Showing posts with label health insurance industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health insurance industry. Show all posts

Sunday, 19 April 2026

Vaccines and Neurological Injuries

Dr. Russell Surasky—a rare U.S. physician double board-certified in neurology and preventive medicine—breaks his silence about vaccine injuries he has repeatedly seen at the hospital.

Sunday, 16 November 2025

Deadly Secrets & Monkey Business

 This is the dark history of vaccination the powers that be are hiding from you. They won’t tell you that sick animals are used in the process of developing these shots. You won’t hear that our own government agencies kept projects involving cancer-producing ingredients in immunizations under wraps. And why isn’t anyone talking about how all this ties into future pandemics and bioweapons research? Fortunately, we have the records to prove that these things are real and more common than not. Suzanne Humphries, M.D. does not mince words on this topic, which is why she is the perfect person to talk about it. Join Dr. Humphries and Polly Tommey on CHD.TV as they discuss!


Link to the presentation.   Not for the faint hearted. 



Resources


Sunday, 7 September 2025

Obamacare and human child trafficking

Since digital healthcare, they know everything about you and your child and everything is coded. 


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(Obamacare's 5-digit coding system allows child traffickers to follow kids from birth as they grow.)

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Saturday, 5 April 2025

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong: You’re Being Lied to About Cancer, How It’s Caused, and How to Stop It

 Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is a surgeon who made billions inventing cancer drugs. He says that Covid, and the vaccines that didn’t stop it, are likely causing a global epidemic of terrifyingly aggressive cancers.

Sunday, 5 January 2025

Why you need more Salt with Dr. David Brownstein

 

Saturday, 21 April 2018

Killing For Profit - at the European Parliament ! #LCHF Aseem Malhotra

Killing for Profit – Dr Aseem Malhotra discusses the dark world of Big Food and Big Pharma in Brussels

“We have a complete healthcare system failure and an epidemic of misinformed doctors and harmed patients,” – Dr Aseem Malhotra, 2018.
On 12 April, a combination of main medical doctors and lecturers spoke at the European Parliament in Brussels in a lecture entitled “Big Food & Big Pharma, Killing for Profit?” Among these audio system was Dr Malhotra, writer of The Pioppi Diet, a number one heart specialist and co-founder of Action Sugar, who spoke about the want for system reform in world healthcare, the biased funding of analysis, overmedication and the want to deal with the impression of sugar in our weight-reduction plan.
The video recording in full:




Sunday, 1 December 2013

Under Our Skin - The politics of chronic Lyme disease


In the 1970s, a mysterious and deadly illness began infecting children in a small town in Connecticut. Today it's a global epidemic. A real-life thriller, this shocking festival hit exposes the controversy surrounding chronic Lyme disease. Following the stories of individuals fighting for their lives, director Andy Abrahams Wilson reveals with beauty and horror a natural world out of balance and a human nature all too willing to put profits before patients.

Saturday, 6 April 2013

Undue industry influences that distort healthcare research, strategy, expenditure and practice: a review

Emmanuel Stamatakis1,2,*, 
Richard Weiler3, 
John P.A. Ioannidis4,5

Article first published online: 25 MAR 2013

DOI: 10.1111/eci.12074

© 2013 Stichting European Society for Clinical Investigation Journal Foundation. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Background

Expenditure on industry products (mostly drugs and devices) has spiraled over the last 15 years and accounts for substantial part of healthcare expenditure. The enormous financial interests involved in the development and marketing of drugs and devices may have given excessive power to these industries to influence medical research, policy, and practice.

Material and methods

Review of the literature and analysis of the multiple pathways through which the industry has directly or indirectly infiltrated the broader healthcare systems. We present the analysis of the industry influences at the following levels: (i) evidence base production, (ii) evidence synthesis, (iii) understanding of safety and harms issues, (iv) cost-effectiveness evaluation, (v) clinical practice guidelines formation, (vi) healthcare professional education, (vii) healthcare practice, (viii) healthcare consumer's decisions.

