Guest guest Posted March 22, 2000 Report Share Posted March 22, 2000 Joan, Flagyl can cause deep deep depression. Just hang on, it will get better. Been missing you but havent been able to read lymeaid for months. Lovey ********** To Vicki, & Reid We ALL have Foot IN Mouth disease. Ha. Unfortunately, mine is very large. aarrrrgh. Lovey ************* To Reid, et all Lovette has kindly offered me her floor or barn floor. I am bringing my sleepin bag. Really! and maybe a air mattress like you float on water with. will problbly flatten out when my bulk falls down on it. Money is tight as Schroog . So anyway, planning to sleep on floor and wishing I make it off the floor next morning. Bringing peanut butter too. Ha. Seriously. I am doing all I can to make SBOG and DC rallys. I am so excited I can hardly stand it! Whoopie, gonne make that barn shake. Lovey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2000 Report Share Posted March 23, 2000 Hi Lovey, I am thrilled that you are coming to G-Burg! I'm going to be on the long line of people waiting to meet you! Take Care, Joan LI NY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 14, 2001 Report Share Posted September 14, 2001 I would like to challenge and encourage members of the group to step and try to make difference. As I watched the events of September 11th unfold on the TV screen with a sense of helplessness, I struggled with what I could possibly that might help. By Wednesday morning I had resolved that I wanted to do something that would help pull my community together...With one phone call, the wheels were set in motion to hold a community wide memorial service. There were those that said " ...it can't be done by this Sunday. " I stand in total AWE to the community response ...I have received calls from several radio stations, local television, newspapers, Veteran groups, the Police and Fire Departments, the schools throughout the county, the ministerial association, the florist, Red Cross, the banks... the list goes on. I do not take credit for how effortlessly this event is coming together.... 'His' burden is light!... All I can say once again is how awed I am by generousity of the human spirit. I challenge you to step out in faith. For in spite of our PA limitations at times, we can do more than we possibly think we are able. My husband went to one of our local banks and asked how we could possible start a fund for people to contribute to... The bank established the " 9-11 American Relief Fund " ....People were writing out checks as the bank was setting it up. People want to help! Sometimes they just need others to initiate things! Could that someone be you?! Keep the Faith! [ ] Digest Number 1119 > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 17, 2002 Report Share Posted January 17, 2002 Please remove me from the listing Thank you, HJO -----Original Message----- From: [mailto: ] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 3:39 AM Subject: [] Digest Number 1119 FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are 16 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Texas Insurance Commissioner Stacks Mold Task Force From: " R. Cobarruvias " <johncoby@...> 2. Re: Texas Insurance Commissioner Stacks Mold Task Force From: " Dayberry " <sdayberry@...> 3. Re: Digest Number 1118 From: peewee1015@... 4. REMOVE FROM MAILING LIST From: " " <Mc1@...> 5. THYROID AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CVD) From: cavegrl777@... 6. Re: Two Excellent Newspaper Articles -- Mold Poisoning in Florida From: " lawpath85 " <lawpath85@...> 7. Re: Digest Number 1115 From: radonwin@... 8. Petition for President to declare May, MCS month From: agasaya@... 9. Sick home in Florida From: " bfwolcott " <Benzbelle@...> 10. TRICLOSAN Re: [sprayno] WHAT ARE ANTIMICROBIAL PESTICIDES From: cavegrl777@... 11. What they Don't Know about FMS From: " Barbara Herskovitz " <bherk@...> 12. Re: Sick home in Florida From: ROSEBUDMAR@... 13. For those who are bothered by ITCHY SKIN From: Irene Wilkenfeld <irw@...> 14. Alternative Medicine Hearing--Jan. 31--press release From: cavegrl777@... 15. TX Mold Task Force. Your help is needed! From: " R. Cobarruvias " <johncoby@...> 16. Toxic Mold victim passes away From: seblack99@... ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 06:51:55 +0000 From: " R. Cobarruvias " <johncoby@...> Subject: Texas Insurance Commissioner Stacks Mold Task Force FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Janet Ahmad, National President 210-494-6404 HOMEOWNERS FOR BETTER BUILDING Email: president@... - Website: www.hobb.org <http://www.hobb.org> Commissioner Stacks Deck with Special Interests ³No Consumer Participation² San , Texas, January 16, 2002 - Insurance commissioner Montemayor appointed a Task Force of insurance industry representatives, bankers, builders, contractors and adjusters to assist in developing ³best practices² for handling and processing claims for water and mold damage. As a token jester he appointed Consumers Union and Texas Watch, two well-known consumer organizations that deal with a broad spectrum of consumer issues but failed to appoint anyone from the hundreds of consumers who volunteered to give of their time. ³It is ludicrous to appoint a task force to deal with this states biggest, most important consumer issue without actual consumer participation. What is needed are consumers that have actually dealt with the problems, gone through the horrors of mold contamination, disruption of family life for year and have seen first hand the pitfalls of dealing with health issues and insurance claims,² said Janet Ahmad, president of HomeOwners for Better Building. ³The biggest question is, why the appointment of Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse with ties to special interests, whose sole purpose is to limit consumer redress and access to the courts. What have they done for the consumer? What useful purpose could be served by their participation, unless Montemayor¹s intentions are not in the best interest of the consumer but for the protection of the insurance industry from responsibility and liability,² asks Ahmad. Montemayor recently initiates an investigation because ³his office has received numerous complaints from homeowners throughout Texas on the OEexorbitant rate hikes¹ on policies sold by Farmers Insurance Group and Allstate Insurance Co.,² simultaneously Montemayor appointed both to the new Task Force. ³There are hundreds of insurance companies in the state, why would he appoint Farmers Insurance, whose track record speaks for itself Farmers is the very company who started the national media frenzy last year when they lost a $32 million dollar lawsuit for bad faith and fraud in the handling of a mold claim?² ³The system is broken and the causes of this ³Mold and Health Crisis² are not being addressed. Unfortunately, it is obvious Montemayor¹s recent decisions are not in the best interest of the consumer. The commissioner should immediately appoint consumers with real life experience,² said Ahmad. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:05:31 -0600 From: " Dayberry " <sdayberry@...