Politicians Angels and Demons

Politicians, angels and demons

 

America’s transformative culture, induced by its wanton government, is sending a clear message to Americans and the World at large, we are not in Kansas anymore. More than five years down path of this nation’s metamorphosis sense and sensibility has been demonized giving way to lawlessness, immorality and the politics of deceit. God is no longer the driver in the American Universe. He has been replaced by contentious and problematical policies that debase religion and our sense of self-worth. Structural family dynamics, once the strength of this nation, have been subverted to be replaced by a new multi-dimensional family lacking the qualities of its former self.  In this new national paradigm natural rights denied to us under the former yoke of a monarchy are once again being challenged. Intervention into our lives, by intricately written legislative manifestos, subtend our Constitutional base with boundaries placed on its utilization and function. Decline is evident throughout the national landscape led by shepherds with hellish desires to expedite America into a new frontier estranged from democratic principles. Those who we thought were ardent believers in a government by the people and for the people have refused to participate in this principle. Deranged as their mentation is they are able to retain power through past historical achievements not from their current subservient attitudes to the Executive branch. Politicians entrench the larger organizational front by collectively attacking the very base who placed them in power. Recent dialogues from a few senators display a near irrational desire to beat down the voices of those loyal to a free society. Collectively Americans have been duped into believing all is well with the World except for a few malcontents who are steadfast that only the Constitution should lead us into the future not rule by fiat. Social Darwinism is the key to the chicanery from the left. Duplicity mired in social conventions has evolved to enable the inept and indolent to achieve beyond those who earned their way by merit. Politicians are the central reason America will be remembered as a once great nation. Why? Because they will claim before the Almighty the devil made them do it.

 

Mark Davis, MD President of Healthnets Review Services and Davis Book Reviews. www.healthnetsreviewservices.com  platomd@gmail.com  Dr. Davis’ latest book is, Obamacare: Dead on Arrival, A Prescription for Disaster.

VA Heath System: A Case of Ineptitude or Criminal Negligence

VA health system: a case of ineptitude or criminal negligence

 

Complexity defines the system that delivers health care to nearly nine million veterans a year in 1700 facilities (hospitals, outpatient clinics, nursing homes and consulting centers). Reportedly most veterans are satisfied with the access to care they receive, yet a sub-segment are not. Recent news from the Phoenix Arizona VA hospital is especially alarming.  Dozens of deaths have been attributed to incompetent management at this site. Specifically, claims have surfaced in which patients had to wait months to years to obtain appointments. News sources further represent the existence of a secret waiting list which tried to hide these prolonged waiting times. Adding to the complications two suicides in the last six months may be attributed to the negligent and or delayed care at this facility. As the news spread of these disastrous outcomes from this locale the Obama Administration began its usual cycle of spin and denial.  Four Star general Eric Shinseki has led the VA system since 2009. He noted before a Congressional committee his own disgust with the problems unraveling in Phoenix. New allegations of similar concerns have come to light in other jurisdictions to add to his problems. Instead of firing Shinseki for his inept mismanagement underlings’ heads are now rolling. Veteran Affairs Undersecretary Robert Petzel’s “resignation” has been accepted by Shinseki. He is the figurehead the Obama Administration has thrown under the proverbial bus as this scandal proceeds.  (http://www.theledger.com/article/20140517/news/140519356?tc=ar) Will this maneuver satisfy those calling for the head of Shinseki, not likely. During the reign of Secretary Shinseki waiting times have been a signature representation of the problems he has had to confront. From the vantage point of many they have not been addressed. Yet General Shinseki holds on to a position that should be given to someone with extensive training in medicine and health facility management, not an inexperienced military icon. President Obama did not express an urgency in correcting the problems when he discussed this issue in today’s press conference. As usual he appeared detached when he cited his intentions of moving quickly to root out the causes of the mismanagement brought to his desk. http://www.humanevents.com/2014/05/21/obama-delivers-his-standard-damage-control-statement-on-the-va-scandal/

 

Management of VA health facilities provides a glimpse how government’s ineptitude brings about horrific outcomes. Shinseki’s management style, through edicts from Washington, has failed miserably.  Patchwork changes will not correct the Obamacare nightmare neither will it effectuate change at the VA. Deep consideration should be given to an overhaul of this system, a minor tune up will not provide the corrections needed. Reports from other Veteran’s facilities are trickling in noting incompetent scheduling of appointments to the quality of physician care. Obviously more stories of disasters are on the horizon. Obama’s reluctance to ask for General Shinseki’s resignation is a sign the status quo will be maintained. Perhaps the Congress, initiating its work in 2015, will effectuate changes that an ineffective Executive Branch is unwilling and or unable to do. The scent of criminal negligence becomes more intense with each new batch of allegations reported.  Change in leadership is a high priority. General Shinseki needs to reconsider and tender his resignation. It would be the honorable thing for him to do.  http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2014/04/veteran_suicide_phoenix_va_health_care_deaths.php

