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By Matthew Ehret-Kump

In April 2009, the LaRouche Political Action Com-mittee, a PAC known to represent Democratic candi-dates for Congressional office, targeted the HealthCare legislation of Barak Obama as a Nazi useless

eater program. A Hitler moustache on Obamas up-

per lip became famous soon thereafter, and a scandalunprecedented in American history, broke out. Whilemany a right wing reactionary jumped on the band-wagon accusing the Obama administration of

socialism, anyone studying the LaRouchePAC lit-erature would find something much different behindthe evaluation of this Nazi resurgence with ademocratic face.

The core of the LarouchePAC evaluation was not tobe found in the state directed universal health care

proposal so adamantly attacked by right wing simple-tons, a measure Lyndon LaRouche had in fact sup-ported for decades (1). It was to be found, however, inthe swarm of economic behaviorists that had enteredinto the White House as Obamas cabinet and inner

circle of advisors. This click of ideologues repre-sented by such famous characters as Cass Sunstein,Larry Summers, Daniel Ariely, Ezekiel Emmanueland Peter Orszag had made the focus of Obamas

presidency not one of universalizing healthcare, but

rather balancing the budget in tackling the looming

baby boomer time-bomb. Peter Orszag claimed thatover one trillion dollars could be saved, while the 50million uncovered Americans would receive access tocare.

The thinking citizen would ask; if more people shall

receive coverage after a reform, then how will signifi-

cantly less money be spent? How could such a para-dox be overcome? The dark resolution to this paradoxwould be apparent in the policy guideline that hadbeen summarized in Emmanuels 2008 Principles of

Allocation of Finite Medical Resources (2) where the

obligation to eliminate lives that were not worthy tobe lived was sketched out in blood curling terms. Themeans to achieve this cost saving effect would in-volve the application of theBritish National Institute forClinical Excellence (NICE)system of Tony Blair fame.With NICE, a quality ad-justed life year (QALY)model (3)would be intro-duced as a universal stan-

dard of value to determinewhich citizen would receiveexpensive medical treat-

ment and which would be

only given morphine dropsor palliative care, basedupon cost effective con-

siderations.

The regulator of this QALYsystem could not be trusted to those selfish doctors

who were inclined to thoughtlessly provide whatever

medical treatment they thought fit to their patientswithout consideration for monetary values. To try togain public support against the doctors, multiple ref-erences had been made by Obama and his behaviour-ist hive regarding the selfish tendency of doctors to

provide unnecessary treatment simply in order to getmoney from insurance companies. The enforcer ofsuch a program could only be an anonymous board ofexperts outside of the control of Congress or the

Constitution. The name of this group would be theIndependent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), andwould be the pivot of the whole reform. This was also

known euphemistically as the death panels by accu-sators who sadly often knew very little about theirsubject. Today, a similar reform is silently underwayin Canada.

(1) www.larouchepac.com/nazihealthcare(2) To read the entire paper: http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/

PIIS0140673609601379.pdf

(3) Quality Adjusted Life Year(QALY) is the model choice of the NICE to determine the

dollar value for human lives. Categorization of the population into age, lifestyle, and

health risks produce a statistical analysis of a human quality of life. Life year values are

different for people based upon which categories they fall under.

Tony Blairs NICE reforms

would go on to serve as the

model for Obamacare

The Disease in the Healthcare System

Must be Removed.Is Canada turning into a fascist meat grinder?
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Turning Canada into a Fascist Meat Grinder

As of 2009, the Health Council of Canada pro-duced a widely read paper drawing attention tothe dire need for Healthcare reform in Canadacalled Value for Money: Making Canadian

Healthcare Stronger (4). Just as in the USA andBritain earlier, the baby boomers were retiring, itwas argued, at an unsustainable rate and that inmerely a matter of 10 years there would be a dis-proportionate amount of retirees sustained by fartoo few active employees. To make mattersworse, the Federal Healthcare transfer paymentsallotted to the provinces for Medicare would beexpiring in 2014 leaving a system doomed tocollapse were broad reforms not undertakensoon. This report not only supported the NICEand QALY system, but also echoed the ethical

dilemma highlighted in Ezekiel Emmanuels2008 paper of the very old and pre-mat youngwho receive enormously expensive care, andwhose survival rates, and QALYs are statisti-cally low, emphasizing that waste costs are toblame with extending lives but not quality (orcost efficiency).

