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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Editor’s note: Audio for this show is forthcoming. At this time, other than the YouTube videos, no other audio is included with this installment of Political Health and Healing.

Coming Soon: Fed Health. Last week we spotlighted how Obama + unions + organized crime + the Federal Reserve could = a situation not good for America. On the next installment of Political Health and Healing we’ll focus more on Obama’s choice to represent us and our ‘health freedoms’ at HHS -- Senator Tom Daschle -- and his dubious plans for our brand new health care system, based on the Federal Reserve model: ‘Fed Health’ as it’s called. Brace yourself for an unpleasant shock. But Before that: the Solution….

Current U.S. Political Situation like a Cancer in Need of a True Surgeon. The unions, the mob, the current IRS, the FDA, the Federal Reserve -- and the politicians these entities influence -- are like the cells comprising an insidious cancer that has metastasized into the vital organs of our country. And it seems like the cancer is growing ‘hyperplastically.’ So what good medicine do we have to heal the pathology? Dr. Douglass thinks the only hope and solution to saving America and our health care system is a ‘Ron Paul revolution’ -- if it’s not too late. Unfortunately, mainstream media -- and thus -- mainstream America -- largely ignore Congressman Dr. Ron Paul.

Are we about to suffer the consequences? Link to 6 min video.

Ron Paul tells it like it is: The doctor-turned-Congressman appears to be our only representative in Washington willing to use his ’scalpel’ to excise the cancers in government that are killing us. There are many YouTube videos of Congressman Paul at work. In this recent one he proclaims how embarrassing the ‘nationalization’ of U.S. industries -- like the auto industry -- really is:

Ron Paul Answers the Question: Where’s the Bailout Money Going (4.5 min):

End the Federal Reserve? The Fed is unconstitutional, it’s secretive and it’s destroying America. With the exception of  Ron Paul, most of our other representatives in Congress don’t seem to care. Or might the Federal Reserve be secretly ’sharing the wealth’ of our tax dollars with many of our representatives in Washington? Ron Paul is surprised at how many young Americans understand the dire need to End the Fed.

Music Video: End the Fed:

Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve: 40-minute movie showing the sad truth.

Americans can do something: Start by getting free updates from Congressman Ron Paul and get involved in the Campaign or Liberty. On June 15, 2007, Ron Paul introduced HR 2755, Federal Reserve Abolition Act. Unfortunately -- and not entirely surprisingly -- there were no co-sponsors to the bill and no further action was taken. The legislation was referred to the House Committee on Financial Services and effectively ignored. Ignorance is bliss for only so long. Assuming HR 2755 is best for America, then who is to blame for this? Is it our representatives in the House of Representatives or is it U.S. citizens who are too uninformed and complacent to demand that their representatives take action on what they feel is best for their country? Please look into the Campaign for Liberty!

Next installment of Political Health and Healing: Daschle’s Federal Reserve-based ‘Fed Health’ is an insult to thinking Americans. We’ll address in more detail how upcoming HHS secretary Tom Daschle plans to use the Federal Reserve to model America’s ‘new and improved’ US health care system. Incredible. Watch out America. Your hopes for health freedom may soon be dashed by Daschles ‘Fed Health’.

Good Medicine Word of the Week: Congressman Ron Paul -- conservative, Constitutionalist, and libertarian -- for political health and healing.

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Introduction: Given the recent alarming and disappointing news about Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, selling Obama’s Senate seat to the highest bidder – just before President-elect Barack H. Obama takes residence in Washington – we thought it important to spotlight on this and the next two installments of Political Health and Healing, what mainstream media might underplay: how in some ways similar thinking – amongst Barack Obama, Senator Dashle, labor unions, organized crime and the Federal Reserve – is required to accept what is apparently being planned for our health care, ‘Fed Health’, and ultimately how it may negatively affect our health freedoms.

“For youz Americans it’s Obama, Daschle and Fed Health.

That’s the deal for health care. Gotta problem with that?”

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Will Unions, Mafia and Federal Reserve be Largely to Blame for the Collapse of U.S. Dollar? It is understandable how unions can protect workers from unfair corporate labor practices, yet it is not fair to America how labor unions fix wages. Fixing the price of labor is incompatible with free enterprise. And combining such price fixation with organized crime threatens our freedoms as protected by the U.S. Constitution. Recent case in point: A fundamental concern of the bailout of the ‘Big Three’ auto makers is “whether the legislation would force concessions from the unions.” The euphemistic way of saying this is to ask if the unions will be ‘competitive,‘ i.e. will they lower union workers wages? This is nothing new to Americans. We’ve become accustomed to unions exerting their negative influence and power on free markets by essentially fixing wages, but in reality, to even be asking unions to lower wages in the United States is incongruous with American principles.

On TV recently United Auto Workers (UAW) president Ron Gettelfinger said the UAW wont commit to lower wages for union workers, and stated erroneously that their wages are already the same as foreign auto companies. And then Mr. Gettelfinger announced that the UAW will ‘go to the Federal Reserve‘ if the bailout bill is not passed by the Senate, which is exactly what they are doing: trying to get their way through ‘auto czar Paulson’, since the ‘balance of powers route’ (Congress) didn’t work for them. So now, the finance arms of Chrysler and G.M. are to be morphed into government-regulated financial institutions so they become eligible for direct loans from the Federal Reserve. It’s called the nationalization of the auto industry. Maybe after this, the impact of the nationalization of health care – a ‘Fed Health’ – wont seem so bad.

