The Disease in the Healthcare System Must be Removed.

Is Canada turning into a fascist meat grinder?

By Matthew Ehret-Kump In April 2009, the LaRouche Political Action Committee, a PAC known to represent Democratic candidates for Congressional office, targeted the Health Care legislation of Barak Obama as a Nazi useless eater program. A Hitler moustache on Obamas upper lip became famous soon thereafter, and a scandal unprecedented in American history, broke out. While many a right wing reactionary jumped on the bandwagon accusing the Obama administration of socialism, anyone studying the LaRouchePAC literature would find something much different behind the evaluation of this Nazi resurgence with a democratic face. The core of the LarouchePAC evaluation was not to be found in the state directed universal health care proposal so adamantly attacked by right wing simpletons, a measure Lyndon LaRouche had in fact supported for decades (1). It was to be found, however, in the swarm of economic behaviorists that had entered into the White House as Obamas cabinet and inner circle of advisors. This click of ideologues represented by such famous characters as Cass Sunstein, Larry Summers, Daniel Ariely, Ezekiel Emmanuel and 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 that over one trillion dollars could be saved, while the 50 million uncovered Americans would receive access to care. The thinking citizen would ask; if more people shall receive coverage after a reform, then how will significantly less money be spent? How could such a paradox be overcome? The dark resolution to this paradox would be apparent in the policy guideline that had been summarized in Emmanuels 2008 Principles of Allocation of Finite Medical Resources (2) where the
(1) www.larouchepac.com/nazihealthcare (2) To read the entire paper: http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/ PIIS0140673609601379.pdf

obligation to eliminate lives that were not worthy to be lived was sketched out in blood curling terms. The means to achieve this cost saving effect would involve the application of the British National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) system of Tony Blair fame. With NICE, a quality adjusted life year (QALY) model (3)would be introduced as a universal standard of value to determine which citizen would receive expensive medical treatment and which would be only given morphine drops or palliative care, based upon cost effective con- Tony Blairs NICE reforms would go on to serve as the siderations.
model for Obamacare

The regulator of this QALY system could not be trusted to those selfish doctors who were inclined to thoughtlessly provide whatever medical treatment they thought fit to their patients without consideration for monetary values. To try to gain public support against the doctors, multiple references had been made by Obama and his behaviourist hive regarding the selfish tendency of doctors to provide unnecessary treatment simply in order to get money from insurance companies. The enforcer of such a program could only be an anonymous board of experts outside of the control of Congress or the Constitution. The name of this group would be the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), and would be the pivot of the whole reform. This was also known euphemistically as the death panels by accusators who sadly often knew very little about their subject. Today, a similar reform is silently underway in Canada.

(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.

Turning Canada into a Fascist Meat Grinder As of 2009, the Health Council of Canada produced a widely read paper drawing attention to the dire need for Healthcare reform in Canada called Value for Money: Making Canadian Healthcare Stronger (4). Just as in the USA and Britain earlier, the baby boomers were retiring, it was argued, at an unsustainable rate and that in merely a matter of 10 years there would be a disproportionate amount of retirees sustained by far too few active employees. To make matters worse, the Federal Healthcare transfer payments allotted to the provinces for Medicare would be expiring in 2014 leaving a system doomed to collapse were broad reforms not undertaken soon. This report not only supported the NICE and QALY system, but also echoed the ethical dilemma highlighted in Ezekiel Emmanuels 2008 paper of the very old and pre-mat young who receive enormously expensive care, and whose survival rates, and QALYs are statistically low, emphasizing that waste costs are to blame with extending lives but not quality (or cost efficiency). The call for health reform was echoed first by right wing think tanks such as the Frasier and CD Howe Institutes, and then publicly by Prime Minister Stephen Harper very soon thereafter. A harsh public backlash was received by the PM, sending much public discussion of reform under wraps for the time being. Now in July 2012, while the complete disintegration of the financial system is well underway, it is worth noting two relevant elements of the resurgence of health care reform being set in motion. This takes the form of healthcare reform on the one side being pushed primarily by an infiltration and brainwashing of leading representatives of the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA), and the legalization of euthanasia on the other. In both cases, heart wrenching anecdotal case studies are used to argue for compassion while the real top down intention of the architects of such