The call for health reform was echoed first byright wing think tanks such as the Frasier andCD Howe Institutes, and then publicly by PrimeMinister Stephen Harper very soon thereafter. A

harsh public backlash was received by the PM,sending much public discussion of reform underwraps for the time being.

Now in July 2012, while the complete disinte-gration of the financial system is well underway,it is worth noting two relevant elements of theresurgence of health care reform being set in mo-tion. This takes the form of healthcare reform onthe one side being pushed primarily by an infil-tration and brainwashing of leading representa-tives of the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA),and the legalization of euthanasia on the other. In

both cases, heart wrenching anecdotal case stud-ies are used to argue for compassion while the

real top down intention of the architects of such

programs, like the Obamacare before it, haveonly utilitarian views of life, and budgetary con-siderations in mind.

In mid 2011, the International Monetary Fund(IMF) released a report (5) demanding Canada act

promptly to overhaul its unsustainable healthcarearrangements. The fruits of the IMF report beganto be felt in June2012, when the re-sults of an 8 monthlong study were re-leased during a na-tional conferenceheld in Vancouver,by the CanadianNurses Associa-

tion. The contents of

the CNA reportsallow us an insightinto the rationale ofthis deadly logic.The study wasspearheaded by agroup that hadformed in May 2011known as the Na-tional Experts

Council (NEC).Among the 13 per-

son group represent-ing the 260 000 registered nurses across Canadaare 12 medical professionals and one dubiouscharacter by the name of Thomas dAquino.

dAquino has made a name for himself over the

years as a high level operative in the Canadianoligarchy having first worked in the Privy Coun-cil office serving as Deputy minister in the1970s, and then having been the president of thesecretive Canadian Council of Chief Executives(CCCE) for over 20 years, representing theCEOs of the biggest financial institutions and

Corporations across Canada. In 2009, dAquinoleft his post to Privy Councillor John Manley,and has since devoted his energy to healthcarereform on the NEC.

Thomas dAquino now serves on

the National Experts Council

after a two decades stint heading

the CCCE

(4) Download the report here: https://www2.infoway-

inforoute.ca/Documents/HCC_VFMReport_WEB.pdf(5) Canadas Health Care System Unsustainable- IMF,

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As a self described disciple of Schumpeter and the

Market, dAquino has advocated the ideology of

creative destruction such that economic collapsesare considered the greatest opportunities to force revo-lutionary change in social customs.

The influence of dAquino can be felt in the results oftwo published documents presented during the Van-couver conference of 2012, namely A Nursing Call toAction andBetter Value: An Analysis of the Impact ofCurrent Healthcare System Funding.

The three most Orwellian aspects of the proposed costsaving measures featured in the reports are: 1) Infor-mation technologies to usher in evidence-based medi-cine, 2) Remove the power of allocating care from thephysicians, and 3) Encouraging end-of-life care as areplacement to expensive acute care. Let us take acloser look at the treatment of these three componentsbelow:

1) Using modern technologies may sound good, untilone realizes that those technologies advocated by theNEC do not include more MRIs, or actual life savingequipment, but rather information tech. Actual reli-ance on technological solutions is actually deemed

part of the problem by the authors. According to theauthors, having databases (not at all a bad thing initself) is the key component to ushering in a truly uni-versal evidence-based system of treating patients.The evidence based method is useful on an assemblyline, but in regards to scientific diagnoses, serves tomerely de-humanize the medical process whereby coldcomputer programs are given increasing power to de-termine effective treatment rather than the minds andinsight of the doctor.

