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Just as is
every issue in the US, Obamacare and the wider question of the state
of American health care are obscured by propaganda and disinformation.
In the article below, Dr. Robert S. Dobson looks back on a lifetime
of medical practice and provides facts and insights that might help
us to understand our situation.

The US medical
system is the most expensive on earth without being the best and
without providing full coverage. One-sixth of the American population
has no medical coverage.

There are two
main reasons that US medicine is so expensive. One is that profits
are piled upon profits. In addition to wages and salaries for doctors,
nurses, and medical personnel, the American health care system has
to provide profits for private hospitals, diagnostic centers, insurance
companies, and for the accountants, attorneys and management consultants
made necessary by the enormous litigation and regulatory compliance
cost. American medicine is the most regulated in the world and the
most criminalized.

What “Obamacare”
does is to divert Medicare and Medicaid monies to the profits of
private insurance companies. Instead of providing medical care to
those in need, the taxpayersÂ’ money will provide bonuses for
insurance executives and profits for their shareholders. It is the
height of folly for Obama worshipers to defend a law written by
the private insurance companies that uses public revenues to provide
insurers with 50 million more customers and to add yet another layer
of profits to the cost of American medicine.

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Reflections
on a Medical Career
Robert S. Dotson, M.D.

All lovely
things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die;
And youth, thatÂ’s now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny
by and by.

~ Conrad Aiken
(“Disenchantment IV” – 1916)

Thirty years
have passed since a much younger physician opened his ophthalmology
practice in East Tennessee. A lifetime of hopes and expectations,
intermingled with the usual collection of fears and uncertainties,
has sped past at blinding speed. Children came, grew up, and moved
on to their own lives. Parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles,
many friends and colleagues have returned to dust in advance of
their fading photos.

Patients and
their parents and children and grandchildren have moved in and out
of this world, too, inextricably woven into the fabric of my life.
Sadly, a few may have been hurt by lapses in judgment or the arrogance
of youthful physician pride and overconfidence. But, at the end
of the day, most were helped. I was fortunate to be recognized as
a “doctor’s doctor” early on and, though there was
no attendant reward other than the respect of peers, that was a
sufficiently gratifying laurel to carry.

As in any human
story, joy and pain, love and sorrow, have marked these same years.
The Millstone of Time has also worn away foolish aspirations and
vainglorious pretensions. There is no one left to impress, no accolades
to seek, no rank to which to aspire. Consequently, I feel freed
to offer some end-of-life reflections on my profession and career.

Any thinking
American knows that there is something terribly wrong with the health
care system in this country. Throughout my career, the political
ruling elite has been enacting piecemeal a version of “universal”
healthcare coverage to satisfy the demands of an increasingly vocal,
but also increasingly disenfranchised citizenry. Our overlords,
of course, have been more motivated by enhancing corporate bottom
lines and enriching themselves, than in genuinely helping the peasantry.

Every U.S.
President since Kennedy in 1962 has dealt with the issue in one
way or another – by policy statement or passage of legislation.
LBJ oversaw the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. Nixon
oversaw the passage of the HMO Act (Health Maintenance Organization)
in 1973 and ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) in 1974.
Amazingly, he also introduced CHIA (Comprehensive Health Insurance
Act) in 1974. Even more incredible was the spectacle of Ted Kennedy
working to ensure its defeat. Doubtless, Kennedy regretted that
in future years. Following the untimely departure of the 37th President,
Gerald Ford signed ERISA into law in 1974 on his behalf, thereby
introducing some minimal regulations to ensure that separated employees
could maintain benefits, such as health insurance, for a limited
time.

Carter campaigned
in favor of National Health Insurance, but failed to pass anything
similar during his time in office. He cited KennedyÂ’s opposition
to CHIA and to his own proposals as the main reason for failure.
ReaganÂ’s era witnessed the passage of EMTALA (Emergency Medical
Treatment and Active Labor Act) and COBRA (Consolidated Omnibus
Budget Reconciliation Act) in 1986 that, among other things, provided
for emergency medical treatment coverage for anyone who could drag
themselves into an emergency room (of course, such a visit might
bankrupt them unless they were lucky enough to be an illegal alien).
Medical labs and imaging centers (and, the providers staffing them)
were given “special attention” under CLIA (1988).