programs, like the Obamacare before it, have only utilitarian views of life, and budgetary considerations in mind. In mid 2011, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a report (5) demanding Canada act promptly to overhaul its unsustainable healthcare arrangements. The fruits of the IMF report began to be felt in June 2012, when the results of an 8 month long study were released during a national conference held in Vancouver, by the Canadian Nurses Association. The contents of the CNA reports allow us an insight into the rationale of this deadly logic. The study was spearheaded by a group that had formed in May 2011 known as the Na- Thomas dAquino now serves on tional Experts the National Experts Council Council (NEC). after a two decades stint heading Among the 13 per- the CCCE son group representing the 260 000 registered nurses across Canada are 12 medical professionals and one dubious character by the name of Thomas dAquino. dAquino has made a name for himself over the years as a high level operative in the Canadian oligarchy having first worked in the Privy Council office serving as Deputy minister in the 1970s, and then having been the president of the secretive Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) for over 20 years, representing the CEOs of the biggest financial institutions and Corporations across Canada. In 2009, dAquino left his post to Privy Councillor John Manley, and has since devoted his energy to healthcare reform on the NEC.
(5) Canadas Health Care System Unsustainable- IMF, www.canadaupdates.com/content/canada%E2%80% 99s-health-care-system-unsustainable-imf-15966.html

(4) Download the report here: https://www2.infowayinforoute.ca/Documents/HCC_VFMReport_WEB.pdf 2

As a self described disciple of Schumpeter and the Market, dAquino has advocated the ideology of creative destruction such that economic collapses are considered the greatest opportunities to force revolutionary change in social customs. The influence of dAquino can be felt in the results of two published documents presented during the Vancouver conference of 2012, namely A Nursing Call to Action and Better Value: An Analysis of the Impact of Current Healthcare System Funding. The three most Orwellian aspects of the proposed cost saving measures featured in the reports are: 1) Information technologies to usher in evidence-based medicine, 2) Remove the power of allocating care from the physicians, and 3) Encouraging end-of-life care as a replacement to expensive acute care. Let us take a closer look at the treatment of these three components below: 1) Using modern technologies may sound good, until one realizes that those technologies advocated by the NEC do not include more MRIs, or actual life saving equipment, but rather information tech. Actual reliance on technological solutions is actually deemed part of the problem by the authors. According to the authors, having databases (not at all a bad thing in itself) is the key component to ushering in a truly universal evidence-based system of treating patients. The evidence based method is useful on an assembly line, but in regards to scientific diagnoses, serves to merely de-humanize the medical process whereby cold computer programs are given increasing power to determine effective treatment rather than the minds and insight of the doctor. 2) Removing the power of prescribing care from physicians who have little regard for cost, and putting it into the hands of teams. As one section of an NEC report describes: Our focus on acute treatment makes family physicians gatekeepers, and their training is to send patients for specialized diagnostics and treatment, 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 for more 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 wellintegrated 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 Organization System, in which there are penalties for hospitals carrying out too many re-admissions, especially for older people. 3) Keeping chronically ill and terminal patients at home instead of occupying expensive hospital beds whereby it is advertised that $20 000/year per patient could be saved. It is asserted that statistically speaking 15% of hospital beds are being used wastefully by patients who could have merely stayed at home benefiting from the occasional help of a visiting nurse. Overall, 85% of medical resources are consumed by 5% of the population, most of whom would rather die in the comfort of their own home then live longer sustained in a cold hospital. The Nursing Call to Action quotes from a Royal Society of Canada- Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association report to the Senate calling for ensuring that resources that could be better used for wanted palliative care are not diverted to unwanted acute care. This brings us into the second component to the orchestrated transformation in the 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. 3

Eliminating the Elderly and Sick

It is no coincidence that the attempt to circumvent the doctors associations, which have demonstrated a resistance to the new reforms, by brainwashing the nurses association is moving in line with an unprecedented push for euthanasia legalization in Canada. On June 15, merely 7 days before the Vancouver NSA conference, BC Supreme Court Judge Lynn Smith delivered a ruling that a physicians denial of assisted suicide is unconstitutional. Even though the Parliament came up with a negative decision on the issue of physician assisted suicide in April 2010, Judge Smith gave the Parliament one year to amend its law. Natalie Sonnen , a spokeswoman for the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of B.C responded that when you place the killing in the hands of medical practitioners there is no way to control that. This decision was made in an ideal situation where there would be no 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 not adding that 38% of doctors polled anonymously in places where assisted suicide is legal admitted to killing patients without their consent. Echoing this warning, on June 19 2012, Professor Pullicino, a leading British neurologist speaking at the Royal Society of Medicine revealed that 130 000 elderly patients are killed every year in the NICE reformed Liverpool Care Pathway system. Among the patrons of this system is none other than the son of Prince royal virus Phillip, Prince Charles (see appendix).

