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America Out Loud PULSE: Long Term Care Solutions

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From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Stephen Moses – https://www.americaoutloud.news/living-longer-is-great-but-we-need-reforms-to-reduce-dependency-long-term-care-solutions/

People are living longer and by 2030 about one in five Americans will be aged 65 years and older. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, about 8 million people 65 and older (20 percent) reported that they had dementia or difficulty with basic daily tasks like bathing and feeding themselves. Worse yet, about 3 million of them had no assistance at all. Family or friends were their only option. But these days, family members are scattered across the country and your friends may be in as poor physical health as you are.

Kaiser Family Foundation also found that 83 percent of adults surveyed said it would be impossible or very difficult to pay $60,000 a year for an assisted living facility. The inability to afford professional help can tear families apart. As parents age, their personality may change for the worse. A professional is trained to deal with the negative psychological and physical aspects of growing old. Families may find that the only way to get help is to put their parents in a nursing home. What will they do if the parents do not want to go? Sometimes the children find that the nursing home is not too pleasant but it is the only one in the area that takes public insurance (Medicaid).

The cost of long term care can be upwards of $100,00 per year. While there can be a huge financial toll and the loss of all your savings, the emotional toll is worse. Comments in a blog from folks who are caregiving for their loved-one can be heartbreaking: “Feeling like there is no honorable way out”; “crying out of pure exhaustion and grief”; “not being able to ‘fix’ what is wrong”; “having to be close by at all times and never getting a break.” “I lost my husband [recently] and I don’t think I could handle losing her. I am here at home with her 24/7 with, as you say, no end in sight.” There has to be a better way for the elder and their family.

Many people think that Medicare will pay for long term care of your choice indefinitely. Not true. Too many people end up on Medicaid with its limited options. Planning can make it so your future is what you want it to be.

My guest will discuss the reforms to reduce dependence on Medicaid and free up private financing to fix the LTC challenge.

Bio

Steve Moses is president of the Center for Long-Term Care Reform. The center promotes universal access to top quality long-term care by encouraging private financing as an alternative to Medicaid dependency for most Americans. Previously, Mr. Moses was president of the Center for Long-Term Care Financing (1998-2005), Director of Research for LTC, Inc. (1989-98), a senior analyst for the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1987-89), a Medicaid state representative for the Health Care Financing Administration (1978-87), an HHS departmental management intern (1975-78), and a Peace Corps volunteer in Venezuela (1968-1970). He is widely recognized as an experienced expert and innovator in the field of long term care. His recent monograph on the issue is Long-Term Care: The Problem and Long Term Care: The Solution.

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America Out Loud PULSE: Teeth, Drugs, and the Business of Medicine

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From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Joel Strom, DDS and Kenneth Schell, D.Pharm. – https://www.americaoutloud.news/the-down-and-dirty-business-of-medical-care-joel-strom-dds-and-kenneth-schell-d-pharm/

The world of medicine encompasses so many ins and outs that patients never see. As costs go up, patients need to be aware of the reasons, and hopefully do something to keep those costs down for themselves—even if the politicians won’t do it.

Almost everyone in U.S. (92 percent) has health insurance whether private or government-financed, yet half have trouble with costs and 41 percent report have medical debt. Thirty-five percent of adults have delayed dental care due to costs. Our teeth are more important than many think they are, but dental care is the most common service to go. Prescription medicines are another culprit. Twenty-five percent of adults either skipped a dose or cut pills in half to save money.

The down and dirty business of medical care is starting to make the news as much as the end result: high costs. Five insurance companies control half the market. Now there is a proposed merger between two of them: Cigna and Humana. Cigna has Express Scripts, the second largest pharmacy benefit manager. Humana has Humana Pharmacy Solutions, the fourth largest PBM. This would significant consolidate the PBM market. Humana is big in the Medicare Advantage market. Medicare Advantage is the HMO with fixed rates for medical care Medicare beneficiaries.

We also have private equity firms buying up medical practices and consolidating them into one large group. The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down because these purchases have led to higher prices. For example, prices charged by anesthesiology groups increased 26 percent after they were acquired by private equity firms. (The most commonly represented medical groups included anesthesiology (19.4%), multispecialty (19.4%), emergency medicine (12.1%), family practice (11.0%), and dermatology (9.9%) From 2015 to 2016, there was also an increase in the number of acquired cardiology, ophthalmology, radiology, and obstetrics/gynecology practices.)