 

Mark Davis, MD President of Healthnets Review Services and Davis Book Reviews, Dr. Davis’ latest book is Obamacare: Dead on Arrival, A Prescription for Disaster. platomd@gmail.com

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Maryland's shipwreck: it only gets worse

Maryland’s shipwreck: it
only gets worse

 

Maryland’s politicians
believe that harsh treatment of its business and professional community is a
necessity regardless of the effects it causes. Ranked in the middle to the bottom
third of business friendly states, depending on the survey, Maryland continues
to pour on additional requirements for businesses to maintain their functioning
in this bluest of blue states. The latest assault on the business community
came in the form of a minimum wage increase to be graded in over several years.
Though the $10.10 goal failed at the federal level Governor O’Malley and his
battalion of sycophants wanted to succeed where President Obama failed. Merit
pay increases do not exist where progressives rule. Instead wage increases are
forced on businesses through legislative fiat. In a sense Maryland has usurped
private sector budgets with one more flagrant action to diminish their ability
to stay afloat. A $10.10 per hour wage potentially means  $15.OO after all the additions such as
matching Social Security taxes, matching Medicare fees, unemployment
assessments, workmen’s comp fees and much more that are exacted on employers.
Except for a few companies pushing for this increase, the rest of the business community
must eat the costs or abandon Maryland. A recent poll suggests that 47% of
Maryland residents would leave the state if circumstances permitted. (http://www.wmdt.com/story/25445696/47-percent-of-marylanders-want-to-leave-the-state) Harsh tax assessments were given as a major
reason.  A poll of businesses may yield
similar results.          

 

Employers have minimal
rights under Maryland law when a problem exists with a worker.  Employees have multiple recourses when a
workplace problem exists. The reason why is obvious. Maryland views its
business community with disdain and as a bank to extract money wherever and
whenever it can, nothing else. Toxic regulatory structure along with heavy taxes,
levies and a judiciary unfriendly to businesses have caused workplace
environments to relocate to more friendly domains. During a recent visit to
several government buildings in and around Preston Street in Baltimore I encountered
numerous business owners whose various licenses were being held up for unpaid
tax bills and or fees. From owners of nursing homes to restaurants they were
all called downtown to pay these excessively inflated assessments or be forced
to cease functioning in the state. These business owners may not be aware that
more financial extortion is being conjured as I write these words. The next
several efforts will include paid sick leave and extended pregnancy benefits
paid out of an employer’s budget, which may already be deep in the red.
Considering opening a business in Maryland read the writing on the proverbial
wall. The state and its lawyers will be gunning for you if you don’t give in to
their left of the left governing style. Next article will discuss how the state
of Maryland manages to eviscerate its professional population.

http://www.msba.org/departments/commpubl/publications/brochures/workplace.asp

 

Mark Davis, MD President
of Healthnets Review Services and Davis Book Reviews

www.healtnetsreviewservices.com   platomd@gmail.com

Dr. Davis’ latest book is:
Obamacare: Dead on Arrival, A Prescription for Disaster.

Maryland's shipwreck: it only gets worse

Maryland’s shipwreck: it only gets worse

 

Maryland’s politicians believe that harsh treatment of its business and professional community is a necessity regardless of the effects it causes. Ranked in the middle to the bottom third of business friendly states, depending on the survey, Maryland continues to pour on additional requirements for businesses to maintain their functioning in this bluest of blue states. The latest assault on the business community came in the form of a minimum wage increase to be graded in over several years. Though the $10.10 goal failed at the federal level Governor O’Malley and his battalion of sycophants wanted to succeed where President Obama failed. Merit pay increases do not exist where progressives rule. Instead wage increases are forced on businesses through legislative fiat. In a sense Maryland has usurped private sector budgets with one more flagrant action to diminish their ability to stay afloat. A $10.10 per hour wage potentially means  $15.OO after all the additions such as matching Social Security taxes, matching Medicare fees, unemployment assessments, workmen’s comp fees and much more that are exacted on employers. Except for a few companies pushing for this increase, the rest of the business community must eat the costs or abandon Maryland. A recent poll suggests that 47% of Maryland residents would leave the state if circumstances permitted. (http://www.wmdt.com/story/25445696/47-percent-of-marylanders-want-to-leave-the-state) Harsh tax assessments were given as a major reason.  A poll of businesses may yield similar results.          