The first President
Bush had little time for national health care issues, as he was
primarily focused on launching the NWO. Poppy’s “Thousand
Points of Light” degenerated into in-coming tracers from the
illuminated Angel of Death – simply more “peace, freedom
and liberty” being delivered to millions of innocents across
Battlefield Earth. It seems so trivial now, but Bush was unseated
after reneging on his pledge of “no new taxes,” not for
offshoring the US economy or taking the first step toward turning
US foreign policy into the pursuit of world hegemony.

The Clinton
administration tried to force through “Hillarycare” in
1993, but met with stiff opposition from their Republican opponents
(of course, the opposition was due to perceived threats to corporate
profit margins). Nonetheless, Team Clinton was able to push through
HIPAA (1996) (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
and SCHIP (1997) (State ChildrenÂ’s Health Insurance Program)
which, contrary to the titles of the acts, neither improved health
insurance portability or accountability nor improved the health
of children.

The Clinton
White House had more important fish to fry: war in the Balkans;
the liberal distribution of depleted uranium and cruise missiles
across the globe; test wars on Americans at places like Ruby Ridge,
Waco, and Oklahoma City (OKC); the appearance of numerous “Arkan-cide”
victims whose mortal remains seemed to be discovered at the most
inconvenient times; and, a semen-stained blue dress. The first versions
of the Patriot Act were trotted out in response to the false flag
event of OKC, but Congress and even the Imperial Senate balked at
moving so precipitously toward the New Amerikan Security State.

The ascension
of son Bush and his neoconservative cabal turned the government
to the drive toward world hegemony. The serendipitous events of
9/11 opened the door for passage of the neoconÂ’s PATRIOT Act
and for the still on-going implementation of their Project for the
New American Century (PNAC). New alphabet agencies like DHS and
TSA were created to augment existing departments and agencies (FDA,
DHHS, IRS, FTC, FCC, EPA, FEMA, DEA, BATF, FBI, NSA, CIA, and DOD)
charged with dominating the nation and the planet beyond. OrwellÂ’s
dystopia, 1984, became reality: “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery,
Ignorance is Strength.” President Bush modeled Big Brother’s
third slogan for an admiring populace more concerned with Harry
Potter and Janet JacksonÂ’s nipple than with the deadly machinations
of the psychopath in charge.

It seems likely
that steps toward the Third World War were taken during Bush IIÂ’s
reign with “war, war, WAR” being unconstitutionally declared
against the nebulous (some might say, non-existent) terrorists lurking
under every bed and in every closet, cave, and country on the planet.
In spite of a premature proclamation of “Mission Accomplished”
from a flag-festooned carrier in 2003 by the Decider-In-Chief, the
killings have continued with little pause up to this day. The Great
Decider used the opportunity of “victory” abroad, however,
to turn his attention to the healthcare needs of his subjects.

What could
be a better bone to throw to the peasants than the expansion of
pharmaceutical coverage for those under Medicare? And, what could
be a better pay-off for corporate buddies than massive new government
wealth transfers of taxpayersÂ’ dollars to Big Pharma via such
a plan? It was a perfect “win-win” for the oligarchs at
the top of the pyramid and a “lose-lose” for the peons
at the bottom. To the great joy of Big Pharma, the Medicare Prescription
Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (Medicare, Part D) was launched
in 2003 to insure unimaginable profits for its corporate members
and more expense for the common people it was alleged to help. As
in any casino, our healthcare croupiers are well trained to leave
no dollar on the table.

President Obama,
a corporate stooge par excellence, was able to ram through “universal
healthcare” with the help of a Howdy Doody smile, his corporate
sponsors, and the slavish devotion of an ever-delusional, pseudo-Left.
It mattered not that the legislation was written by the insurance
companies who had been profiting from the misery of patients for
decades.

It is no accident
– and would be comical, if it were not so serious – that
there will be no true, equitable national health care system under
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (aka, “Romneycare
II” or “Obamacare” or, lately, “Robertscare”
in homage to a Supreme Court judge) and its accompanying legislation,
the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act. No Single Payer.
No mutual insurance system that provides a basic level of healthcare
for the proles of this collapsing Security State. Instead, we are
witnessing the imposition of a system that will further enslave
and impoverish the peasants here in Gulag Amerika. How poetic that
a self-identifying “black man” is the front for resurrecting
a 21st century version of chattel slavery in the twilight years
of Empire.

