Corporate Physicians, Heal Thyselves

We have two types of medical care in our country. The first is that given by the godless corporate hospitals and the second is that given by the independent physicians who don’t have to depend on corporate rules and regulations that seem to have crept into our medical system. We have shifted from a physician dominated health system to one controlled by corporate interests where profit motives increasingly clash with patient care. The corporate attitude has infiltrated every facet of medicine, as we have watched the decline in independent medical practices. These changes in how medicine is practiced may bring more efficiency and profits but are often at the cost of the patient.

We are witnessing the emergence of the medical industrial complex, which exercises undue influence on national health policies. Just think about this for-profit industry with proprietary hospitals, nursing homes, diagnostic services, medical devices, the pharmaceutical industry, insurance industry, home care, and I could go on and on. Per. Capita spending in the U.S. on healthcare has gone from $4,548.00 in 2000 to $12,434 in 2022. While this rate of increase is unsustainable, we continue to see more overuse and fragmentation creating overemphasis on technology, which in many cases raises costs significantly. These for-profit facilities, like HCA and Tenet, exert undue influence even though they only represent 15% of U.S. hospitals. In these for-profit hospitals, patients are subordinated to profits as Wall Street firms take companies private only to gain short-term through extractive tactics, which is the vulture capital of corporatization.

With RFK now in charge of HHS and the advent of MAHA, we are actually seeing some real changes in how we look at the medical community and big pharma as trust for physicians in hospitals has decreased from 71.5% in April of 2020 to 40.1% in January 2024. We have already seen shake-ups at the FDA and NIH, with more coming as we see more oversight of our healthcare system. We have seen buyouts and voluntary departures of 1 in 4 federal health agency jobs, saving $1.8 billion a year. The FDA will lose 3,500 full-time employees as Johns Hopkins physician Marty Makary takes over operations. What will this mean for the drug companies? Well, I would think that we will slow the timing of new drug and device approvals.

The liberal media will play up the potential slowdown in approval of new medications, but maybe that is a good idea, and we may not have so many drugs with adverse side effects. Who knows if we fix the food problem, maybe there won’t be a need for so many new drugs. A sixty-nine-page report described as a call to action effectively talks about many efforts to reverse the reality about the declining health of America’s children. The big question is, are we over-medicating our children? It states that many vaccines on the CDC schedule were tested amongst small participant groups that had no inert placebo-controlled trials and limited monitoring, raising concerns about the number of vaccines on the childhood immunization schedule.

We are entering a new age in healthcare, and it is starting with the ultra-processed foods we consume, which were an outgrowth of a post-WWII American economy and society. We are just now starting to look at Ultra Processed Foods with a jaundiced eye as the cause of our current health crisis. Let’s not forget the environmental links to chronic childhood diseases like asthma, autism, obesity, and childhood cancers. If the Obama and Biden administrations placed as much effort into solving the problem of what is causing the drastic health problems as they did in lying to us about climate change, maybe our children would be healthier.

The advent of AI in the medical community is going to bring revolutionary changes both in the diagnosis of disease but also in how we will treat disease. If indeed we can stay on track for the next four years, there is a good chance that corporate-run hospitals may find a dramatic slide in the number of patients they will be servicing. We are already seeing many patients being diagnosed by AI computers over the internet, which could eliminate the need for a hospital visit or even an overnight stay.

Hospitals are integrating artificial intelligence into clinical care strategies to improve efficiency and reduce costs while enhancing outcomes for patients. Clinical care will become more prominent as the cost of AI equipment becomes less onerous, and communications using the internet will enable diagnosis from hospitals to local clinics. The question is, will this cause the DE Corporatization of hospitals that we are now dealing with, or will it concentrate it even more? I think about my family members who are in the medical field and whether they will still be functioning in the same capacity 10 years from now. If Americans take the advice of MAHA and start eating properly and stay away from medications that relieve the symptoms of a disease but don’t cure it, we could well reduce the use and need for entities like Medicare and Medicaid.

Of course, there is always the chance that we will go back to using more natural medications and take a more naturopathic approach to healthcare, but then how would big pharma and corporate hospitals make their billions and get bought out by Wall Street? One thing I doubt we will see again is another panic like the Covid Planned Demic, but as they say…

“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.” — John Maynard Keynes

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