Do buy-outs and mergers help or hurt patients? My guests deal with patients and health policy. We are going to discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of what is under the surface of medical care.

Bio

Dr. Joel Strom has practiced general dentistry for more than 40 years and is a former President of the California State Dental Board. He has extensive leadership experience in all aspects of the dental profession including education, regulation, professional leadership, clinical practice and as an expert witness.  He is an Adjunct Professor at the Forsyth Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, former Chairman of Ethics in the Practice of Dentistry at USC, And Dr. Strom had a 12-year tenure on the California Science Center Board of Directors. Dr. Strom founded the Dr. Joseph Warren Institute, a 501c4 non-profit designed to educate and motivate health care professionals to become leaders in the political and public policy debate on health care reform.

Bio

Kenneth H Schell, Pharm.D earned his Doctorate in Pharmacy from the University of California, San Francisco. He has almost 40 years’ experience in clinical pharmacology and pharmaceutical science, including overseeing pharmacy operations in managed care, pediatric and adult hospitals, medical groups, home infusion, hospice and mail order organizations. Dr. Schell served as president of the California State Board of Pharmacy and on the Board of Directors and as Presidential Officer of the California Society of Health System Pharmacists. He is also lectures at the Skaggs UCSD School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences where he teaches Pharmacy Law and Ethics. He currently serves on the Sharp Healthcare Institutional Review Board for research projects. He also served in compliance and privacy as Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer at a major Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM).

Dr. Schell also serves on several other Boards including Disability Rights Now, which champions disabled individuals seeking to become attorneys and ACTG Biopharma, an organization seeking to support novel therapies for individuals with brain injuries.

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America Out Loud PULSE: The Impact of Social Justice and Artificial Intelligence in the Future of Medicine

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From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Elaina George, MD  – https://www.americaoutloud.news/the-impact-of-social-justice-and-artificial-intelligence-in-the-future-of-medicine/

After many years in medicine, I am amazed at all the new advances and that as clinicians we are in a constant state of learning. I think back to medical school and the rigorous science courses and long hours I put in to learn the skills to give great care patients.

It’s sickening that medicine is now burdened with an increase in violence — five times more than employees in all other industries. This is not just at the hands of the mentally ill. Patients are also frustrated by difficulty in getting attention due to staffing shortages and a variety of social issues. According to a JAMA study nearly 24 percent of physicians have endured “occupational distress” by verbal insults and harassment by patients and visitors.

According to a survey of medical students in 91 countries, 21 percent are considering quitting. A whopping 60 percent are worried about their current mental health. Some contributing factors include financial and academic pressures, and the worry of future shortages and burnout. In spite of the negatives, 89 percent of the students are devoted to improving patients’ lives.

Organizations are trying to improve the well-being of health care personnel starting with the medical students. The majority of medical schools have joined many universities and instituted pass-fail grading systems. Removing grades is meant to allow students to focus on studies, not grades. Additionally, the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 1 (basic science) score reporting shifted from a three-digit score to a simple pass-fail.

The AMA views this licensing exam grading change as a chance to improve student well-being. However, 86.2 percent of residency program directors listed the USMLE Step 1 score as an important factor in deciding which applicants to interview. The program directors are now looking for other attributes by which to judge applicants and to look at the student more holistically. They have to rely more on letters of recommendation and personal statements.

I do believe a well-rounded person is good for communication with patients and the ability to see the patient as a whole person. But will future doctors be taught more social justice than science? After all, they can look to Chat GPT for a diagnosis.

My guest, Dr. Elaina George, and I will discuss the changing face of medicine – in education and how it is practiced in light of the social justice movement and artificial intelligence.

Dr. George’s website: http://drelainageorge.com

Living in the Solution podcast: http://drelainageorge.com/podcast-2/

Book: Big Medicine: http://drelainageorge.com/product/big-medicine/

To find an independent physician go to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons website: https://aapsonline.org/direct-payment-cash-friendly-practices/.