> Subject: Re: Texas Insurance Commissioner Stacks Mold Task Force I sent a rather scathing letter to Mr. Monetemayor yesterday, if anyone is interested in the letter or his pathetic response, please email me and I will send them to you. ----- Original Message ----- From: R. Cobarruvias Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:51 AM Subject: [] Texas Insurance Commissioner Stacks Mold Task Force FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Janet Ahmad, National President 210-494-6404 HOMEOWNERS FOR BETTER BUILDING Email: president@... - Website: www.hobb.org <http://www.hobb.org> Commissioner Stacks Deck with Special Interests ³No Consumer Participation² San , Texas, January 16, 2002 - Insurance commissioner Montemayor appointed a Task Force of insurance industry representatives, bankers, builders, contractors and adjusters to assist in developing ³best practices² for handling and processing claims for water and mold damage. As a token jester he appointed Consumers Union and Texas Watch, two well-known consumer organizations that deal with a broad spectrum of consumer issues but failed to appoint anyone from the hundreds of consumers who volunteered to give of their time. ³It is ludicrous to appoint a task force to deal with this states biggest, most important consumer issue without actual consumer participation. What is needed are consumers that have actually dealt with the problems, gone through the horrors of mold contamination, disruption of family life for year and have seen first hand the pitfalls of dealing with health issues and insurance claims,² said Janet Ahmad, president of HomeOwners for Better Building. ³The biggest question is, why the appointment of Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse with ties to special interests, whose sole purpose is to limit consumer redress and access to the courts. What have they done for the consumer? What useful purpose could be served by their participation, unless Montemayor¹s intentions are not in the best interest of the consumer but for the protection of the insurance industry from responsibility and liability,² asks Ahmad. Montemayor recently initiates an investigation because ³his office has received numerous complaints from homeowners throughout Texas on the Oexorbitant rate hikes¹ on policies sold by Farmers Insurance Group and Allstate Insurance Co.,² simultaneously Montemayor appointed both to the new Task Force. ³There are hundreds of insurance companies in the state, why would he appoint Farmers Insurance, whose track record speaks for itself Farmers is the very company who started the national media frenzy last year when they lost a $32 million dollar lawsuit for bad faith and fraud in the handling of a mold claim?² ³The system is broken and the causes of this ³Mold and Health Crisis² are not being addressed. Unfortunately, it is obvious Montemayor¹s recent decisions are not in the best interest of the consumer. The commissioner should immediately appoint consumers with real life experience,² said Ahmad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2003 Report Share Posted February 23, 2003 More in depth info on the quackbusters in the book World Without Cancer. Find it at www.realityzone.com or through my website. $0.02 Grace Cross *Amygdalen (Vitamin B17): Nature's Perfect Cancer Cure " www.theroadlesstravelledby.com On 21 Feb 2003 20:55:44 -0000 cures for cancer writes: > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:35:42 EST > From: arnoldgore@... > Subject: Quackbusters Poisoning the Climate for Alternative > Medicine > > > Subj: FW: Who are these so-called " Quackbusters " ?... > > Who are these so-called " Quackbusters " ?... > > Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen > > February 2nd, 2003 > > Americans have known, or suspected, for some time, that there has > been an > organized assault by a group, against companies, and practitioners, > offering > alternatives to the drugs/surgery paradigm. That group calls itself > the > " quackbusters, " and they are a scam. I'm about to tell you WHY that > assault > was formally assembled, HOW THE SCAM works, and WHO the players are, > and > WHAT they're up to right now. In my next newsletter I'll tell you > WHY, > right now, Wisconsin is the important battleground. > If you know who they are, and how they operate, you can beat them. > North America has been going towards what are called " alternatives, " > in > health and medicine, in a big way. More than half of the US health > dollar > is currently being spent on this phenomena. With new billing codes > (ABC > Codes) going into effect, allowing insurance and Medicare to pay > for > " alternative " therapies, that percentage will, no doubt, increase > dramatically. > In California, the fifth largest stand-alone economy in the world, > where I > live, the health freedom movement is much larger than anywhere > else. Here, > we'd rather be healthy than medicated. We've analyzed the politics > of the > problem, and successfully turned the political environment to our > way of > thinking. We simply do not put up with " quackbuster " crap, here.. > Why > should we? > And, neither should you... > > Throughout this discourse keep something important in mind. It's > this - we > in the Health Freedom Movement outnumber the quackbusters 100,000 to > 1. > We've got more money than they do, and we've got better, and more > talented > people. We also have better lawyers. It is time to use our > advantage to > destroy them. > > > WHY IT WAS FORMALLY ASSEMBLED... > > > Three things, I believe, seriously alarmed conventional > (mainstream) > medicine and spurred them to action in late 1996. > > The FIRST thing was reports showing that medical care in this > country is so > bad that doctors and hospitals are listed as the third largest cause > of > unnecessary death. Americans have been finding out that the average > MD > these days, beyond the emergency room, has little to offer beyond > the > " magic bullet, " meaning the new drug pushed this week by the drug > company > salesman. > The bottom line in conventional medical care is a shock, and > Americans are > expressing their displeasure with the situation with their changes > in health > buying patterns - which leads to the Second thing. > > The SECOND thing was a 1993 report in the New England Journal of > Medicine > (JAMA) that showed the huge financial impact of " Alternative > Medicine " on > the US health care dollar. > > The THIRD was the Clinton Administration's identification of " health > fraud " > as a major cause of health care's rising costs - and the > announcement of > Attorney General Janet Reno's plans to deal with that issue > STRONGLY. > > > THE EFFECTS ON MAINSTREAM... > > STOMACH ACHE #1 - The 1993 JAMA report on Alternative Medicine... > had to be > a shock to conventional medicine. It showed that the American > public was > not in the " Marcus Welby, " or the " Ben Casey " mode any more - where > the guy > in the white coat, with the stethoscope around his neck, was > America's sole > source of health advice. The " Ask Your Doctor " program was flat-out > dying. > > The JAMA report suggested that more visits were being made to > unconventional > practitioners in 1990 then to conventional - 488 million > unconventional > visits to 388 million to primary care physicians. 