2) Removing the power of prescribing care from phy-sicians who have little regard for cost, and putting itinto the hands of teams. As one section of an NEC

report describes: Our focus on acute treatment makesfamily physicians gatekeepers, and their training is to

send patients for specialized diagnostics and treat-

ment, which in recent years have often been offered in

hospitals and other institutions. We cannot break out

of the cycle of sickness-doctor-acute care until we

make the choice to fund differently and re-inforce the

shift to team-based community care with plans formore accountability for health spending We need

funding to support the delivery of evidence-based care

through strong primary health care networks, with

teams working together to increase access to well-

integrated care. Care should be accessible wherever it

is most safe, effective and affordable.

This team treatment policy is no different from

Obamacares Independent Payment Advisory Board(IPAB) in either form or function. Under Obamacare,this is known as the Accountable Care OrganizationSystem, in which there are penalties for hospitals car-rying out too many re-admissions, especially for olderpeople.

3) Keeping chronically ill and terminal patients athome instead of occupying expensive hospital bedswhereby it is advertised that $20 000/year per patientcould be saved. It is asserted that statistically speak-

ing 15% of hospital beds are being used wastefully bypatients who could have merely stayed at home bene-fiting from the occasional help of a visiting nurse.Overall, 85% of medical resources are consumed by5% of the population, most of whom would rather diein the comfort of their own home then live longer sus-tained in a cold hospital. The Nursing Call to Actionquotes from a Royal Society of Canada- CanadianHospice Palliative Care Association report to the Sen-

ate calling for ensuring that resources that could bebetter used for wanted palliative care are not diverted

to unwanted acute care. This brings us into the sec-ond component to the orchestrated transformation inthe healthcare paradigm euthanasia.

A Nursing Call to Action is an Orwellian call to action

key to brainwashing Canadian nurses and introducing

a useless eaters policy into Canadian healthcare.


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Eliminating the Elderly and Sick

It is no coincidence that the attempt to circumvent thedoctors associations, which have demonstrated a re-sistance to the new reforms, by brainwashing thenurses association is moving in line with an unprece-

dented push for euthanasia legalization in Canada. OnJune 15, merely 7 days before the Vancouver NSAconference, BC Supreme Court Judge Lynn Smithdelivered a ruling that a physicians denial of assistedsuicide is unconstitutional. Even though the Parlia-ment came up with a negative decision on the issue ofphysician assisted suicide in April 2010, Judge Smithgave the Parliament one year to amend its law.

Natalie Sonnen , a spokeswoman for the EuthanasiaPrevention Coalition of B.C responded that whenyou place the killing in the hands of medical practi-

tioners there is no way to control that. This decision

was made in an ideal situation where there would beno abuse or intentions to kill vulnerable people. Once

you grant assisted suicide as a right, which is where

we are headed, it becomes a right for all, whether you

are deemed competent to make the decision or notadding that 38% of doctors polled anonymously inplaces where assisted suicide is legal admitted to kill-ing patients without their consent. Echoing this warn-ing, on June 19 2012, Professor Pullicino, a leadingBritish neurologist speaking at the Royal Society ofMedicine revealed that 130 000 elderly patients arekilled every year in the NICE reformed LiverpoolCare Pathway system. Among the patrons of this sys-tem is none other than the son of Prince royal vi-

rus Phillip, Prince Charles (see appendix).

Let us make no mistake. The Canadian health caresystem, like that of its American counterpart, is sick.The high quality healthcare system of the BrettonWoods epoch is a far cry from what passes for healthcare today. The systemic change effected by Nixons1971 decoupling of the US dollar from the physicaleconomy, and the 1973 nixing of the Hill Burton sys-

tem has resulted in a healthcare system which hasbeen subsumed within a logic of monetarism. Increas-ingly, as the sacredness of human life was deemedunworthy of monetary concerns under globalization,the other branches of modern civilization were ex-

pected to conform to the new rules of each againstall, and supply and demand by high priests such as

Milton Friedman, Paul Volcker, Von Hayek and AlanGreenspan. Monetary prosperity could flourish if thesources of wealth were monetized and turned intocommodities for speculation, while non-profitableoverhead such as infrastructure maintenance and im-provement was cut increasingly to produce what La-

Rouche defined in the 1960s as fictitious capital.

