COVID-19, A SCHEME TO TRANSFER YOUR WEALTH TO THE SELF ANOINTED ELITES
A Shattered Health Care System From top to bottom
For some months I have been writing about the excesses of our public health agencies fueled by their monetary dependence on the pharmaceutical industry. This dependence is not because agencies such as the FDA, NIH, and the CDC are underfunded but because of their never-ending and ever-growing appetite for personal wealth and power for those who have been appointed to be the good and faithful stewards of the public’s trust and money.
In a series articles: A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR RIGHTING THE SHIP; Righting the Ship Part II; and Righting the Ship Part III: NIH I described the web of greed and deceit that has been spun over the last 30 plus years to rob the American people of any meaningful role in establishing public health policy in the US by manipulating the data to produce a narrative is simply a lie.
I have also written about the fact that for every COVID-19 related service — including an individual’s COVID-19 associated death — hospitals received payment from the federal government. I also wrote about billions of Congressionally authorized taxpayer dollars intended to help offset the loss of employment that they allowed to be forced through illegal lockdowns.
Today we learn from just one state about a pattern of theft of wealth by the state’s hospital system that is surely just the tip of the iceberg. Atrium Health, the largest of North Carolina’s health care providers illegally transferred $12 B from COVID relief funds to the system’s bottom line. Money intended to help the poor was instead diverted to help the wealthy.
"What we're seeing here, we see in other states also," said Marilyn Bartlett, CPA and senior policy fellow at NASHP, who worked on the report.
"Taxpayers' hard-earned money is being wasted," she said, adding that large hospitals appeared to use taxpayer relief to consolidate the market and power to squeeze higher prices.
Officials noted that it's nearly impossible to see how, exactly, the nonprofit health systems spent COVID relief and other taxpayer money, but it's clear much of it was funneled into investments rather than a purported charitable mission.
"The power that's gained by the hospital systems as a result of this is not only used to strengthen their own market, but it's also used to acquire independent physicians," said Dale Owen, CEO of Tryon Medical Partners, an independent physicians' group in Charlotte. "This is a big socioeconomic effect, as well, (be)cause employers are having to pay more in healthcare dollars and salaries as a result can't go up as much."
Barlett contends that the COVID relief funds were “wasted”. I prefer “stolen”.
“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.” Exodus 20:10
Union, KY
23 June 2022