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Basically, it sounds like pharma, insurance, and hospital protocols drive all doctors. A patient's interest comes after all those. It almost sounds like one needs to hire a professional patient advocate to get good care, sort of like hiring an attorney to handle an accident claim.

Instead of adding yet another layer to the onion of nonsense, how about we just eliminate the other layers?

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Instead of adding yet another layer to the onion of nonsense, how about we just eliminate the other layers?

Actually, that's kind of the idea behind a 'concierge practice'. They don't take insurance.
The problem is, a lot of people have health insurance through their employment and can't really afford a 'concierge practice' out of pocket.

If we could separate health insurance from employment that would do a lot to spur competition. You don't belong to a 'food club' sponsored by your employer, you go to a grocery store with after tax dollars. I think you get better value when individuals decide.

Jewish people know of the Golem.

The metaphor fits.

But Golem is legion.

It seems like a catch-22 situation for many.

With employer plans, pay maybe $1000 pre-tax monthly and then pay the first $5000+ of medical costs before insurance starts paying 70%. Insurance contract rates sometimes are good, but other times paying cash is better. Either way, seeing any doctor ends up costing $250 to $1000 depending on what you talk about. Labs and such are extra.

With concierge plans, you pay several thousand to join and then a copay to see a doctor, but the set of concierge doctors available in my area at least is quite small.

So for many, you pay for employer based insurance to cover catastrophic stuff and then only see a doctor if it's absolutely necessary since you know it will cost a lot.

^^^^
This is why so many people just do urgent care as opposed to having a “regular doc”. Not that they aren’t as driven by the system there also.

This country certainly learned that our freedoms and liberties are entirely at the discretion of others.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...total-fraud-n2606421

A New York City pediatrician spent the COVID-19 pandemic complaining online about her grueling 12-hour days in full PPE on the frontlines — only to be revealed as a school doctor with a plum 9-to-5 job, according to an explosive report.

Dr. Risa Hoshino had emerged as one of the preeminent physician influencers at the height of the pandemic, created a reputation for herself online as an expert in treating children with COVID-19 and long COVID symptoms, according to Substack blogger Sarah Beth Burwick.

But according to the report, Hoshino has been misrepresenting her job and exaggerating about working long hours in the hospital and saving coronavirus-stricken children.

Hoshino has a $170,000-a-year gig as a New York City public school pediatrician, with most of her work being done remotely, according to Burwick, who describes herself as a lawyer mom from Los Angeles.

While Hoshino reportedly often posed up in personal protection equipment and scrubs, complained about being overworked and disrespected by her patients, and used her public platform to promote mask-wearing and vaccinations, her Instagram page painted a very different picture.

On Hoshino’s IG account, the raven-haired physician was reportedly seen in bikini shots looking carefree on the beach – a far cry from the worn-out COVID doctor persona that she cultivated on Twitter.

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Other images reportedly showed the beaming doctor having maskless drinks with friends, even as she continued beating the drum about the importance of face coverings on Twitter.

Dr. Hoshino has gone quiet on her social media activity. Accounts have either been made private or been deleted outright, according to the NY Post. She worked remotely throughout 2020 and claimed to be some COVID hero. What a sick puppy. Also, claiming to be on the frontlines while posting photos of you pounding margaritas on the beach? this game was never going to last.

^^^ This disgusting doctor is a lying Psaki shit.

She’s probably one of many, many more

Holy effing shit. Fauci now backtracks on statement that we are out of the pandemic. WTF is it going to take for people, you sleepy eyed mofos, to wakeup and realize what a disaster this guy is. God almighty. I know everyone here gets it, but damn, how much more evidence does one need over a three year period to realize that the fix is in? Rant off.

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These brainwashed lunatics are out there. Case in point, this insane asshole...

That's a creation of the hysteria the media created, turning people against one another and creating a society of paranoia.

All the lockdowns, masks, school closures, all the bullshit policies the government enacted have done more psychological damage to this country than the virus itself could ever physically have done.

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Millions of Covid-19 Vaccine Shots Going to Waste in U.S. as Vaccination Program Fizzles: Report

North Carolina alone has wasted 1.7 million doses since the vaccination program began.

The U.S. has wasted millions of covid-19 vaccine doses since the pandemic began, with many more ready to be tossed in the garbage in the coming weeks and months as they expire, according to a damning new report from ABC News. Roughly 50,000 Americans are still getting their first dose each day.

The U.S. has vaccinated just 66.6% of its population against covid-19, the lowest rate among any wealthy country in the world. In fact, the U.S. is ranked 62nd in the world for covid-19 vaccinations, right behind Nepal (66.9%), Sri Lanka (67.4%), and Iran (68.4%), according to Johns Hopkins University.

