By Catherine Austin Fitts
You want to pay attention to the fuss over the waiting times at a VA Hospital. This is what happens when a benefit is promised, but Congress does not appropriate the resources to deliver. It is something I used to see all the time in Washington. Congress would authorize a program in the authorizing committees. However, the appropriations committees would never fund, or fund in insufficient amounts.
Implementing bureaucracies would create complex processes to equate a limited supply of a service to many multiples of demands. Gridlock was the result with the people getting the scant services being the ones willing to lose the most time and be persistent. The amount of time wasted on the part of those who never got the service was always heartbreaking. The illusion lost them a great deal of time and indeed caused people to lose their businesses and lives. If they had only know that the promise was an illusion, they could have used that time searching for authentic solutions. They would have been much better off if they had known the service was really not available.
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In the end this was invariably blamed on incompetent government and stupid bureaucrats. These were cover stories. The average federal worker’s compensation is double that of the average US worker. They are paid well to deal with the creation and expense of such illusions. Despite the compensation and benefits, managing the lies can be a brutal existence and can cost health and lives as well.
This dynamic of promising but not delivering will apply to the entire US health care system as aging baby boomers move through it like a pig through a snake. Listen to Jo Kline Ceburhar’s interview on the Solari Report and read her book regarding Health Care Proxies. The facts are chilling. They inspire each one of us to consider how we are going to arrange health care in the world that will be not the one that is being promised. Are we going to pay insurance companies for the promise or fund our own savings kitty that can buy something smaller but real?
Industry is racing to bring down the costs of health care in America. One of the reasons that Washington has placed so much importance on digitizing records is so that the information technology world can automate a significant delivery of products and services. That means, however, that a great deal of Americans are going to lose their jobs or lower their income as a result. Indeed, health care and hospitals have been a job creation engine for quite some time. Those Americans will find themselves added to the expanding pool who must survive with limited access or the kind of access that we are hearing about at the VA hospitals.
What do you do? Start with recommendations written by a retiring Tennessee physician, Dr. Robert S. Dotson that we published here in January:
“Avoid contact with the existing health care system as far as possible. Yes, emergencies arise that require the help of physicians, but by and large one can learn to care for one’s own minor issues. Though it is flawed, the internet has been an information leveler for the masses and permits each person to be his or her own physician to a large degree. Take advantage of it! Educate yourself about your own body and learn to fuel and maintain it as you would an expensive auto or a pet poodle.”
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