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BEBROWN's avatar

A Very important point of this MAHA article is the fact that going to War with the SWAMP, DOES TAKE TIME. I've seen way, way, way too many 'bitching' posts about how Trump & Bobby 'aren't getting anything done...", which is addressed in the article. Battling the SWAMP, Big Pharma & Ag take time and resources. This administration (love or hate him/them...) IS rocking the boat, or upsetting the Apple Cart. Call it what you want, it's 1,00,000% BETTER than any prior administration in the last 50 years. Patience, prayers & praise is what MAHA need right now!

PonyBoy's avatar

Bobby Kennedy Jr. has been the "best friend" of many for 50 years.

Just ask anyone who lives near the Hudson River, or any of the environmentally toxic sites Bobby is responsible for cleaning up after industry destroyed them.

Or ask any mother of an autistic child who listens to them when their doctors won't.

Bobby Kennedy Jr. is everybody's "best friend."

The sad part is that many of us just don't know it because "one" political party tells it's members to hate Bobby, and they blindly obey.

Suzi Smith's avatar

Thank you for doing the research, putting it together in a report, overcoming the myriad of obstacles to bring it to the public because the corrupt media is part of the corruption to bring America down.

Big media could be hailed as an important part of the solution by reporting the truth, but instead have chosen corruption, coverup,

and division which destroys! They are exposed to the distain and destruction.

SailingAway's avatar

What research and what public? He is the corrupt media.

Rev Dr Don J TYNES MD FACP's avatar

Health Insurance CEO’s hate RFK Jr

Health Insurance CEO’s are Evil!

They influence and encourage physicians, providers, nurses, healthcare professionals and clergy to kill patients through hospice and palliative care.

The insurance industry has tricked politicians through financial donations called lobbying to allow them to abuse patients.

1. The patient must pay a large deductible to support the CEO salary.

2. The patient has to pay separately if they get sick, even with a common cold or headache .

3. A patient can only freely use their health insurance only once or twice a year without penalty of a copay or deductible for a wellness check or physical.

4. The patient must separately pay a copay or portion of the cost for any diagnostic testing to determine an illness

Health Insurance CEO’s continually drive up the cost of healthcare and restrict services to patients.

The health insurance and pharmaceutical industry have both comprise the leadership of all medical organizations and medical societies with the lure of retirement jobs and or paid board positions.

Businessmen see patients death as an alternative form of cost savings by culling, cutting Costs of services and restricting medications to sick patients. Their business strategy is that the healthy and the dead do not use health care.

The dichotomy between businessmen (CEOs. COOs and CFOs) and physicians highlights this difference

1. Businessmen take an oath to protect Profits --- physicians take an oath to protect patients

2. Businessmen take an oath to protect the stockholders ---physicians take an oath to protect the baby holders: which are the parents/grandparents

3. Businessmen see numbers --- physicians see patients

4. Businessmen see death as a cost Savings --- physicians see death as a loss

5. Businessmen try to save money --- Physicians try to save lives

The field of Medicine is no place for business leadership. A true patient-centered mindset that states our first love is the patient, is the type Physician leadership is that is required, which currently does not exist in any medical organization or medical society, this would have to be a new mindset.

Business leadership pushes the statement that the 18 months to 24 months of training for a nurse practitioner or physician assistant is equivalent to the minimum of 7 years for a physician to be trained.

Hospitals and Business CEO’s have said yes to this equivalency. They have funded campaigns to try and influence politicians and state legislators to view them as one in the same and to demean physicians to the level of a provider and not recognize physicians as a leader of the medical team or acknowledge their physician status but see them as just another employee, resulting in a cost saving by devaluing their physician resource.

The business practice of prior Authorizations has nothing to do with the practice of medicine it has been imposed upon physicians and the practice of medicine. It often delays treatment, therapies, medications, and sometimes surgeries. The business practice of prior authorization has not been shown to speed up patient access to medications, delivery of care or improve patient services or outcomes but has generate cost Savings for the health insurance industry.

Businessmen have cleverly positioned Hospice and palliative care to allow the generation of income and savings at the same time. Hospitals, doctors and nurses are compensated to extinguish a life instead of pushing medical science to discover new treatments and therapies to cure an illness or prolong a life.

