THE SWAMP IS ENDLESS
And You And You And You Are Feeding Its Dwellers
In The CDC Foundation I showed you how tax payer dollars both federal and state, are laundered through the CDC Foundation which is supported by CDC, more than 50 states, territories, the city of Chicago and several public universities repackaged and returned to CDC which in turn awards grants and signs cooperative agreements with those same states. This allows CDC to continue funding DEI projects in the states, territories, and state entities through NGO’s despite President Trump’s Executive Order demanding an end to DEI activities by the federal government.
Today I am going to show you how those monies, those tax payer monies, are used by DEI organizations within the states to continue DEI activities using tax payer dollars from CDC and the CDC Foundation which is awarded to state public health agencies and to contract with Non Government Organizations (NGO) to perform the work described by the grants for a fee. They then use that money to oppose policy and legislative initiatives on education and public health writ large. Kentucky is a poster child for how that happens.
As I described in The CDC Foundation, Kentucky contributed somewhere between $100,000 and $200,000 to the CDC Foundation in 2023. That money was then co-mingled with donations from other states, left leaning foundations, the pharmaceutical industry, the World Health Organization, the ACTBlue Foundation, and host of other liberal partners and is made available through grants awarded by CDC to the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services. The Cabinet for Health and Family services by itself and or through its Division of Public Health used that money to fund an effort to expand the number of state immunization centers and to ensure that immunization data was captured on each person’s Electronic Health Record (EHR). Those EHRs are then available for health care providers to know who has been “immunized” but more importantly who has not. The task was awarded to the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, an NGO.
Investing in communities. Informing health policy.OUR MISSION:
Addressing the unmet health needs of Kentuckians by developing and influencing policy, improving access to care, reducing health risks and disparities, and promoting health equity.
That ^ , is the mission statement of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky and these are the questions that it raises:
What is “health equity?
Who does the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky partner with?
Who sits on their Board of Directors and why is that important?
How has the foundation for a Healthy Kentucky attempted to influence public health policy, education, and legislation in the Commonwealth?
What is “health equity?
I asked my buddy Grok to define “health equity” because I have no idea. Rather than provide a precise definition, Grok provided almost two full pages of a description of “health equity”. My best summary of Grok’s explanation is this:
Its complicated, it involves things that have nothing to do with science and medicine, and demands that everyone have the same health outcome even if they choose to smoke, drink, use “recreational” drugs, and eat a crappy diet.
GabAI was a bit more focused but still could only provide an explanation but not a true definition of “health equity” which was essentially the same thing that Grok tried to explain.
ChatGPT gave me the very same answer as GabAI, equally brief and equally useless as a definition.
My conclusion is that “health equity can’t be defined it can only be described in subjective terms that may be tangentially related to whether you survive a cold or cancer as well as someone of a different, race, gender, geographic location, income or mood.
Who does the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky partner with?
Kentucky Partnership for Health Improvement (KyPHI)
Partnership for a Resilient Kentucky (PaRK)
Kids’ Interface and Network for Healthy Development (KY K.I.N.D.)
Network for Kentucky’s Youth
According to the Foundation’s web site that is only a partial list.
An IRS Form 990 is the return for tax exempt organizations such as the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. The 2023 Form 990 for the Foundation states that it had end of year assets of almost $60,000,000. That 990 also tells us who the rest of the “partners” of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky are and how much they received in Grant money from the Foundation. Among them are:
Louisville Pride Foundation $25,000.00
Louisville public media $12,500.00
KY Cabinet for Health and Family Services $20,000.00
KET $100,000.00
Queer Kentucky $221,934.00
University Of Kentucky Research Foundation $56,766.00
There is one thing that all of the partners of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky share in common — a commitment to DEI.
Who sits on the Foundation’s Board of Directors and why is that important?
The Supplemental forms of Form 990 (Scroll to the end) provide more detail about the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. For example this statement of responsibility can be found on Supplemental form I:
“The foundation makes grants and funds program-related activities as approved by the board of directors per an annual operating plan.”
And this is where the swamp becomes deeper, wider, and more opposed to the will of the People of Kentucky. Garren Colvin, President and CEO Saint Elizabeth Health, the Northern Kentucky health care monopoly, sits on the Board of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky where he can ensure another voice in opposition to reforming the Certificate of Need (CON) requirement for competitors to meet in order to preserve St. Elizabeths healthcare monopoly in Northern Kentucky.
The CON is supported not just by Garren Colvin but by Kim Moser the Chair of Kentucky House Committee on Health and Family Services. Moser has been steadfast in preventing any legislation that could weaken the CON from being discussed in her committee.
[Explore The Boone County Papers for a complete explanation the Certificate of Need and other issues related to this article.]
How has the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky attempted to influence public health policy, education, and legislation in the Commonwealth?
Each one of the foundations and organizations connected with the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky are on record as opposing the ill fated Amendment 2, the school choice amendment (September 2024 ballot), any effort by the General Assembly to prohibit state tax payer money, from being used to support gender affirming care including surgeries for minors, and weakening the power of the states several healthcare monopolies to prevent competition from outside healthcare providers (CON).
In Kentucky the money to do all of those things flows like a river from taxpayers directly to CDC or to the Commonwealth first then to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services then to CDC then it all goes to the CDC Foundation where it is bundled with money from other states, external organizations, the pharmaceutical industry, and the WHO back to CDC, then back to Kentucky where it gets distributed via the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky to every left leaning public health organization available. That money then funds projects deeply focused on DEI principals and to oppose the policy and legislative activity that would end DEI and the CON in the state.
I have raised this issue with a state Legislator and I am praying that it finds its way to Legislation severing any ties, financial and other wise, between the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. It is a back door to DEI and other causes that needs to be slammed shut.
Never forget this: Money given; strings always attached.
Union, Kentucky
13 February 2025