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Sunday, April 19, 2015

Fat Bastardo's Health Care Reform

The following post is unfinished. I would like input feedback from my readers before I complete this health care reform proposal and sent it to the vipers in congress. Please offer me some suggestions and insights.

Thanks -Fat Bastardo-

There are a lot of things in this world that suck such as Muslims, Republicans, feminists, ect.. but when it comes to the negative effect per capita that these groups have on Americans they all pale in comparison to American MDs.

The highest paid and least regulated MDs on earth are Americans yet the are the ones who bitch the most. They whine about the cost of medical school and complain that while they were residents and interns they will whine and brag hospital would work them 80+ hours per week. I would think to myself, "Why are these assholes bragging about working in life and death situations while sleep deprived.

The Solution for Medical School and Overworked Interns and Residents

Make medical free like in France but with some stipulations. You have to be qualified to get in and once you graduate you agree to do specified pro bono work and you spend time doing research. In America truckers are only allowed to drive for 10 hours a day and as a result and unlike doctors, truckers are not accidentally killing 440,000 Americans per year.

American doctors are a greedy bunch or malingerers.

American MDs make a fucking lot of money. Some doctors in some specialties make over $1 Million dollars a year in salary alone. Most doctors admit to taking kickbacks and honoraria from big pharma and the medical device companies. Don't let anyone fool you, American MD have a lot of money and they live well.

Since health care should be a right all MD should be government employees. They should receive a tax free salary base upon and hourly wage. They cannot work more than 60 hours per week and they will be paid time and 1/2 for any work over 40 hours. This means that pediatricians make the same money as neuro-surgeons. This way doctors will not go into one specialty for the money.

Doctors are currently held to very low standards.

All Hospitals will be Government Owned

For all the bad press VA hospitals get they are far better than private hospitals. Profiteering by the exploitation of disease is about as immoral as it gets. Making people sick is good for business.

Cures: A Top Priority

What is the last major disease that was eradicated? Polio? We used to keep hearing that "they" are so close to a cure. Now we know that was a lie. The exploitation of disease and human suffering is extortion.

Strict Regulations on Drug Companies or a Complete Government Takeover

Most drugs today don't work as well as the older tried and true medications of the 60's and 70's. Today's pharmaceuticals have dangerous adverse side effects and are very expensive. New drugs should only be created if there is a valid medical need for them and not because a patent expired.

Clinical trial are a sham. Clinical trials are conducted by the drug companies and the results are presented to their FDA lapdogs. If you think that is bad it gets worse. Drug and device companies contract out to doctors to conduct clinical trials and the those companies pay doctors handsomely to test these drugs on their patients. If a doctor gives and honest evaluation of a drug he is kicked off the big pharma gravy train. Therefore only the slimiest doctors participate in clinical trials.

Government Scientists Should Create and Evaluate New Medications

Only trust an unbiased third party can be trusted to test the safety and efficacy of a new medication. In the first year an new medication can net billions in profit for big pharma. The criminal fraud perpetrated by big pharma is rampant. Currently everyone involved gets a big piece of a very big pie. With salaried government scientists and researchers creating the needed medications there will be no duplication of drugs which are referred to as the me too drugs. Drugs will not be sold to physicians for the kickback the are used to receiving. Doctors will choose medications for their patients based on what is best for their patients and not a bribes, kickbacks and honorarium.

Confiscate the Ill Gotten Gains of The Corporate Medical Industry

To fund this will little or no cost to the taxpayers 90% of all doctors net worth will be confiscated and a punishment tax or 90% will be placed on all doctors, and medical corporate executives and members of their boards of directors for a minimum ten years.

Punishments for their crimes.

Doctors and other medical personnel who have been caught stealing will have all their assets ceased under current forfeiture laws.

Doctors who have injured patients through gross misconduct will be banished from the profession and sent to Gitmo for further interrogation and prolonged detention.

Doctors who have killed patients with be publicly executed. The preferred method would be the guillotine.

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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Another Way Doctors are Killing US

More people are finding out that American MDs and their loathsome industry is the leading cause of preventable death and injury. In their unbridled lust for money the over medicating and over treating of patients is killing them.

