A Miracle in Medical Economics Called Capitalism

Our present California Medi-Cal healthcare system is a hopeless, sick, and non-caring mess, and is on a precipitous economic and moral decline. Believe me, I worked my way through it, survived it, rejected it, and am here to help you understand exactly how to heal it.  It is time to build a hopeful, caring, and economically sound medical system, better and more caring and efficient when you get sick than ever before, and friendly and motivating such that you will get in for comprehensive routine checkups.  It is best to head off diseases, including bankruptcy, discrimination, and many preventable and curable bread and butter diseases, treat them promptly to live as healthily as possible.   My prognosis for adhering to some simple, “super” common-sense business steps to be outlined in this paper is the development of a high “quality of life” and vibrant medical system; the envy of the world.  But to obtain miracles, we need a Truthful guide.

As you know, many people don’t want to hear anything about or from God nowadays, yet we exist because of and for God.  We have manufactured an inaccurate phrase that does not appear in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (although often quoted) called…” separation of church and state”.  The Pilgrims came to America in 1620 to establish OUR OWN church, free from the persecution (and discrimination) of the Church of England. 

On all our paper and coin currency, it says… “In God We Trust.”  This is a paradox that requires explanation.  Mine is threefold.  First, we are a Nation Under God, and we clearly do not separate church and state (government), or we should not, because if we do, we will become UNETHICAL. Second, U.S. banknotes are the honest to goodness means of exchange between doctors and patients.  There is nothing counterfeit about USA money, or there shouldn’t be.  And third, the First Amendment was NOT written to protect people and their laws from religious values, but to protect those values from government tyranny.  Of major importance, the establishment clause in this amendment prohibits the government from creating an official state church, favoring one religion over another, or favoring religion over non-religion.  The government must maintain a position of neutrality in these matters.  Church and medicine are one.  They are both about saving lives.    

Communist medicine (and communist medical economics), codified in 2010 by the passage of a federal law called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or PPACA (also known as Medi-Cal or Medicaid or Obamacare or Newsomcare, or Medicare, or government run healthcare), is NOT protective of patients, OR affordable.  And if Medicare or Medi-Cal is your sole source of payment, please don’t panic and give up on me yet.  There is a very powerful solution to that problem.

Do you ever get the feeling that doctors and nurses don’t really like patients much nowadays, or for that matter, doctors and nurses aren’t liked much by patients?  There is no solid commitment or trust either way.  It would be interesting to get your take about this lack of pleasantness and why things are the way they are.  

My answer is yes, I am aware of the angst, and I believe we are all insanely privileged and pathologically entitled by Governor Gavin Newsom and his cleverly disguised raw discrimination, the “chief of the discriminator staff.”  We Californians do the bidding of our administrator of Medi-Cal, the tyrannical and ultra persuasive, hypnotizing “power- grabber” called Governor Newsom.  Now change the phrase power-grabber to “money-grabber,” lots of money.  Finally, change money-grabber to “healing grabber,” lots of healing.  Stolen money means stolen healing.    

And with this strong sense of entitlement, we end up acting like enablers, or henchmen or partners in crime, for this sick man.  This behavior is a defense mechanism which protects our anemic pride in these troubled times, where under his spell, we all feel like rejected, denied, incompetent, and worthless victims of prejudice, needy of his help.  Newsom is a very cunning swindler.  

Thus, we erroneously engage in hostile, retaliatory, and cruel behavior, soured and bitter against each other.  We instinctively rationalize and perceive ourselves as superior and worthy of special privileges in Newsom’s kingdom.  It is flat out envy, plain and simple.  We are puppets and he is the abusive, cunning puppeteer.  We are mad at each other when we should be mad at him!   

We are trapped in an evil, bureaucratic mess.  When the government interferes with the business of doctors and patients, both suffer the consequences.  The doctor suffers a financial and an ego hit, and the patient suffers a “competency of doctor” and bitter angriness hit. Both stop liking and trusting each other and want nothing to do with each other, and the cycle of resentment begins.  We are sick and dying at a fast rate because of Newsom’s kill power.  Could this be contributed to the population deficit we are experiencing in California?

This Newsom trance affects all small businesses in California.  Any transaction in any trade is the same, be you a hairdresser, a carpenter, or a doctor.  The results?  An increasingly incompetent, penniless, and unmotivated producer provides a high cost (Newsom is expensive) and low-quality, cut cost product or service which is then presented to the increasingly dissatisfied patient or customer or client.  In the medical trade, the doctor slaves along for the bureaucracy without initiative, and the patients receive substandard and very dangerous treatment, making them slaves to the bureaucracy as well!  We all serve Newsom and cowardly stand by and watch the misery index continue to expand.  The take home is that real money and payment in full for services or products rendered IS the root cause of affordable, satisfying and safe medical treatment, the kind that makes consumers want to repeat business with their suppliers of healing.  

Wouldn’t you agree with me that Governor Newsom and his Medi-Cal healthcare insurance is a huge parasite, sucking the lifeblood and livelihoods of doctors and patients out of them?  Wouldn’t you agree that Governor Newsom is sucking the economy dry, and stealing all the resources and jobs that fund the producers who no longer desire to work and make wonderful products and services for you and me? Our economy gets weaker every day, and there are fewer good doctors to take care of us. So, what are we doing about it?  We are doing a lot behind the scenes. 

FIRST, we have sicced the “Fraud Czar,” vice-president Vance and the stellar administration of President Trump onto Governor Newsom and his Medi-Cal fraud. We are becoming good, blood sucking healing parasites, like Newsom, ticks on a bad dog (fraud), sucking the illegitimate funds out of Newsom’s pockets, back to where they belong, a tit-for-tat retaliation. After all, parasitology is a well-known discipline of medicine and doctors are supposed to be able to diagnose and treat patients who have been parasitized and paralyzed, and transfuse that lifeblood back into our fragile and anemic Spirits.  

