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Subject: LATimes: Public Option Must Address the Perverts in Medicine
Date: Oct 20, 2009 8:35 AM
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There has to be a specific disclaimer
in there which describes psychiatry and
psychology for what it is:
http://www.actionlyme.org/PHILLIPS_JE_PERVERT.htm
Look at my medical records.
Chronic Lyme, verifiable congenital
Lyme, nerve damage to every single one
of the nerves coming out of my neck,
activated Epstein Barr, OspA antigen
in my spinal fluid, activated Cytomegalovirus...
These scientifically valid biomarkers of
disease do not mean I suffer from not
enough penis, but any psychologist or
psychiatrist on any dot guv or insco
payroll or part of any clique will lie
to protect against payment or to defend
their co-malpractitioner against a lawsuit.
It is VERY CRITICAL that we address the
fact that these psychiatric perverts never
perform any scientific rule outs, nor are
they able to discern the meaning of
"scientifically valid biomarkers of disease"
http://www.actionlyme.org/BIOMARKERS2.htm
because they have a mental disorder where
they utterly abhor facts.
Now, I point out that ILADS.org is made
up of a bunch of psychiatric morons, but
the Connecticut Attorney General brought
the actual law case against IDSociety.org
Why?
Because ILADS.org could not dare make the
claim of scientific invalidity (outside the
time I wrote their report):
http://www.ilads.org/about_ILADS/position_papers2.html
in June, 2001, after the "breaking news"
release of the Klempner Bogus Article:
http://www.actionlyme.org/MKLEMPNER.htm
and you will see that this is the last
time ILADS addressed "scientific validity."
So, everyone needs to know that these pervert
claque, psychiatry can and will be paid to
say anything against patients for personal
reasons, to keep up the pretense that they
are a "medical practice," and they will co-perjure
themselves and even throw you in jail and take
your kids away and give them to a maniac
http://www.actionlyme.org/THE_REAL_DON_DICKSON.htm
to prevent being sued for malpractice.
Now, are there real CRAZY people who can't
be controlled without "medication?" Sure,
but those people are probably possessed, like
the vast majority of DCF "workers" because the
process of possession starts with some self-
aggrandizing belief, some vanity. 'Some sense
that one is special.
http://www.actionlyme.org/DIABOLICAL_PERVERSION_PSYCHOANALYSIS.htm
Now, if any of this gang, indeed, knows
all of these things - has the intellectual
capacity to see the whole picture, which I
doubt - they would not say a word because they
would otherwise have to find a new job.
And this whole American *culture* is warped
by the same ME-ism.
Can it be fixed?
Only if an example is made out of them, in
a big way:
http://www.actionlyme.org/andersonpenisbiter.htm
This DCF ^^^ penis-biting case looms, still, but no
one will investigate it and prosecute it,
because why?
Why does the DCF penisbiter get away with
her crimes?
Because it involves myself, and James Phillips,
although he is a moron, has more human value
than myself?
Does his life have more value than mine
and my childrens'? Has James Phillips
done more good for the world than myself?
The stories of the penisbiter, James Phillips'
perversions and incompetence, and ILADS' incompetence
in the face of the Riddle of Pam3Cys show
that these quacks need to be sidelined
permanently in our culture, if Wall
Street and the Banksters behavior/culture of
Greed-is-Good hasn't made an impression on
this country.
Think about it.
In what way does America lead the world?
Not in courage and not in intelligence and
not in science and not in morality and not
in logic... because here we are still talking
about how insurance companies are going
to continue to kill people, regardless of
all the noise about Obama and Healthcare.
And no one is talking about the primary
way they do it- with the "expertise" of the
perverts of medicine.
Do you know how many psychiatrists said
I was crazy to be claiming what the CT
AG later charged?
http://www.actionlyme.org/080430_RICO_CABAL_CAVES.htm
Versus how many apologized to me, in the
real way of a real man?
It's at least 6 to Zero.
Phillips, Marcus, Leebens (who defrauded
the court with the Order of Temporary Custody
of my congenitally infected children
http://www.actionlyme.org/Schoen.htm
then "left the country" and could not be
cross-examined as the CT law demands),
Coric, and several others anonymously
and on paper.
But, I was right about every last thing
I ever said, including that DCF's chief
Ragaglia was a slut:
http://www.actionlyme.org/RAGAGLIA_GRANDJURY_DETAILS.htm
Not a one of these penis-loving perverts
have ever said they were wrong and
apologized, and these people are the
self-alleged brain and behavior experts?
This problem needs to be fixed as
part of the overall plan to provide
HEALTHCARE, as a human right.
To prejudge another erroneously and
on false allegations and premises
(a psychiatric "diagnosis") is
the sincerest form of discrimination and
we, in America, can't face it, and can't
address it because we Americans are the
most cowardly and stupid people on earth...
thanks to the psychiatric perversions of
"It's All About MEEeeee!!"
http://www.actionlyme.org/SATANS_SICKSO.htm
If this is not addressed as part of the
healthcare overhall, forget "America" and
forget "leadership."
America has YET to say what "Lyme Disease"
is or what Pam3Cys is, yet Anthony Fauci,
the head of NIAID, dares to attend interviews
where he dances around the subject.
What's that say about penises or manhood?
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-patients19-2009oct19,0,4630224,full.story
HEALTHCARE: ROADS TO REFORM
Healthcare bills lack protections against treatment denials, experts
say
Measures pending in Congress push insurers to keep down costs and
cover all regardless of health. That leaves the firms with a big cost-
containment tool: refusing requests to cover treatments.
