Our current healthcare system is designed around large hospital systems that rescue patients very late in the chronic disease process. That does not meet the needs of your town today and it is not in keeping with the latest medical science and systems. That system dates to the days of the rotary telephone.
Great to hear from you David. Attorney Chris Deacon and consultant Jeffrey Hogan write about this regularly and have great insights. Of course the big insurance companies want nothing to do with sharing data and transparency. There are already lawsuits in process. The lawsuits are by employers against third party administrators. Deacon and Hogan believe the CAA is the most powerful reform tool we have had. Here is a summary of suit types from Ms. Deacon.
1. Breach of Fiduciary Line of Cases Against Carriers
a. Bricklayers vs Anthem Class Action
b. Mass Laborers vs Blue Cross Blue Shield
c. Member vs Cigna
2. Carrier vs Hospital (upcoding) and Hospital vs Carrier (underpayment)
I do agree with you on the problem of small towns and gigantic medical centers. However a step is missing. For 7 decades I have been a law-abiding patriotic trusting person trying my best to stay healthy and do what is right. The past 4 years have shown us that nothing is as it seems. When the medical complex refused very effective early treatment for covid that could have shut covid down within a month or 2, I lost all faith in medicine. I now avoid doctors like the plague which I know is not really the wisest thing either to do either. My own GP of 20 years was trading covid in March 2020 with very effective off-label early treatment. Hydroxychloroquin. None of his patients even went to the hospital. But by June his huge medical practice sent down a ruling that they would lose their license if they continued to do early treatment. He complied. So I lost total faith even in my doctor of 20 years. And i'd almost rather die than go to a hospital. So the problem you address here assumes that the medical system is not corrupt and is there to help the common person. I no longer believe this. 4 years ago I realized I am completely on my own to try to keep myself as healthy as possible. This 15 minute talk sums up the way I feel. I wish everyone could hear it whether they agree with it or not, maybe it will make them do a little bit of critical thinking. "Here’s the Problem With Mainstream Heart, Diabetes, and Alzheimer’s Medicine: Dr. Paul Marik | Florida Summit https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/epochtv/heres-the-problem-with-mainstream-heart-diabetes-and-alzheimers-medicine-dr-paul-marik-florida-summit-5539142?utm_source=andshare. "
Scientific medicine is the path forward to better health at lower cost. The problem is our medical system has been politicized. Science determines if a treatment works by doing a study where one group takes the medicine being tested and the other takes a sugar pill No one knows who is taking what and then they break the code at the end of the study. The New England Journal is the most respected scientific medical journal in the world. I have provided two links to studies that prove hydrochloroquine does not work. That is a proven scientific fact. I really don't mean to offend you. It is my duty to call balls and strikes. I have been burned before by testimonials and narratives. You are completely correct to be upset with our system. Opening arteries in stable patients to prevent a heart attack or sudden death made perfect sense. 17 studies have proven optimal medical therapy is just as good and opening the artery adds nothing. I understand your frustration and share it. The Epoch Times is not a reliable source of scientific medical information. It has a politic agenda.
Traveling nurses & therapists, hometown clinics, functional medicine doctors, teladocs and, now, virtual education (via YouTube and other platforms), have been a big help for some people.
On the educational front, this has helped me the most. I’ve made lifestyle changes that have improved my health significantly.
Primary school systems might look at teaching better health more clearly and incentivizing students and their families to develop better health habits that will benefit them for the rest of their lives. This can be and should be reflected in the meals served in schools.
One of the challenges on the educational front is disagreement among healthcare educators & providers. Many people have lost faith in health institutions and systems (including legislators, from local to federal levels) that pushed (and are still pushing) the Scamdemic, to say nothing of decades of big-Pharma corruption, collusion & captured systems & supply chains that perform poorly and lead to predictable, class-action litigation & settlements (a fraction of big Pharma’s earnings), without serious consequences that improve big-Pharma’s practices.
Despite these challenges, competitive ideas & practices, such as you have recommended, can be, must be, and will be pursued by people looking for real solutions.