Results

We located abundance of consistent evidence demonstrating that the industry has created means to intervene in all steps of the processes that determine healthcare research, strategy, expenditure, practice and education. As a result of these interferences, the benefits of drugs and other products are often exaggerated and their potential harms are downplayed, and clinical guidelines, medical practice, and healthcare expenditure decisions are biased.

Conclusion

To serve its interests, the industry masterfully influences evidence base production, evidence synthesis, understanding of harms issues, cost-effectiveness evaluations, clinical practice guidelines and healthcare professional education and also exerts direct influences on professional decisions and health consumers. There is an urgent need for regulation and other action towards redefining the mission of medicine towards a more objective and patient-, population- and society-benefit direction that is free from conflict of interests.


Sunday, 15 April 2012

Medical Terminology Concerto


Classical musical humor teaches doctors how to speak medicalese and keep patients from understanding what they’re saying.


Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Anatomy of a $30 Billion Medicare Crime

By Kathleen Sharp
Truthout

Like all great capers, this $30 billion Medicare crime unfolded in plain sight. A drug rep sat in the doctor's office, balancing folders on his knees and flipping through the patient files. He wore a starched shirt, navy slacks and a golf tan from that day he'd convinced the doctor-client to participate in his company's "mini-trial." The deal was this: if the oncologist would inject his patients with high doses of a poorly tested drug, he could pocket $1,500.

But the doctor was too busy to select patients for this "study." So, the salesman, Dean McClellan, combed through the confidential patient files himself, searching for a few human guinea pigs to enroll. He found his subjects and, over the ensuing weeks, tracked their reactions to the high doses of the anti-anemia drug Procrit. "Cancer to the brain was worse," the rep wrote in one patient chart. "But anemia was better."

Let us count the ways in which this was illegal. First, the payments were bribes used to seduce doctors to pump Procrit doses to levels not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Procrit helps cancer patients produce enough red blood cells so they can avoid blood transfusions and withstand chemotherapy. Yet, some patients in McClellan's "trials" weren't undergoing chemo. Many didn't even know they were being used as guinea pigs. Worse, there was no investigative review board, control group or protocol as there'd be in a bona fide scientific study. If there had been, someone might have noticed that three out of five people were dying in McClellan's jerry-rigged trials.

Such shocking human tests are not supposed to happen in our day and age. In the 1930s, officials conducted the Tuskegee "experiment" and allowed poor black men to die painfully from untreated syphilis. In the 1940s, people were injected with plutonium to see how long they'd survive. These appalling tests produced strict rules that make it unethical to experiment on people today without their informed consent.

But no such rules applied to those "mini-trials," which were thinly-veiled sales gimmicks. Indeed, McClellan's employer, a unit of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), was so confident of its top-selling drug, it believed more was better. So, imagine McClellan's horror when he learned that Procrit triggered strokes and multiplied cancer cells. "I never would have sold the stuff if I'd known it was killing people," he told me.

These allegations are detailed in McClellan's 2006 complaint pending in US District Court in Boston. Whistleblower McClellan and his buddy, the late Mark Duxbury, claim their bosses paid doctors about $17 million to gun Procrit doses and company profits. They were told to give doctors the drug free and discounted, and to show them how to submit false insurance claims.

J&J is not the only one pushing off-label promotions, however. In 2007, Bristol-Myers Squib paid $515 million to settle charges it promoted an adult bipolar medicine for children. In 2009, Pfizer paid $2.3 billion to resolve off-label activities around Bextra. Last year, Allergan pled guilty and paid $600 million for illegally promoting Botox.

Big as they are, these payouts don't deter drug marketers anymore than a garden hose drains a swamp. Lavish vacations for big clients, drunken banquets for Alpha reps, fat rebates for hospital chiefs: the bribes and payoffs make "The Sopranos" look like the Carmelites, as I explore in my book "Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever."

Yet, fraud wasn't even mentioned in President Obama's recent plan to cut $320 billion from the ten-year projected growth of Medicare and Medicaid. Before slashing desperately needed services for the poor and elderly, we should get aggressive about recovering funds stolen from taxpayer-supported programs. Fraud is an annual $250 billion business, and at least $100 billion of that is siphoned from Medicare and Medicaid. Recovering billions of dollars from these crimes would go a long way in protecting the health of all of our citizens, not just program beneficiaries.