13.7 billion > dollars was > spent on unconventional practices as opposed to 12.8 billion for > hospitalization. Alternative Medicine, which excels outside of > the > Emergency Room was, offering real health solutions. > > STOMACH ACHE #2 - Then, in 1995, Janet Reno, the then Attorney > General, > under the direction of the US President, came out with a program > identifying > " health fraud " as a major problem in the US health care system. > She > shocked, and frightened, conventional practitioners. " Health Fraud " > - was, > and is, defined by the Justice Department as " Over billing, false > coding, MD > kickbacks, etc.. " Reno, of course, was right - conventional > medicine was, > and is, involved in sheer greed and dishonesty. It was, and is, a > huge > problem. > > In response, mainstream medical went into orbit, trying to deflect > her > attack - to no avail. Janet Reno was teaching " seniors " how to read > their > medical bills - and turn their doctor into the Feds. The " Meds " > were in > trouble with the " Feds. " And, still are. And, should be... > > So mainstream, rather than fix their own house, had to come up with > a plan > to counter these two assaults on their dollar intake. They did... > and here > it is... > > > HOW THE SCAM WORKS... > > In 1996, mainstream launched their counter-attack. It was a four > part > dis-information Public Relations campaign designed to kill two > birds > (stomach aches) with one stone. They wanted Janet Reno (and the > American > public) off their backs, and they wanted to get rid of their > upstart > competitor Alternative Medicine. So they came up with a simple > plan - > re-define the term " health fraud " with a massive dis-information > campaign. > The intent was to re-define the word AWAY from Reno's definition of > " Over > billing, false coding, MD kickbacks, etc.. " to a different focus - > " Alternative Medicine. " They put the plan into effect. > > Enter, from stage right - the " quackbusters... " > > PART ONE of the plan was what I call the " definition switch. " > Janet Reno, > in her original plan, had expected cooperation from the State > Medical > Boards. She expected the Boards to prosecute billing cheaters. She > NEVER got > that cooperation. > > In Chicago in 1996, at the FSMB (Federation of States Medical > Boards) annual > meeting, a major program was presented. It was, supposedly, on > " health > fraud, " and how to combat it. Conspicuously, there were no > speakers from > Janet Reno's team. If any of Janet Reno's people thought this was > going to > help the Federal program - they were wrong. > > The Feds that were attending must have been in shock, upon seeing > the > presentation. Only once in the program was the Fed's definition of > " health > fraud " ever mentioned - it was by FTC's Matt Daynard who made it > clear that > their (the FTC's) concerns were MUCH broader than theirs. Other than > an > apparently confused Daynard, no where in the program was there a > discussion > of how to prosecute doctors who over-billed, false coded, took > kickbacks, > etc. All they talked about was " Alternative Medicine, " and how to > prosecute > it - calling it " health fraud. " > > From that moment on - While Feds prosecuted sleazy hospitals, greedy > MDs, > clinics, ambulance operators, home suppliers, etc., State Medical > Boards > were to target two categories (a) solo practitioner MDs that > recommended > supplements, exercise, etc., instead of prescription drugs, and (2) > unlicensed competitors to the drug/surgery dollars, i.e.; > Naturopaths, > Homeopaths, Nutritionists, Health food Stores, Massage Therapists, > etc.. > > And the war began in earnest. For, even then the Health Freedom > Movement, > although not organized, had muscle. Hundreds of fights across the > nation, > ensued. > > PART TWO of the plan was to affect Federal Agencies - and try to > redirect > those agency's efforts away from the Justice Department's program, > and > convince them to focus their energies on " Alternative medicine " > proponents. > They did this with a four-part sub-plan. (a) They invited FTC and > FDA > lower level employees to their meetings for the express purpose of > propagandizing, and kissing-up to them. (. They created a system > of > " meetings " where they had access to those Federal employees on a > regular > basis - for the purpose of propagandizing them © They used > their > contacts within those Federal agencies to gain unwarranted > credibility for > their own plans, and anti-alternative medicine programs. (d) They > got the > US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to give them > official > government credibility. > > PART THREE of the plan, was a propaganda gambit. It was in two parts > (a) > create a so-called " information base. " Websites appeared, sounding > authoritative, like Barrett's sleazy www.quackwatch.com, and > others. > The questionable organization, the National Council Against Health > Fraud > (NCAHF), was to provide so-called " expert witnesses " for testimony. > The > FSMB was to act as a clearinghouse, both for names of people > suggested for > prosecution (persecution), and for where to find " information " and > " expert > witnesses. " And more... > DHHS was duped into giving the quackbusters unwarranted > credibility. Type > in the key words " health fraud " on a government website, and up pops > the > National Council Against Health Fraud's website, and > quackwatch.com. > > The second part ( , and equally important was to demonize, and > criminalize, all aspects of " alternatives " through false > suggestions, or > claims, against them. For instance; The claim that herbals are > " untested " > and not " standardized " is simply a ploy to make herbals look bad. > Herbals > do not need to be " tested, " nor " standardized. " . Herbals are more > like > wine - since they are a natural product, dependant upon natural > factors like > weather, no two batches are going to be the same. Herbals, being > part of > nature (part of earth's life cycle) have been field tested since > the > beginning of time. The " testing " process we the people put in place > is for > new " drugs, " not herbals - those things, unlike herbals, that have > NEVER > been introduced into the human body before. Generally speaking, > drugs are > HUGELY DANGEROUS - hence the warnings of side effects. > > PART FOUR of the plan was to create a relationship with Medicare, > and the > health Insurance Industry, to supposedly, advise them of " health > fraud. " It > incorporated, in a sub-plan parts One, Two, and Three, above. > > > WHO THE PLAYERS ARE... > > I believe the primary player in this scam is the Board, management, > and > staff of the FSMB (Federation of States Medical Boards). Their > website > basically says " We don't know what alternative medicine is - so > we'll call > it health fraud. " It is they, I believe, who control the daily > operation of > the plot. As you read this, at exactly this moment, some, or all of > the > FSMB people, are probably on the phone, the FAX, or the internet, > organizing > the persecution of some unsuspecting leading-edge healer in North > America. > Ten minutes from now, they will begin another. Then another, then > another, > then another... > > The National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF) is another > player. It > wants to appear to be an important wheel in health care. The > reality is > different. It was rudely EVICTED from Loma University a few > years > ago, and after bouncing around from place to place, has now found a > home in > a hair removal salon in Massachusetts, where the NCAHF president, > S. > Baratz MD, DDS, PhD is the " Medical Director. " Hair removal? > > One other player, recently fading from the scene, muscled out by > Bobbie > Baratz, is Barrett MD, who the Pennsylvania licensing board > officially classifies as " Not in Good Standing, " operates the > dubious > website www.quackwatch.com out of his basement in town, > Pennsylvania. > > There are other players, but it would take to long to explain how it > works. > Again, I recommend MD's SUPERB book " Racketeering In > Medicine. " > as a resource. Page #44 has an outline of the whole quackbuster > scam. > > > THE REAL PROBLEM IS... > > What is the REAL problem, exactly? Generally, " we " are the > problem. " We " > meaning the North American Health Freedom Movement. Specifically, > it's that > " we, " in the Health Freedom Movement haven't completely countered > the attack > plan put into place a few years ago (1996), by the quackbuster > conspirators > to destroy " Alternative Medicine. " It's time we did that. - and we > can do > it relatively easily. > > What we have to remember is that, despite the quackbuster's best > efforts, > " Alternative Medicine " is gaining, not losing, ground in public > acceptance. > Americans aren't buying into the quackbuster " big lie " propaganda > program. > > Since identifying a problem is half-way to solution - we're more > than half > done solving this issue. > > > SO WHAT ABOUT THE QUACKBUSTER'S BIG PLAN? > > We know that several years ago, the plan was put together, and > explained at > the 1996 meeting of the FSMB, by a group of conspirators, to use the > Medical > Boards, the FSMB, the Attorney Generals, certain employees of the > FTC and > the FDA, and top quackbusters for the purpose of stamping out > " Alternative > Medicine. " Although the whole thing was exposed in magazines like > " The > Townsend Letter, " the plan was activated. It is on-going now. At > that time > there was no super-strong (like there is now) " Health Freedom > Movement, " per > se - so there was no national counter-strategy, and no > counter-action. > > That was THEN - this is NOW. > > Now, of course, we know that when a " top quackbuster " shows up to > testify > somewhere, someone is waiting with the equivalent of a factual > ball-bat - > and that quackbuster is publicly exposed for the out-of-a-job loser > crackpot > they really are. In other words, we've negated an important > component in > their attack plan - their so-called " experts. " We're doing this to > Bobbie > Baratz in Wisconsin. Each time he opens his mouth he sinks deeper > into the > quicksand. > > Dismantling their " activated plan " is also really a simple > exercise. We > simply use our size, and intelligence, advantage. > > " The Plan of 1996, " such as it is, was in five parts, and it had a > basic > theme - Destroy Alternative Medicine by " Criminalizing " it. Kind of > like > depicting Mother Theresa as " the whore of Calcutta. " > > Their five part plan goes like this: (1) Set up a central > propaganda > center. (2) Control who gets prosecuted through the FSMB, and > medical > boards. (3) Affect Medicare, and Medical Insurance Company > payment > decisions (4) Use the system to harass, discourage, and destroy > Alt Med > practitioners, and providers. (5) Demoralize the opposition with > the > viciousness of the campaign. > > " The Plan of 1996 " is having a limited success, not because it's a > good > plan, but because we don't do anything about it. Our reaction, to > this > point, has been to put protective " Health Freedom Laws " in place - > and we > are having only LIMITED success with that. We need to change > strategies > slightly. > > > WHY IT'S SO EASY TO BEAT THESE PEOPLE... > > The quackbusters, I've found, aren't individually, or in groups, > that > bright. Read delicensed MD Barrett's website > www.quackwatch.com, > and his resume, and you'll see what I mean - and he's their chief > propagandist. Everything he says is like he was simply filling out > a form > someone, with a higher intelligence, gave him. His mouthings are > boringly > the same, each and every time. > Keep in mind that Barrett, although claiming to be a retired > Psychiatrist, > was never able to become " Board Certified. " He failed his test. > Also, > Barrett gave up his MD license in 1993. I suspect he just couldn't > keep up > with new things. His employment record shows he NEVER was able to > hold a > full-time job - and his claim to " Psychiatric fame " was his > part-time (4 to > 8 hours a week) employment at a Pennsylvania Mental Hospital - from > 1978 > through 1993. From 1976 through 1978 he COULD NOT GET a paying > job. > > Barrett, with his lack of basic intelligence, is getting hammered > when he > shows up in a courtroom situation - and tries to inflict his weird > opinions > on a Judge. And Barrett has legal problems all over the country. > Basically, I see Barrett as a loser, who couldn't make it in the > medical > profession. And, Barrett is TYPICAL quackbuster leadership. > > Bobbie Baratz, the current president of the NCAHF, is laughable. > He's, > almost literally, hiding under the bed, avoiding depositions asking > about > his so-called " expertise. " I believe he's desperate for the > " testifying " > money. Baratz, who's former position at a Boston area medical > center, was > terminated (and Baratz doesn't want to talk about it), after a > physical > altercation with a 72 year old woman, now operates a hair removal > business. > Some " expert. " He also operates the NCAHF out of that same hair > removal > location. > > Polevoy, in Canada, is a sissy. He likes to frighten women. I > think he > pees his pants when confronted by the male of the species. I'm > eager to > hear his version of the story about why he isn't practicing as a > PEDIATRICIAN any more. > > I see no reason to be impressed with the visible quackbuster > operation... > I'm of the opinion that the original " plan " was written by someone > we > haven't met yet. > > > SO WHY DID THEY HAVE ANY SUCCESS, AT ALL? > > Because they organized, and activated, a plan... and we, in the > Health > Freedom Movement, didn't react with our own plan. > > > HOW DOES THEIR PLAN WORK? > > (1) SET UP A CENTRAL PROPAGANDA CENTER - They simply set up a > series of > websites, and telephone numbers, that all of their soldiers, > government > employees, and members of the public, could refer to for information > about > " alternative medicine. " They set up a " chat room " to send victims > to " for > further information. " Unsuspecting readers have no idea that what > they're > reading is all lies and misrepresentations. > > (2) CONTROL WHO GETS PROSECUTED through the FSMB, and medical > boards. - > Whoever designed the original plan, understood the science of > social > manipulation. They understood how to use bureaucrats to their own > advantage. > > Generally speaking, public employees are not the brightest stars in > the sky > - they are bureaucrats. The 1970's book " The Principle " was > written > about them. Dr. ce J. was the one who said " In a > bureaucracy, > everyone rises to their level of incompetence. " How true. > > Employees of agencies regulating health care in the United States are > no > exception. The only thing you can count on when dealing with them > is (a) > they are definitely bureaucrats, ( when it comes to knowledge of > the > subject they are supposed to regulate - never expect them to know > anything > about what they are regulating, © expect pettiness, brutality, > and > stupidity in their completion of their assignments. If you keep > these > things in mind (and don't be shocked by the reality) - you can deal > with > them - and get things done. > > Yes, it's not right - but it is the way things are. > > The quackbusters have been operating in the " public employee " arena > for a > very long time. So, they know how to manipulate the arena to their > own > advantage. Even though we, in the Health Freedom Movement, > outnumber them > 100,000 to 1, they can still control who gets attacked (prosecuted), > because > they've managed to infiltrate, and poison the minds of health > agency > bureaucrats against " Alternative Medicine. " One of the best > examples we've > recently found is the " Training Manual for Alternative Medicine > Prosecutions, " handed out to the gun-toting investigators of the > Medical > Board of California (MBC). > > Investigators of the Medical Board of California (MBC), are only > required to > have a high school education, are not required to have any medical > training, > and need only a six-week course at a community college before > they're handed > their fifteen-shot Berretta nine millimeter automatic, and their > " Training > Manual for Alternative Medicine Prosecutions. " > > See how it works? > > > (3) AFFECT MEDICARE, AND MEDICAL INSURANCE COMPANY DECISIONS... > > Unfortunately, a large slice of the American population relies on > Medicare > and Medical Insurance for their health care needs. Those that use > this > combination solely - remain unhealthy, and then die. For, as we > know, > Medicare, and Medical Insurance, offerings have to have undergone > an > " approval process " before they can be paid for. Which translates to > the > unfortunate fact that if you're relying on what Medicare will pay > for - > you're relying on practices and procedures that are at least FIFTEEN > YEARS > OUT OF DATE. And, in the case of Medical Insurance - probably TEN > YEARS OUT > OF DATE. New things simply aren't paid for in the Medicare and > Medical > Insurance world. > > The " quackbusters " formed an organization called CHIRI (Consumer > Health > Information Research Institute) for the express purpose of, as > > says " The CHIRI has for its constituency the health insurance > industry. It > purports to serve that industry in an advisory capacity, by > approving or > disapproving a particular treatment provided by a health-care > provider. It > plans to serve as a health-insurance consultant regarding the > legitimacy of > certain disabilities and health practitioners. An example of an > " illegal " > disability would be chronic fatigue syndrome. CHIRI is also said to > have a > computerized list of more than 40,000 American physicians and other > medical > practitioners who are suspected of using " questionable medical > practices. " > > (4) USE THE SYSTEM TO HARASS, DISCOURAGE, AND DESTROY LEADING-EDGE > PRACTITIONERS AND PROVIDERS... > > Taking plan sections One, Two, and Three above into consideration, > you can > see what effect the combination has on leading-edge health care. > The > " system " is designed to protect the status quo. > > (5) DEMORALIZE THE OPPOSITION BY THE VICIOUSNESS OF THE CAMPAIGN. > > This section is self-explanatory. One of the tactics used is to > attack > health providers who have little, or no, financial resources as > brutally as > possible, as publicly as possible, so that other providers see what > happens > when they tell the drug salesmen to go away. > > > WHAT ARE THE QUACKBUSTERS UP TO RIGHT NOW.... > > Besides hiding under the bed? There's their Wisconsin campaign - > typically > vicious, full of hatred and falsehoods, led by little Bobbie Baratz, > who > isn't doing very well... We have there, an opportunity to do the > " quackbusters " serious damage. I'll tell you about it in the next > newsletter. > Coming soon... > Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate > > > This " Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter " is about > the battle > between " Health and Medicine " on Planet Earth. Tim Bolen is an op/ed > writer > with extensive knowledge of the activities of a subversive > organization > calling itself the " quackbusters, " and that organization's attempts > to > suppress, and discredit, any, and all health modalities that compete > with > the allopathic (MD) paradigm for consumer health dollars. The focus > of the > newsletter is on the ongoing activities, battles, politics, and the > victories won by members of the " Health Freedom Movement " against > the > " quackbusters " It details " who the quackbusters are, what they > are, where > they are operating, when they appear, and how they operate - and how > easy it > is to beat them... " > > For background information on the " Battle between Health and > Medicine " go > to: http://www.save.net/by_whom2.htm. A copy of THIS > newsletter, and > older ones, are viewable at the website > http://www.quackpotwatch.org/default.htm. > > For EVEN MORE interesting and related articles go to > http://www.bolenreport.com. > > > > Sandy Mintz > http://www.vaccinationnews.com > http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Scandals/past_scandals.htm > > " Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. " - Wendell > (1811-1884), > paraphrasing Philpot Curran (1808) > > http://www.909shot.com > http://www.redflagsweekly.com > > ALL INFORMATION, DATA, AND MATERIAL CONTAINED, PRESENTED, OR > PROVIDED HERE > IS FOR GENERAL INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED > AS > REFLECTING THE KNOWLEDGE OR OPINIONS OF THE PUBLISHER, AND IS NOT TO > BE > CONSTRUED OR INTENDED AS PROVIDING MEDICAL OR LEGAL ADVICE. THE > DECISION > WHETHER OR NOT TO VACCINATE IS AN IMPORTANT AND COMPLEX ISSUE AND > SHOULD BE > MADE BY YOU, AND YOU ALONE, IN CONSULTATION WITH YOUR HEALTH CARE > PROVIDER. > > IN ADDITION, THE FACT THAT THIS EMAIL HAS BEEN FORWARDED IN NO WAY > NECESSARILY IMPLIES ENDORSEMENT OF THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE AUTHOR > OR > AUTHORS OF THE ARTICLE OR EMAIL. > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2003 Report Share Posted February 23, 2003 More in depth info on the quackbusters in the book World Without Cancer. Find it at www.realityzone.com or through my website. $0.02 Grace Cross *Amygdalen (Vitamin B17): Nature's Perfect Cancer Cure " www.theroadlesstravelledby.com On 21 Feb 2003 20:55:44 -0000 cures for cancer writes: > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:35:42 EST > From: arnoldgore@... > Subject: Quackbusters Poisoning the Climate for Alternative > Medicine > > > Subj: FW: Who are these so-called " Quackbusters " ?... > > Who are these so-called " Quackbusters " ?... > > Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen > > February 2nd, 2003 > > Americans have known, or suspected, for some time, that there has > been an > organized assault by a group, against companies, and practitioners, > offering > alternatives to the drugs/surgery paradigm. That group calls itself > the > " quackbusters, " and they are a scam. I'm about to tell you WHY that > assault > was formally assembled, HOW THE SCAM works, and WHO the players are, > and > WHAT they're up to right now. In my next newsletter I'll tell you > WHY, > right now, Wisconsin is the important battleground. > If you know who they are, and how they operate, you can beat them. > North America has been going towards what are called " alternatives, " > in > health and medicine, in a big way. More than half of the US health > dollar > is currently being spent on this phenomena. With new billing codes > (ABC > Codes) going into effect, allowing insurance and Medicare to pay > for > " alternative " therapies, that percentage will, no doubt, increase > dramatically. > In California, the fifth largest stand-alone economy in the world, > where I > live, the health freedom movement is much larger than anywhere > else. Here, > we'd rather be healthy than medicated. We've analyzed the politics > of the > problem, and successfully turned the political environment to our > way of > thinking. We simply do not put up with " quackbuster " crap, here.. > Why > should we? > And, neither should you... > > Throughout this discourse keep something important in mind. It's > this - we > in the Health Freedom Movement outnumber the quackbusters 100,000 to > 1. > We've got more money than they do, and we've got better, and more > talented > people. We also have better lawyers. It is time to use our > advantage to > destroy them. > > > WHY IT WAS FORMALLY ASSEMBLED... > > > Three things, I believe, seriously alarmed conventional > (mainstream) > medicine and spurred them to action in late 1996. > > The FIRST thing was reports showing that medical care in this > country is so > bad that doctors and hospitals are listed as the third largest cause > of > unnecessary death. Americans have been finding out that the average > MD > these days, beyond the emergency room, has little to offer beyond > the > " magic bullet, " meaning the new drug pushed this week by the drug > company > salesman. > The bottom line in conventional medical care is a shock, and > Americans are > expressing their displeasure with the situation with their changes > in health > buying patterns - which leads to the Second thing. > > The SECOND thing was a 1993 report in the New England Journal of > Medicine > (JAMA) that showed the huge financial impact of " Alternative > Medicine " on > the US health care dollar. > > The THIRD was the Clinton Administration's identification of " health > fraud " > as a major cause of health care's rising costs - and the > announcement of > Attorney General Janet Reno's plans to deal with that issue > STRONGLY. > > > THE EFFECTS ON MAINSTREAM... > > STOMACH ACHE #1 - The 1993 JAMA report on Alternative Medicine... > had to be > a shock to conventional medicine. It showed that the American > public was > not in the " Marcus Welby, " or the " Ben Casey " mode any more - where > the guy > in the white coat, with the stethoscope around his neck, was > America's sole > source of health advice. The " Ask Your Doctor " program was flat-out > dying. > > The JAMA report suggested that more visits were being made to > unconventional > practitioners in 1990 then to conventional - 488 million > unconventional > visits to 388 million to primary care physicians. 