A pro-lifer says lawmakers are trying to prevent the federal government from getting specific information about things such as abortion.Under a bill the California Legislature may soon approve, medical providers and affiliated businesses could face hefty state fines if they comply with a federal subpoena seeking information about abortion. Continue reading
Billionaire Mark Cuban says big drug and insurance companies in the U.S. have grown too powerful to care about ordinary people, but policymakers aren’t taking any real action to fix it.
Speaking at the Punchbowl News Conference in Washington, DC, earlier this month, Cuban said major insurance companies run vertically integrated empires — they control everything from pharmacy benefit managers to wellness programs. That’s why they hold so much power over the entire healthcare system. His fix? Force them to divest non-insurance businesses and level the playing field. Continue reading
We’re supposed to believe that medical licensing exists to protect healthcare consumers from “quacks” and “charlatans.” The purpose, we’re told, is to improve the quality of healthcare, yet this system has manifestly failed to produce good patient outcomes.
The simple explanation for this is that medical licensing was never designed to protect the interests of healthcare consumers. Instead, the purpose has always been to protect the financial interests of a medical trade organization allied with the pharmaceutical industry.
The effective result is a government-enforced medical cartel that masquerades as a “health care” system. Continue reading
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban isn’t letting the absurdity of America’s healthcare costs slide – not when a scan can cost more than some used cars.
On Saturday, Cuban reignited his crusade for healthcare reform by highlighting what he sees as a glaring pricing failure. “Explain to me why the insurance company will pay $2500 for an MRI when there is a center down the street that will do it for $350?” he wrote on X. Continue reading
The modern American health insurance system didn’t emerge because someone designed it thoughtfully, and it shows. It evolved from a series of political, economic, and cultural accidents beginning largely around the period of World War II. As with many political redistribution schemes, once underway, the system has snowballed into the unsustainable trajectory we see today.
My goal in writing this article is to explain how we got here, describe the present situation from the physician’s vantage point, and outline what must change to restore sanity to American healthcare. Continue reading
BIG Pharma
Medicare will impose price controls on prescription drugs for the first time when the calendar flips to January. Even before those controls formally take effect, the damage is already being done. The scheme has begun to hollow out America’s biomedical research ecosystem.
Patients will pay the price — in the form of fewer new therapies for disease, particularly cancer.
The price-control gambit was enacted as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, which a Democrat-controlled Congress passed on a party-line vote and then-President Joe Biden signed into law in August 2022. The law empowers the federal government to set the prices Medicare pays for a steadily expanding number of prescription medicines. Continue reading
A Los Angeles jury awarded $40 million on Friday to two women who claimed that talcum powder made by Johnson & Johnson caused their ovarian cancer.
The giant health care company said it would appeal the jury’s liability verdict and compensatory damages. Continue reading
The FDA said that a generic version of metoprolol was recalled because it failed to meet the agency’s criteria. (Oh GOODY – My Heart Doctah has this stuff prescribed to me! – Editor)
The Food and Drug Administration on July 8 upgraded a recall of a generic version of blood pressure medication metoprolol to its second-highest level because it failed to meet the FDA’s own criteria.
The recall notice encompasses metoprolol succinate extended-release tablets in 25 milligram doses in 100-count and 500-count bottles. India-based Granules Pharmaceuticals Inc., the manufacturer, voluntarily recalled the medication, which is a beta-blocker used to treat high blood pressure, heart failure, and angina, or chest pain. Continue reading
President Trump on Tuesday announced that Pfizer had agreed to sell its products in the U.S. at “Most Favored Nation” pricing, one day after the administration required companies to respond to his prescription drug pricing executive order.
Drugmakers were given until Sept. 29 to respond to Trump’s “Most Favored Nation” Executive Order that required companies sell drugs in the U.S. at the lowest price they sell in other developed countries, establish direct-to-consumer avenues and not sell new drugs for lower prices in other countries.