Bio

Dr. Elaina George is a Board Certified Otolaryngologist (Ear, Nose, and Throat physician). She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Biology and received her Masters degree in Medical Microbiology from Long Island University. She earned her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Dr George completed her residency at Manhattan, Eye Ear & Throat Hospital. She is the author of Big Medicine: The Cost of Corporate Control and How Doctors and Patients Working Together Can Rebuild a Better System, a book which explores how the U.S. healthcare system has evolved and explains how patients and doctors can create a healthcare system that is based on the principles of price transparency with the power of the doctor patient relationship. She currently also has a radio show, Living in the Solution.

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America Out Loud PULSE: Indoctrination, Antisemitism, and Empowering Humanity

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From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Diana Blum, MD and Jason Littlefield – https://www.americaoutloud.news/indoctrination-antisemitism-and-empowering-humanity/

“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”  Harriet Tubman

One of the most important things we can do is keep trying. Sometimes it seems humanity and common sense has left the building.  Schools have allowed politics to infiltrate education. I’m not talking about a seminar or class in political science or a balanced discussion about history or current events. Now we see teachers openly announcing their political persuasion in class. Some go so far as to tell students for whom to vote. That’s not the civics class I remember. Even the Mayor gave no hint of his political party when he came to our class to encourage us to be involved in our city and to vote when we were old enough.

Ethnic Studies in high school. Now that’s a good educational idea gone bad. This was meant to teach students about history, cultures, struggles, and contributions of minority groups in our country that were sorely lacking in textbooks for years. But now, in the name of equity some schools have stopped academic honors programs. This is perverse. Clearly, the way to push lagging students forward is not by holding others back. Now some of the curricula are preaching a particular point of view. With the current Palestinian conflict, the perpetrators of barbarism and savagery upon babies are presented as resistance fighters, rather than terrorists in a conflict with an extremely complicated history.

I’ve lived through unfair housing, segregated school dances, and participated in sit-ins at Woolworths. There was a time when mean-spirited ethnic jokes were socially acceptable. But such racist behavior organically faded over the last 50 years and racial equality was on the rise. Diversity meant we interacted with all sorts of folks as fellow human beings. Now racism is being re-introduced.  The schools teach that the most important attribute of a person is their ethnicity, not their character. It is no wonder that we have a new wave of antisemitism running rampant in our schools and spinning out of control across the country.

We have to work to stop this dangerous trajectory. We all—especially children—need ways to strengthen our most positive traits and deal with our negative emotions. We need to learn how do we learn to live in a space grounded in human dignity rather than fear.

My guests will discuss what is happening in schools and how we can work to raise our children with a mindset of common humanity, not divisiveness.

Resources regarding antisemitism:

Bio

Dr. Diana Blum is a board-certified neurologist who completed her medical school training at the University of Chicago, Pritzker school of Medicine and her Neurology Residency training at Stanford University Medical Center. She is currently in private practice in Silicon Valley, California where she focuses on the chronic management of patients with Parkinson’s Disease. When not practicing clinical medicine, Dr. Blum is a fierce patient and physician advocate, defending Hippocratic oath medicine and the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship through education and activism.

Bio

Jason Littlefield has been an educator for over 20 years. From 2014 to 2021 he was a Social and Emotional Learning Specialist for the Austin Independent School District. In 2017 he established EmpowerED Pathways and co-designed the Empowered Humanity Theory, a framework for life, leadership, and learning. He recently has written a book, Empowered Humanity Theory, A Framework or an Empowering and Dignified Life. Jason has also served students and families from around the world, including Taiwan, China, and Benin, Africa.

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America Out Loud PULSE: One Surgeon’s Fight Against Race-Baiting Radicalism

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From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast – https://www.americaoutloud.news/one-surgeons-fight-against-race-baiting-radicalism-2/

Medicine as profession has advanced to include all races and males and females. My father went to an all-black college and medical school. I went to a “white” college and medical school. When I was in medical school, the OB-Gyn department accepted its first female resident. Now over half of OB-Gyns are female. Times change – thank goodness.

Medicine as a science has advanced over the years to treat and cure more and more complex conditions. Unfortunately, there are certain groups of patients who don’t have access to good medical care. Sometimes this is because of lack of insurance or they have Medicaid that many doctors do not accept. Some have no transportation or babysitting or a myriad of other socio-economic issues standing in their way. We must do our best to sit down as a health care team and work on getting proper medical care to all Americans.