13.7 billion > dollars was > spent on unconventional practices as opposed to 12.8 billion for > hospitalization. Alternative Medicine, which excels outside of > the > Emergency Room was, offering real health solutions. > > STOMACH ACHE #2 - Then, in 1995, Janet Reno, the then Attorney > General, > under the direction of the US President, came out with a program > identifying > " health fraud " as a major problem in the US health care system. > She > shocked, and frightened, conventional practitioners. " Health Fraud " > - was, > and is, defined by the Justice Department as " Over billing, false > coding, MD > kickbacks, etc.. " Reno, of course, was right - conventional > medicine was, > and is, involved in sheer greed and dishonesty. It was, and is, a > huge > problem. > > In response, mainstream medical went into orbit, trying to deflect > her > attack - to no avail. Janet Reno was teaching " seniors " how to read > their > medical bills - and turn their doctor into the Feds. The " Meds " > were in > trouble with the " Feds. " And, still are. And, should be... > > So mainstream, rather than fix their own house, had to come up with > a plan > to counter these two assaults on their dollar intake. They did... > and here > it is... > > > HOW THE SCAM WORKS... > > In 1996, mainstream launched their counter-attack. It was a four > part > dis-information Public Relations campaign designed to kill two > birds > (stomach aches) with one stone. They wanted Janet Reno (and the > American > public) off their backs, and they wanted to get rid of their > upstart > competitor Alternative Medicine. So they came up with a simple > plan - > re-define the term " health fraud " with a massive dis-information > campaign. > The intent was to re-define the word AWAY from Reno's definition of > " Over > billing, false coding, MD kickbacks, etc.. " to a different focus - > " Alternative Medicine. " They put the plan into effect. > > Enter, from stage right - the " quackbusters... " > > PART ONE of the plan was what I call the " definition switch. " > Janet Reno, > in her original plan, had expected cooperation from the State > Medical > Boards. She expected the Boards to prosecute billing cheaters. She > NEVER got > that cooperation. > > In Chicago in 1996, at the FSMB (Federation of States Medical > Boards) annual > meeting, a major program was presented. It was, supposedly, on > " health > fraud, " and how to combat it. Conspicuously, there were no > speakers from > Janet Reno's team. If any of Janet Reno's people thought this was > going to > help the Federal program - they were wrong. > > The Feds that were attending must have been in shock, upon seeing > the > presentation. Only once in the program was the Fed's definition of > " health > fraud " ever mentioned - it was by FTC's Matt Daynard who made it > clear that > their (the FTC's) concerns were MUCH broader than theirs. Other than > an > apparently confused Daynard, no where in the program was there a > discussion > of how to prosecute doctors who over-billed, false coded, took > kickbacks, > etc. All they talked about was " Alternative Medicine, " and how to > prosecute > it - calling it " health fraud. " > > From that moment on - While Feds prosecuted sleazy hospitals, greedy > MDs, > clinics, ambulance operators, home suppliers, etc., State Medical > Boards > were to target two categories (a) solo practitioner MDs that > recommended > supplements, exercise, etc., instead of prescription drugs, and (2) > unlicensed competitors to the drug/surgery dollars, i.e.; > Naturopaths, > Homeopaths, Nutritionists, Health food Stores, Massage Therapists, > etc.. > > And the war began in earnest. For, even then the Health Freedom > Movement, > although not organized, had muscle. Hundreds of fights across the > nation, > ensued. > > PART TWO of the plan was to affect Federal Agencies - and try to > redirect > those agency's efforts away from the Justice Department's program, > and > convince them to focus their energies on " Alternative medicine " > proponents. > They did this with a four-part sub-plan. (a) They invited FTC and > FDA > lower level employees to their meetings for the express purpose of > propagandizing, and kissing-up to them. (. They created a system > of > " meetings " where they had access to those Federal employees on a > regular > basis - for the purpose of propagandizing them © They used > their > contacts within those Federal agencies to gain unwarranted > credibility for > their own plans, and anti-alternative medicine programs. (d) They > got the > US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to give them > official > government credibility. > > PART THREE of the plan, was a propaganda gambit. It was in two parts > (a) > create a so-called " information base. " Websites appeared, sounding > authoritative, like Barrett's sleazy www.quackwatch.com, and > others. > The questionable organization, the National Council Against Health > Fraud > (NCAHF), was to provide so-called " expert witnesses " for testimony. > The > FSMB was to act as a clearinghouse, both for names of people > suggested for > prosecution (persecution), and for where to find " information " and > " expert > witnesses. " And more... > DHHS was duped into giving the quackbusters unwarranted > credibility. Type > in the key words " health fraud " on a government website, and up pops > the > National Council Against Health Fraud's website, and > quackwatch.com. > > The second part ( , and equally important was to demonize, and > criminalize, all aspects of " alternatives " through false > suggestions, or > claims, against them. For instance; The claim that herbals are > " untested " > and not " standardized " is simply a ploy to make herbals look bad. > Herbals > do not need to be " tested, " nor " standardized. " . Herbals are more > like > wine - since they are a natural product, dependant upon natural > factors like > weather, no two batches are going to be the same. Herbals, being > part of > nature (part of earth's life cycle) have been field tested since > the > beginning of time. The " testing " process we the people put in place > is for > new " drugs, " not herbals - those things, unlike herbals, that have > NEVER > been introduced into the human body before. Generally speaking, > drugs are > HUGELY DANGEROUS - hence the warnings of side effects. > > PART FOUR of the plan was to create a relationship with Medicare, > and the > health Insurance Industry, to supposedly, advise them of " health > fraud. " It > incorporated, in a sub-plan parts One, Two, and Three, above. > > > WHO THE PLAYERS ARE... > > I believe the primary player in this scam is the Board, management, > and > staff of the FSMB (Federation of States Medical Boards). Their > website > basically says " We don't know what alternative medicine is - so > we'll call > it health fraud. " It is they, I believe, who control the daily > operation of > the plot. As