I was unable to embed this video. To see how doctors are killing us click here.

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Sunday, January 4, 2015

Doctors Are The New Banksters

It's well known that American bankers are among the most reviled pieces of trash in America and they have earned that reputation but you probably didn't know that American doctors are far worse.

Disease exploitation better known health care in America is now 20% of the US GDP. To put that into perspective the when you exclude the US the world average for countries is 5% of their annual GDP. When the US had the best health care its percentage of GDP for health care was 5%. One would think that a quadrupling of health care expenditures would make America the the leader in health care but in reality American health care is the absolute worst in the industrialized world with a ranking by the World Health Organization of 38th.

Doctors being lying scum will blame everyone but themselves for the dismal state of American heath care and while a lot of the blame like with the FDA, corporate hospitals and big pharma the biggest scumbag are indeed MDs.

MDs are the pimps who sell the dangerous and over priced drugs to naive patients and they get filthy rich doing it via the kickbacks from the drug companies. Other doctors make a killing taking bribes and kickbacks from medical device companies like Stryker Medical and Johnson & Johnson.

Unlike the banksters who don't directly kill and maim people for profit doctors, fueled by their unquenchable greed, kill at least 1 million Americans each year and maim many more and unlike the banking industry incompetency is very in the medical industry is highly lucrative. Imagine if the medical industry cured diseases instead of exploiting them. If the industry and their whores at the FDA allowed cures the industry would be a mere shadow of what it is today.

Click here and see how the medical industry nets $1 trillion each year and kills 440,000 Americans each year through their medical errors alone. This is proof positive that bad medicine is far more lucrative than good medicine.

Even if the banks were unregulated they could not do the damage to America that doctors and their criminal industry has done.

The remedy for criminal bankers is prison and the remedy for millions of criminals in in the medical industry is also prison.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Big Pharma and Greedy Doctors

June 28, 2013
By Evan Levine, M.D.

The Combination Is a Prescription for Fraud and Abuse

How does one explain an internist who wrote over 900 prescriptions for the controversial and very expensive drug Lovaza, a drug approved to lower triglycerides, or a geriatric doctor who is the top prescriber of a very expensive heart medication known as Ranexa, or a cardiologist who neglects the less costly and generic statins, and presribes mostly Crestor, a very effective but also very costly drug, or just about any top prescriber of Tarka, an expensive blood pressure medication that combines two generic medications that can be purchased for pennies, into a brand drug that costs around $4.50 a pill (something I discussed in a previous article “Drug Dealing For Big Pharma“)?

The answer is simple and unsurprising — greed. It’s all about putting more money in the pockets of doctors and the coffers of the big Pharmaceutical companies, but it is finally being exposed. Probublica, “an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest”, petitioned under the Freedom of Information Act and obtained records for Medicare’s popular prescription-drug plan Part D. ProPublica has now made public on their website the names of prescribers and the drugs they chose to prescribe to their patients.

Consider this: I am a busy cardiologist and I wrote about 1,500 Medicare scripts in 2010, but a cardiologist practicing in New York City’s Chinatown, wrote 21,000! How is that possible? How can one person write 1,400 % more prescriptions than me? And not by coincidence, he was a top prescriber for one my least favorite drugs, Bystolic, a costly blood pressure medication that competes with generics that cost pennies per pill. Perhaps not by coincidence, he happened to give paid lectures for the company, Forest Labs, that sells Bystolic. Even more troubling is that he was a top prescriber of a drug known as Multaq, a very controversial and also costly drug, used to treat arrhythmias.

I suggest that anyone interested — lay or professional — check out the Prescriber Checkup on the Propublica site. Buried in the data you’ll find a physician, Rohan Wijetlaka, who was arrested last year for essentially selling prescriptions of narcotics, especially oxycodone. It’s easy to see that while his peers, on average, prescribed narcotics to about 4% of their Medicare patients, he prescribed, or as it turns out sold and prescribed, narcotics to 31% of his patients — and he’s a cardiologist. I guess those type of numbers were a big enough red flag to alert the DEA who pounced on him in July of 2012.

