Corrupting Healthcare: Public-private Partnerships

Corrupting Healthcare: Public-private Partnerships

Federal and state governments are colluding with favored corporate interests to prevent the competition needed to raise the quality and lower the cost of medical care. ...
William F. Jasper

Full-blown, government-run socialized medicine may be the ultimate goal of the political designers of ObamaCare, but the road toward that object runs along the current path of corporate fascism, in which the big, politically connected HMOs, hospitals, and insurance providers profit at the expense of patients, doctors, and taxpayers.

Surgery Center of Oklahoma (SCO) co-founders Drs. G. Keith Smith and Steven Lantier understand this full well, and they are unsparing in their criticism of both Republican and Democrat politicians for advancing this fascist-style corruption of healthcare. As in other sectors of the economy, this politicized medicine often runs under the more attractive-sounding label of “public-private partnerships” (PPPs), in which those lobbies providing the biggest political contributions (bribes, essentially) get to call the shots and write the legislation, giving themselves unfair advantage and eliminating the competition. Both state and federal governments have gotten in on this scam.

“There is no question that the vast majority of blood is on the hands of the federal government, to the extent that they have tinkered with this system for the benefit of their crony pals,” Dr. Smith told The New American. “The state governments have gotten in on the action, as well, by enacting, for instance, Certificate of Need laws. So, let’s say you want to open a surgery center that would emulate the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, and you live in the state of Georgia. Well, then you run into this commission, these guys who are hospital administrators, who don’t want you to compete with them.”

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