Obama was positively
beaming in his many photo-ops with the sponsoring corporatist representatives
of Corporate Medicine, Big Insurance, Big Pharma, and Big Government
who enabled the Prince of Change to achieve this milestone deception
of America. The very fact that this “wonderful” new system
– lauded by supporters as “revolutionary” –
is to be enforced by a projected army of 16,500 new IRS agents should
give us pause.

Notwithstanding
passage of the legislation, decades of bad healthcare policy and
corporatist plunder are finally taking their toll. The collapse
of the ill-conceived US health care system might be near.

Ever more intrusive
regulations are driving up the cost of medical care, and the practice
of medicine is being criminalized. Even with all of their flaws,
Medicare and Medicaid have provided a safety net for the elderly
and disadvantaged since their inception. Those systemsÂ’ days
are numbered, however, as they are being gutted to turn health care
into profits not for doctors and hospitals but for insurance companies
and Big Pharma. For starters, large sums have been ear-marked to
be taken from Medicare and Medicaid to help fund PPACA (Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act). Is looting Social Security
and Medicare “change one can believe in”?

If this system
is bad for patients, what does it mean for doctors? It means falling
reimbursement rates and rising overhead costs for providers, onerous
government mandates and regulations, and institutionalized, legalized
larceny by Big Pharma, Big Insurance and Corporate Medicine. As
an example of how time and circumstance have affected my own profession
of ophthalmology, one need only look at Medicare approved reimbursement
rates for cataract surgery.

In reflecting
back over my many years in the field of ophthalmology (as of this
writing, I am 63 years old and feeling pretty shop-worn), I am staggered
by the changes that have occurred. When I opened my practice in
1982, Medicare approved surgical fees for cataract and implant surgery
were near $1200. By 2012, that approved charge had dropped to about
$570 in Tennessee. (There is some variance within states based on
rural versus metro areas and between states where some are declared
to have higher costs of doing business.)

Additionally,
the US dollar has declined in value an average of almost 2.5% per
year over the past 30 year period. Needless to say, overhead operating
costs – salary, rent, insurance, personnel costs, taxes, and
normal business expenses – have exploded during this same 30
year period. My office rent was raised 20% in the Fall of 2011,
for instance.

To further
illustrate the absurdity of the situation, it is worth recounting
an anecdote. Several years ago, a patient excitedly told me of the
vision restoring cataract surgery that her poodle had received at
the local veterinary college. It “only cost $2600 for both
eyes!” At the time, Medicare was paying about $1400 for two
eyes in a human – including work up, surgical fee, post-op
care for 90 days, and the very real liability associated with being
a physician in a litigious society.

I do not begrudge
my animal doctor friends their success, but surely the worth of
human care should at least approximate that for a poodle. Although
I know veterinarians who are struggling in their own practices due
to the economic recession, at least they do not have to deal with
government fee-setting and the liability and costs associated with
treating humans. They are able to price their services sufficiently
to keep their practices open and to provide for their own health
care and retirement.

In my own practice,
the amount of “write off” on charges for legitimate services
rendered began to climb as we entered the 21st Century. For years,
the “disallowed” charges by Medicare and private insurers
resulted in “discounts” of 20-25%. As the economic upheaval
of 2008 rolled around, those fee adjustments (actually theft of
labor from providers) began to climb – 30%, 32%, 35%, and in
my last year of practice over 60%! For years, I had been able to
subsidize my Medicare (cataract) side of the practice by offering
elective refractive surgery procedures (LASIK, PRK, etc.) to my
patients. As these were private pay cases, they offset the draconian
cuts in Medicare and insurance fee “adjustments.” The
economic collapse of 2008, however, reduced that income stream for
many ophthalmologists and, subsequently, led to the closing of many
practices throughout the country.