Let us make no mistake. The Canadian health care system, like that of its American counterpart, is sick. The high quality healthcare system of the Bretton Woods epoch is a far cry from what passes for health care today. The systemic change effected by Nixons 1971 decoupling of the US dollar from the physical economy, and the 1973 nixing of the Hill Burton system has resulted in a healthcare system which has been subsumed within a logic of monetarism. Increasingly, as the sacredness of human life was deemed unworthy of monetary concerns under globalization, the other branches of modern civilization were expected to conform to the new rules of each against all, and supply and demand by high priests such as Milton Friedman, Paul Volcker, Von Hayek and Alan Greenspan. Monetary prosperity could flourish if the sources of wealth were monetized and turned into commodities for speculation, while non-profitable overhead such as infrastructure maintenance and improvement was cut increasingly to produce what LaRouche defined in the 1960s as fictitious capital. Through such a wasting process, underinvestment into the non profitable healthcare infrastructure in Canada and the privatization of healthcare infrastructure in the USA resulted in increasing deaths all around. While in Canada, citizens were increasingly receiving lower quality services and longer waiting times for life saving tests, in the United States, whole sections of poorer citizens were thrown under the bus completely via Nixons HMO law of 1973 making healthcare inaccessible for whole sections of the population.

What Must Be Done

The key solution to this crisis is not to be found within the context of the collapsing monetary order or its associated rules, but only in a fundamental change in the system itself. It must be recognized that the monetary burden is nothing but a chimera. It is only by re-introducing a global commitment to the future through high energy intensive projects such as 1) the North American Water and Power Alliance, 2) Arctic and Space development, that the real wealth generation so necessary to offset the retiring baby boomers may be effected. This process must be modelled upon the experience of Franklin Delano Roosevelts New Deal of 1933 and may only be unleashed were Canada to participate in the global drive for a GlassSteagall separation of banking, and a return to the principles of Hamiltonian National Banking utilizing a newly chartered Bank of Canada as a public conduit for issuing productive long term, low interest credit into the real (i.e. : not speculative, not entertainment) economy. In a time of peace, there is never a reason to triage healthcare, and the argument that there are such things as ``finite medical resources`` and ``budgets that must be balanced at all costs regardless of human suffering`` must never be tolerated. Seen from a higher vantage point, of top down intentions, we find that such malthusian conclusions are nothing but fascist mental traps set for the uncreative and immoral among 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 respectful of the limits to the quantity or quality of life of each human being set by those same pagan `gods`. It is only from the future vantage point that a truly systemic change can occur. In such a system, the ancient 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 monetary considerations, but rather of the efficient power of every creative mind, regardless of the age of its associated body, that allows for the successful growth of our nation and the species ever more unboundedly into the depths of the Solar System, galaxy and higher cosmos which in the end, is our true birthright, environment and home.

Appendix:
British "Involuntary Euthanasia" Murder Program Is Royal Family Project
The involuntary euthanasia organization Marie Curie Hospice, has been a special project of Prince Charles since approximately 2000, and of the Royal Family since its inception in 1948. The Marie Curie Hospice (also known as Marie Curie Cancer Care) organization is the home of the "Liverpool Care Pathway," a protocol for Continuous Deep Sedation, which Britain's National Health Service made 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 delivery of heavy narcotics, and withdrawal of fluids and nutrition. In an internal newsletter issued in July 2003, the Marie Curie Hospice organization reported that Prince Charles was its new patron, having previously served for three years as President of the organization: "His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has taken on the role of Patron of Marie Curie Cancer Care, in succession to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, who died last year. "Marie Curie Chairman Sir Nick Fenn said: 'We are delighted that his Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has accepted the position of Patron of Marie Curie Cancer Care. "'Over the three years in which he has been President of the charity, His Royal Highness has worked hard for us. He has visited Marie Curie hospices, met cancer patients and nurses and helped spread awareness of our 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 her grandson.'" Thus, the 2004 National Health Service mainstreaming of the Liverpool Care Pathway took place under the watchful patronage of Prince Charles, in accord with his general Dark Ages outlook.
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