Health Care in America: A System More Terminal Than Its Patients

America is on the verge of a major crisis! And, I wonder, does anyone care?

While people continue to argue over the merits of health care; some prone to debate the issue out of ignorance, while others out of a fear generated by the media and fabricated. People are dying! And it’s not just the uninsured!

Most insurance policies carry a deductible, or co-pay, even Medicare, and if you don’t have that deductible or co-pay, in advance, the hospital, “MAY” let you die! This is not a scare it is a wake up call, and we should listen.

Two recent reports out of Las Vegas, both state that they were refused treatment or procedures that were life saving, because they did not have the co-pay at the time they were to be admitted. One went to Oklahoma for treatment the second has no money, and only the insurance policy, for which the hospital has refused to provide the procedure, why, because there is 20 percent deductible that the hospital is requiring payment in advance.

Nevada where budget cuts in the state’s Medicaid program have forced a major shift in where Nevada’s poor and even middle class can seek health care has created a dynamic problem, sometimes for the very survival of the sick.

Cancer patients who had received outpatient treatment at University Medical Center, for instance, are being turned away. The hospital says it can no longer afford to offer cancer treatment. And some treatments cost as much as $10,000 dollars each. This raises yet another issue, why do these treatments cost so much?

UMC, citing reductions in Medicaid payments, believe low-income children with bone and spine problems, seeking treatment, will need to leave Las Vegas altogether, as pediatric orthopedists are no longer accepting payment from Medicaid due to cutbacks in their reimbursements. Recent figures demonstrate that in fact Las Vegas does have a negative population trend.

Part of the problem, if not all of it, lies at the doorstep of Washington.

No one should ever be denied medical care, yet while people are dying, and we are in the midst of two foreign wars, they are!

UMC has dropped treatments and programs because Medicaid payments don’t cover the hospital’s costs and the hospital can’t afford to go in the hole.

Indeed, the Nevada State Medical Association said other pediatric specialists have also stopped taking Medicaid patients because the government reimbursements don’t cover the cost of delivering the care.

The issue squarely defined is; what direction are we allowing this country to take? Morally, do we have an obligation to defend the weak, and provide for those incapable to taking care of them selves? Are we going to abandon the frail, the sick and the helpless, or are we going to take a stand against those who place their pockets above human dignity?

The answer begins in Washington where the reality of the problem has become a cry in the wilderness. Ignored because it is not fashionable, and wars of choice seem to have their attention and the purse strings of our nation.

Layered Capitalism and the Fall of Democracy

The Banks have taken control over all major American Corporations. With this they control not only the corporation, but our very existence as a free people. Our media, (Radio, Television, and Print) are controlled, our medical care can be denied, as they own the hospitals and insurance companies. Our jobs can be terminated by their will as they control every one of the fortune 500 companies. Credit can be denied as they are the providers. The Banks today touch and control every aspect of our lives.

The Facts:

The Federal Reserve System, established by Bankers, has allowed moneyed monopolies, which they control, to spring board control over all of our lives, whether our industries, the Media (Radio and Television), our hospitals, our manufacturing, our Newspapers, our Pharmaceutical companies, our oil companies, or any of the fortune 500 companies. The Banks and their investment vehicles control every single corporation that is a part of any facet of our existence. It is by virtue of this complete control over the financial resources of our industry and employment that they control without limit those very individuals who are elected to public office and through them the government of the United States.

These same corporations control everything and even control each other in layers, having set up their own investment vehicles in which each of these players own an interest. It doesn’t matter if one corporation such as Lehman Bros. fails they own Goldman Sachs also, in fact they own them all!

These insidious corporations controlled by possibly 10 families are: (i) JP Morgan; (ii) Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd; (iii) State Street Corporation; (iv) FMR Corporation (Fidelity Management & Research Corp); (v) Vanguard Group, Inc.; (vi) Mellon Financial Corporation; (vii) Legg Mason Inc.; (viii)Morgan Stanley; (ix)Bank Of America Corporation; (x) Franklin Resources, Inc.; (xi) Goldman Sachs Group Inc.; (xii) Janus Capital Management, LLC; (xiii) Price (T. Rowe) Associates Inc.; (xiv) Bank of New York Mellon Corporation; (xv) Northern Trust Corporation; (xvi) AXA (Paris, France); (xvii) Wellington Management Company, LLP; and (xviii) Capital Research Global Investors. Each company is related to the others.