Where did all the money go?  We are now exposing shocking solid evidence demonstrating his crimes.  And once we suck Newsom dry, the parasite will die.  Of great interest, our amazing Republican gubernatorial candidates for Newsom’s spot, both Steve Hilton and Sheriff Chad Bianco, are hot on the trail of this fraud money as well.  It is promised that HUGE money will be exposed with these efforts.  Fairness is the goal, and you and I will be amazed by the findings.  Just think, our money (or at least some of it), the money for fair trade healing will be ours again!  And the parasite will be dead.  We will handily take off with a spirit of LIFE, hard work, earning, and capitalizing healing power.

SECOND, we are so, so full of the trance of Governor Newsom, we are blind to capitalism.   There is no question that this jolting back into reality is working and will transform our thinking back into the realm of meritocracy, competition, and hard work for the benefit of our American brothers and sisters.  The beauty of the small, private business model called capitalism will soon emerge and overflow.  

What is capitalism?  It is freedom of private business to organize and operate for profit in a competitive system without interference by government beyond that regulation necessary to protect the public interest and to keep the national economy in balance.  And national economy transfers to state, county, city, and finally family economics.

Think of what this means.  There are over 100,000 licensed physicians in California alone. If each one had his or her own small business, think of all the new businesses! Private practice means that you and your doctor would be a one-on-one team. There is no middleman. And if you are worried about negligence and fairness and immorality, don’t be. Compare this small business model with the mega-Medi-Cal Newsom system above.  My practice was solid and ethical until Newsom and his predecessors stepped in!  And, to do small business, you don’t need an MBA.  You don’t even need a bachelor’s degree in business. The truth is that you don’t need much more than a mom watching her kids sell lemonade on the street corner and putting the money in a savings account. We would be well served if our medical educators were to add a very simple business 101 for doctors. If you are ethical, that’s all you need, besides an adding machine and an honest and true-blue secretary. Freedom from taxation, regulation, pain, suffering, and literal genocide are the benefits.      

THIRD, we have been let down by medical academia.  Medical education is bureaucracy, the same as liberal arts education bureaucracy.  Good, solid, ethical medical and surgical training has been infected by DEI.  Affirmative action and DEI are the same, and it is the poisonous gruel of Medi-Cal and Newsom’s trance over the innocent, naïve, young, precious students of California precincts aspiring to be physicians and the envious egghead medical educators remaining at the prestigious universities around the country. Why wouldn’t we “privatize” medical education, instruct ALL physicians in business 101 for doctors, and then teach it for our next generation of doctors? That would be common sense and vibrant capitalism.

Since Medi-Cal became prevalent, Californians have developed a rather complacent, laid-back, lazy, unconcerned attitude as Newsom’s Medi-Cal slumber took effect.  There are a lot of state workers and teachers in California, an easy group to infect with DEI poison. Then come the unions, and there goes our economy and our doctors and our lives and our safety and our hope.       

To obtain the miracle of capitalism in medical economics, we doctors and patients must MASTER the miracle of “trust and ethics” in each other alone.  Since my exit from Medi-Cal and moving on to an alternate industry in free market capitalism (which is tragically threatened as are all vocations in California now), I have started to listen to THE VOICE for private physicians which has been speaking to America for 83 years, since 1943!  It’s called the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), and it is my GO-TO PLACE for common sense and ethical solutions to the burden of Medi-Cal.  I trust AAPS, but the bias of Medi-Cal and government run healthcare in general has hacked AAPS.   Just look at the Wikipedia definition of AAPS.    Look at how the purveyors of Medi-Cal, including the evil sycophantic media, slander the honest to God Truth about capitalism in medicine!  Shameful. 

We talk about the U.S. Constitution and its correlation with free enterprise or capitalism in conservative circles. Some people take out their Pocket Constitution when they want to make a point about fiscal responsibility, or limited government, or capitalism.  The AAPS also has a Pocket Constitution, a very easy to read short book called “Common Sense Medicine” by author Jeff Danby.  In it, he condenses several of those simple steps to achieve the Miracle of Capitalism in Medical Economics. I am adding a few more. All these steps start with the letter C.  Here’s the list:

1. Create a price determination between the doctor and patient and none other.
2. Cash payment for medical services, via a tax-exempt medical savings account for everyone in the family, no limit on how much goes in.
3. Catastrophic medical insurance with low premiums and very high claims payout, no deductible.
4. Cut Medi-Cal and replace it with Capitalism-Cal.
5. Eliminate Regulatory Capture in medical economics by the formation of many capitalist small medical businesses, thus eliminating monopolies, which prioritize industry interests over the public good, and control, capture, and cool down the cruel Medi-Cal tyranny for the benefit of all concerned.
6. Develop a Uniform Code of Medical Justice as we have a Uniform Code of Military Justice.  Soldiers kill enemy people, physicians kill diseases.  Both are warriors.  Congress created a single set of criminal laws for military crimes back in 1950.  The judges, attorneys, and jury are all soldiers, and a military court-martial is conducted by these military experts as a tribunal.   Hippocrates created a set of criminal laws for medical crimes back in 450 BC.  The judges, attorneys, and jury SHOULD ALL BE Oath sworn board certified physicians and surgeons, a tribunal conducted by those who have BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, AND NONE OTHER.    
7. Christ-guided economics.  It is said that money, and the correct way to use it, is just about the most frequently discussed topic in the Holy Bible.  GOD IS the miracle in medical economics called capitalism, which brings up a well-known promise and command of God Himself, written about 3,000 years ago.  2 Chronicles 7:14  If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.