And yet there is another physician listed as a cardiologist, a Dr. (initials) V.P., who, according to this site, prescribed narcotics for 36% of her Medicare patients. If the data are correct, you have to wonder if she is being investigated, and if not, why?

For the past two days I have hurried home after work to review this data and found the same outcome – if a doctor wrote a lot of prescriptions for an expensive drug, he was usually a paid speaker for the drug company! Apparently, a simple and disgusting, quid pro quo.

Of course, I anxiously plugged in my name to see if I practiced the way I hoped I did. I found that all my frequently prescribed drugs were generic and that the average cost for each drug was $48 dollars. I compared that with other cardiologists I know and it was, thankfully, among the lowest compared to many doctors, including one that is always on a famous “Top Doctor“ list whose average prescription cost was $86 dollars; don’t be shocked when I tell you he prostitutes himself to Big Pharma.

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I looked at physicians whom I knew to be bad docs, as well as bad human beings, and found some of them with an average cost for their prescriptions of almost THREE TIMES the cost of mine. Again, they too were big prescribers of drugs that I would never consider prescribing because they are too expensive and offer no benefit when compared to generics that cost pennies.

While I have been telling people for years that Big Pharma manipulates greedy, cooperative physicians into prescribing their drugs, now anyone can go to ProPublica and see what drugs their physicians prescribe. The list does fall short in identifying some of the king-pins of this Pharma scam, though; in particular, the heads of departments at some of the biggest universities. While these elite may get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to help sell drugs, they often don’t see patients and prescribe drugs, so you won’t find them on the list.

In one instance I know of, the chief of Medicine at a major New York Medical center accompanied a drug rep bringing lunch to a busy cardiologist’s office. Why? So he might convince doctors there to prescribe the drug Bystolic. But you won’t find his name on the list because he lectures from his bully pulpit and rarely prescribes medications.

So what’s the take-away from all this? Just what I’ve been saying all along: Big Pharma, their “friends” in medicine, and their army of lobbyists, are corrupting the American healthcare system and it’s about time someone put a stop to it. Hello DEA, are you reading this?

Dr. Evan S. Levine is a cardiologist in New York and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center – Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is also the author of the book “What Your Doctor Won’t (or can’t) Tell You”. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and children.

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Sunday, August 31, 2014

Preventable Medical Errors Mean Huge Profits For The US Medical Industry

The industry that is the leading cause of death and injury in the US is also the biggest thief. Read and share the following article.

Preventable medical errors cost country $1 trillion

BY KATHRYN MAYER

October 26, 2012 • Reprints

Preventable medical errors may cost the United States up to $1 trillion dollars in lost human potential and contributions, according to the Journal of Health Care Finance.

That estimate is exponentially higher than previous studies, which focused solely on direct medical expenses associated with preventable medical errors. Previous studies showed the economic impact to range from $17 billion up to $50 billion annually and only focused on direct medical costs such as ancillary services, prescription drug services, and inpatient and outpatient care.

“Previous studies do not come close to illustrating the economic loss of human potential and contribution, which families, colleagues, businesses, and communities experience when someone dies from a preventable medical error,” says author Stephen Davidow, a Chicago-based health analyst. “The magnitude of the problem for our society is many orders of magnitude greater than just the medical costs.”

Related: 270,000 deaths in US attributed to medical error

by Michael Cook | 10 Apr 2008 | Link

Three percent of all Medicare patients have been the victims of medical errors from 2004 to 2006, according to an annual study of patient safety. Patients treated at top-performing hospitals were 43% less likely to experience medical errors than patients at the poorest-performing hospitals. "The prevalence of likely preventable patient safety incidents is taking a costly toll on our health care systems -– in both lives and dollars," said the lead author of the study, Dr Samanatha Collier, of the health care ratings agency HealthGrades.

But researchers used “Quality-Adjusted Life Years” to develop a more complete accounting of the economic impact when someone dies from a preventable error.

The authors based their calculation on several well-accepted reports, studies, and economic measures. Based on that, there is a loss of $73.5 billion to $98 billion in QALYs. However, an article in last year’s Health Affairs says preventable deaths due to medical errors are 10 times higher than the IOM estimate. If that is the case, the economic impact is a loss of $735 billion to $980 billion—nearly $1 trillion—in human potential.