The observer will notice an overlay of corporations that control not only the “target” Corporation, but the entity that invests in the target corporate. In the Examples below you will see that State Street Corporation, for example, invests in Price (T. Rowe) while Price (T. Rowe) invests in State Street Corporation, yet the investors in each are the same players, using these vehicles to layer and conceal their identity while they control another corporation such as Hewett Packard or Alcoa or American Express or A T & T or any of the other fortune 500 companies.

Another example is JP Morgan and Northern Trust Corporation, follow the money and you will see that these Banks and investment pools they control, own or control everything in the United States. Thus all of our income, wherever we spend it, goes to them. What ever we want, what ever we need we pay the Banks for the privilege of acquiring it. If we work for Wal-Mart, we are working for these banks and their investment pools e.g. Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd; State Street Corporation; Vanguard Group, Inc.; FMR LLC (Fidelity); Morgan Stanley; Dodge & Cox Inc..; AXA (Paris, France); Capital World Investors; Bank of New York Mellon Corporation; Wellington Management Company, LLP.

If you work for Verizon you are working for these same banks e.g. Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd.; Capital World Investors; State Street Corporation; Vanguard Group, Inc.; AXA (Paris, France); Capital Research Global Investors; FMR LLC (Fidelity); Morgan Stanley; and Northern Trust Corporation.

If you need a prescription drug or over the counter product you would buy a product manufactured by either: Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Merck, Abbott Laboratories, Wyeth, Eli Lilly & Co., Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., or McKesson Corp. In either event these competing companies are all controlled by the same banking interest e.g. Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd; State Street Corporation; Vanguard Group, Inc.; FMR LLC (Fidelity); Morgan Stanley; JP Morgan, Wellington Management Company, LLP, AXA (Paris, France), Bank Of America Corporation, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and Janus Capital Management, LLC.

The Banks even invest in each other for example the investors in JP Morgan are: Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd; AXA (Paris, France); State Street Corporation; Vanguard Group, Inc., FMR LLC (Fidelity) Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, Capital Research Global Investors, and Northern Trust Corporation.

The investors in Goldman Sachs Group for example are: Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd.; State Street Corporation; FMR LLC (Fidelity); Vanguard Group, Inc.; Wellington Management Company, LLP.; AXA (Paris, France); Janus Capital Management, LLC; Price (T. Rowe) Associates Inc.; and Northern Trust Corporation.

If you get seriously ill and are hospitalized, you will be admitted to one of these hospitals, HCA Inc, Health Management Associates Inc., Tenet Healthcare Corp., Triad Hospitals Inc., or Community Health Systems, Inc., your insurance will benefit these investors; FMR Corporation (Fidelity Management & Research Corp); T. Rowe Price Associates; Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd.; Mellon Financial Corporation; Franklin Resources, Inc.; Vanguard Group, Inc.; JP Morgan Chase & Co.; and State Street Corporation.

The investors in Janus Capital Group Inc. who invests as a separate entity are: AXA (Paris, France); Vanguard Group, Inc.; Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd.; State Street Corporation; Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc.; FMR LLC (Fidelity).

The investors in Legg Mason Inc., are AXA (Paris, France); Price (T. Rowe) Associates Inc.; Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd.; Vanguard Group, Inc.; Goldman Sachs Group Inc.; State Street Corporation; Franklin Resources, Inc. Legg Mason has subsidiaries such as Private Capital Management Inc. and Royce & Associates, these entities may invest separate from or in addition to Legg Mason.

Do you get the picture?

We’ve been suckered because of corruption that began before we were even born, bribery and deception and the total control over the money of America, the 1913 passage of the Federal Reserve Act. Because of this control over our money, the banks have become so powerful, that they are no longer capable of being restrained. The Government has and will continue to cower before them, as we have already observed, with the trillions of dollars in bailouts, all at our expense.

Did the banks need the bail out money?

Absolutely not! They could have sold shares in one or more of the companies they control! The value is in the Trillions. It’s now strictly a give and take, we are required to give, and they to take the remainder of our wealth, until we as a nation are bled to death, and then the form of this government will change more to their liking. If we allow this travesty to continue unabated, Democracy is finished, and so too is America.