The YouTube video titled “How A Healthcare CEO Got Away With A $12,000,000,000 Scam” highlights a deadly scam involving for-profit dialysis centers.
The scam happened during Kent Thiry’s tenure as CEO of DaVita, during which he radicalized the company’s operations and catapulted it from bankruptcy. DaVita dialysis centers pop up all over the USA, especially in the black community.
The problem with these centers is that patients with kidney failure who go for their blood cleaning and filtering using machines that act as an artificial kidney have a higher chance (up to 24%) of dying compared to those who get their treatment at a non-profit center. Despite the monopoly that DaVita and Fresenius, another for-profit dialysis company, own over 80% of the dialysis centers in the US, the government seems unbothered by the scam.
The video then moves on to discuss the lobbying efforts of Medicare by the Society of Vascular Surgeons (SVS) and how financial incentives exist to put patients on hemodialysis, which can lead to monopolies in the dialysis market, as seen with companies like Kent Thiry and DaVita.
According to Yousef Nofal, MD, the AV Fistula procedure, which is considered a reliable access for patients undergoing dialysis, has a reimbursement rate of up to $110,000 for vascular surgeons. This can generate up to $5 billion in revenue if all patients were on paranal dialysis. On the other hand, the paranal dialysis cath that gets placed collects only about $227.
The speaker advocates for realigning economic incentives in healthcare to reward preventative treatments rather than just treating kidney failure. He encourages healthcare providers and insurers to encourage patients to seek at-home dialysis options and criticizes the current system for not meeting goals set in an executive order from 2019.
He also emphasizes the importance of staying informed and sharing the truth to bring about change, and highlights the impact that even small actions can have.
In this video, James Li of 51-49 exposes the role of the obesity industrial complex and its connection to big pharma and food companies, as well as medical professionals and mainstream media, in propagating the idea that obesity can be cured by weight loss drugs.
James Li highlights the fact that the companies are driven by profit, use flawed science to back their products, and lobby congress to pass laws that benefit them, putting public health at risk. The speaker also discusses the flawed healthcare system in the US and suggests that education and dismantling the perverse incentive structure could lead to a healthier populace. The video urges viewers to ask questions and make informed decisions.
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In this section, James Li questions the claim made by Dr. Stanford that obesity is a genetic disease independent of lifestyle factors such as dietary changes and processed foods. Scientific consensus suggests that genetics only account for 25 to 70-80% of weight predisposition in individuals.
James Li alleges that big food and pharma companies are working together with medical professionals and mainstream media to sell products and propagate propaganda that obesity is a disease that can be cured with weight loss drugs, such as Wilgovi and Ozempic, that have questionable health impacts. These drugs are helpful to some but have questionable benefits to weight loss and may only benefit the companies for their profits.
James Li suggests that the companies lobby congress to pass the Treat and Reduce Obesity Act, requiring Medicare to cover weight management drugs, with taxpayer money. The alleged greed of these companies poses a risk to public health, and their products and narratives should be scrutinized by everyone.
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In this section, James Li discusses the issues with the current healthcare system in the United States and its economic and social incentives that contribute to the growth of the obesity industrial complex. The problem is that 95% of healthcare dollars are spent on interventions after people get sick, making healthcare the largest and fastest-growing industry in the US. Additionally, there is no economic or social incentive in the current system that encourages a healthy populace.
James Li proposes two solutions: advocating for more honest education about food and dismantling the current perverse incentive structure in place. This includes moves such as the FDA recommending added sugar for kids to zero and tax money going to subsidizing healthy food. The video ends with the call to inform and ask questions about the Confluence of all these things to make informed decisions for ourselves.
Oh, what a wonderful world of drugs we live in! Prescription drugs are killing people left and right and we can’t seem to get enough of them. In Denmark, we’re all popping pills like candy, with some lucky folks getting to take FIVE different drugs every day!
And who cares if the elderly are more susceptible to drug side effects, let’s give them ALL the drugs. Arthritis? Migraine? Back pain? Just take some highly lethal drugs, it’ll be fine.
Big Pharma has us all under their thumb and even the FDA and European Medicines Agency are in on it, approving drugs that can kill us with uncertainty, because why not? Let’s just see what happens.
Be sure to take your happy pill, even if you’re not really that unhappy – it might make you violent and end up killing you, but it’s worth a shot, right?
And don’t worry about all those missing deaths in clinical trials, who needs accurate data when you can just make it up as you go along? So, pop those pills and live a life without drugs…wait, that doesn’t make sense.
For Real
This video is a presentation by Dr. Peter Gøtzsche, a Danish physician, and researcher, who talks about the dangers of prescription drugs and how they have become a leading cause of death. He discusses how Big Pharma has corrupted the healthcare system, creating a society that is dependent on drugs.
He talks about the alarming number of daily doses of prescription drugs in Denmark, where on average, each person can take more than one drug every day from birth to death, and how the elderly, who tolerate these drugs the least, are the ones who mostly take them.
He highlights the lethality of arthritis drugs and antidepressants, and how the drug companies cheat with their data, concealing the risks and side effects of these drugs.
Dr. Gøtzsche emphasizes the danger of psychiatric drugs, like antipsychotics and antidepressants, and how they can lead to suicide and homicide, and the lack of reliable data and blinding in psychiatric drug trials.
He argues that the data from clinical trials are often biased, and there is a need for a truly independent evaluation of drugs, blinding during data analysis and writing of papers, and large long-term trials before marketing approval to get the industry to do medical education to ban marketing on drugs.
Lastly, he advises patients to read the packaging, search before they go to the pharmacy, use drugs as little as possible, and stop taking drugs when they are not necessary.
Poison or Cure?
We’re told, that prescription drugs are intended to heal us, to treat our illnesses and improve our quality of life. Yet, shockingly, prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death in both the United States and Europe, behind only heart disease and cancer. This alarming statistic is a wakeup call to the dangers that lurk within our medicine cabinets.
According to Peter Gøtzsche, approximately half of those who die due to prescription drugs have taken them correctly. The other half die as a result of errors that include taking too high a dose of a drug. This highlights the need for caution and diligence when it comes to managing our own healthcare and taking prescription drugs.
The drug industry, however, seems to have a stranglehold and monopoly over treatments, and their enormous revenue is dependent on meting out synthetic drugs rather than advocating natural treatments that cannot be patented. As a result, natural treatments, which could be a safer alternative, are often overlooked or disregarded in favor of expensive drugs that have been heavily marketed and prescribed.
It is time for a change in the way we approach healthcare. We must demand that our medical system prioritize the health and well-being of patients, rather than the profits of drug companies. This means advocating for natural treatments, investing in research on the long-term effects of drugs, and improving patient education and access to information about the risks and benefits of different treatments.
Let’s Sing Along
It’s a deadly game we play
With prescription drugs everyday
Big Pharma’s corruption is to blame
For the lives lost, it’s such a shame
Arthritis drugs and antidepressants too
Are highly lethal, it’s nothing new
Psychiatric meds are the third leading cause
Of death – it should give us pause
Blinded trials and missing deaths
Make the evidence suspect, at best
We need change, a culture shift
To truly make a positive lift
Read the packaging, be aware
Search and research, show you care
Live a life with fewer drugs
And avoid becoming a statistic, no shrugs.