“There has been too much focus to date on just the health care cost impact of medical errors. This analysis makes an important contribution to our understanding of the broader economic impact of preventable medical harm,” says Jim Unland, editor of the Journal of Health Care Finance.

Davidow also notes that, to estimate the true economic cost of medical errors, there must be an effort to calculate lost productivity and assign a value to the economic activity of the 1 million or more patients who suffer from a medical error but survive. Some patients clearly have no long-term problems but others may be disabled for an extended period of time or for the rest of their lives. What this means is that the economic impact could be much greater than $1 trillion dollars.

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Friday, June 13, 2014

Nursing Home Abuse

One-third of Nursing Home Patients Suffer From Medical Errors

Medicare patients suffer from widespread medical mistakes at nursing homes

One-third of all Medicare patients treated at skilled nursing facilities suffered some form of harm from medication errors, medical mistakes or infections, according to a government investigation that raises red flags about the quality of America’s health care as the industry transitions to Obamacare.

The investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general found that 59 percent of the adverse patient events were preventable and that more than half required patients to be admitted to care at a hospital or other facility.

Numerous patients — about 1.5 percent of those exposed to harm — died as a result of the mistakes, the report found.

The adverse events are harmful to taxpayers as well, costing an estimated $2.8 billion a year in additional hospitalizations, the report found.

Nursing homes are the most common type of skilled nursing facilities or SNFs, which are a growing part of America’s medical system as the baby-boomer generation ages. President Obama’s health care law envisions them continuing to play an important role going forward, raising the stakes for the problems unmasked in the investigation.

“Because many of the events that we identified were preventable, our study confirms the need and opportunity for SNFs to significantly reduce the incidence of resident-harm events,” the inspector general concluded.

Investigators said 22 percent of Medicare patients developed serious medical problems as a result of their stay, many of which required hospitalization to treat.

The most common mistake investigators found had to do with medication, usually with nursing staff giving patients the wrong kind or wrong dosages, or patients having an allergic reaction to the meds.

Medicare, one of the largest government programs in terms of spending, has often drawn criticism from Capitol Hill lawmakers who say the program isn’t doing enough to combat waste or isn’t transparent.

“Taxpayers have a right to see how their dollars are being spent,” said Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, a leading advocate for spending reform, last year. “There shouldn’t be a special exception for hard-earned dollars that happen to be spent through Medicare.”

Sen. Bill Nelson, Florida Democrat, said at a committee hearing last year that the government must be mindful of the cost of the program and how much mistakes can not only hurt patients, but cost taxpayers.

“As more and more baby boomers retire and health care costs continue to rise, Medicare spending could reach $1 trillion by 2023,” he said. “Reducing hospital readmissions will not only save the Medicare program billions, it will save beneficiaries from potential infection and further out-of-pocket expense.”

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said they are compiling lists of the most common medical mistakes, and preparing better training for doctors on how to avoid the mishaps.

“CMS fully concurs with [the inspector general] on the importance of identifying avoidable adverse events among nursing-home residents and improving the quality of life and care for nursing-home residents,” a response from the agency said.

The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, will require nursing homes and similar facilities to report their safety records to federal watchdogs. The inspector general said it’s too soon to tell if this will have a noticeable impact on reducing medical mistakes.

In addition to the harm done to patients, inspectors said, the mistakes were a large financial burden on Medicare for having to pay for hospital treatment.

“Most of these residents died at hospitals rather than in the SNFs where the harm occurred, having been transferred back to the hospitals for higher-level treatment as a result of the event,” the inspector general said.

Hospital trips owning to mistakes by medical staff cost taxpayers $2.8 billion in a single year, according to the report. But, the inspector general warned, “the full costs associated with these events are likely greater than our estimate.”

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Vaccines And Peanut Allergies

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I think that most of you fatlings will know where I'm going with this but for those who will say hey Fat Bastard what does this have to do with greedy gluttony? I'm telling you it has plenty to do with it. Peanut butter is a wonderful food even though it is technically made from legumes. Because of back scenes vaccines millions of kids will never get to experience the joy of a Reese's peanut butter cup. That is a crime against humanity. Not only are our kids getting sick and dying from eating peanuts and peanut-based products, they are not getting to experience the joys of good old-fashioned American peanut butter.

