Ive been reading a book call 'The Medical Mafia' by Ghislaine Lanctot. Its a nice easy read and doesn't go into to much depth to slow you down. She covers alot of corrupt areas of medicine like vaccine programmes and the so called "war on cancer" giving an insight into how they pull the wool over our eye's and get away with it. Thought i'd share an excerpt that likens the medical industry to a mafia, showing how simple it all fits together.
R.The Medical Mafia
Its Composition
THE PARENTS
A strong couple. Accomplices for a long time, they have one goal: the total power of the Godfather.
Don Multinationalio, the Godfather, the industry, the purveyor and decision maker.
Donna Governmenta, the mother, the government. She is in charge of the house. She establishes the rules and makes sure that everyone does their homework. Everyone takes her for a saint. She obeys the Godfather and severs his interests. The parents sleep together. Donna government gave birth to a number of children who the couple needs to run the many facets of the family business.
THE CHILDREN
The TRIO of the governmental organisms.
-Assurancio, the accountants. He collects the money, public or private, and channels it to the Godfather.
-Collegio, the lawyer. He makes the law and makes sure they are respected. He maintains the authority and privileges of the Godfather.
-Associo, the negotiator. He ensures the loyalty of the “employees” to the parents. The children, despite their frequent arguments, all have the same allegiances: to the Godfather.
THE CONFIDANTS
The duo which looks after the operation of the families business.
-Propaganda, the informer. He ensures submission by gentle persuasion. He controls all the brains, the conventions, courts, scientific publications, publicity etc.
-Gestapo, the enforcer. He ensures submission by force. He compliments propaganda, with his judiciary machine, and his police, to crush and dissenters.
Both answer directly to the parents and know only one master, the Godfather. Their law is harsh: OMERTA, the code of silence.
THE EMPLOYEES
Those who faithfully execute all orders.
-Medico, the seller. He is well treated. His complicity is bought with money and prestige. But at the same time, his power is regularly reduced in favour of Civilservento. He is totally controlled, locked up in a gilded cage.
-Civilservento, the permanent representative. He is always well treated. His complicity is bought with power – over Medico – hence their frequent arguments. Their ongoing rivalry is encouraged.
-Scientifico, the researcher, He too is well treated. He collaborates through fraud, conflicts of interest, compromise, political influence, falsification of data. In exchange, he is furnished with laboratory equipment and material, research funds, perks, trips and prestige.
THE PRODUCTS
Sold by the family.
-Medicamenta, for chronic and repetitive use.
-Surgerica, for immediate use. May be repeated if need be.
-Testa, for constant use. Before, during, and after the first two.
THE MARKET
Targeted by the family.
-Patienta, the commodity to be exploited.
-Generosa, the charitable one. She is mandated to collect as much money as possible from Patienta, to better exploit Patienta.
THE ESTABLISHMENT RULE
Enforced by the family.
-Omerta, code of silence. No silence, no Mafia.
How it Works
THE INDUSTRY: THE GODFATHER
Under a health system, which seems incomprehensible because it is so complicated, hides hierarchy that is extremely simple and harsh. The Godfather reigns supreme. Each family member has a specific function, defined and commanded by the Godfather. Behind the veil of government, industry pulls the strings for its own profit. If the industry were openly to control the medical system, it would run into insurmountable opposition.
We have given up control over our health and our money in accepting to delegate our sovereignty as patients to the authorities. Let us recognize that that, in essence, is the grand art of the impostor on the part of the government and usurpation on the part of industry.
THE GOVERNEMENT: IT’S WIFE
The great impostor. Some of its members realize it, other do not. But all wish to hang on to their positions of power. None of them will give up that power lightly, without being forced to, or by becoming aware of the deadly consequences of the system of power.
…AND ITS BODIES: IT’S CHILDREN
The tools of the government. At the very top, sit those who ensure government control over the entire health field. Legislative control, finance control, administrative control. It is the State who decides in which major directions the health field will go and what major orientations it will adopt. It controls research and teaching. It decides who will do what, how, when and where. It controls health and sickness. It exercises its control through the TRIO of medical authorities.
1)Insurancio: Health-insurance. It is the group which manages the patients’ money: Public, it is Medicare and Medicaid (USA), Health Insurance (Canada), SECU (France). All report to Govermenta.
Private, comprise of insurance companies, PPO’s, HMO’s. They are dependant upon employers and unions. They are regulated by government.
2)Collegio: The Board/College of Physicians. It is an organization of doctors, subsidized by doctors, to protect the public. It is also dependant, in the last instance upon the government. It controls teaching, and issues diplomas. It regulates the right of doctors to practice, and all facets of the medical profession. It may rescind the right of doctors to practice and bar them. It may peruse in court any “non-doctor” who opens for business in the health field, citing the illegal practice of medicine. And it is this organisation that defines what is medical and what is not! All the power it enjoys has been attributed to it in the in the name of protecting the public. That is to say for our own good!. In reality, it has usurped our right to freedom of choice as sovereign patients, who alone have the right to choose the medicine that best suits us.
3)Associo: Doctors’ Associations. These too are financed by doctors. But, this time, too protect the interest of doctors. It is these associations that represent doctors in their negotiations with insurance companies for the attribution and allocation of the moneys for medical activities. They are the official spokespersons for doctors. In France, they have very little power. In Canada, not much either. But in the USA, they are very strong. The all powerful American Medical Association (AMA) that has enormous financial and political clout. As for France and Canada, it is the College of Physicians and not the association, which reigns supreme.
All the other medical institutions: control of medication, drugs and instruments; medical schools, research, hospitals, foundations, fund-raising, etc., are dependent upon one or another of the TRIO of medical authorities.
THE TRIO
These three large institutions have interests that are very divergent. That is reassuring. It means we can be assured that our interests will be well looked after and defended. Officially, Medicare/Insurance companies assure our interests, the doctors. It is a good war, TWO institutions out of three watch over the health and finances of the population. We are in good hands. We can sleep at night.
Wake up! The three institutions are SIBLINGS, born of the same mother Donna Governmenta, under the control of the same father, the Godfather.
Officially, they are three separate entities each with its own address.
In reality, they are all fed by the same hand.
Insurancio, Collegio and Associo, while they do not share the same roof, all eat at the same table. As is the case with the family, they argue frequently. More often than not, two children gang up against the third. It is not always the same two. They barter and trade a lot. For example, you pass my law and I’ll put a ceiling on doctors’ billing rates. Why is it so? Because just like politicians and civil servants, doctors highly places in these institutions are more concerned with accumulating power than they are about serving other doctors or the patient. And that, the industry has well understood.
Using its financial power, industry ensures the authority of the government which, in return, ensures its financial interests. I can see you grimacing. I know just how you feel and I agree with you. It is very unsettling to learn that one is being betrayed by the very people in whom one placed all one’s trust and confidence. But do we want to keep sticking our heads in the sand like ostriches? $ <--> LAW
THE GOVERNMENT IS THE #1 MAFIA
The mafia-government tandem is as old as the world and it continues today. The first wants the money, the other power. So an exchange is worked out. If not, it is war. The weapon of the govermnet is the law. The weapon of the Mafia is money. Both are based on force and fear. If we reflect on what a goverment actually is, we quickly realize that it is merely a small minority of priveliged people who have appropriated the decisional, finacial, and judiciary power of the majority. They have stolen our freedom. With our consent, on top of everything else! They have done it with style by making us believe that it was in our own best intrest. For our own security and protection. We call that democracy.
Let us recognize our tyrants for what they are and who they represent when we exercise our democratic prerogative. Exploitation and domination of the majority by the minority.