Denied treatment
Nataline Sarkisyan, 17, died in December 2007 after Cigna refused to
cover a liver transplant.
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Despite growing frustration with the way health insurers deny medical
treatments, major healthcare bills pending in Congress would give
patients little new power to challenge those sometimes life-and-death
decisions.
"Right now, the deck is stacked against patients," said Bryan Liang,
director of the Institute of Health Law Studies at California Western
Law School in San Diego. "Healthcare reform is not going to change the
ball game."
Yet a patient's ability to fight insurers' coverage decisions could be
more important than ever because Congress, in promoting cost
containment and price competition, may actually add to the pressure on
insurers to deny requests for treatment.
By requiring insurers to cover everyone, regardless of pre-existing
conditions, healthcare reform will make it more difficult for insurers
to control their costs, or "bend the cost curve," by avoiding sick
people.
That leaves insurers with the other big cost-containment tool: turning
down requests to cover treatments.
"There are going to be a lot of denials," said insurance industry
analyst Robert Laszewski, a former health insurance executive. "I am
not setting insurance companies up to be villains. But we are telling
them to bend the cost curve. How else are they going to bend the cost
curve?"
Experts said the legislation under consideration does not
significantly enhance patient protections against insurers refusing to
cover requests for treatment. Most people currently have no right to
challenge health insurers' treatment decisions by suing them for
damages.
Patient advocates point to the continuing struggle of Hilda and Grigor
Sarkisyan, whose daughter Nataline died in 2007 when insurance giant
Cigna Corp. refused to cover a liver transplant.
The parents' wrongful-death suit against Cigna over the transplant
denial was thrown out this year by a federal judge, who cited a 1987
U.S. Supreme Court decision involving the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act. That ruling said ERISA bars suits for damages over
health benefit decisions.
The ruling affects 132 million people who get insurance through
employers.
The Sarkisyans traveled to Washington a couple of months ago to try to
persuade members of Congress to undo the ERISA ruling and allow people
with job-based coverage to sue for damages.
The healthcare reform bill pending in the House would extend that
right to anyone who buys coverage through one of the health insurance
exchanges it envisions. That could include small businesses.
But the legislation does not remove the barrier to such suits by
people in the employment-based insurance market.
Insurers and employers strongly support the ban. They say any increase
in litigation would drive up costs and could force some employers to
drop health benefits.
But some members of Congress said the Sarkisyans' case illustrates why
change is needed. They said patients would be better protected if
insurers feared the possibility of a lawsuit over their treatment
coverage decisions.
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) said the ERISA ruling had created
an "unbalanced set of incentives" for insurance companies.
"If they fail to fund an operation and then it turns out the operation
would not have been useful and wasn't necessary, the patient lives and
they save money," he said. "But if they fail to fund an operation and
it turns out the patient dies, their liability is extremely limited."
Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), who met with the Sarkisyans in
Washington, said it was not clear that Congress intended ERISA to bar
damage suits against health insurers.
"They are the only industry in the nation that has that kind of
immunity from potentially very wrongful conduct," he said. "It is a
real problem."
Still, Schiff said there were not enough votes to overcome industry
support for the ERISA ruling.
But a government-sponsored health insurance option could be an
antidote, he said.
The so-called public option, though controversial, was not included in
the bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee last week. But it is
still under consideration in the House, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-
San Francisco) favors it.
The idea is that private insurers would be forced to compete with the
public option on price and service, which includes the ease with which
patients can get needed treatment paid for.
"Companies would be that much more scrupulous to ensure they provide
the care necessary, because if you establish the reputation for
denying care, there are not many buyers wanting your plan," Schiff
said.
Another pair of liver transplants illustrate how that might work.
UCLA doctors told Ephram Nehme, a San Fernando Valley produce market
owner, that he could die waiting for a liver in California and
encouraged him to go to Indiana, where waits were much shorter. But
Nehme's insurer, Anthem Blue Cross of California, refused to pay for
an out-of-state operation.
Fearing for his life, Nehme paid $205,000 out of his own pocket for
the 2007 operation at Clarian Transplant Center in Indianapolis.
But if Nehme, now 61, had been on Medicare, the public insurance plan
for people 65 and older, his Indiana transplant would have been
covered.
That's what happened last year to Glen Ossiander, a retired Pacific
Palisades artist. Like Nehme, Ossiander was being treated for
hepatitis at UCLA. Like Nehme, he needed a transplant. And, like
Nehme, he faced a long wait. And, like Nehme, he moved temporarily to
Indianapolis where he underwent the transplant operation within two
weeks at Clarian.
That's where the similarities end. Ossiander's operation was covered,
without a hitch -- mostly by Medicare but also by his Medicare
supplemental insurance provider, Anthem Blue Cross.
Ossiander, 68, who knew his hepatitis might eventually require a
transplant, said he was relieved when he turned 65 because he knew it
would be covered.
"As soon as I got onto Medicare, the hospital and everybody said, 'You
really don't have anything to worry about now,' " he said. "You are on
Medicare."
Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) said he planned to fight for a
public option as the debate moves to the full Senate because insurers
have "failed to meet their obligations to the American people."
"We've seen all the insurance industry tricks -- hiding rules in fine
print, cutting people off when they get sick, and refusing to pay for
necessary treatment because of pre-existing conditions," he said in a
statement. "This is why I am fighting for a public option -- we need
an insurance option out there that puts people first, not profits. We
need a real public option, one that competes with private insurance
companies to keep them honest and accountable."
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci |
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