“Pfizer is committing to offer all of their prescription medications to Medicaid. it will be at the most favored nation’s prices. It’s going to have a huge impact on bringing Medicaid costs down like nothing else,” Trump said in a press briefing in the Oval Office. Continue reading
Editor’s NOTE: The following was introduced to me from our writer, Charles R. Dickens as a part of his recent column, The Business of Medicine, which follows directly below this column. It is all well worth your efforts and time to follow through. You will begin to understand the control and manipulation of the complete Medical Ssytem in this nation today. ~ Jeffrey Bennett
Patients are more likely to fall, get new infections, or experience other forms of harm during their stay in a hospital after it is acquired by a private equity firm, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School.
The research, published Dec. 26 in JAMA, is among a handful of recent nationwide analyses of how private equity takeovers affect the quality of patient care in hospitals. The increases are seen in conditions or outcomes deemed preventable and are key measures of hospital safety and quality.
Hippocrates, for whom the Hippocratic Oath is affectionately named, covers the breadth and depth of his knowledge and teachings from his life as a healer. Scholars believe it to be a compilation of his writings and teachings, estimating that it was written in the 4th or 5th century BC. The most memorable phrase attributed to Hippocrates, “First do no harm”, as an admonition to the physicians who would follow him, is a paraphrase of ‘either help or do not harm the patient,’ and probably ‘I will abstain from all intentional wrongdoing and harm.’
It offers a comprehensive list of cautions for covering topics such as Abortion, Religious Themes, and Euthanasia. Hippocrates’ central premise is to ‘Treat the patient, not the disease’, which is a real departure from where we find ourselves today in Merka and the Business of Medicine – or as I like to think of it, “Making Pain Pay”!
Illustration by Deena So’oteh
If health care industry corruption and criminality were a city skyline, it would be booming, with tower cranes and half-built skyscrapers in every direction. Among the downtown giants at the center would stand Johnson & Johnson, an iconic U.S. company whose villainy receives a just and overdue accounting in Gardiner Harris’s No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson.
The book is an investigative demolition job in the best tradition of muckraking exposés and should find a sizable and receptive audience at a moment when public sentiment toward our corporate health care system ranges between Ralph Nader and Luigi Mangione. Harris, a former reporter for The New York Times, spent years digging into the company’s past and conducted hundreds of interviews, but the most damning evidence in the book comes from internal documents that have surfaced during decades of lawsuits against the company’s long record of public endangerment. Continue reading
BIG Pharma
The United States is witnessing a significant surge in prescription drug prices, impacting consumers nationwide. This trend is influenced by recent price hikes from pharmaceutical companies and policy changes affecting drug coverage and costs.
In early 2025, pharmaceutical companies raised the list prices of over 250 branded medications. Notable examples include Pfizer’s COVID-19 treatment, Paxlovid, and cancer therapies from Bristol Myers Squibb. While most increases remained below 10%, with a median rise of 4.5%, these adjustments contribute to the escalating financial burden on patients. Continue reading
Do not read this article if you do not want to get angry. The “healthcare industry” in the United States has become one gigantic money making scam, and tens of millions of American families now live in great fear of illness and disease.
Why are they so afraid? It is because a single trip to the hospital can ruin you financially. Even if you are covered by health insurance, medical debt can still wreck your finances. In fact, most of the people that go bankrupt due to medical bills actually have health insurance. Continue reading
February 17, 2025: cancer, Cancer, CANCER!
First Study Into ‘Very Young’ Colon Cancer Patients Reveals Three Risk Factors Driving Deaths in People Under 35
A first-of-its-kind global study has revealed new details about colon cancer patients under the age of 35, who are increasingly being diagnosed with the disease.
While there has been widely reported data on those under 50 — who are considered ‘early-onset’ cases — the researchers behind the sprawling new analysis say there has been a lack of studies into the ‘very young.’
The new report found rates of disease in people under 35 nearly doubled from 1990 to 2019, from 21,000 to 41,000, while deaths rose 25 percent spike… (Continue to full article)
NOPE – Wrong kind of Apple!