 

Employers have minimal rights under Maryland law when a problem exists with a worker.  Employees have multiple recourses when a workplace problem exists. The reason why is obvious. Maryland views its business community with disdain and as a bank to extract money wherever and whenever it can, nothing else. Toxic regulatory structure along with heavy taxes, levies and a judiciary unfriendly to businesses have caused workplace environments to relocate to more friendly domains. During a recent visit to several government buildings in and around Preston Street in Baltimore I encountered numerous business owners whose various licenses were being held up for unpaid tax bills and or fees. From owners of nursing homes to restaurants they were all called downtown to pay these excessively inflated assessments or be forced to cease functioning in the state. These business owners may not be aware that more financial extortion is being conjured as I write these words. The next several efforts will include paid sick leave and extended pregnancy benefits paid out of an employer’s budget, which may already be deep in the red. Considering opening a business in Maryland read the writing on the proverbial wall. The state and its lawyers will be gunning for you if you don’t give in to their left of the left governing style. Next article will discuss how the state of Maryland manages to eviscerate its professional population.

http://www.msba.org/departments/commpubl/publications/brochures/workplace.asp

 

Mark Davis, MD President of Healthnets Review Services and Davis Book Reviews

www.healtnetsreviewservices.com   platomd@gmail.com

Dr. Davis’ latest book is: Obamacare: Dead on Arrival, A Prescription for Disaster.

Young blood: the answer to lifespan extension

Young blood: the answer to
lifespan extension

 

New life in older bodies
may be possible in the near future. Reversal of aging is no longer the realm of
science fiction. Institutions across the globe are researching ways to extend
lifespan beyond the three score and ten noted in the Bible. Three recent studies
are indicative of the work being performed on life extension. Two research
papers were published in the online version of the journal Science, the third
in Nature Medicine. Studies in progress display transference of blood from
adolescent mice to their older counterparts produced numerous results
suggesting age reversal. Muscle and brain functions were enervated by the
transfusion. Older mice, who received a transfusion, had increased vitality as
they moved through mazes and ran on treadmills compared to their age
equivalents. Antithetically blood from older mice provided to their younger
companions expedited aging in these hosts. Studies in gerontology are now
focusing on specific components in the blood that can slow and or even stop the
“death cycle.”

 

Growth Differentiation Factor
11 (GDF 11), a blood component found in higher quantities in youthful mice,
were the focus of the two studies published in the journal of Science. In
Nature Medicine the study utilized whole blood instead of component elements.
Remarkably stem cells were awakened in muscle, brain and other tissues when infusing
either GDF11 or whole blood. Memory enhancement, elevated endurance levels and
increased strength were seen in transfused hosts. Humans have levels of GDF 11
that mimic the findings found in mice. As humans age GDF11 decreases which
could explain the physical and mental deteriorations we note in our advanced
years. In the event other labs can duplicate the results of these three studies
and human application is successful life expectancy could increase
exponentially. The sociological implications of prolonged lifespans in humans
will have a dramatic effect on our culture and destiny as a race. Is humanity
ready to live for centuries instead of decades, only “time” will tell.

 

Mark Davis, MD President
of Healthnets Review Services and Davis Book Reviews

Dr. Davis latest book is
Obamacare: Dead on Arrival, A Prescription for Disaster.

platomd@gmail.com   www.healthnetsreviewservices.com

Young blood: the answer to lifespan extension

Young blood: the answer to lifespan extension

 

New life in older bodies may be possible in the near future. Reversal of aging is no longer the realm of science fiction. Institutions across the globe are researching ways to extend lifespan beyond the three score and ten noted in the Bible. Three recent studies are indicative of the work being performed on life extension. Two research papers were published in the online version of the journal Science, the third in Nature Medicine. Studies in progress display transference of blood from adolescent mice to their older counterparts produced numerous results suggesting age reversal. Muscle and brain functions were enervated by the transfusion. Older mice, who received a transfusion, had increased vitality as they moved through mazes and ran on treadmills compared to their age equivalents. Antithetically blood from older mice provided to their younger companions expedited aging in these hosts. Studies in gerontology are now focusing on specific components in the blood that can slow and or even stop the “death cycle.”

 

Growth Differentiation Factor 11 (GDF 11), a blood component found in higher quantities in youthful mice, were the focus of the two studies published in the journal of Science. In Nature Medicine the study utilized whole blood instead of component elements. Remarkably stem cells were awakened in muscle, brain and other tissues when infusing either GDF11 or whole blood. Memory enhancement, elevated endurance levels and increased strength were seen in transfused hosts. Humans have levels of GDF 11 that mimic the findings found in mice. As humans age GDF11 decreases which could explain the physical and mental deteriorations we note in our advanced years. In the event other labs can duplicate the results of these three studies and human application is successful life expectancy could increase exponentially. The sociological implications of prolonged lifespans in humans will have a dramatic effect on our culture and destiny as a race. Is humanity ready to live for centuries instead of decades, only “time” will tell.

 

Mark Davis, MD President of Healthnets Review Services and Davis Book Reviews

Dr. Davis latest book is Obamacare: Dead on Arrival, A Prescription for Disaster.

platomd@gmail.com   www.healthnetsreviewservices.com