Many states already pursue health care fraud. In 2005, whistleblowers who worked for Quest Diagnostics accused the chain of medical laboratories of deliberately overcharging California's Medicaid program for about 15 years. Quest had paid kickbacks disguised as free tests and discounts to doctors who referred patients to its labs. Despite denying wrongdoing, the company settled and California Attorney General Kamala Harris recovered $241 million, the largest fraud settlement in that state's history.

In a separate case filed in New York, the same company stands accused of overbilling billions of dollars from our nation's Medicare plan. Yet, oddly, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has not joined the case.

Why not?

It could be that the DOJ prefers to let the state attorneys general do the heavy lifting. Once a state wins a case, the feds can piggyback onto it. This could be happening in the Quest case since the DOJ said that it might intervene in the national suit later. But why wait? Here's a reason, said whistleblower Andrew Baker: "Quest is too big to go after." The Department, he said, saves "its energy to muscle small-time doctors," like the Miami-area doctor convicted of falsely billing Medicare.

McClellan estimates that his case is worth $30 billion to the government. Yet, the DOJ has declined to pursue it, too. Instead, it's in the pile of 1,300 other whistleblower cases under investigation. That figure is up significantly from the 900 or so cases that were stalled at the end of the Bush administration. To be fair, the department has long been understaffed when it comes to health care investigations. But in 2009, the DOJ and the Department of Health and Human Services were given an additional $198 million to combat fraud. Yet, those funds haven't helped. Not only were total fraud convictions lower that year, so were filings of new prosecutions.

Last year, the DOJ recovered $3 billion in false claims, $2.5 billion of that from health care cases. But that's just a drop in the swamp. It's gotten so that even if a case is settled, many pharmaceuticals simply write it off as the cost of doing business. After all, if you're selling $44 billion worth of drugs a year, a $2.3 billion fine is lunch money.

This winter, McClellan and his lawyer will try their whistleblowing case - alone. US Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer will no doubt keep tabs on this suit they know well. Before becoming America's top lawmen, the two were partners at the same DC firm that's now defending J&J against McClellan's charges. Perhaps, this is another reason why our government is soft on fraud. Our health care crisis may be pummeling the weak and vulnerable, but safeguarding the status quo is still an incredibly lucrative job - even when performed in plain sight.


Saturday, 13 August 2011

Death by doctor

Third leading cause of death in the US is an MD directed treatment. That means 15 000 Medicare patients a month !!! .. and no one goes to jail...

Monday, 6 June 2011

Cut-rate colon screening misses cancers

You get what you pay for. 

I've warned you before about sigmoidoscopies, the colon screening pushed by insurance companies because they're much cheaper than tried-and-true colonoscopies. 

In fact, these bargain-bin procedures can be had for a quarter of the price of a colonoscopy -- and now, a new study finds that low price is matched only by its low rate of effectiveness. 

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville used data on 52,236 patients aged 67 or older who were hit with a cancer diagnosis within three years of a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy. 

They found that sigmoidoscopy patients got cancer at triple the rate of colonoscopy patients. 

But you don't need a study to figure this out... just a little common sense. 

Colonoscopies look at the entire colon, and can detect and remove polyps anywhere along the way. Sigmoidoscopies, on the other hand, look at only the lower third of the colon. 

I don't have my calculator out, but it seems to me that leaves two-thirds of the colon unexplored -- and plenty of places for cancer to quietly grow. 

And if you're a sigmoidoscopy patient, you won't know until it's too late. 

But insurers love the bottom line -- and they'd much rather pay $250 for a half-assed procedure than cough up $1,000 for the real thing. 

Of course, patients get some of the blame here, too -- because they're happy to play along. Sigmoidoscopies are faster and easier to recover from. And because there's generally no need for sedation, you're back on your feet immediately after it. 

But come on -- what’s a little wooziness when your life's on the line? 

When it comes to colon screenings, skip cheap-o sigmoidoscopies as well as the pricey virtual colonoscopies and go with what's worked on rears for years and years: real colonoscopies. 

