Editor’s note: Audio for this installment of Political Health and Healing is forthcoming.

Title: ‘Fed Health’ Coming to You and Your Doctor Soon? Or: Daschle’s Federal Reserve-based ‘Fed Health’ is An Insult to Thinking Americans.

Would Tom Daschle’s Fed Health Dash Our Hope for Health Freedom? TGM is About Integrative Medicine and freedom of choice in health care: having the freedom to integrate the best evidence-based therapies and diagnostics from all medical disciplines. Secrecy cannot be a part of that approach. However, according to a recent article in Medical News Today, submitted by the Citizens’ Council on Health Care, President-Elect Barack Obama’s choice of Senator Tom Daschle - to head up the department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - might entirely dash our hopes of real, lasting holistic reform of our health care system, since our health freedoms under Daschle may be severely compromised under his Fed Health plan.

The article says this: “If Mr. Daschle succeeds with Fed Health, Americans can expect that all private medical decisions-and their doctors-could soon be under federal control.” Mr. Obama’s choice for Secretary of HHS “signals a plan to eliminate free-markets and resurrect national health care….”

If the Federal Reserve and its banks are secretive about what’s going on with our tax dollars, how could we think anything different for our health care under a Federal Reserve model? And if this is true, why isn’t mainstream media warning us? Maybe there’s just too much other bad news to report.

Senator Tom Daschle: Our New Representative at HHS. Here’s what he apparently wants:

1. A national health board modeled after the Federal Reserve’s board! This Federal Health Board would oversee the entire health care system. Mr. Daschle calls it “Fed Health“. If this is true, it should be alarming to any American who has a functional brain. The ‘Criticisms’ section on Wikipedia’s Federal Reserve page reminds us that Milton Friedman outlined how the Federal Reserve caused the great depression. Is ‘The Fed’ repeating its history today? Regardless, do we want our national health care to be modeled after a corrupt, counterproductive organization like the Federal Reserve that operates as an organization largely autonomously, outside of Congressional oversight? We’re with Ron Paul who wisely recommends that the Federal Reserve be abolished. Here’s what else Daschle apparently wants:
2. Federal government to direct the practice of medicine and control all facets of health insurance.
3. Ongoing surveillance of your personal health for government research purposes.
4. Government officials to have access to your patient records online for monitoring of physician treatment decisions.

No Thanks, Obama and Senator Daschle. Integrative medicine doctors will be tempted to use various explicatives at the thought of what Daschle wants. Take for example #5 (above): monitoring your doctor’s treatment decisions? Integrative medicine doctors base treatment decisions on their experience with their patients and on published clinical research. Many treatments are often outside the realm of ’standard’ ‘allopathic’ medicine - drugs and surgery - and do not fall within what Daschle’s ‘Fed Health’ would dictate as being their ’standard of care.’

Fed Health’s Standard of Care = Fed Health’s Standard of Scare. What if, for example, you want the freedom to choose EDTA chelation as a treatment for your cardiovascular disease - angina or claudication - or simply for prevention? (TGM #15, 14, 13) Or if the anticipated flu epidemic arrives and you and your integrative medicine doctor decide to treat you with an intravenous infusion of dilute hydrogen peroxide to cure your flu?

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Or what if you become infected by MRSA or one of the other growing numbers of bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics, and you request that your doctor treats you with photoluminescence (UV light-energized blood)?

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Or what if you and your doctor decide to try high-intensity magnetic therapy to treat a stubborn, hard to treat condition you may have?

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These are just a few examples of evidence-based ‘integrative medicine’ therapies out of thousands. You probably want and need the freedom to choose. Good medicine is NOT about limiting our therapeutic armamentarium to only drugs and surgery. But what if Daschle and other ‘big brothers’ with HHS and ‘Fed Health‘ scare you and your doctor with: “That’s not the standard of care. You can only use anti-bacterial and anti-viral drugs for your condition. Cease your practices or be fined or go to jail” That’s what may be in store.

What Does Fed Health Have to Do With Unions and Corruption? ‘As a man thinketh, so is he.’ Or put another way: the character of a man = his thoughts + feelings combined. It is our opinion that to be even somewhat ‘okay’ with plans like Fed Health, politicians who devise or endorse plans like this - and U.S. citizens who support them - would have to think and feel like labor union bosses, mobsters and Federal Reserve members who are clearly sacrificing U.S. Constitutional principles for the sake of total power and control. Their thinking goes something like this: “We’re entitled to these powers, like locking in higher wages for workers, and dictating how medicine is practiced. Therefore, we’ll act irrespective of local, state or federal law. In fact, our wants/our entitlements supersede the U.S. Constitution. What if we want money? We’ll get it outside Congressional negotiations. We’ll get it from the Federal Reserve.” The perverted thinking may become most obvious from what we may be about to see happen with American health care: Daschle’s Fed Health, or some version of it.

How Quickly Fed Health Cometh? States are already having to cut Medicaid coverage during these economic hard times. More cuts are expected in 2009. Yet here’s the clincher: Some of our representatives in Congress are seeing a need to allow the millions of growing unemployed U.S. citizens who have lost health benefits to start receiving Medicaid benefits with our tax dollars paying the entire bill, of course. How quickly might a ‘Fed Health’ be implemented? As soon as enough emergency departments around the country start reporting increases in ‘crisis level’ volumes and casualties, as increasing numbers of U.S. citizens resort to the ‘ER’ as last resort for their acute health care needs.

Where does this type of unAmerican, ‘Fed Health’ thinking and planning come from? As noted on TGM #16 post, this article from American Free Press clearly indicates that Senator Tom Daschle is part of the ‘One World Government Bilderbergerite’ mentality. To find Daschle in the list of other Bilderberger meeting attendees, see this Wikipedia link. One World Health Care anyone? It appears that Senator Tom Daschle is not good for your health or good for good medicine either.

The only solution: We predict that health care - socialized medicine under a Fed Health-like plan - may be the final straw that breaks America’s back. If it’s not to late, the only solution is to restore honor and integrity in Washington, with the likes of Representatives like Congressman Ron Paul and do away with the secretive, unconstitutional Federal Reserve - if that’s still possible. Please see TGM #16 and 17.

Good Medicine Word of the Week. It’s disgusting in our opinion: ‘Fed Health‘ - the concept for Senator Tom Daschle’s health care plan for America, using the Federal Reserve as the model. All of your private medical decisions could soon be under federal control. Is this the kind of change America wants and needs?

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