You and I agree on almost everything. Costa Rica is a Central American country. The give every school child a toothbrush and have them brush their teeth after lunch. Dental health have improved remarkable and they live longer than we do by combining individual and public health efforts and following the science of medicine. We can do better and there are no real barriers to communities solving their local health problems which they know best.
You made my day. I will be 77 this month. I am not the guy to run it but I am working together with many gifted stakeholders who understand what I am saying and are working to support communities that want to do this work. That is the key. Bringing people who get it together.
Dec 6, 2023·edited Dec 6, 2023Liked by William H Bestermann Jr MD
I'm sorry you still believe the mainstream. I was hoping you had done additional research. Those who are being censored often do not realize they are being censored. Many many of the papers are being censored in the US so you have to be creative in finding them. Part of the entire problem with the current medical complex is that even the peer-reviewed journals are corrupt. It is all part of the same big horrifying problem. That hydroxychloroquine study was designed to fail by giving already sick patients a very high dose. Too much too late. This study and another high-profile study both did the same thing of overdosing patients. It made for a very good headlines. I have tried to read every single Paper pro and con For the past 4 years. Now the evidence is absolutely overwhelming on the effectiveness of early treatment with a number of repurposed drugs. As I peer reviewer myself I can often spot the skunk quickly. I saw it as soon as the " covid vaccines are safe for pregnancy" paper came out and was horrified. Thankfully the country of Honduras ( and many others) very early on developed the "maiz protocol" ( hydroxy etc) . Their citizens did much better than us citizens. To this day Honduras has 1/10th of the deaths we have in the US from covid. Later as it was discovered by numerous (literally hundreds)of studies ( see flccc.net for studies) that ivermectin and was more effective for prophylaxis/ early treatment/hospital even than hydroxychloroquin, the protocol changed. But I realize after 4 years of watching certain people refuse early treatment That only certain people will be open to seeing. Of the roughly 200 people (I helped with understanding dosages and finding it) who were willing to read and follow the effective early treatment protocols, no one was hospitalized. No one died. They ranged from late 80s down to early 20s. Heart failure and active cancer treatments Who had been sent away by their doctor and told to go home until their lips turned blue. Then they were to return to the ER and get on remdesivire which kills the kidneys and the ventilator and die. Of "my 200", to my knowledge not a single one even got long covid And regardless of their health condition most of them were over their symptoms except for tiredness within 36-48 hours if they started promptly.Those of us who used the prophylaxis protocols lived our lives completely normally the past 4 years. For those who rely on early treatment the key is to begin the antiviral repurposed drugs On the day of the first symptom. The flccc ( and others) Protocol effectively knocks out the viral replication on day one. The protocol has several different components of course. It's not just ivermecton and hydroxychloroquine. Even providone 1% nose spray after attending a crowded event cuts down greatly on viral replication.
But I realized I probably am not gonna convince you since you have been a believer for 4 years now on all the baloney they have been feeding the American public. Tonight I will attend a large concert. I will take the prevention protocol before leaving the house and I will be absolutely fine. No covid. No flu. No rsv. It makes me sad because I can tell you are a super caring physician and person. And I still admire you greatly.
I have witnessed the effect of scientific studies on heart disease. I treated hundreds of patients with optimal medical therapy and rarely referred patients to cardiology. They did very well. It is only through scientific studies that we learn what works and does not work. I agree that the journals have an agenda. That is why I write. I sort through those journals to determine what is valid and what is not. There are good scientific studies that great validity. We can dramatically improve health and reduce cost by treating patients with chronic disease with optimal medical therapy
Which is why politics needs to stay out of medical issues. Also money has influence. I worked in Labor and Delivery with newborns so in fall and winter we had masks and required all visitors to wash hands. This is basic infection control but this was also twisted up. Anyone can write articles to support a viewpoint the question is does it work and validate that finding.
