’ prices. I would hire you. Not sure what other obstacles you’d run into as I’m not entirely familiar with the medical business.

anonomus prime
anonomus prime

AMEN! AA

Joe in Missouri

Paul Craig Roberts is a dangerous at times, dyed in the wool “Stateist”.

He seems to be oblivious to the fact, that when Congress criminally created the AMA medical monopoly in 1912, for the globalist/Satanic Rockefeller family, that all of our God given rights dealing with our bodies were thrown under the bus.

**** When someone else controls your body is that not the very definition of slavery?

IMHO he is a moral relativist, and thus a secondary psychopath.

I certainly do not want psychopaths like him in government. Unfortunately that is what 99% of the people in government are: moral-relativists/psychopaths.

anonomus prime
anonomus prime

It won’t be easy or simple but, push back, stop enabling at as many levels as you possibly can & don’t give in to evil at any level.

Laura Ann
Laura Ann

Informed folks I know make sense saying we must push back and not to comply, yet knowing in the end we will lose to the globalist agenda 2030. Europe has already lost as other countries incl. those under the UK crown. Younger generations will live under tyranny as it stands now since most all patriots have passed on and younger generations are nihilists and self absorbed.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams

Laura…you are spot on with all your comments here.

Laura Ann
Laura Ann

Only if church leaders and civic leaders would speak out we could turn the tide. Buy they have sold their souls to Marxism/globalism. These “leaders” will be first in line for executions along w/ most politicians (congress, etc) that will soon be useless idiots.

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