When Dr. Jack Kevorkian of Michigan was attacked for his efforts, the medical profession agreed 1. It must be a patient request 2. Everything that could be done was medically done and 3. The patient must be suffering. Now businessman ie; CEO’s have corrupted the profession by incentivizing to recruit patients, restrict and withhold care and services as well as redirect patients to hospice or palliative care. Surveys are filled by medical staff to assess if a patient is a hospice or palliative care candidate for any visit to the hospital! Instead of searching for candidates for research studies to advance the field of medical science.

Mrs S - treatment withheld for an MI(heart attack) “resident she is an ideal candidate for hospice" a healthy 80 y/o, first-time major illness.

Mr.R - he only needed one course of dialysis for dehydration, he was a HFrEF patient, but denied hemodialysis by nephrology because “he was ideal candidate for hospice” (Cardiology pleaded for 1 round of dialysis)

Mr.S - was refused transfer to a medical center that treats severe AAA, instead they placed patient in their hospice palliative care program.

Mr. F - fell and hit is head at a golf course and initially received high-quality rescue care, but it was found the next day he had Medicaid; the family was Then offered hospice.

Mrs. L - undergoing breast cancer treatment, was told that her health insurance company charges the patient for her pre-treatment blood test, the patient would be unable to receive her treatment without these crucial test.

Mr. J & Mrs L was told to pay $300 up front before the colonoscopy because their insurance charges the patient an extra cost for the Biopsy if they find polyps or a cancer.

Dr.S - was requested by a health insurance company to charge the patient separately for the heart stent if he finds a stenosis lesion.

We must place saving the life of the patient first, in the field of medicine there is no such thing as futile care or wasted resources when it comes to a human life. We must battle death and disease. We are at war with morbidity and mortality. Let’s choose life and a good fight against death first before choosing the insurance executive.

The field of medicine and business cannot intertwine because human lives are at stake.

Rev Dr Don J Tynes MD, FACP

Internal Medicine and Pediatrics

Clinical Associate Professor

Michigan State Medical Society

Wayne County Medical Society

American Medical Association

National Medical Association

BEBROWN's avatar

After 30 years in Big Pharma & surgical sales, much of your summary is unfortunately true. The constant villainization of the health care executive is a bit rash. I'm a capitalist who agrees that managed care org's should NOT dictate what the physician or surgeon is 'allowed' to do or use on/in a patient. The ability of HMO's Group Purchasing Org's to tell doctors what to do IS the problem. Orange Man & Bobby need to address the 'separation' of these GPO's & HMO's from what health care is 'best' for the patient, not for the bottom line.

SailingAway's avatar

Not going to happen. Neither has any interest in actually working to help normal people.

Maybe's avatar

Let us Praise Him 🙏

Lysenko's avatar

“Take Lyme, the disease they spent decades pretending barely existed.”

As honest as your partner/tool

Praise Dear Leader's avatar

It's unfortunate that friend is impermeable to information that doesn't fit his existing beliefs.

Spencer's avatar

Corporations have been allowed to poison our food, our water and our environment. Anytime, including now, the Goverment allows Corporations to self regulate they chose profit over people.

This administration alone has done more to poison us then others. They have enacted new ( possibly illegal) policies including;

Power Plant Emissions Repeal, Clean Air Act and Chemical Exemptions, Methane Safeguards Rolled Back

What has actually been achieved? I only see it getting worse.

Suzi Smith's avatar

Seems like you think it’s ALL or NOTHING. That’s not reality, is it?

nohs mc's avatar

It looks as though if they would intentionally give us food etc and we become damaged as a result then that should be a crime

Spencer's avatar

So, what has he actually accomplished?

Maybe's avatar

Fundraising - tons of it. And legitimization of rhymes-with-stackery. And lots of book sales.

Renee C.'s avatar

Big Pharma and Big Ag are an almost impossible battle to fight let alone win. I'm so grateful to Sec. Kennedy for taking on this battle. Like was mentioned in the article, Bobby Jr.'s battle is a multi-front one and it's only been two years. God bless the MAHA movement.

Living Well Locally's avatar

Exceptional summary! Thank you.

Suzi Smith's avatar

Thank you for this detailed report

Barbara Charis's avatar

I am thankful that RFK Jr is at the forefront of the movement. He has done a great deal to help the people.. I believe people have to know what items are in these vaccines that are being injected into their bloodstreams. I was shocked, when I found out the items. I knew that they did not belong in the human body. I was appalled that I hd permitted my child's doctor to inject them into his bloodstream. I knew that poison kills. They nearly killed him. This was one of the reasons that I got into health research myself 65 years ago. People have to be educated!

Mike Black's avatar

Take the fact that MAHA IS GOVERNMENT!