[wvns] The Epoch Battle of Our Time

I am always skeptical when articles like Jacob Hornberger's below use terminology like "socialist and interventionist cancer" with regard to medical industry or society in general (even if I generally sin in this direction when I discuss Zionism).

There seem to be socialist or mixed socialist systems that work successfully in providing economic or physical health for some nations.

Believing in the viability of only one economic system or one business model looks more like religious dogma than like good analysis.

Yet there is good reason to believe that a socialism-lite single-payer health care system probably would not work in the USA because of unique American history and culture, but Hornberger misses a critical connection in his essay below that MJ Rosenberg identified in a July article that argued Obama would fail on ME issues if national health care reform stalled (If Health Reform Fails, Netanyahu Will Prevail On Settlements).

Unfortunately, Rosenberg's analysis is incomplete, for he misses the key domestic economic connection between Israeli settlement construction and US health care ([wvns] us vs uk healthcare, [wvns] medical fraud's staggering price tag).

A large part of Israel Lobby funding comes from medical price gouging and fraud, which is possible because the 19th century US model of small medical providers does not fit the 21st century hi-tech mega-medical industry, whose main and extremely expensive product -- health care -- is a utility that should be provided in 21st America century via regulated profit-making investor-owned regional monopoly corporations following the same model that made telecommunications universally available for most of the 20th century.

With proper architecture and management 4-10 four regional American Health & Medical Technology Corporations (AHMTCs) should alleviate most problems of modern American health care including the serious corruption and unethical behavior that is associated with the pharmaceutical industry and that generally has passed beneath the radar of most debates over the medical industry.

Pharmaceutical industry profits depend to a large extent on patents associated with technology, whose development took place at universities with US government funding.

Even worse many if not most of the patents are granted for processes and reactions already described in published papers. Nowadays there is even a sort of extortion racket in which researchers comb medical and biochemical journal archives for material that would overturn pharmaceutical patents. These researchers extract hush money from drug companies to keep silent about patent invalidity.

This system is highly perverted and costs astronomical amounts of money. It must be dismantled if there is to be any hope of fixing American health care.

If the AMHTCs maintained their own equivalents of Bell Laboratories and collaborated with university laboratories, the development of new drugs would at least continue and would probably even improve because within the AMHTC framework, cost-shifting could eliminate the problem of orphan drugs, whose development cost could not be amortized within any reasonable time frame because of the small size of the target recipient population.

I cannot begin to guess why an AMHTC proposal is not on the table, but the history of the Obama administration suggests that even though Obama may have brought a lot of Zionists into his administration in the hope that he could control them,

1. the Zionists immediately began to undermine prospective as well as appointed non-Zionist officials, and
   
2. major Obama initiatives with regard to health care and with regard to the ME have been consciously undermined (or sabotaged) by Zionist appointees in collaboration with Bush administration holdovers and with extra-governmental Zionists

in order to weaken Obama and to render him dependent on Zionist power centers inside and outside government.

Unless political analysts like Hornberger take a more holistic approach to the interpretation of ongoing US policy making, Zionists will complete the colonization of the Obama administration before anyone even notices.

[Note that the AMHTC framework eliminates the need for individual provider liability and malpractice insurance. In addition, house calls could be brought back as a differentially charged premium service.

The blog entry entitled US Covers Israeli Health Care should also be relevant to the public discussion of US health care.]

The Second-Best Solution to Health Care: Do Nothing

by Jacob G. Hornberger

Of course, that drives the interventionists crazy. “Do nothing?” they cry! “Don’t you realize that we’re in a crisis? We can’t afford to do nothing!”

What they fail to realize is a fundamental principle about interventionism: It produces more crises. Therefore, any new health-care intervention, whether termed “reform” or “modification” or “improvement” is only going to make things worse than they already are. New interventions will produce new and bigger crises, thereby producing calls for more “reform” in the future.

What ultimately happens is that as the crises and interventions grow in number and intensity, people get so frustrated that they end up supporting a complete government takeover of that particular segment of society. In fact, that’s already happening in the health-care debate.

So, if doing nothing is the second-best solution for the health-care crisis, what’s the best solution?

The answer to that question depends on figuring out the root cause of the problem. In a sense, that task is no different from that which a physician faces when an ailing patient comes to visit him. The doctor examines the patient, arrives at a diagnosis, and issues a prescription. The correct prescription usually depends on a correct diagnosis. Get the diagnosis wrong, and more often than not the prescription will be wrong.

It’s really no different in principle with ailments that afflict the body politic. Get the diagnosis wrong and it’s likely that the prescription will be wrong.

The diagnosis that interventionists have reached in America’s health-care crisis is that the crisis is caused by too much freedom and free enterprise in the heath-care arena. Thus, their prescription is not surprising: Socialism and interventionism.

The problem with this diagnosis, however, is that the diagnosticians fail to account for the critical factor in the ailment of the patient: massive socialism and interventionism in health care in the past. It simply never occurs to these people that those things could be the root cause of what ails the body politic — the root cause of the health-care crisis. To socialists and interventionists, it is inconceivable that socialist and interventionist programs are anything but positive, healthy things for a society. That’s why they consider them the medicine, not the source of the ailment.

That, of course, leads us to an opposing diagnosis — that it’s not freedom and free enterprise that have caused America’s health-care crisis but instead the socialism and interventionism that have infected every aspect of the health-care field.

First, on the demand side of health care you’ve got ever-growing Medicare and Medicaid expenditures, which have placed an enormous upward pressure on health-care costs.

Second, you’ve got massive government regulation of both the medical and insurance industries, adversely impacting both the demand side and supply side of health care.

Third, you’ve got income-tax manipulation that has perverted the market with respect to employer-provided health-care insurance.

Fourth, on the supply side of health care you have occupational-licensure laws, which have strictly limited the supply of health-care providers.

Therein lies the root cause of America’s health-care crisis. Thus, the prescription is obvious: radical surgery by removing all of this cancerous material from the body politic. No reform. Simply an immediately repeal of Medicare, Medicaid, health-care and insurance regulations, and medical licensure. End all government involvement in health care. Given the positive power of the free market and the enormous resiliency of human beings, the body politic will immediately begin recovering.

That is the only solution to America’s health-care crisis. But if Americans cannot bring themselves to rid the body politic of all this socialist and interventionist cancer, then the second-best solution is to do nothing at all. Because infecting the body politic with even more cancer will only make the condition worse.

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