Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Consider this: Health care expenses, spiraling out of sight, could be a minor issue if taxpayer-financed force and fraud had not been used against children and families.

Compute expenses—fiscal and physical—of all kinds of false allegations of abuse to children, families, elderly relatives. They involve full-body x-rays, gynecological exams for untouched two-year-olds, coerced counseling for those whose denials of abuse became accusations that led to wrongful incarcerations of innocents. All mean big bills.

Whichever line item—from child protection, to courts, to corrections, to prosecutors' offices, to education, adult protection, to health care itself—false reporting (mistaken, malicious or inspired by faulty mental health) has robbed taxpayers blind for years.

Costs not spent in veiled "good faith" arise from fraud by clever bean counters, advised by consultants, double-dipping into multiple programs for children and the elderly. That's what a former Texas Attorney General found years ago. Read the Contra Costa Co., Calif. suit against an agency's hanging onto adoptable children to keep money coming. And note foster care for children with safe no-tax family placements begging.

It always has been possible to expose the whole truth about waste and fraud in government, but many prefer shrouding elements that combine to dis-member families. That includes the immunizing stroke of a judge's pen.

Needless takings happen often: whisking newborns from delivery rooms per a Munchausen by proxy label, "removing" and adopting out little ones—vaccine-injured, affected by mold, ones with genetic errors— and trumping science with untested claims. There is granny grabbing, older adults taken from family by government for some gain.

What if the same doctors or hospitals that seem to produce effective and economical results are as sneaky and successful as the ones that defrauded Medicare and states and taxpayers? Had they been caught and taxpayers reimbursed, "we" would not have our current monstrous monetary and medical crisis.

If there have been hospital takeovers by doctors and security employed to ensure that very ill people do NOT remain in the hospital where they would die, in Canada for example, the results numbers look good. Some people in America are happy to point to "numbers" without interviewing the neglected ill or survivors behind unkept numbers.

May we assume that some of the same professionals, or their wannabes, will game the system with paperwork, using the old adage "Don't get it right, get it written"?

Repeatedly, seriously ill children are taken by government agents (extraconstitutionally but legally thanks to 1997 federal law and cooperative states) and are "written up" as enjoying good health in their safe foster or "forever" homes. Check Protected to Death to learn how "Our Kindly Parent, The State" monitors their lives and deaths. How much money was spent taking and warehousing these children until they became Unnecessary Angels per placement by tax paid agents? http://suncanaa.com/in_memory_

Myriad reasons are "written" for legally dis-membering families, and their reliability matters to the moral fiber of our nation. They divert essential money that could fund health care (by enhancing existing public and private clinics) for all if the money had not been squandered to the eternal injury of innocents of all ages.

On this anniversary of Roy Meadow's infamous and imaginative theory of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy—to name one bogus "reason" still exploited in removing and reallocating of children with public funding—it is far, far past time for the once prestigious medical journal Lancet to apologize for ever printing a no-discernable-facts-filled thought piece that remains a major basis for havoc in homes worldwide.

On August 13, 1977, Lancet published the now disgraced Professor Meadow's "Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: The Hinterlands of Child Abuse." Without facts to check, clearly none were. When the writer's notion has been challenged, not one subject (doctor, nurse, lab tech, hospital head or alleged family member) mentioned in his 2 ½ page piece has validated a line of it. His notes are allegedly shredded.

Meadow's admission that "we" saltloaded a serially ill child—one whose chloride levels were high during the infant's distress to prove his mother had harmed him—has never been investigated or prosecuted. How did such a professional maintain licensing for decades and be knighted when any other would have been sacked for saltloading a baby?

Thanks to such baseless inventions as MSP (named earlier by another professional) and other theories lacking science, it is possible to rearrange families, using taxpayer dollars, that same wasted money that could be used for legitimate and moral health care costs.

And, consider this, If what is being pledged as our grandchildren's tax obligation must now prop up insurance companies, why were those companies fleeced, along with the public, to pay for "Munchausen" and other prosecutions with no fact-based evidence?

With so much payback possible by prosecuting false reporters—including doctors, mental wealth professionals and even judges, who could and should have known better simply by reading through "Hinterlands—what are prosecutors waiting for?

Maybe the ones who accepted awards, along with their investigators and others for "finding" non-existent Munchausen by Proxy cases and pseudo-science claims that excite the press and public, were themselves exploiting taxpayers and voters? After all, they learned to fabricate complex and "cold case" prosecutions in DOJ funded seminars.

Want to save real health care? Demand a payback for fraud as in Shawna's Bill. Insist on science and beefed up clinics for basic treatment and triage, not for more insurance paper pushers. Oh, and Lancet, time for loud lamentations from your editorial board.

Barbara Bryan BHBryan@aol.com USA 704-582-1059