U.S. Health-Dr. Marty Makary–‘Broke Medicine’ Blind Spots-Price We Pay

According to their website: “12 medical specialties at Johns Hopkins ranked among top 10 of their respective fields.” Briefly, John Hopkins is respected in the medical field. Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, M.D., authored the New York Times bestselling book of The Price We Pay, that per Amazon’s 1868 reviews averaged a 4.7 out of 5 star rating. Dr. Makary has now published a newly released book: Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health. What follows are from the Amazon blurbs for the Makary authored book, and I’ll provide readers with some arguably related insights and information.

Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health – September 17, 2024

From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Price We Pay-an eye-opening look at the medical groupthink that has led to public harm, and what you need to know about your health.

More Americans have peanut allergies today than at any point in history. Why? In 2000, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a strict recommendation that parents avoid giving their children peanut products until they're three years old. Getting the science perfectly backward, triggering intolerance with lack of early exposure, the US now leads the world in peanut allergies-and this misinformation is still rearing its head today.

How could the experts have gotten it so wrong? Dr. Marty Makary asks, Could it be that many modern-day health crises have been caused by the hubris of the medical establishment? Experts said for decades that opioids were not addictive, igniting the opioid crisis. They refused menopausal women hormone replacement therapy, causing unnecessary suffering. They demonized natural fat in foods, driving Americans to processed carbohydrates as obesity rates soared. They told citizens that there are no downsides to antibiotics and prescribed them liberally, causing a drug-resistant bacteria crisis.

When modern medicine issues recommendations based on good scientific studies, it shines. Conversely, when modern medicine is interpreted through the harsh lens of opinion and edict, it can mold beliefs that harm patients and stunt research for decades. In Blind Spots, Dr. Makary explores the latest research on critical topics ranging from the microbiome to childbirth to nutrition and longevity and more, revealing the biggest blind spots of modern medicine and tackling the most urgent yet unsung issues in our $4.5 trillion health care ecosystem. The path to medical mishaps can be absurd, entertaining, and jaw-dropping-but the truth is essential to our health. "

We've got to talk about the root causes of chronic diseases.
We've got to talk about our BLIND SPOTS https://t.co/oF3s6h7e04 pic.twitter.com/ZVQKtwy8hs

— Marty Makary MD, MPH (@MartyMakary) September" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://twitter.com/MartyMakar... 17, 2024

Next, this is from the Amazon teaser for the prior book by Dr. Makary.

The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It (June 8, 2021)

by Marty Makary M.D. (Author)

(4.7 out of 5 stars out of 1,868 ratings).

New York Times bestseller

Business Book of the Year--Association of Business Journalists

From the New York Times bestselling author comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system--and the people who are saving it--now with a new Afterword by the author.

"A must-read for every American." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBES

One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research, and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of the business of medicine and its elusive money games in need of a serious shake-up. Dr. Makary shows how so much of health care spending goes to things that have nothing to do with health and what you can do about it. Dr. Makary challenges the medical establishment to remember medicine's noble heritage of caring for people when they are vulnerable.

The Price We Pay offers a road map for everyday Americans and business leaders to get a better deal on their health care, and profiles the disruptors who are innovating medical care. The movement to restore medicine to its mission, Makary argues, is alive and well--a mission that can rebuild the public trust and save our country from the crushing cost of health care. "

This video of me speaking on pharma influence on medical school education was censored on TikTok.

Below are REFERENCES for each statement said in this video. We have to scratch our heads and ask WHY this type of information is being silenced!

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According to left-leaning Yahoo Finance earlier this year, Senator Bernie Sanders (VT-self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist), the maverick lawmaker has claimed: "'Democracy will not survive': Bernie Sanders suggests Wall Street giants BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street are gaining oligarchical power — and it's putting the US at risk. Is he right?"

That article cited banking, tech, and healthcare among the areas that Sanders and others is concerned about. "For example, they’re top shareholders in some of the nation’s largest banks — including JP Morgan Chase & Co and Bank of America — and retail pharmaceutical giants — such as CVS Health and Walgreens Boots Alliance. They also own an incredible number of shares in tech behemoths Apple and NVIDIA."

The Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) has three interconnected nonprofits. They reportedly have well over 2 million members nationally and per a presenation for their members, 167,640 AMAC members in Florida alone. Healthcare, Social Security, and Medicare are among their issues.

