South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been the surprise candidate of the 2020 Democratic primary race so far. He has been at the bottom of the top tier of five frontrunners, registering just below Senator Kamala Harris in most polls and well ahead of the rest of the pack. One of the things that has kept him close to the top is his growing reputation as a moderate. He’s pushing a brand of “progressive-lite” policies that are to the left of former Vice President Joe Biden but to the right of Harris as well as Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
His Medicare-for-All-Who-Want-It plan is supposed to be the hybrid that could bridge the gap between Biden’s Obamacare 2.0 plan and the full-blown single-payer Medicare-for-All that the progressive frontrunners are proposing. But now that he’s released the rural-focused component of his healthcare plan, any notions that he’s pushing a moderate solution can be tossed out the window.
This is a fiscal monstrosity. We must not have our expectations set by the far-left; Buttigieg’s plan still seems to be less expensive than the radical progressive alternative being floated by some. But that doesn’t mean we should grade on a scale, and compared to the current healthcare system under Obamacare, Buttigieg’s plan is dramatically more expensive.
The short list of details uses the word “expand” eleven times while admitting to “increase” components five times. It’s populism for leftists in that it attempts to address all of the problems faced by rural Americans with their healthcare in one fell swoop. But there are no incremental increases insinuated by the plan. This is a big idea, one that will cost taxpayers a ton of money up front and a ton of money to maintain.
There are clearly challenges with rural health systems. Lifestyle alone cannot be blamed for higher infant mortality rates and lower life expectancy when compared to people living in cities. Access to healthcare is challenging because of the extreme costs of providing it. There is little incentive to build and maintain proper hospitals in sparsely populated rural areas in which the patient base isn’t large enough to sustain full-blown hospitals.
Don’t get me wrong. Some of what he’s proposing makes a lot of sense, and if he detailed a plan with incremental changes it might even be tenable. But he leads with his standard abomination, the Medicare-for-All-Who-Want-It, which is arguably more fiscally dangerous than single-payer. Why? Because mixing the private market to compete with a public option, as he and Biden are suggesting, will hamper private profits to the point that many will pull out of the industry over time. At least with Medicare-for-All we know exactly when private health insurance is to be abolished, allowing proper preparations. With Buttigieg’s and Biden’s plan, the shifting marketplace will become a guessing game. Put too much into the public option and it’s wasted taxpayer dollars. Don’t put enough and it will get crushed under the weight of uncertainty.
But the biggest reason Buttigieg’s rural plan is so bad is because it’s worded as simultaneous major changes. That means big dollars from the outset. If President Trump can’t get Congress to give him $25 billion for the wall, how is Buttigieg supposed to get hundreds of billions, possibly trillions, to put hospitals, nurses, and doctors across farmland, USA?
The release of this plan should mark the end of any discussion that Buttigieg’s healthcare proposal is the moderate choice. It’s neither moderate nor attainable. It seems the Mayor is succumbing to his competitors’ tactic of over-promising “free” stuff.
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Big Pharma’s Five Major Minions that Everyone, Vaxxed or Unvaxxed, Must Oppose
This is not an “anti-vaxxer” article, per se. It’s a call for everyone to wake up to the nefarious motives behind vaccine mandates, booster shots, and condemnation of freedom.
The worst kept secret in world history SHOULD be that the unquenchable push for universal vaccinations against Covid-19 has little if anything to do with healthcare and everything to do with Big Pharma’s influence over the narrative. Unfortunately, that secret has stayed firmly hidden from the vast majority of people because of the five major minions working on behalf of Big Pharma.
What’s even worse is the fact that Big Pharma’s greed is merely a smokescreen to hide an even darker secret. We’ll tackle that later. First, let’s look at the public-facing ringleaders behind the vaccine push, namely Big Pharma. But before we get into their five major minions, it’s important to understand one thing. This is NOT just an article that speaks to the unvaccinated. Even those who believe in the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines must be made aware of agenda that’s at play.
Let’s start with some facts. The unvaccinated do NOT spread Covid-19 more rampantly than the vaccinated. Even Anthony Fauci acknowledged the viral load present in vaccinated people is just as high as in the unvaccinated. This fact alone should demolish the vaccine mandates as it demonstrates they have absolutely no effect on the spread of the disease. But wait! There’s definitely more.
This unhinged push to vaccinate everyone defies science. Those with natural immunity may actually have their stronger defenses against Covid-19 hampered by the introduction of the injections which fool the body into creating less-effective antibodies. Moreover, the push to vaccinate young people is completely bonkers. The recovery rate for those under the age of 20 is astronomical. Children neither contract, spread, nor succumb to Covid-19 in a statistically meaningful way. What they DO succumb to more often than Covid-19 are the adverse reactions to the vaccines, particularly boys.
All of this is known and accepted by the medical community, yet most Americans are still following the vaccinate-everybody script. It requires pure cognitive dissonance and an overabundant need for confirmation bias to make doctors and scientists willingly go along with the program. Yet, here we are and that should tell you something.
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Who does Big Pharma control? It starts with the obvious people, the ones who most Americans believe are actually behind this push. Our governments at all levels as well as governments around the world are not working with Big Pharma. They are working for Big Pharma. Some are proactive as direct recipients of cash. Others may oppose Big Pharma in spirit but would never speak out because they know anyone who does has no future in DC.
This may come as a shock to some, but it’s Big Pharma that drives the narrative and sets the agenda for the “experts” at the CDC, FDA, WHO, NIH, NIAID, and even non-medical government organizations.
Most believe it’s the other way around. They think that Big Pharma is beholden to the FDA for approval, but that’s not exactly the case. They need approval for a majority of their projects, but when it comes to the important ones such as the Covid injections, Big Pharma is calling the shots. They have the right people in the right places to push their machinations forward.
That’s not to say that everyone at the FDA is in on it. Big Pharma only needs a handful of friendlies planted in leadership in order to have their big wishes met. We have seen people quitting the FDA in recent weeks for this very reason. The same can be said about the other three- and five-letter agencies. Too many people in leadership have been bribed, bullied, or blackmailed into becoming occasional shills for the various Big Pharma corporations. Some have even been directly planted by Big Pharma. That’s the politics of healthcare and science that drives such things as Covid-19 “vaccines.”
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