You made me (allowed me) to laugh, chuckle and guffaw... which USED TO BE common when reading, listening or watching Brits. My daughter was briefly married to one. He was extremely handsome, but finicky and a 'Mama's Boy.' Nevertheless, during that 7 year stint... I fell in love with England.
And while there is still a soft spot in my heart for your Island Nation... I am no longer smitten and, in fact, disappointed and sometimes appalled at today's England...and the UK in general.
Please FIX IT! (i said "please" because of the British penchant for manners)
And here is a partial cut & paste from one who might well be Dr. Coleman's brother-in-fighting)-spirit, attorney/blogster (Coffee & Covid) Jeff Childers: BRAVISSIMO!
... I'll conclude with a personal observation. During the early pandemic, my [law] office was swamped with “hospital kidnapping” cases where desperate families called us because their loved ones went into the hospital for an unrelated condition, like a broken ankle, then failed a mandatory covid test, and before anyone knew what was happening, they were in comas, on ventilators.
The reason the desperate families called lawyers was because the hospitals refused to discharge the patients so that the families could arrange alternative care. In cases we were forced to litigate, hospitals spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on defensive tall-building lawyers opposing our efforts to sue the hospitals to release those patients.
The individual stories are so hair-raising I hesitate to dive into the morbid details. But I spent hundreds of hours investigating what was going on. Had the healers turned evil? Was the federally funded covid relief money so tantalizing that doctors and nurses and hospital managers cared nothing for their patients? Why did every single covid patient receive the exact same treatment protocol despite every case being different since individuals are different? Why did doctors refuse to try anything but the cookie-cutter treatment protocol even though COVID was a “novel” disease?
It turns out the root cause of this tragic medical homogeneity wasn’t the doctors. What I found was much worse. I found the withered hand of government, right where Milton Friedman said it would be whenever you find a distorted market. Here’s the problem: Most hospitals’ total income is almost entirely sourced from Medicare/Medicaid—the same agencies DOGE has been quietly auditing for the past week. In most cases, any hospital’s government funding exceeds 70% of total revenue. Hospitals basically have one customer, and it isn’t the patient.
Worse, Medicare/Medicaid establishes the “approved” treatment protocols for nearly every disease and condition, dictating what it will pay for, and what it refuses to pay for. Hospitals’ financial existence depends on compliance, and they had no choice but to obey. And on the flip side of the Judas coin, obeying was very lucrative.
In other words, the reason every COVID patient got the same useless, devastating Remdesivir/ventilator/opioid treatment is because partisan government bureaucrats dictated it and froze it into place. That’s it. And the same thing is true for nearly every other disease you can think of.
Never ending squeeze $$$_
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You made me (allowed me) to laugh, chuckle and guffaw... which USED TO BE common when reading, listening or watching Brits. My daughter was briefly married to one. He was extremely handsome, but finicky and a 'Mama's Boy.' Nevertheless, during that 7 year stint... I fell in love with England.
And while there is still a soft spot in my heart for your Island Nation... I am no longer smitten and, in fact, disappointed and sometimes appalled at today's England...and the UK in general.
Please FIX IT! (i said "please" because of the British penchant for manners)
But I'm American, so FIX IT!
I want to fall in love again❤️🩹
And here is a partial cut & paste from one who might well be Dr. Coleman's brother-in-fighting)-spirit, attorney/blogster (Coffee & Covid) Jeff Childers: BRAVISSIMO!
... I'll conclude with a personal observation. During the early pandemic, my [law] office was swamped with “hospital kidnapping” cases where desperate families called us because their loved ones went into the hospital for an unrelated condition, like a broken ankle, then failed a mandatory covid test, and before anyone knew what was happening, they were in comas, on ventilators.
The reason the desperate families called lawyers was because the hospitals refused to discharge the patients so that the families could arrange alternative care. In cases we were forced to litigate, hospitals spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on defensive tall-building lawyers opposing our efforts to sue the hospitals to release those patients.
The individual stories are so hair-raising I hesitate to dive into the morbid details. But I spent hundreds of hours investigating what was going on. Had the healers turned evil? Was the federally funded covid relief money so tantalizing that doctors and nurses and hospital managers cared nothing for their patients? Why did every single covid patient receive the exact same treatment protocol despite every case being different since individuals are different? Why did doctors refuse to try anything but the cookie-cutter treatment protocol even though COVID was a “novel” disease?
It turns out the root cause of this tragic medical homogeneity wasn’t the doctors. What I found was much worse. I found the withered hand of government, right where Milton Friedman said it would be whenever you find a distorted market. Here’s the problem: Most hospitals’ total income is almost entirely sourced from Medicare/Medicaid—the same agencies DOGE has been quietly auditing for the past week. In most cases, any hospital’s government funding exceeds 70% of total revenue. Hospitals basically have one customer, and it isn’t the patient.
Worse, Medicare/Medicaid establishes the “approved” treatment protocols for nearly every disease and condition, dictating what it will pay for, and what it refuses to pay for. Hospitals’ financial existence depends on compliance, and they had no choice but to obey. And on the flip side of the Judas coin, obeying was very lucrative.
In other words, the reason every COVID patient got the same useless, devastating Remdesivir/ventilator/opioid treatment is because partisan government bureaucrats dictated it and froze it into place. That’s it. And the same thing is true for nearly every other disease you can think of.