The ABC News report notes that concrete figures are tough to come by and they’re changing every day, but the amount of waste, even when it’s just a ballpark figure, is staggering when you see how difficult it’s been for many poorer countries to even get access to the vaccines.

For example, North Carolina alone, where just 63% of the population has gotten at least two doses has seen 1.7 million covid-19 shots gone to waste. And in Michigan, where only 60.2% of the population has been fully vaccinated against covid-19, another 1.7 million shots have been sent to landfills. Over 100,000 more shots are set to expire in Michigan within the next two weeks alone.

And while it’s great the U.S. has doses to spare for anyone who wants one, it points to the tremendous inefficiencies and waste of the country’s private health care system. The problem, as experts note, is that once the doses have been delivered to pharmacies and clinics, they can’t be easily rerouted to another part of the world that might have people who are more willing to take up the vaccines.

The U.S. reported 97,966 new cases of covid-19 on Wednesday and 684 deaths, with just 43 of the 50 states reporting totals. Florida alone reported 4,590 new cases on Wednesday, up substantially from weeks prior.

Vaccines have become a lightning rode of controversy not just in the U.S. but around the world, as countless people spread misinformation about supposed harms that befall people who get jabbed. All of the covid-19 vaccines that have been approved in the U.S. have been shown to be safe and effective. And if you haven’t gotten yours yet, there’s still time. In fact, if you don’t get your vaccine soon, it’s just going to wind up at the dump.

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Vaccines have become a lightning rode of controversy not just in the U.S. but around the world, as countless people spread misinformation about supposed harms that befall people who get jabbed. All of the covid-19 vaccines that have been approved in the U.S. have been shown to be safe and effective.

safe and effective.
safe and effective.
safe and effective.
safe and effective.
safe and effective.
safe and effective.

All evidence to the contrary is 'misinformation' despite not addressing the evidence.

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safe and effective.
safe and effective.
safe and effective.
safe and effective.
safe and effective.
safe and effective.

All evidence to the contrary is 'misinformation' despite not addressing the evidence.

Of course. Because that's how propaganda works.

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In fact, if you don’t get your vaccine soon, it’s just going to wind up at the dump.

Good. That's exactly where they belong.

I Think it’s safe to say from the numbers of vaccines that have been wasted that a lot of them were expected to be in more arms due to ramped up fear, coercion, shaming, restricted movement, threats of employment punishment and termination. They are off by @35% of the country. All for a lie and money grab.

AUSTRALIAN VACCINE STAKEHOLDERS "WE ARE COMING FOR YOU."SENATOR MALCOLM ROBERTS

The Labor Party and the Liberal-National Party have accepted $1 million each from the pharmaceutical establishment in this election cycle alone."
"The Australian Health Practitioner Regulatory Agency, Ahpra, has been bullying medical practitioners into not reporting or even for talking about the harm they’re seeing. The TGA erased 98 per cent of the 800 vaccine deaths—98 per cent erased!—that physicians reported. The TGA did so without autopsy or suitable consideration of all the patient medical data. TGA, ATAGI and Ahpra are the three monkeys of the pharmaceutical industry: hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil."
"This unprecedented betrayal of the Australian people must be referred immediately to a royal commission. To the Prime Minister, the health minister, the federal health department and all those in the Senate and the House of Representatives—all of you who have perpetrated this crime—I direct one question: how the hell do you expect to get away with it? We’re not going to let you get away with it. We won’t let you get away with it. We are coming for you. We have the stamina to hound you down and we damn well will."
"The Australian Bureau of Statistics is culpable in this scandal and cover-up."
"The most recent breakdown of mortality by cause and age is from 2020. The most recent data on live births is from 2020. Birth data used to be available six weeks after, not 15 months and counting. Are they hiding miscarriages?"
"At what point do we consider the actions of the TGA, ATAGI and the Australian Bureau of Statistics as interfering with the operation of the Senate? "

https://brandnewtube.com/v/SdC2cT

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"The most recent breakdown of mortality by cause and age is from 2020. The most recent data on live births is from 2020. Birth data used to be available six weeks after, not 15 months and counting. Are they hiding miscarriages?"

95% vaccinated and quarantine-camped Australia is experiencing its highest all-cause mortality since the start of the pandemic. For some reason.


https://www.coffeeandcovid.com...2P5bsx3MMt2ZLJBw&s=r

At a family resort in the Poconos here in PA this weekend and so far there’s barely a mask to be seen and not a mention or notice of Covid/social distancing/doom/gloom ANYWHERE


It’s glorious!