It seems that instead of doing the hard work of getting down to the root of the problems, academia has taken the easy way out by deciding that the cause of health care disparities is racism. Now all solutions start with racism and end with indoctrination into reverse racism. The academicians and mainstream medical associations write articles that erroneously conclude that minority patients are better off by having a doctor with the same skin color. Of course, this only works for patients of color. A white patient would be a racist if he asked for a white doctor. This obsession with race is clouding deeper societal issues. It is also violating Hippocrates’ oath to treat all patients with the same respect and skill.

My guest today has taken his fight against indoctrination to the streets, so to speak. First direct to the top of the American College of Surgeons and then in the National Review.  https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/10/the-american-college-of-surgeons-doubles-down-on-anti-racism/

Link to Dr. Bosshardt’s petition for reinstatement: https://www.change.org/ACS-petition-reinstate-Bosshardt

Do No Harm website – https://donoharmmedicine.org

Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism in Medicine website – https://fairforall.org/fair-in-medicine/

Bio

Dr. Rick Bosshardt is a board-certified plastic surgeon in private practice in Lake County, Florida for over 33 years. He graduated from University of Miami Medical School and completed his general surgery training in the U.S. Naval Hospital, Oakland, California. After serving as a surgeon at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Okinawa, Dr. Bosshardt returned to Miami in 1987 to train in plastic surgery. He wrote a weekly medical column, entitled House Calls, for the Orlando Sentinel for over 25 years and was a contributing writer to Lake Healthy Living Magazine for over 10 years. He is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons.

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America Out Loud PULSE: What’s New in Healthcare Policy in Washington D.C.

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From my America Out Loud podcast with Grace-Marie Turner  – https://www.americaoutloud.news/grace-marie-turner-new-in-healthcare-policy-in-washington-dc/

A few years ago, Jimmy McMillan ran for mayor of New York with the slogan “the rent is too damn high.” We have been saying the same thing about the cost of medical care for years. Presidents change, the Congressional majorities change, but nothing truly useful gets done. Oh, you say, we had the Affordable Care Act. Some more people got a path to have health insurance policy in their file cabinet but their out-of-pocket costs remained high and the national total expenditures continued to rise.

Yes, the system is expensive and it is way too complicated. There are so many permutations and combinations of deductibles, benefits, co-pays that the average Joe or Jane would not know which insurance policy to choose. Fortunately, for many people, their employer is the person who has to deal with selecting a policy. Unfortunately, having health care tied to employment leaves you one layoff away from your doctor.

Additionally, insurers’ attempts to save money may cost the system more. They deny a more expensive medicine for a cheaper one that does not work as well and the patient stays ill longer, thus costing the system more in the long run.

And what ever happened to an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and simple things are simple? Insurers routinely do not include many preventive strategies, over-the-counter remedies and home care. Washington’s policies do not encourage us to pay directly for basic care. Paying directly allows us to get what we need, when we need it, and from whom we choose to get goods and services.

But is more federal government ruminating and intervention the answer? Doubtful. Improving the system will take looking at not only the theoretical but the practical by talking with health care professionals and patients who are doing the work and paying the bills.

My guest and I will discuss what’s going on in Washington DC. on the health care front.

Link to Galen Institute website: https://galen.org

Link to Galen Institute “Healthcare Choices 2020” solutions: https://galen.org/2020/health-care-choices-2020/

Link to Republican Study Committee “Framework for Personalized Affordable Healthcare”: https://rsc-hern.house.gov/framework-for-personalized-affordable-care?mc_cid=275db3c5ca&mc_eid=da57c10447

Bio

Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a non-profit research organization focusing on achieving affordable health coverage and care for all Americans, especially the most vulnerable. She is founder of the Health Policy Consensus Group that is a place for analysts from market-oriented think tanks around the country to get together and develop policy recommendations. Ms. Turner has also have served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, as an appointee to the Medicaid Commission, and as a congressional appointee to the Long Term Care Commission.

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America Out Loud PULSE: The Critical Race Theory Scam with Christopher Arend, JD

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From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Christopher Arend, JD – https://www.americaoutloud.news/the-critical-race-theory-scam/

We’re talking about indoctrination tonight.