Most general
ophthalmologists are, by definition, primarily cataract surgeons.
Many people – including Medicare recipients – do not realize
that the fees paid to their physician are fixed by the U.S. Government
after consultation with its many corporate sponsors within Big Insurance,
Big Pharma, and Corporate Medicine. Patients also do not realize
that those reimbursement levels are set by central planners at below-cost
levels.

Medicare issues
cut across all specialties, and ophthalmology has not been alone
in experiencing cutbacks. Primary care physicians have increasingly
become “piece good workers” – managed by corporate
pencil pushers to see a patient every 6-8 minutes while being forced
to carry all the liability and manage all the data and coding previously
done by insurers. Who can diagnose, much less treat a patient in
6-8 minutes?

My own solo
cardiologist was forced to close his practice last Fall and seek
employment with an area hospital, due to declining reimbursement
levels. More than 51% of cardiologists in the U.S. are now hospital
employees. One of my medical school classmates, a successful internal
medicine specialist, has recently given up the fight and has plans
to enter some other line of work. Several friends in Radiology have
seen their incomes decline as more and more work is “outsourced”
to tele-docs in Asia. Still other long-time friends who are general
surgeons are struggling to survive (a surgical fee for incisional
cholecystectomy, for instance, is now under $400). Several have
retired prematurely and others are looking for other work to do.
As a final example, another of my friends is one of five physicians
in a busy urology practice (2 offices and 26 employees) and they
are now borrowing from the bank to make payroll. A recent article
from CNN, “Doctors
Going Broke,” confirms the growing problem.

As income reductions
are being imposed on private practice, costs are being driven up
by exploding regulations. In addition, the plethora of new mandates
and laws have increasingly criminalized every aspect of the practice
of medicine and created vast new armies of armed bureaucrats whose
sole aim is to impose civil and criminal penalties on any provider
unlucky enough to be singled out for attention. The old Soviet dictum
attributed to Lavrenti Beria (Stalin’s NKVD chief), “Show
me the man and I’ll find you the crime,” is in full force
in Amerika.

The present
puppet in the White House has completed the work begun by his predecessors
in moving the nation into a police state. The NDAA passed in the
Fall of 2011 was the final nail in the coffin of personal freedoms
guaranteed by the US Constitution. By suspending habeas corpus and
even trial by judge or jury, the Act has made certain that no person
is safe from being violated by a power-mad Security State. At the
mere movement of the Unitary ExecutiveÂ’s pen, it is now permissible
to “disappear” or even execute anyone on the planet –
all on the whim of the unaccountable psychopath in charge. Judge
Andrew P. Napolitano, has reported that our present Unitary Exec
spends every Tuesday morning reviewing and signing off on a kill
list supplied by his loyal minions. Nobel Peace Prize worthy stuff,
indeed!

One is presumed
guilty now in Amerika until proven otherwise and nowhere has this
been more demonstrated than in the policing of medicine. Heaven
help the poor provider who is targeted by the Medicare Police –
or now, one supposes, by the new IRS Medical Special Branch. If
targeted, his or her practice will be shut down without due process.
His or her assets will be seized without due process (assuring the
inability to even defend oneself). Finally, the unlucky guilty-until-proved-innocent
physician will be permanently discredited (libeled) in his or her
community with the ready help of the GovernmentÂ’s countless
propaganda organs – press, radio, and TV – all before
any day in court is seen.

New restrictions,
rules, and regulations on healthcare – on providers and patients
alike – have imposed legal constraints with which full compliance
is impossible. Medicare rules and regs alone fill tens of thousands
of pages, and ignorance of any of them is no defense for the unlucky.
The original HIPAA legislation has been amplified with many additions
since its inception in 1996: FERPA, HITECH, ARRA (2009). Each additional
act or regulation has further criminalized the practice of medicine.

Finally, the
entire health care system is being forced to switch to electronic
health records (EHRs) and, soon, to a completely new coding system
(from ICD-9 to ICD-10). Failure to comply with these mandates will
result in further reductions in provider payments with every year
that they remain unimplemented. For a solo physician practice, it
is estimated that each mandate will cost as much as $80,000 to implement
initially and, then, $10-15,000 annually to maintain. For multi-physician
practices, costs run as high as three times (or more) that of a
single provider practice. Of course, the purpose behind all of this
is to make each personÂ’s most private and personal information
available to government bureaucrats and regulators while also ensuring
its accessibility to the Security StateÂ’s many law enforcement
tentacles and to all the corporate members of the Medical-Industrial
complex.