The Feds had such a commission with a local board that interacted with it, efficiently and appropriately. I don't know if it's still in operation; I'll check it out. Meanwhile: "[In 1971] I made a vow that, in lieu of serving out my time in the military, I would serve—practice medicine—in an underserved region of the U.S. I had owed the Navy three years (plus the two months of my Internship that was left in limbo when I was discharged) and planned to compensate that by living and working in the Appalachian part of Virginia—the state in which I had earned both my undergraduate and medical degrees. And so I did…for ten years. I had always said that I would one day visit Vietnam in what I imagined would be a signal of peace and friendship from this lone American—but on my own terms and not as part of the military." https://open.substack.com/pub/lbsandyrock/p/vietnam-redux?r=r2ysd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Thanks Sandy. I worked for ten years in Kingsport TN and saw many patients from SW Virginia. Thank you for your service to these people. We can have better health health at lower cost now. I am working with many professionals who get it and are working to reform our system
Bill: How can we follow activity instigated under the Consolidated Appropriations Act? Do you expect there to be law suits, and if so, brought by whom against whom?
Great to hear from you David. Attorney Chris Deacon and consultant Jeffrey Hogan write about this regularly and have great insights. Of course the big insurance companies want nothing to do with sharing data and transparency. There are already lawsuits in process. The lawsuits are by employers against third party administrators. Deacon and Hogan believe the CAA is the most powerful reform tool we have had. Here is a summary of suit types from Ms. Deacon.
1. Breach of Fiduciary Line of Cases Against Carriers
a. Bricklayers vs Anthem Class Action
b. Mass Laborers vs Blue Cross Blue Shield
c. Member vs Cigna
2. Carrier vs Hospital (upcoding) and Hospital vs Carrier (underpayment)
Great to hear from you David. Attorney Chris Deacon and consultant Jeffrey Hogan write about this regularly and have great insights. Of course the big insurance companies want nothing to do with sharing data and transparency. There are already lawsuits in process. The lawsuits are by employers against third party administrators. Deacon and Hogan believe the CAA is the most powerful reform tool we have had. Here is a summary of suit types from Ms. Deacon.
1. Breach of Fiduciary Line of Cases Against Carriers
a. Bricklayers vs Anthem Class Action
b. Mass Laborers vs Blue Cross Blue Shield
c. Member vs Cigna
2. Carrier vs Hospital (upcoding) and Hospital vs Carrier (underpayment)
a. United vs TeamHealth
b. TeamHealth vs United
3. Taxing Authority vs Nonprofit Hospitals
a. Tower Health line of cases in Pennsylvania
b. Pittsburgh vs UPMC
https://relentlesshealthvalue.com/episode/ep408-whos-suing-who-an-overview-of-healthcare-legal-goings-on-with-chris-deacon
https://relentlesshealthvalue.com/episode/ep342
I do agree with you on the problem of small towns and gigantic medical centers. However a step is missing. For 7 decades I have been a law-abiding patriotic trusting person trying my best to stay healthy and do what is right. The past 4 years have shown us that nothing is as it seems. When the medical complex refused very effective early treatment for covid that could have shut covid down within a month or 2, I lost all faith in medicine. I now avoid doctors like the plague which I know is not really the wisest thing either to do either. My own GP of 20 years was trading covid in March 2020 with very effective off-label early treatment. Hydroxychloroquin. None of his patients even went to the hospital. But by June his huge medical practice sent down a ruling that they would lose their license if they continued to do early treatment. He complied. So I lost total faith even in my doctor of 20 years. And i'd almost rather die than go to a hospital. So the problem you address here assumes that the medical system is not corrupt and is there to help the common person. I no longer believe this. 4 years ago I realized I am completely on my own to try to keep myself as healthy as possible. This 15 minute talk sums up the way I feel. I wish everyone could hear it whether they agree with it or not, maybe it will make them do a little bit of critical thinking. "Here’s the Problem With Mainstream Heart, Diabetes, and Alzheimer’s Medicine: Dr. Paul Marik | Florida Summit https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/epochtv/heres-the-problem-with-mainstream-heart-diabetes-and-alzheimers-medicine-dr-paul-marik-florida-summit-5539142?utm_source=andshare. "
Scientific medicine is the path forward to better health at lower cost. The problem is our medical system has been politicized. Science determines if a treatment works by doing a study where one group takes the medicine being tested and the other takes a sugar pill No one knows who is taking what and then they break the code at the end of the study. The New England Journal is the most respected scientific medical journal in the world. I have provided two links to studies that prove hydrochloroquine does not work. That is a proven scientific fact. I really don't mean to offend you. It is my duty to call balls and strikes. I have been burned before by testimonials and narratives. You are completely correct to be upset with our system. Opening arteries in stable patients to prevent a heart attack or sudden death made perfect sense. 17 studies have proven optimal medical therapy is just as good and opening the artery adds nothing. I understand your frustration and share it. The Epoch Times is not a reliable source of scientific medical information. It has a politic agenda.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2022926#:~:text=The%20results%20of%20a%20few,mg%20twice%20daily%2C%20with%20or
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2016638
Traveling nurses & therapists, hometown clinics, functional medicine doctors, teladocs and, now, virtual education (via YouTube and other platforms), have been a big help for some people.