I’m giving up my opening statement to some folks who’ve said it better than I can.

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

Josef Stalin

“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”

Adolf Hitler

“It isn’t a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state’s goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government’s propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They’ll fasten the chains to their own ankles.” – Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr (founder and chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute)

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult.

To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)

“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well.”

Booker T. Washington, My Larger Education (1911).

“Oh, I say it again, you been misled. You been had. Bamboozled. Led astray. You been took.”

Malcolm X

Bio

Christopher Arend is a California attorney who has taken up the fight against racist indoctrination in our schools. He was educated in California, including in the heart of the free speech movement at U.C. Berkeley undergraduate with a degree in Political Science and U.C. Berkeley Law School. While in the U.S. Army, Mr. Arend worked as a German translator. He spent most of his legal career practicing law in Germany before returning to California. He spent four years on the Paso Robles School Board working to formulate an even-handed ethnic studies program. He recently authored The Critical Race Theory Scam – Dissecting a Racist Ideology.

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America Out Loud PULSE: How Illegal Immigration Impacts You with Andy Schlafly, JD

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From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast How Illegal Immigration Impacts You with Andy Schlafly, JD – https://www.americaoutloud.news/andy-schlafly-jd-illegal-immigration-and-how-it-impacts-you/

Over the last 12 months, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol – as they call it – encountered some 3 million people illegally crossing the southern border. The United States is a large and generous country but the immigration issue has many ramifications.

The psychological and actual damage to black and brown legal resident is incalculable. American citizens are living on the streets while illegal immigrants are being housed.

Since President Biden took office, 425,000 unaccompanied alien children crossed the border. We are paying millions to babysit them in our schools. Teachers are at their wits’ end as they try to teach an onslaught of students who can’t speak a word of English. Don’t despair, Gavin Newsom signed a bill (Assembly Bill 714) to each teachers how to teach illegal aliens. What about our already failing American students. Black students are performing horribly. I guess blacks have outlived their usefulness – their vote is in the bag.  Illegal aliens are the new oppressed person of interest.

And what about the criminals? New criminals crossing and previously incarcerated illegal aliens (407,983 convicted criminal aliens) are not always deported. Is this what we need with crime rising throughout the country?

My guest today is Andy Schlafly. He wrote an article in Townhall highlighting some effects on illegal immigration on employment, among other things. We’ll talk about this, medical censorship, and anything else that crosses our minds.

Bio

Andy Schlafly is general counsel to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. He received a B.S.E. in electrical engineering and certificate in engineering physics from Princeton University. After graduating from Princeton, Mr. Schlafly briefly worked as a device physicist for Intel, then became a microelectronics engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He then attended Harvard Law School along with Barack Obama. For two years Mr. Schlafly was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Schlafly served as an adjunct professor at Seton Hall Law School and worked for a large law firm before beginning private practice. Mr. Schlafly created the wiki-based Conservapedia in November 2006 to counter the apparent liberal bias in Wikipedia.

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America Out Loud PULSE: Alternatives to Traditional Health Insurance

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From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Charles Frohman –https://www.americaoutloud.news/alternatives-to-traditional-health-insurance-with-charles-frohman/

Many thought the Affordable Care Act was the answer to access to medical care.  As it turns out, the insurance premiums are still prohibitive for many consumers. In 2023, the average ACA plan costs $469 per month for a 40-year-old individual, $937 for a couple age 40, $1,214 for a 40-year-old couple with one child, and $1,491 for a 40-year-old couple with two children.

 According to Kaiser Family Foundation data, about half of U.S. adults say they have difficulty affording health care costs. About 40 percent of U.S. adults with health insurance say they have delayed or gone without medical care in the last year due to cost. About one-third of adults with health insurance worry about affording their monthly health insurance premium, and 44 percent worry about affording their deductible before health insurance kicks in. Moreover, a Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that roughly 6 in 10 insured adults experience problems when they use their insurance.

Everyone is talking about health care price transparency. But what does that really mean? In short, we want receiving medical services to be more like going to the grocery store. You need a bottle of milk, you see several brands, you see the prices, you decide to buy the brand of your choice based on price and quality. Not so simple, you say. This is my health. I don’t know when I’ll get sick. Let’s face it: most of us do not have major medical problems for the most of our lives.