It's no secret medical industry is comprised of shameless shills and greedy whores who put their obscene profits ahead of human health. This may be stretching it a bit but over million kids with peanut allergies means a lot of business for allergists. Allergists are of joke in that they don't really help anybody but like most doctors today they exist simply to get rich.

Peanut Oil in Vaccines Behind widespread Peanut Allergy Epidemic

More than one million children living in America today suffer from peanut allergy, and a significant percentage of these have such severe symptoms that they must carry around self-injectable epinephrine just in case they accidentally become exposed to the food. According to available records; however, virtually nobody had peanut allergy prior to 1900 despite the fact that people have been eating peanuts for ages, which begs the question, why do so many people have peanut allergy today, and from where did this potentially-deadly allergic condition emerge?

In his book The Doctor Within, Dr. Tim O’Shea argues that vaccines are largely responsible for both the advent and increased prevalence of peanut allergy, noting that many vaccines and even antibiotic drugs contain excipients derived from peanut oil. Since it is a relatively inexpensive oil to produce, refined peanut oil became widely adopted as an excipient of choice in the production of vaccines during the 1960s, and it is still widely used today for this purpose.

But peanut oil’s role in triggering the peanut allergy epidemic we see today cannot go unstated, as its introduction at the turn of the 20th century eventually caused a sudden and very apparent wave of anaphylaxis, which had never before been seen. Anaphylaxis, of course, is the general term used to denote allergic reactions to food, and can include severe and sometimes violent reactive symptoms, including but not limited to convulsions, seizures, and even death.

The more peanut oil was used in vaccine and drug production, it turns out, the more the population began to suffer from serious food allergy symptoms. Utilizing peanut oil as an excipient was great for the drug and vaccine industries, of course, as it works as an effective preservative and adjuvant for vaccines. But for those who ingest or are injected with it, peanut oil-based excipients and adjuvants can be the precipitator of a very serious and permanent peanut allergy.

“Although peanut allergies became fairly common during the 1980s, it wasn’t until the early 1990s when there was a sudden surge of children reacting to peanuts — the true epidemic appeared,” explains Dr. O’Shea in his book, highlighting the fact that the ever-expanding childhood vaccination schedule can be directly correlated with a corresponding rise inpeanut allergies. “As vaccines doubled between the 1980s and the 1990s, thousands of kids were not exhibiting peanut sensitivities, with many violent reactions that were sometimes fatal.”

Vaccine manufacturers do not have to disclose all vaccine ingredients to consumers or where they are manufactured.

It is important to note that in 1973, when peanut allergies were still relatively rare, a study was conducted on the effects of peanut excipients in vaccines. Not long after it was published; however, government regulators decided that vaccine manufacturers no longer had to label peanut excipients in vaccines, which means pediatricians, parents, and others who wanted to avoid peanut excipients for safety reasons could no longer effectively do so.

“What is listed today in the Physicians Desk Reference in each vaccine section is not the full formula,” adds Dr. O’Shea. “Suddenly that detailed information was proprietary: the manufacturers must be protected. They only had to describe the formula in general.”

Since that time, peanut allergies have only gotten more prevalent and more severe, and the vast majority of the population has no idea that peanut excipients still used in vaccines are largely responsible. Will this ever change? Only if government regulators and medical authorities suddenly develop consciences will this monumental medical fraud be widely exposed and properly addressed.

More Peanut Oil and Vaccine Info

Monday, October 24, 2011

The Dangers of Statin Drugs and The Greedy Doctors Who Prescribe Them

Once again the criminal medical industry maims fat folks. Even if you don't have high cholesterol the medical industry thugs will put you on statin drugs. Like most prescription poisons statin drugs do more have than good. Greedy doctors just don't care about anyone.

While the over prescribing of statin drugs to fat people is the issue here. Normal sized people are not exempt from deadly pharmaceutical poisons either.

If your doctor want to put you on a statin drug don't let him until you have had the proper lab work done and if conservative safe and natural methods have failed like fish oils and eating less fried food... no fuck that fried food is delicious.