On the educational front, this has helped me the most. I’ve made lifestyle changes that have improved my health significantly.
Primary school systems might look at teaching better health more clearly and incentivizing students and their families to develop better health habits that will benefit them for the rest of their lives. This can be and should be reflected in the meals served in schools.
One of the challenges on the educational front is disagreement among healthcare educators & providers. Many people have lost faith in health institutions and systems (including legislators, from local to federal levels) that pushed (and are still pushing) the Scamdemic, to say nothing of decades of big-Pharma corruption, collusion & captured systems & supply chains that perform poorly and lead to predictable, class-action litigation & settlements (a fraction of big Pharma’s earnings), without serious consequences that improve big-Pharma’s practices.
Despite these challenges, competitive ideas & practices, such as you have recommended, can be, must be, and will be pursued by people looking for real solutions.
You and I agree on almost everything. Costa Rica is a Central American country. The give every school child a toothbrush and have them brush their teeth after lunch. Dental health have improved remarkable and they live longer than we do by combining individual and public health efforts and following the science of medicine. We can do better and there are no real barriers to communities solving their local health problems which they know best.
That’s awesome maybe telemedicine if local communities are unable to get their act together
Excellent points. Now, how do we get you to run the system?
You made my day. I will be 77 this month. I am not the guy to run it but I am working together with many gifted stakeholders who understand what I am saying and are working to support communities that want to do this work. That is the key. Bringing people who get it together.
Yes I would love him in charge. But reality is we all are up against big money interests.
Thanks Laura. We must create the mass to be able to push back. We are all in this together
There is more of us and agree we must lift that rock!!!
Great
I'm sorry you still believe the mainstream. I was hoping you had done additional research. Those who are being censored often do not realize they are being censored. Many many of the papers are being censored in the US so you have to be creative in finding them. Part of the entire problem with the current medical complex is that even the peer-reviewed journals are corrupt. It is all part of the same big horrifying problem. That hydroxychloroquine study was designed to fail by giving already sick patients a very high dose. Too much too late. This study and another high-profile study both did the same thing of overdosing patients. It made for a very good headlines. I have tried to read every single Paper pro and con For the past 4 years. Now the evidence is absolutely overwhelming on the effectiveness of early treatment with a number of repurposed drugs. As I peer reviewer myself I can often spot the skunk quickly. I saw it as soon as the " covid vaccines are safe for pregnancy" paper came out and was horrified. Thankfully the country of Honduras ( and many others) very early on developed the "maiz protocol" ( hydroxy etc) . Their citizens did much better than us citizens. To this day Honduras has 1/10th of the deaths we have in the US from covid. Later as it was discovered by numerous (literally hundreds)of studies ( see flccc.net for studies) that ivermectin and was more effective for prophylaxis/ early treatment/hospital even than hydroxychloroquin, the protocol changed. But I realize after 4 years of watching certain people refuse early treatment That only certain people will be open to seeing. Of the roughly 200 people (I helped with understanding dosages and finding it) who were willing to read and follow the effective early treatment protocols, no one was hospitalized. No one died. They ranged from late 80s down to early 20s. Heart failure and active cancer treatments Who had been sent away by their doctor and told to go home until their lips turned blue. Then they were to return to the ER and get on remdesivire which kills the kidneys and the ventilator and die. Of "my 200", to my knowledge not a single one even got long covid And regardless of their health condition most of them were over their symptoms except for tiredness within 36-48 hours if they started promptly.Those of us who used the prophylaxis protocols lived our lives completely normally the past 4 years. For those who rely on early treatment the key is to begin the antiviral repurposed drugs On the day of the first symptom. The flccc ( and others) Protocol effectively knocks out the viral replication on day one. The protocol has several different components of course. It's not just ivermecton and hydroxychloroquine. Even providone 1% nose spray after attending a crowded event cuts down greatly on viral replication.
