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Just breaks your heart to watch these people lose money, doesn't it?

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This is going to get much worse if the past is any indication. I’m working on a new result. There are 3 waves. The first is acute, think the august mortality numbers. The second will draw out another year with infection provoked autoimmune injuries more deaths. What really threw me for a loop looking at past numbers was a noticeable jump in deaths related to “Ill-defined conditions-signs and symptoms” in 2012. 2 years after the H1N1 campaign.

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I believe at least a part of it has to do with an attempt to move medicine toward AI and "deprecate" the profession of a physician to a large degree.

https://tessa.substack.com/p/healthy-technology-act

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I suspect fancy book work to cover the huge windfalls by false Up Coding for the profitable ICD10 codes associated with “Covid” protocols and deaths. Why Becker also keeps reporting on CEO resignation’s. They are getting out while the getting is still good. There is a song with a lyric “take the money and run”.

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In the midst of a global health crisis, "We are focused on navigating current market dynamics ..." Lovely. For-profit* healthcare was just a bad idea.

*Remember "non-profit" healthcare doesn't mean health professionals and researchers should not be well paid: it just means there are any stock holders or financial investors or money-managers at the top of the administration putting profit before quality healthcare.

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ROTFLMAO. Okay so the same businesses who milked the system for 2 freaking years with every unethical and immoral scam they could are now going broke because all the vaxxed people are screwed up health wise? BWA HA HA HA

You did the "Amber Heard" and now you get to sleep in it. BWA HA HA HA

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Except there's a heckuva new cash cow in "gender-affirming care." I was shocked that the major medical center/teaching hospital in my area jumped right on board too. These guys are gonna bounce right back with a vengeance.

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Why would longer hospital stays hurt profits. That makes no sense. The hospitals by me charge $40k per day for room before insurance adjustments. It’s all a scam. Yes For Profit is bad but Free Market is good. We have nothing close to that in USA.

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Based on the recent evidence of long persistence even 12 months, of the spike protein in folks following the mandated products and it’s incredible inflammatory characteristic, the ongoing epidemic of chronic disabling diseases is likely to become worse. Inflammation does damage when it is chronic and systemic.

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Many healthcare orgs are in this same situation. I think a big factor is the inflation, worker shortage and in my system our outpatient visits are down too—we think some people are delaying care also due to high out-of -pocket costs I presume. We are having to hire a lot of agency nurses—lots more expensive than employed ones for sure. What irks me is that I have yet to see a healthcare org talk about rehiring some of those folks that quit due to the vax mandates, at least on the west coast.

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The destruction of many institutions including insitutionalized medicine and in the near future is inevitable if for no other reason the financial underpinnings of these institutions will evaporate during the collapse that is being engineered. This will not be a "Last Comic Standing" but last institution standing situation.

I would not be shocked if the system of 3rd party payers is gone and if the government collapses there goes your Medicaid and Medicare, and say good bye to all entitlement programs as well.

Many of these programs will need to be rebuilt from the ground up and while it may not be a good time for all, eventually... when the dust settles.... we will have been ride of some very unlovely aspects of a society we have been used to but will be no more.

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This is not entirely bad news I think, although the response to it, if unwise and unable to see the heart of the problem, may well make it worse. If you have read Ivan Illich's *Tools for Conviviality*, first published in 1973, you'll recognize the unmistakable description he rendered fifty years ago of the problems of industrializing anything, including medicine. He discusses two watersheds, one an early phase of industrialization where significant achievements alleviate actual suffering, and a later watershed moment where the system itself becomes dedicated to its own survival, using its earlier achievement as a rationale for the exploitation of society as a whole. I recommend the book as having great wisdom to offer our thoughtful united response to the implosion of systems which have existed for a long time for their own sake, in this case, a system of bureaucratic medicine which has long since abandoned actual care for people.

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Big Health has lost the "Mandate of Heaven" and they ain't seen shit yet!

These bastards won't be able to afford two tongue depressors to make a cross out of for praying for forgiveness!

Yeah, I'm pissed.

We all should be!

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Which will incentivize faster “throughput” strategies, which I predict will increase ACM. From personal experience this year, after three days in the hospital ICU, the patient was actively pushed out the door. In a body bag two days later. It was distressing and disturbing.

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I don't feel too bad for them, here is their millions a year salary in 2018: "Mass General Brigham's CFO Peter Markell and Chief Investment Officer John Barker each received compensation totaling $2.9 million in 2018, and Anne Klibanski, MD, who is now CEO, but was chief academic officer of the company in 2018, received $1.14 million."

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