Bringing up the rear, 

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

Thursday, 14 April 2011

25 Reasons why the entire US health care industry is a giant money making scam



What is the appropriate word to use when you find out that the top executive at the third largest health insurance company in America raked in 68.7 million dollars in 2010? How is one supposed to respond when one learns that more than two dozen pharmaceutical companies make over a billion dollars in profits each year? Is it okay to get angry when you discover that over 90 percent of all hospital bills contain “gross overcharges”? Once upon a time, going into the medical profession was seen as a “noble” thing to do. But now the health care industry in the United States has become one giant money making scam and it is completely dominated by health insurance companies, pharmaceutical corporations, lawyers and corporate fatcats. In America today, just one trip to the hospital can cost you tens of thousands of dollars even if you do not stay for a single night. The sad thing is that the vast majority of the money that you pay out for medical care does not even go to your doctor. In fact, large numbers of doctors across the United States are going broke. Rather, it is the “system” that is soaking up almost all of the profits. We have a health care industry in the United States that is fundamentally broken and it needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.
But wasn’t that what Obamacare was supposed to do? No, in fact Obamacare was largely written by representatives from the health insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry. Once it was signed into law the stocks of most health insurance companies went way up.
The truth is that Obamacare was one of the worst pieces of legislation in modern American history. It did nothing to fix our health care problems. Rather, it just made all of our health care problems much worse.
In case you haven’t noticed, health insurance companies all over the United States have announced that they are going to raise premiums significantly due to the new law. Of course they are just using it as an excuse. They have been sticking it to us good for the last several decades and they just grab hold of whatever excuse they can find to justify the latest rate hike.
If you are looking for a legal way to drain massive amounts of money out of average Americans just become a health care company executive. Health care has become perhaps the greatest money making scam in the United States. When Americans are sick and have to go to the hospital most of them aren’t really thinking about how much it will cost. At that point they are super vulnerable and ready to be exploited.
It is almost unbelievable how much money some of these companies make. Health insurance companies are more profitable when they provide less health care. Pharmaceutical companies aren’t in the business of saving lives. Rather, they are in the business of inflating the profit margins on their drugs as much as possible. Many hospitals have adopted a policy of charging “whatever they can get away with”, knowing that the vast majority of the public will never challenge the medical bills.
The system is broken.
Everyone knows it.
But it never gets fixed.
The following are 25 shocking facts that prove that the entire U.S. health care industry is one giant money making scam….
#1 The chairman of Aetna (AET 37.38 ↓-0.16%), the third largest health insurance company in the United States, brought in a staggering $68.7 million during 2010. Ron Williams exercised stock options that were worth approximately $50.3 million and he raked in an additional $18.4 million in wages and other forms of compensation. The funny thing is that he left the company and didn’t even work the whole year.
#2 The top executives at the five largest for-profit health insurance companies in the United States combined to receive nearly $200 million in total compensation in 2009.
#3 One study found that approximately 41 percent of working age Americans either have medical bill problems or are currently paying off medical debt.
#4 Over the last decade, the number of Americans without health insurance has risen from about 38 million to about 52 million.?
#5 According to one survey, approximately 1 out of every 4 Californians under the age of 65 has absolutely no health insurance.
#6 According to a report published in The American Journal of Medicine, medical bills are a major factor in more than 60 percent of the personal bankruptcies in the United States. Of those bankruptcies that were caused by medical bills, approximately 75 percent of them involved individuals that actually did have health insurance.
#7 Profits at U.S. health insurance companies increased by 56 percent during 2009.
#8 According to a report by Health Care for America Now, America’s five biggest for-profit health insurance companies ended 2009 with a combined profit of $12.2 billion.
#9 Health insurance rate increases are getting out of control. According to the Los Angeles Times, Blue Shield of California plans to raise rates an average of 30% to 35%, and some individual policy holders could see their health insurance premiums rise by a whopping 59 percent this year alone.