But I realized I probably am not gonna convince you since you have been a believer for 4 years now on all the baloney they have been feeding the American public. Tonight I will attend a large concert. I will take the prevention protocol before leaving the house and I will be absolutely fine. No covid. No flu. No rsv. It makes me sad because I can tell you are a super caring physician and person. And I still admire you greatly.
I have witnessed the effect of scientific studies on heart disease. I treated hundreds of patients with optimal medical therapy and rarely referred patients to cardiology. They did very well. It is only through scientific studies that we learn what works and does not work. I agree that the journals have an agenda. That is why I write. I sort through those journals to determine what is valid and what is not. There are good scientific studies that great validity. We can dramatically improve health and reduce cost by treating patients with chronic disease with optimal medical therapy
Which is why politics needs to stay out of medical issues. Also money has influence. I worked in Labor and Delivery with newborns so in fall and winter we had masks and required all visitors to wash hands. This is basic infection control but this was also twisted up. Anyone can write articles to support a viewpoint the question is does it work and validate that finding.
The Feds had such a commission with a local board that interacted with it, efficiently and appropriately. I don't know if it's still in operation; I'll check it out. Meanwhile: "[In 1971] I made a vow that, in lieu of serving out my time in the military, I would serve—practice medicine—in an underserved region of the U.S. I had owed the Navy three years (plus the two months of my Internship that was left in limbo when I was discharged) and planned to compensate that by living and working in the Appalachian part of Virginia—the state in which I had earned both my undergraduate and medical degrees. And so I did…for ten years. I had always said that I would one day visit Vietnam in what I imagined would be a signal of peace and friendship from this lone American—but on my own terms and not as part of the military." https://open.substack.com/pub/lbsandyrock/p/vietnam-redux?r=r2ysd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Thanks Sandy. I worked for ten years in Kingsport TN and saw many patients from SW Virginia. Thank you for your service to these people. We can have better health health at lower cost now. I am working with many professionals who get it and are working to reform our system
Thank you for sharing. Will read your article
Bill: How can we follow activity instigated under the Consolidated Appropriations Act? Do you expect there to be law suits, and if so, brought by whom against whom?
Great to hear from you David. Attorney Chris Deacon and consultant Jeffrey Hogan write about this regularly and have great insights. Of course the big insurance companies want nothing to do with sharing data and transparency. There are already lawsuits in process. The lawsuits are by employers against third party administrators. Deacon and Hogan believe the CAA is the most powerful reform tool we have had. Here is a summary of suit types from Ms. Deacon.
1. Breach of Fiduciary Line of Cases Against Carriers
a. Bricklayers vs Anthem Class Action
b. Mass Laborers vs Blue Cross Blue Shield
c. Member vs Cigna
2. Carrier vs Hospital (upcoding) and Hospital vs Carrier (underpayment)
a. United vs TeamHealth
b. TeamHealth vs United
3. Taxing Authority vs Nonprofit Hospitals
a. Tower Health line of cases in Pennsylvania
b. Pittsburgh vs UPMC
https://relentlesshealthvalue.com/episode/ep408-whos-suing-who-an-overview-of-healthcare-legal-goings-on-with-chris-deacon
https://relentlesshealthvalue.com/episode/ep342