you read this, at exactly this moment, some, or all of > the > FSMB people, are probably on the phone, the FAX, or the internet, > organizing > the persecution of some unsuspecting leading-edge healer in North > America. > Ten minutes from now, they will begin another. Then another, then > another, > then another... > > The National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF) is another > player. It > wants to appear to be an important wheel in health care. The > reality is > different. It was rudely EVICTED from Loma University a few > years > ago, and after bouncing around from place to place, has now found a > home in > a hair removal salon in Massachusetts, where the NCAHF president, > S. > Baratz MD, DDS, PhD is the " Medical Director. " Hair removal? > > One other player, recently fading from the scene, muscled out by > Bobbie > Baratz, is Barrett MD, who the Pennsylvania licensing board > officially classifies as " Not in Good Standing, " operates the > dubious > website www.quackwatch.com out of his basement in town, > Pennsylvania. > > There are other players, but it would take to long to explain how it > works. > Again, I recommend MD's SUPERB book " Racketeering In > Medicine. " > as a resource. Page #44 has an outline of the whole quackbuster > scam. > > > THE REAL PROBLEM IS... > > What is the REAL problem, exactly? Generally, " we " are the > problem. " We " > meaning the North American Health Freedom Movement. Specifically, > it's that > " we, " in the Health Freedom Movement haven't completely countered > the attack > plan put into place a few years ago (1996), by the quackbuster > conspirators > to destroy " Alternative Medicine. " It's time we did that. - and we > can do > it relatively easily. > > What we have to remember is that, despite the quackbuster's best > efforts, > " Alternative Medicine " is gaining, not losing, ground in public > acceptance. > Americans aren't buying into the quackbuster " big lie " propaganda > program. > > Since identifying a problem is half-way to solution - we're more > than half > done solving this issue. > > > SO WHAT ABOUT THE QUACKBUSTER'S BIG PLAN? > > We know that several years ago, the plan was put together, and > explained at > the 1996 meeting of the FSMB, by a group of conspirators, to use the > Medical > Boards, the FSMB, the Attorney Generals, certain employees of the > FTC and > the FDA, and top quackbusters for the purpose of stamping out > " Alternative > Medicine. " Although the whole thing was exposed in magazines like > " The > Townsend Letter, " the plan was activated. It is on-going now. At > that time > there was no super-strong (like there is now) " Health Freedom > Movement, " per > se - so there was no national counter-strategy, and no > counter-action. > > That was THEN - this is NOW. > > Now, of course, we know that when a " top quackbuster " shows up to > testify > somewhere, someone is waiting with the equivalent of a factual > ball-bat - > and that quackbuster is publicly exposed for the out-of-a-job loser > crackpot > they really are. In other words, we've negated an important > component in > their attack plan - their so-called " experts. " We're doing this to > Bobbie > Baratz in Wisconsin. Each time he opens his mouth he sinks deeper > into the > quicksand. > > Dismantling their " activated plan " is also really a simple > exercise. We > simply use our size, and intelligence, advantage. > > " The Plan of 1996, " such as it is, was in five parts, and it had a > basic > theme - Destroy Alternative Medicine by " Criminalizing " it. Kind of > like > depicting Mother Theresa as " the whore of Calcutta. " > > Their five part plan goes like this: (1) Set up a central > propaganda > center. (2) Control who gets prosecuted through the FSMB, and > medical > boards. (3) Affect Medicare, and Medical Insurance Company > payment > decisions (4) Use the system to harass, discourage, and destroy > Alt Med > practitioners, and providers. (5) Demoralize the opposition with > the > viciousness of the campaign. > > " The Plan of 1996 " is having a limited success, not because it's a > good > plan, but because we don't do anything about it. Our reaction, to > this > point, has been to put protective " Health Freedom Laws " in place - > and we > are having only LIMITED success with that. We need to change > strategies > slightly. > > > WHY IT'S SO EASY TO BEAT THESE PEOPLE... > > The quackbusters, I've found, aren't individually, or in groups, > that > bright. Read delicensed MD Barrett's website > www.quackwatch.com, > and his resume, and you'll see what I mean - and he's their chief > propagandist. Everything he says is like he was simply filling out > a form > someone, with a higher intelligence, gave him. His mouthings are > boringly > the same, each and every time. > Keep in mind that Barrett, although claiming to be a retired > Psychiatrist, > was never able to become " Board Certified. " He failed his test. > Also, > Barrett gave up his MD license in 1993. I suspect he just couldn't > keep up > with new things. His employment record shows he NEVER was able to > hold a > full-time job - and his claim to " Psychiatric fame " was his > part-time (4 to > 8 hours a week) employment at a Pennsylvania Mental Hospital - from > 1978 > through 1993. From 1976 through 1978 he COULD NOT GET a paying > job. > > Barrett, with his lack of basic intelligence, is getting hammered > when he > shows up in a courtroom situation - and tries to inflict his weird > opinions > on a Judge. And Barrett has legal problems all over the country. > Basically, I see Barrett as a loser, who couldn't make it in the > medical > profession. And, Barrett is TYPICAL quackbuster leadership. > > Bobbie Baratz, the current president of the NCAHF, is laughable. > He's, > almost literally, hiding under the bed, avoiding depositions asking > about > his so-called " expertise. " I believe he's desperate for the > " testifying " > money. Baratz, who's former position at a Boston area medical > center, was > terminated (and Baratz doesn't want to talk about it), after a > physical > altercation with a 72 year old woman, now operates a hair removal > business. > Some " expert. " He also operates the NCAHF out of that same hair > removal > location. > > Polevoy, in Canada, is a sissy. He likes to frighten women. I > think he > pees his pants when confronted by the male of the species. I'm > eager to > hear his version of the story about why he isn't practicing as a > PEDIATRICIAN any more. > > I see no reason to be impressed with the visible quackbuster > operation... > I'm of the opinion that the original " plan " was written by someone > we > haven't met yet. > > > SO WHY DID THEY HAVE ANY SUCCESS, AT ALL? > > Because they organized, and activated, a plan... and we, in the > Health > Freedom Movement, didn't react with our own plan. > > > HOW DOES THEIR PLAN WORK? > > (1) SET UP A CENTRAL PROPAGANDA CENTER - They simply set up a > series of > websites, and telephone numbers, that all of their soldiers, > government > employees, and members of the public, could refer to for information > about > " alternative medicine. " They set up a " chat room " to send victims > to " for > further information. " Unsuspecting readers have no idea that what > they're > reading is all lies and misrepresentations. > > (2) CONTROL WHO GETS PROSECUTED through the FSMB, and medical > boards. - > Whoever designed the original plan, understood the science of > social > manipulation. They understood how to use bureaucrats to their own > advantage. > > Generally speaking, public employees are not the brightest stars in > the sky > - they are bureaucrats. The 1970's book " The Principle " was > written > about them. Dr. ce J. was the one who said " In a > bureaucracy, > everyone rises to their level of incompetence. " How