#10 According to an article on the Mother Jones website, health insurance premiums for small employers in the U.S. increased 180% between 1999 and 2009.
#11 Why are c-sections on the rise? It is because a vaginal delivery costs approximately $5,992 on average, while a c-section costs approximately $8,558 on average.
#12 Since 2003, health insurance companies have shelled out more than $42 million in state-level campaign contributions.
#13 Between 2000 and 2006, wages in the United States increased by 3.8%, but health care premiums increased by 87%.
#14 There were more than two dozen pharmaceutical companies that made over a billion dollars in profits in 2008.
#15 Each year, tens of billions of dollars is spent on pharmaceutical marketing in the United States alone.
#16 Nearly half of all Americans now use prescription drugs on a regular basis according to a CDC report that was just released. According to the report, approximately one-third of all Americans use two or more pharmaceutical drugs, and more than ten percent of all Americans use five or more prescription drugs on a regular basis.
#17 According to the CDC, approximately three quarters of a million people a year are rushed to emergency rooms in the United States because of adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs.
#18 The Food and Drug Administration reported 1,742 prescription drug recalls in 2009, which was a gigantic increase from 426 drug recalls in 2008.
#19 Lawyers are certainly doing their part to contribute to soaring health care costs. According to one recent study, the medical liability system in the United States added approximately $55.6 billion to the cost of health care in 2008.
#20 According to one doctor interviewed by Fox News, “a gunshot wound to the head, chest or abdomen” will cost $13,000 at his hospital the moment the victim comes in the door, and then there will be significant additional charges depending on how bad the wound is.
#21 In America today, if you have an illness that requires intensive care for an extended period of time, it is ridiculously really easy to rack up medical bills that total over 1 million dollars.
#22 It is estimated that hospitals overcharge Americans by about 10 billion dollars every single year.
#23 One trained medical billing advocate says that over 90 percent of the medical bills that she has audited contain “gross overcharges”.
#24 It is not uncommon for insurance companies to get hospitals to knock their bills down by up to 95 percent, but if you are uninsured or you don’t know how the system works then you are out of luck.
#25 According to one recent report, Americans spend approximately twice as much as residents of other developed countries on health care.
Sadly, the pillaging of the American people only seems to be accelerating.
Whether it is as a result of Obamacare or not, health insurers have decided that this is the season to raise health insurance premiums. Just consider the following excerpt from a recent article on Fox News….
Here is the reason CareFirst/Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Washington gave its subscribers for raising a monthly premium from $333 to $512 on a middle aged man who is healthy, is not a smoker and is not obese: “Your new rate reflects the overall rise in health care costs and we regret having to pass these additional costs on to you.”
512 dollars a month for health insurance for a healthy non-smoker?
Are they serious?
Apparently they are.
Things have gotten so bad that an increasing number of Americans are going outside of the country for medical care.
According to numbers released by Deloitte Consulting, a whopping 875,000 Americans were “medical tourists” in 2010?.
Is there anyone out there that is not paid by the health care industry that is still willing to defend it?
Is there anyone out there that still believes that the health care industry is not just one giant money making scam?
Feel free to leave your comments below. In particular, if you have a horror story about a health insurance company, a pharmaceutical company or the health care industry as a whole please share it with us….
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/25-shocking-facts-that-prove-that-the-entire-u-s-health-care-industry-has-become-one-giant-money-making-scam

Friday, 21 January 2011

Interview with Charlotte Gerson

Charlotte Gerson says it all. The daughter of Max Gerson reveals the truth about the power of big pharma (the most profitable industry in the world), politics, the FDA (Food and Death Administration), the uselessness of conventional medicine, drugs, chemotherapy; the suppression of alternative therapies and successful cancer treatments. The whole interview consists of 5 parts. 




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Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Michael Moore meets Wendell Potter

Wendell Potter talks about the smear campaign to discredit Michael Moore and his film "Sicko" by the health insurance industry.

Original author: Michael Moore, transcript available at:
http://www.truth-out.org/michael-moore-meets-wendell-potter-countdown-with-keith-olbermann-video65378

Part 1.



Part 2.


More articles by Michael Moore on truth-out.org:
http://www.truth-out.org/articles/by-author/external/Michael+Moore