On September 11, 2024, AMAC Action, their advocacy arm, wrote a letter to federal lawmakers entitled: "The Pharmacists Fight Back Act proposes a transparent reimbursement model for federal programs including Medicare, that bans spread pricing and caps costs for patients."

It said in part: "On behalf of the over 2.1 million members of AMAC – Association of Mature American Citizens, I write to offer our support for H.R. 9096, the Pharmacists Fight Back Act.

AMAC Action has been very vocal on behalf of our members regarding the layers of anti-competitive business practices used by PBMs, including reducing market competition for drugs, using spread pricing to increase profits without lowering costs, using claw-backs that hurt independent community pharmacies, and shifting patients to costlier drugs. None of these practices are in the best interest of the patient." The balance of that AMAC Action letter to lawmakers is linked here.

From across the left-center-right spectrum in the U.S., there are evidence-based concerns about the U.S. healthcare system. As a matter of fact, for 4 of the past 15.5 years, Republicans held the White House, and the other 11.5 years, Democrats have held the White House. Yet, former Democratic presidential candidate Sanders has lamented as follows on his Senate website.

"Today, more than 30 million Americans still don’t have health insurance and even more are underinsured. Even for those with insurance, costs are so high that medical bills are the number one cause of bankruptcy in the United States. Incredibly, we spend significantly more of our national GDP on this inadequate health care system—far more per person than any other major country. And despite doing so, Americans have worse health outcomes and a higher infant mortality rate than countries that spend much less on health care. Our people deserve better."

Before pressing on, recall my recent Patch post on paltering, posturing, and projection. It is difficult to understand why the U.S. has so many problems until someone has a firm grasp on the various forms of wordplay that can cite valid points, but then dash off toward draw invalid conclusions. The Capital Research Center (CRC) has often referred to this as "Deception and Misdirection."

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President Barack Obama's (D) chief of staff was for a time Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel was later elected as the Democratic mayor of Chicago. He famously stated that a crisis is an opportunity to do things that couldn't be done before. But what might be added to that is the point that some arguably fail to solve a crisis, or even fuel a crisis, with the notion that they can then come back to that issue and legislate or regulate it even more than before.

If solving problems, be it the healthcare crisis, the affordable housing crisis, crime, the border, etc. then why is it that with record federal 'peacetime' spending the problems in America not only persist, but are arguably getting worse?

According to USASpending.gov in "FY 2024 Snapshot" for "Operations and Support, United States Secret Service" (USSS) is the following. "For this current fiscal year, this agency has been granted authority to spend $3B out of this federal account. They carried over a balance of $287M from last year, were given $3B in new appropriations, and have authority to use $77M of other budgetary resources." With over 3 billion dollar available, the USSS couldn't have a man walking the fence line at the golf course where former President Donald J. Trump (R) was playing? While it is laudable that members of the Trump USSS detail thwarted the purported Sunday attempt, that is twice in about two months that a big hole in their overall protective operation was made apparent. Is it any wonder that millions have lost faith in the U.S. government?

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.@MartyMakary: "Two-thirds of Americans students say they are distracted by their digital devices during class."

It's time to remove cell phones from the classroom. pic.twitter.com/EAZ976309V

— American Parents Coalition (@USAParent) August" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://twitter.com/USAParent/... 29, 2024

Back to concerns raised by AMAC and Dr. Makary. For those who like well-done and award winning documentaries, there are ones linked here that include insights on diet and how that impacts American health. Makary made the point on WMAL yesterday during an interview that for decades, the U.S. government made flawed recommendations on diet. See Fed-Up, which relates to how food and dietary issues contribute to the U.S. healthcare crisis.

Cancer, diabetes, autism & chronic disease rates are all going up.

Is anyone asking why??

Learn about the giant BLIND SPOTS of modern medicine.

20 days until the book release. I can't wait!! (pre-order: https://t.co/oF3s6h7e04) TY Katie😀@CaseyMeansMD @calleymeans are spot on https://t.co/QKClSXF7OI

— Marty Makary MD, MPH (@MartyMakary) August" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://twitter.com/MartyMakar... 28, 2024

Per the John Hopkins Medicine website: "Dr. Marty Makary is a surgeon and public policy researcher at Johns Hopkins University. He writes for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal and is the author of two New York Times bestselling books, Unaccountable and The Price We Pay." For those following this series, it should already be obvious that there are several things that have gone wrong in the U.S. Much of this has occurred despite huge sums being spent by federal and state officials.

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