When it comes to more expensive care, like emergency rooms and hospitalizations, it is a small percentage of patients that make up the larger expenses. Repeat visitors to the Emergency Room make up almost one third of the visits. And one quarter of all Medicare funds are spent in an enrollee’s last year of life. What does this mean? Most of us have manageable medical care costs yet the standard insurance model does not take the facts into consideration – much to the consumer’s detriment.

When all these things are considered, it is clear that s different model for paying our medical care makes sense. We are going to talk about that tonight.

Non-insurance health care model: MPB Health

https://joinmympb.com/patientempowerment/

For links for the recording, or promotion at the Out Loud site:

*The Forbes-featured upgrade from insurance – combining Sharing (that doesn’t suffer from networks like insurance), HSAs (the most tax-advantaged retirement vehicle), and a Concierge to help our newly-empowered patients shop on drug, test and specialist prices.

*The money-doubling account for those wanting help with Out of Pocket, whether dental, electives, chiro, urgent care & therapies

* NHF’s campaigns, in particular the “certification” one to open the supply of health care, the “HSA” one to make customers out of patients; the “vaxx centralization” one to oppose the WHO, the “telecom” one to oppose the Wireless Mesh; and the “homeopathy/compounding” one to protect access to consumer-preferred natural treatments

Bio

Charles Frohman is a lobbyist for the National Health Federation to restore informed consent, healer freedom, and end special interest capture of the bureaucracies. After graduating in 1988 with a Government B.A. from the College of William and Mary, he worked at the Cato Institute, and lobbied for a variety of nonprofits focusing on medical freedom, including Health Ventures for Pain Medicine Rights, Consumer Health Reform, and Natural Health. Since 1990, Mr. Frohman has helped politicians, trade associations, think tanks, nonprofits, and corporations innovate and raise their profile. Mr. Frohman is also connecting an innovative health plan with families, entrepreneurs and associations seeking empowerment of patients and healers.

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America Out Loud Pulse: Woke Antisemitism and the Response to Hamas Attack

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From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast: Woke Antisemitism and the Response to Hamas Attack with David L. Bernstein – https://www.americaoutloud.news/woke-antisemitism-and-response-to-hamas-attack/

Over the years, racist and other hate mongers faded from sight. Some saw the error of their ways, while others hid in the closet.  The recent rise in antisemitism in America is the canary in the coal mine for the growing acceptance of overt contempt for people who are not like you. They say courage is contagious – but so is contempt.

The war in Israel and the loss of many lives, including Americans, brings the end result of unbridled hatred to our front doors. The Chicago Black Lives Matter organization posted a since-deleted graphic seemingly celebrating Hamas’ slaughter of Israelis. Stanford, Columbia, and Harvard (among others) students cheered and clapped for Hamas and displayed signs of support from their dormitory windows.  Note, they were cheering for Hamas, a terrorist organization – not the residents of Gaza. (The U.S. State Department has designated Hamas a terrorist group in 1997. The European Union and other Western countries also consider it a terrorist organization.) It is the everyday residents who will suffer for the decision of their leadership to perform act inhumane barbarism against civilians in the name of seeking autonomy. Sadly, according to Hamas’ Charter, autonomy can only come by wiping Israel off the face of the Earth.

This divisive mindset is being fostered in all aspects of American life – all under the banner of equity. California’s Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the Ebony alert – an Amber alert just for black women and children.  This is supposed to get more media attention but it just serves to divide us into separate groups.  But that’s the plan. Ever heard of divide and conquer?? It is an age-old tool of tyrants. We cannot let the dangerous path of modern day wokeism that fosters group biases continue to its logical end: a country perhaps irreparably divided.

Today (October 13th)  is the worldwide day of jihad – let’s hope that violence does not come to fruition. My guest has discussed on this show how the current “woke” movement is a breeding ground to antisemitism. We will discuss this in light of the current Middle East conflict.

Bio

David L. Bernstein is the founder of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values (JILV). The Institute supports viewpoint diversity, counters woke ideology in the Jewish community, and opposes novel forms of antisemitism emerging from woke ideology. He served as president and CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, a national umbrella for local Jewish advocacy. His recent book is Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews.

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