Through such a wasting process, underinvestmentinto the non profitable healthcare infrastructure inCanada and the privatization of healthcare infrastruc-ture in the USA resulted in increasing deaths allaround. While in Canada, citizens were increasinglyreceiving lower quality services and longer waitingtimes for life saving tests, in the United States, wholesections of poorer citizens were thrown under the buscompletely via Nixons HMO law of 1973 makinghealthcare inaccessible for whole sections of thepopulation.


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What Must Be Done

The key solution to this crisis is not to be foundwithin the context of the collapsing monetary order orits associated rules, but only in a fundamental changein the system itself. It must be recognized that the

monetary burden is nothing but a chimera. It is onlyby re-introducing a global commitment to the futurethrough high energy intensive projects such as 1) theNorth American Water and Power Alliance, 2) Arcticand Space development, that the real wealth genera-tion so necessary to offset the retiring baby boomersmay be effected. This process must be modelled uponthe experience of Franklin Delano Roosevelts NewDeal of 1933 and may only be unleashed were Can-ada to participate in the global drive for a Glass-Steagall separation of banking, and a return to theprinciples of Hamiltonian National Banking utilizinga newly chartered Bank of Canada as a public conduit

for issuing productive long term, low interest creditinto the real (i.e. : not speculative, not entertainment)economy.

In a time of peace, there is never a reason to triagehealthcare, and the argument that there are suchthings as ``finite medical resources`` and ``budgetsthat must be balanced at all costs regardless of humansuffering`` must never be tolerated. Seen from ahigher vantage point, of top down intentions, we findthat such malthusian conclusions are nothing but fas-cist mental traps set for the uncreative and immoralamong us. Men and women worthy of the title`civilized human` do not bow down to the gods of the

market place under any condition, nor are they re-spectful of the limits to the quantity or quality of lifeof each human being set by those same pagan `gods`.

It is only from the future vantage point that a trulysystemic change can occur. In such a system, the an-cient truths extolled by Roosevelt would have to be re-discovered and restored in the temple of civilization;that value is not a measure of utilitarian or monetaryconsiderations, but rather of the efficient power ofevery creative mind, regardless of the age of its asso-ciated body, that allows for the successful growth ofour nation and the species ever more unboundedly

into the depths of the Solar System, galaxy and highercosmos which in the end, is our true birthright, envi-ronment and home.

Appendix:

British "Involuntary Euthana-sia" Murder Program Is Royal

Family ProjectThe involuntary euthanasia organization Marie CurieHospice, has been a special project of Prince Charlessince approximately 2000, and of the Royal Familysince its inception in 1948.

The Marie Curie Hospice (also known as Marie CurieCancer Care) organization is the home of the"Liverpool Care Pathway," a protocol for ContinuousDeep Sedation, which Britain's National Health Servicemade a national program in 2004 under Tony Blair.The cause of death of about one in every six Britons

who died last year was murder via the program's deliv-ery of heavy narcotics, and withdrawal of fluids andnutrition.

In an internal newsletter issued in July 2003, theMarie Curie Hospice organization reported that PrinceCharles was its new patron, having previously servedfor three years as President of the organization:

"His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has taken onthe role of Patron of Marie Curie Cancer Care, in suc-cession to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the QueenMother, who died last year.

"Marie Curie Chairman Sir Nick Fenn said: 'We aredelighted that his Royal Highness The Prince of Waleshas accepted the position of Patron of Marie CurieCancer Care.

"'Over the three years in which he has been Presidentof the charity, His Royal Highness has worked hard forus. He has visited Marie Curie hospices, met cancerpatients and nurses and helped spread awareness ofour cancer care and research work.

"'Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was

Patron of Marie Curie Cancer Care for nearly 50 years.It is in the fitness of things that she is succeeded by hergrandson.'"

Thus, the 2004 National Health Service mainstream-

ing of the Liverpool Care Pathway took place under the

watchful patronage of Prince Charles, in accord with

his general Dark Ages outlook.