The joke is on all Americans though because the ‘Federal Reserve’ is a quasi-private fiat monetary system without a ‘reserve’ of ‘funds,’ i.e., it has NO MONEY – unless ‘the fed’ prints more, for the money tree. After doing away with the gold standard, our monetary system is all ’smoke and mirrors.’

Regardless though, shouldn’t we be shocked as Americans? The UAW essentially said, “If we can’t get the money through Congressional legislation, we’ll get it from our friends at the Federal Reserve”! So now we have two systems of government in the U.S. to choose from, the legislative branch and the ‘Federal Reserve’ branch? Apparently yes. We’ll be addressing what all this seems to mean for the advancement of medicine during this and the next two installments of TGM. And as we’ll see on TGM #18 – as unbelievable as it is – the Federal Reserve is to be the model for our new health care system – Fed Health! Few people seem to be asking, ‘Who’s running the show here, anyway?’

Obama’s Relations With the Unions and the Mafia. It’s not news that organized crime largely controls the labor unions, but from the Wall Street Journal and CBS just six months ago: Obama favors closing down the official government oversight board created to try to rid the unions of organized crime. Interestingly it wasn’t until after Obama published his ‘pro-mob’ position, that the Teamsters union then endorsed him for U.S. president. As the WSJ piece says, “The Teamsters in Chicago have shown little enthusiasm for rooting out corruption in their ranks.” And Obama’s “warm words to the Teamsters [are] …disturbing.” Note: According to the WSJ Bush appears involved in this too.

The CBS article continues: Obama’s Federal Election Commission records show a “hefty contribution to his…presidential race from Richard Simon who has mob ties.” But “the taint of corruption and of ties to organized crime seemed not to ruffle Obama….” If Obama wants to be portrayed as promoting “good government and higher morality, the place to start may not be Washington, but his home town of Chicago.” We might do well to study this article to see the depth of this unhealthy political situation.

Obama’s Relations with Governor Blagojevich. We’ll probably hear little or nothing about the relationship, or flat denials that there was much of a relationship between ‘the Gov’ and Obama. Or we may hear, “Oh c’mon, you think Governor Rod Blagojevich has significant ties to the unions or that Obama really has any significant relationship with Blagojevich – just because ‘The Gov’ controls his Senate seat in Washington? Naaaah!” Bottom line: Obama is looking pretty weak before assuming office. He said he had no contact with ‘Blago’ about the Senate seat. But his campaign chief of staff, David Axelrod stated last month that Obama spoke with the governor about the vacancy! Obama should tell us all – on mainstream media – about his relationships with any and all thugs who run Chicago politics. To prove his innocence, he should allow himself and his political team to be fully investigated. Otherwise can we trust him and his administration with our health and health care? Hey, at least, ‘Bobo,’ ‘Geuseppi,’ ‘Hoffa’ and ‘Vinny’ and the rest of the “Chicago Outfit” will probably be merry this Christmas at their palaces in Chicago or Las Vegas. And if mafia politics repeats itself, ‘family member’ Gov. Rod Blagojevich will probably be merry too.

Pieces of the Mysterious Puzzle for Health Care: Obama, Dashle, the Mob, Unions and the Federal Reserve. Clearly Obama has relations with America’s labor unions, which are corrupt. And the unions look to a separate entity, the Federal Reserve, for money when they don’t get what they want from what is supposed to be a Constitutionally-based balance of powers in Congress. What you may find interesting, if you read the ‘Criticisms’ section on Wikipedia’s Federal Reserve page, is where Milton Friedman outlined how the Federal Reserve caused the great depression. If the UAW circumvents Congress – and free enterprise – by going directly to the Federal Reserve for their bailout, is the Federal Reserve repeating history today?

And what’s probably most ironic, and adds to the mystery of what will probably be a radically different health care system in the near future: Obama’s choice to head up the department of Health and Human Services (HHS) WAS Senator Tom Daschle who, as mentioned above, wanted to use the Federal Reserve model for America’s ‘new and improved’ US health care system – ‘Fed Health‘. Watch out America. We may be in for a shock. If Mr. Daschle succeeded, you could probably expect that soon, all private medical decisions made on your behalf, by you and your doctor, will be under federal control. “Fed Health“?

Where does this type of alien thinking and planning come from? A friend sent me this article from American Free Press showing that 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 would not have been good medicine for America! Perhaps the exposure of his improprieties (not paying his ‘fair share’ of income taxes, etc) was a good thing, but don’t expect the end of this one politician to make much of a difference in Washington D&C.

Next installment of Political Health and Healing: The Only Good Medicine for America’s Current Political Situation: Honorable Representatives in Washington Like Congressman Dr. Ron Paul.

Good Medicine Word of the Week: The apparently not-so-good choice to head HHS – Senator Tom Daschle. See TGM #18.

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