Best-Selling Apple Product That’s Been Exposing Us To CANCER
Apple has been accused of exposing users to cancer in a new lawsuit that claims the tech giant’s Watch bands contain high levels of toxic ‘forever chemicals.’
Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are chemicals that are widely used in manufacturing everything from fabric to nonstick pans to cosmetics.
They don’t break down in the body or environment, hence the nickname ‘forever chemicals, and have been linked to birth defects, increased risk of prostate, kidney and testicular cancer and fertility problems… (Continue to full article)
Scientists Say They May Have Found What’s Causing So Many Unexplained Cancers
A major scientific review may have found a possible cause of many of the cancers for which genetics, diet and lifestyle cannot explain.
After reviewing more than 3,000 studies on microplastics, researchers concluded that these tiny toxins are linked to lung and colon cancer, as well as other lung diseases and infertility.
That could be significant because, unlike dozens of cancers that are in decline, colon cancers are rising, especially among young people who are not normally at risk… (Continue to full article)
Common Spice Recalled in 15 States After Cancer-Causing Lead Contamination
A brand of five spice powder popular in Chinese dishes is being recalled in 15 states over fears it could be contaminated with the toxic metal lead.
The FDA said 62 cases of the powder, called Yu Yee, Five Spice Powder, may be affected. They were mostly sold in local stores.
The recall is Class II, meaning officials believe there is a risk of ‘temporary or medically reversible’ health effects for those who consume the powder… (Continue to full article)
A closeup of cancer cells in the cervix. U.S. Latinos are more likely to develop forms of cancer that result from infection, including liver cancer, stomach cancer and cervical cancer. (American Cancer Society)
What Every Woman Needs to Know About Uterine Cancer
When caught early, uterine cancer is highly treatable. Learn the symptoms that mean you should get checked, and what to expect with treatment.
Around 66,200 women will be diagnosed with uterine cancer in 2023, according to the National Cancer Institute. Also sometimes referred to as endometrial cancer, uterine cancer is a type of cancer that affects the tissues of the uterus. It is one of five main types of cancer that affect a woman’s reproductive organs—the others are cervical, ovarian, vaginal, and vulvar.
If you’ve recently been diagnosed with endometrial cancer, or know someone who has, these are the key facts you need to know, including major risk factors, symptoms, disease progression, and what the outlook might be for those who develop this cancer.
Are Uterine Cancer and Endometrial Cancer the Same?… (Continue to full article)
GREED!
It’s Time to Break Up Big Medicine
The saga of the UnitedHealth Care CEO assassination has, as could be expected, now turned into a discussion of our health care system. Elizabeth Warren, for instance, is making the obvious point that people hate the health care system.
Then, productively, she proposed, along with Republican Senator Josh Hawley, legislation to split apart some of these monster companies from their pharmacy subsidiaries, thus reducing conflicts of interest in health care. While this legislation was in the works long before the killing, it didn’t stop Wall Street investors from saying that any discussion of health care reform was a de facto endorsement of murder.
The actual villains are the people taking care of you, the “smiling doctor” who knows the price but won’t tell you upfront. “So you get to hate UnitedHealthcare and Cigna,” Smith says, “while the real people taking away your life’s savings and putting you at risk of bankruptcy get to play Mother Theresa.” These doctors and nurses hire insurers for a modest fee in return for appearing like the bad guy, while the caregivers laugh all the way to the bank… (Continue to full article)
After her fiery confrontation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been the subject of much criticism.
Screaming Mimi!
Kennedy’s outspoken opposition to pharmaceutical companies peddling a laundry list of vaccines and other products on the American people put him in the sights of several Democrats during that hearing. Warren was one of them.
Warren expressed concerns that Kennedy’s efforts would bankrupt vaccine manufacturers.
She threw a tantrum during the hearing when Kennedy outed her for trying to get him to say he would not go after pharmaceutical companies as a lawyer after leaving HHS.
Why is Warren so worried about what happens to Big Pharma?
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