Isn't it amazing the reality -- that conspiracy theorists are not just paranoid whackos -- is shown in this YouTube clip of an interview with a CIGNA communications director by Bill Moyers on PBS. Conspiracies are the reality in the corporate world and in government.
The evidence on screen showed communications among the health insurance industry -- in guarded phrasing -- to arrange political lobbying and public media influencing, as well as the admissions on the program by one of the organizers who formerly acted as CIGNA's henchman but saw the Sicko documentary as being valid originally.
We have been watching the consistently successful 'blunting' of the 9-11 'theorists' by the political media supporting Cheney's agenda and wondering how long it would take before the public would stumble over some exposed ragged edge of the operations behind the scenes in the corporate world or maybe slipping out from government.
Apparently the 'healthcare' pushing and shoving was intense enough -- and not as hideous as 9-11 -- to turn up such a voice in the safety of a milder publishing venue.
It's not that we're in favor of the Moyers's defended victim of 'blunting' -- namely Michael Moore's movie "Sicko".
We have lived in Canada for 10 years and used their government healthcare system for ordinary routine doctor's visits mostly, including their clinics. The problem with heaping up the tax burdens required to support such a system, as is advocated in "Sicko", is that the product -- allopathic drug pushing -- is so damaging while being promoted as 'healthy' and 'care-solutions' and blessedly normal.
Other than the obstetric alternative possibilities -- home-like birth, midwives, etc available in some Euro systems -- those people are not otherwise healthier with their government tax-funded health care. Even Australia's statistics show the same death-roulette being played with the drug-pushers and disease-treatment pushers.
American stats -- allopathic-medicine caused deaths -- were the 3rd leading cause of death in the US, just below heart disease and cancer. That's the death-roulette that's being foisted in the US 'healthcare' solutions. There's little difference elsewhere in the industrialized world, other than the Euro's being able to use midwives, and the availability in some European countries of hypnosis as an anesthetic now emerging as majorly better than the assortment of drugs pumped into surgery patients for anesthesia (and related) purposes.
The problem we are facing in the US 'healthcare' scene is the drug industry (and their pushers in the AMA and the FDA) -- not just the insurers. Yet the entire fiasco in Washington DC is focused only on the insurers -- and those Americans who have no insurance.
Don't be fooled by the flim-flam misrepresentation of opinion polls where the media tell you -- the supposed innumerate reader -- what the numbers mean, like we saw in the USA Today's Gallup results just recently, to support their own favored political futures. The key factor was when the poll asked the participants the crucial question of setting cost containment against universal inclusiveness. People did, sensibly recognize and choose, cost containment in the large majority. Intuitively people see the financial damaging that the allopathic system is inflicting, including the fact that a majority of mortgage defaults was due to unexpected medical bills.
Many people already know that it's not fair to force people to participate in a program in the name of bogus inclusiveness which is what the proponents of the current favored bill was doing. The tactic used by the promoters of the current bill: Blaming those who refuse to pay their medical bills as adding to the insurance costs of those inside the insured group, when in fact those inside the insured group get tax benefits denied to those who are outside. But that's not all the money gaming in this blaming as we shall shortly see.
Being among those who don't carry the usual sort of insurance -- we self-insure, we don't want allopathic treatments and even avoid the optional Medicare coverage opportunities -- we would like to clue the public into the reality of where the pea is hidden in these shellgames called medical insurance for the uninsured -- some of whom, like us, don't want 'health insurance'.
When you have no big insurer behind you at the bill-paying point, the killers among the 'medical community' do present you -- their patient -- with prices that are sometimes anywhere from triple to ten times the price they charge the big insurers. It's no wonder many people who are not buying 'insurance' fail to pay their bills.
It took several months, many letters, persistent phone calls, extensive research to document the price discrepancies, the invalid charges, plus applications for programs and certifying of financial resources -- and ultimately in one case, confrontations with the doctor himself and the harassment staffers his incompetant biller had hired -- before the gougers backed off. The anesthetist had no clue what his out-sourced billers were doing and was amenable to reason and evidence.
For the surgeon, who was an independent (not a hospital-office supported practitioner) and was among the few who offered the same prices to self-insureds as they offered to big insurers, they were satisfied with a longterm, no-interest payment schedule and are now paid-off. Surely that would be the way that decent payment for services could be handled by providers in the health industry, since those surgeons were doing it and were a successful group practice. The insurance problem would be truly solved.
Accident coverage is not part of the drug-pushing and disease-treatment extortionary torture-scene routines. That true 'emergency' sort of MASH-unit resource is the appropriate limit -- based on observation and research -- for the allopathic professionals. Their disease treatment is thoroughly tainted.
More on alternatives to fill the gap, and on self-insuring financial planning later, because nutritional solutions, midwifery, and hypnosis have proven themselves to be far better health care than the blessed allopathy system with its drug-blessers and pushers.