true. > > Employees of agencies regulating health care in the United States are > no > exception. The only thing you can count on when dealing with them > is (a) > they are definitely bureaucrats, ( when it comes to knowledge of > the > subject they are supposed to regulate - never expect them to know > anything > about what they are regulating, © expect pettiness, brutality, > and > stupidity in their completion of their assignments. If you keep > these > things in mind (and don't be shocked by the reality) - you can deal > with > them - and get things done. > > Yes, it's not right - but it is the way things are. > > The quackbusters have been operating in the " public employee " arena > for a > very long time. So, they know how to manipulate the arena to their > own > advantage. Even though we, in the Health Freedom Movement, > outnumber them > 100,000 to 1, they can still control who gets attacked (prosecuted), > because > they've managed to infiltrate, and poison the minds of health > agency > bureaucrats against " Alternative Medicine. " One of the best > examples we've > recently found is the " Training Manual for Alternative Medicine > Prosecutions, " handed out to the gun-toting investigators of the > Medical > Board of California (MBC). > > Investigators of the Medical Board of California (MBC), are only > required to > have a high school education, are not required to have any medical > training, > and need only a six-week course at a community college before > they're handed > their fifteen-shot Berretta nine millimeter automatic, and their > " Training > Manual for Alternative Medicine Prosecutions. " > > See how it works? > > > (3) AFFECT MEDICARE, AND MEDICAL INSURANCE COMPANY DECISIONS... > > Unfortunately, a large slice of the American population relies on > Medicare > and Medical Insurance for their health care needs. Those that use > this > combination solely - remain unhealthy, and then die. For, as we > know, > Medicare, and Medical Insurance, offerings have to have undergone > an > " approval process " before they can be paid for. Which translates to > the > unfortunate fact that if you're relying on what Medicare will pay > for - > you're relying on practices and procedures that are at least FIFTEEN > YEARS > OUT OF DATE. And, in the case of Medical Insurance - probably TEN > YEARS OUT > OF DATE. New things simply aren't paid for in the Medicare and > Medical > Insurance world. > > The " quackbusters " formed an organization called CHIRI (Consumer > Health > Information Research Institute) for the express purpose of, as > > says " The CHIRI has for its constituency the health insurance > industry. It > purports to serve that industry in an advisory capacity, by > approving or > disapproving a particular treatment provided by a health-care > provider. It > plans to serve as a health-insurance consultant regarding the > legitimacy of > certain disabilities and health practitioners. An example of an > " illegal " > disability would be chronic fatigue syndrome. CHIRI is also said to > have a > computerized list of more than 40,000 American physicians and other > medical > practitioners who are suspected of using " questionable medical > practices. " > > (4) USE THE SYSTEM TO HARASS, DISCOURAGE, AND DESTROY LEADING-EDGE > PRACTITIONERS AND PROVIDERS... > > Taking plan sections One, Two, and Three above into consideration, > you can > see what effect the combination has on leading-edge health care. > The > " system " is designed to protect the status quo. > > (5) DEMORALIZE THE OPPOSITION BY THE VICIOUSNESS OF THE CAMPAIGN. > > This section is self-explanatory. One of the tactics used is to > attack > health providers who have little, or no, financial resources as > brutally as > possible, as publicly as possible, so that other providers see what > happens > when they tell the drug salesmen to go away. > > > WHAT ARE THE QUACKBUSTERS UP TO RIGHT NOW.... > > Besides hiding under the bed? There's their Wisconsin campaign - > typically > vicious, full of hatred and falsehoods, led by little Bobbie Baratz, > who > isn't doing very well... We have there, an opportunity to do the > " quackbusters " serious damage. I'll tell you about it in the next > newsletter. > Coming soon... > Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate > > > This " Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter " is about > the battle > between " Health and Medicine " on Planet Earth. Tim Bolen is an op/ed > writer > with extensive knowledge of the activities of a subversive > organization > calling itself the " quackbusters, " and that organization's attempts > to > suppress, and discredit, any, and all health modalities that compete > with > the allopathic (MD) paradigm for consumer health dollars. The focus > of the > newsletter is on the ongoing activities, battles, politics, and the > victories won by members of the " Health Freedom Movement " against > the > " quackbusters " It details " who the quackbusters are, what they > are, where > they are operating, when they appear, and how they operate - and how > easy it > is to beat them... " > > For background information on the " Battle between Health and > Medicine " go > to: http://www.save.net/by_whom2.htm. A copy of THIS > newsletter, and > older ones, are viewable at the website > http://www.quackpotwatch.org/default.htm. > > For EVEN MORE interesting and related articles go to > http://www.bolenreport.com. > > > > Sandy Mintz > http://www.vaccinationnews.com > http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Scandals/past_scandals.htm > > " Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. " - Wendell > (1811-1884), > paraphrasing Philpot Curran (1808) > > http://www.909shot.com > http://www.redflagsweekly.com > > ALL INFORMATION, DATA, AND MATERIAL CONTAINED, PRESENTED, OR > PROVIDED HERE > IS FOR GENERAL INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED > AS > REFLECTING THE KNOWLEDGE OR OPINIONS OF THE PUBLISHER, AND IS NOT TO > BE > CONSTRUED OR INTENDED AS PROVIDING MEDICAL OR LEGAL ADVICE. THE > DECISION > WHETHER OR NOT TO VACCINATE IS AN IMPORTANT AND COMPLEX ISSUE AND > SHOULD BE > MADE BY YOU, AND YOU ALONE, IN CONSULTATION WITH YOUR HEALTH CARE > PROVIDER. > > IN ADDITION, THE FACT THAT THIS EMAIL HAS BEEN FORWARDED IN NO WAY > NECESSARILY IMPLIES ENDORSEMENT OF THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE AUTHOR > OR > AUTHORS OF THE ARTICLE OR EMAIL. > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 21, 2003 Report Share Posted December 21, 2003 Hi Jim, I looked this up in the Lifepak 300 manual and verified it on our unit. If you want, I can fax you a copy of the setup flowchart. Step 1 Enter Setup Mode Press and hold [MANUAL] & [PRINTER] (or [EVENT]) buttons while turning unit on. Maintain pressure on these buttons until Setup screen displays. Step 2 Select parameter Use [sELECT] button (next to screen) to scroll through menu. Press [CHANGE] button to enter edit mode Step 3 Edit Parameter Use [sELECT] button (next to screen) to scroll through parameter fields. Press [CHANGE] button to enter edit parameter fields (the unit will step through each value sequensially). Step 4 Confirm Change When you have completed editing all relevant fields, press [FINNISHED] button to return to main menu. Step 5 Next operation Either select another parameter as per Step 1 or press the [EXIT SETUP] button to return to normal operations mode. With compliments Shaun Ross > Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:36:36 +0200 > From: " Dawdy " <jdawdy@...> > Subject: LifePak 300 > > > If anyone has instructions for setting the time/date on a lifepak 300, > please send them to me: jdawdy@... > > Thanks, > Jim > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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