Unfettered
access to this information will ensure that the Corporate State
can maximize its profits, largely avoid all risk and liability,
and eliminate any potential competition (such as, often cheaper
and more effective alternative medicine providers and therapies,
non-GMO whole foods, and nutritional supplements). It will also
ensure that medicine is practiced/delivered within strict cookbook
guidelines that are carefully written by non-physician bureaucrats
to maintain corporate profits and government power. All of this
is well along in implementation.

A recent article,
“Efforts
to implement Obamacare law raise concerns of massive government
expansion” from Fox News, 5 July 2012, informs us that
lawyers have already “drafted more than 13,000 pages of Obamacare
regulations and that this number will increase further over coming
months. In addition, we are told that DHHS (Department of Health
and Human Services) has been given more than one billion dollars
to date in order to begin oversight of this mess and that more than
180 “commissions, boards, and bureaus” within the Agency
are already hard at work implementing the final destruction of American
medicine.

Widespread
vaccination of the population with untested “stabs” will
be mandated and enforced. As long predicted by Tin Hatters around
the planet, this will permit biometric “nano-chipping”
of the citizenry without the unpleasant need to ask their permission.

Vast sums will
be committed to “preventive” medicine which will prevent
nothing and will only expand the reach of the Medical-Industrial
complex into every nook and cranny of a person’s life –
and, into every wallet. Certain corporate profit-driven diets and
treatment regimens will be mandated and enforced; access to nutritional
supplements and alternative medicine practices will be limited or
banned altogether; behavior patterns of all types will be monitored
and carefully scripted and controlled (what we see, hear, read,
do, eat, drink, and breathe – where and how we work, play,
and live) under the guise of State Security concerns and its new
companion, Public Health or Public Good; and, finally, the Corporate
State will deploy “death panels” to decide when a person
has outlived his or her economic usefulness to the State. In spite
of ObamaÂ’s denials that such bodies exist and PalinÂ’s
diversionary, hysterical rantings at Tea Party rallies, there is
clear provision in the Act for bureaucratic decision-making bodies
which will make end-of-life decisions for us all. These entities
are already being formed and deployed across the land. Our Anglo
cousins in the UK are showing us the way by withholding food and
fluids from as many as 29% of their hospital patients now who are
judged to be living beyond their government-dictated “use-by”
dates (pragmatically justified “to free up beds” –
oh, those Brits and their refined sense of humor).

What can be
done about the failing American health care system and the wider
collapse of the economy and civil liberty? Frankly, very little.
The system is rigged against the people as it has always been, only
now one can be “black-bagged” and disappeared at any time.
Protest too loudly and one is liable to literally see a grim Reaper
overhead with oneÂ’s personal biometrics programmed into its
fire control system. Like every other institution within the United
States, the medical system is totally and completely broken. It
can no longer be fixed by “voting” for the lesser of evils,
by printing bales of fiat currency, or even by deploying fleets
of obsolete aircraft carriers across the planet.

If as it seems
we are arriving at the end of an age, if we can survive the end,
something better might arise from the ashes. The prospect of collapse
turns oneÂ’s thoughts to escape and survival. Can you do either?
Volumes have been written about preparedness in a time of chaos,
so I will spare readers a rehash. But, a few comments about healthcare,
in particular, might be in order.

In a perfect
world, it is my opinion that we should have some form of single
payer healthcare system and divorce ourselves from corporate medicine.
In my opinion, this will not happen without the complete collapse
of the present system. Since that is unlikely to occur before more
seasons of national election fraud are imposed on us, a few “in-the-meantime”
suggestions follow:

Avoid contact
with the existing health care system as far as possible. Yes, emergencies
arise that require the help of physicians, but by and large one
can learn to care for oneÂ’s own minor issues. Though it is
flawed, the internet has been an information leveler for the masses
and permits each person to be his or her own physician to a large
degree. Take advantage of it! Educate yourself about your own body
and learn to fuel and maintain it as you would an expensive auto
or a pet poodle. One does not need a medical degree to:

1. avoid excessive
use of tobacco or alcohol or, for that matter, caffeine;
2. avoid poisons like fluoride, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup,
and addictive drugs (legal or illicit);
3. avoid unnecessary and potentially lethal imaging studies (TSAÂ’s
radiation pornbooths, excessive mammography, repetitive CT scans
– exposure to all significantly increases cancer risk);
4. avoid excessive cell phone use and exposure to other forms of
EMR pollution where possible (the NSA is recording everything you
say and text anyway);
5. avoid daily fast food use and abuse (remember: pink slime and
silicone) ;
6. avoid untested GM foods (do you really want to become “Roundup
Ready?”):
7. avoid most vaccinations and pharmaceutical agents promoted by
the establishment;
8. avoid risky behaviors (and, we do not need a bunch of Nanny State
bureaucrats to define and police these);
9. exercise moderately;
10. get plenty of sleep;
11. drink plenty of good quality water (buy a decent water filter
to remove fluoride, chloride, and heavy metals);
12. wear protective gear at work and play where appropriate (helmets,
eye-shields, knee and elbow pads, etc.):
13. seek out locally-grown, whole, organic foods and support your
local food producers;
14. take appropriate nutritional supplements (multi-vitamins, Vitamin
C, Vitamin D3);
15. switch off the TV and the mainstream media it represents;
16. educate yourself while you can;

And, lastlyÂ…

17. QUESTION
AUTHORITY!

Doing these
simple, common-sense things will add healthy years to a personÂ’s
life and help one avoid most medical encounters during his or her
allotted time on earth.

Finally, we
have a responsibility to our neighbors and our families. We need
to reach out to those around us – talk to them, listen to them
– sympathize and empathize. Take time especially to listen
to those who are in pain and are suffering and to help them by being
humane. If you do this, you will discover that we have more in common
with each other than the ruling elite wants us to believe. Governments
obtain power and control by taking advantage of divisions along
religious, ethnic, class, economic, ideological, and nationalistic
lines. We must awaken to this fact if the 99% are to prevail against
the 1%.

As for me,
I was finally forced to close my practice earlier this year. Nearly
two years of consulting with multiple attorneys, accountants, practice
management consultants, and bankers, and expending most of my resources
in a vain effort to keep operating, were simply not enough. It seemed
only poetic that April FoolÂ’s Day 2012 should be chosen for
turning out the lights and ringing down the curtain. Patients and
employees and suppliers were notified of the end. Many had been
with me for my entire career and leaving them was and remains painful.
More than nine thousand active charts were transferred to the care
of a younger ophthalmologist still trying to stay afloat.

I share the
heartache of many physicians forced out of medicine by the high
cost of practicing it. As the health system is stripped of medical
care in behalf of corporate profits, its exploitative character
will become clear to all. In the meantime, donÂ’t give in or
give up. Plan for something better on the other side of chaos.

I wanted a
perfect ending. Now IÂ’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems
donÂ’t rhyme, and some stories donÂ’t have a clear beginning,
middle and end. -Gilda Radner

Glossary of
Terms:

ARRA American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
CHIA Comprehensive Health Insurance Act
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CLIA Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 – administered
by CMS
CMS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
COBRA Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
DHHS Department of Health and Human Services
DHS Department of Homeland Security
DOD Department of Defense
EMR Electromagnetic radiation
EMTALA Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act – part
of COBRA1986
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ERISA Employee Retirement Income Security Act
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FERPA Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (1974 original legislation)
GM Genetically modified
HCERA Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 –
supplement to PPACA
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HITECH Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health
Act (2009)
HMO Health Maintenance Organization
ICD-10 International Statistical Classification of Diseases and
Related Health Problems 10th Revision
IRS Internal Revenue Service
NDAA National Defense Authorization Act
NSA National Security Agency
NWO New World Order
PPACA Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
SCHIP State ChildrenÂ’s Health Insurance Program
TSA Transportation Security Administration
USAPA Unifying and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate
Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism – aka, The
Patriot Act

August
4, 2012

Paul
Craig Roberts, a
former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases
of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book,

The
Tyranny of Good Intentions,
co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how
americans lost the protection of law, has been released by Random
House. Visit his website.

Copyright
© 2012 Paul
Craig Roberts

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