Quackbusters Retreat to Liar For Hire Tactic in Connecticut?...

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Quackbusters Retreat to " Liar For Hire " Tactic in Connecticut?...

 

 

 

Quackbusters Retreat to " Liar For Hire " Tactic in Connecticut?...

 

Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen

 

 

 

Thursday, October 21st, 2004

 

 

Big Pharma, as the " drug " industry is known, has for years funded, and

operated, a covert group commonly known as the " quackbusters " whose

purpose is to stomp out competition to " drug therapies. " The

operation is run out of a New York ad agency. Previously successful,

the " quackbuster " operation is now, not only facing stiff resistance,

but is itself, facing attack.

 

 

The State of Connecticut is one of the newest battlegrounds for the

future of North American health care. There, the once unbeatable

" quackbuster " operation, is attempting, one more time, to try and

stamp out EDTA Chelation Therapy - and a practitioner who would dare

to offer this, and other, amazing, and wildly successful, non-drug

protocols. They are using, and abusing, the Connecticut Department of

Health (DOPH) to do the deed.

 

 

In an earlier article about the Connecticut health care war, " The

" Health " Battle in Connecticut... " , I wrote that DOPH, for what-ever

reason, has decided to ignore the fact that " according to the " Death

by Medicine, " study, 2,036,884 Americans (23,968 in Connecticut) die

UNNECESSARILY each year, due to the policies and procedures of

" accepted " medical care. The number of people " harmed " by " accepted "

medical care is estimated at 20 times the death number. The " status

quo " in health care is definitely harming America. And NOTHING is

being done about it. "

 

 

That's right – NOTHING…Instead of dealing with these important issues,

the DOPH is acting to protect the " status quo " in health care and is

using its powers, those delegated to them by the people of

Connecticut, to attack those health professionals who are trying to

solve those problems of health care.

 

 

The " quackbuster's " target, using DOPH, is Orange, Connecticut MD

Robban Sica, a cutting-edge physician who treats those patients who

fall through the cracks in the conventional system - those who've been

everywhere else, find " conventional " health care wanting, and are

willing to pay out-of-pocket for a version of health care that far

exceeds what health insurance companies, US Medicare, or Health Canada

are willing to offer.

 

 

Sica, and thousands of others like her around the world, have

abandoned " Five Minute Medicine, " in favor of actually looking for,

and finding, what's really wrong with patients - and fixing those

problems.

 

 

" Five Minute Medicine, " we know, except for Emergency Room Services,

is ALL that the conventional " medicine " system, totally reliant on

" drug therapy, " offers. Doctors like Robban Sica MD represent a

significant threat to the system.

 

 

Five Minute Medicine?...

 

 

The term " Five Minute Medicine, " has come to represent North

America's frustration with the reality of conventional health care.

The term is used to describe two common situations in " medicine: " (1)

where a patient waits two months for an appointment to see a doctor,

waits an hour in a waiting room, then twenty minutes in an examining

room. to " consult " with a doctor who spends five minutes listening to

their problems and one minute writing out three new " prescriptions "

for drugs, whose " co-pay, " at the pharmacy, is equivalent to the price

of groceries for two senior citizens for a whole week. (2) The

term also refers to the amount of time a patient can expect to

actually interact with a licensed health professional during a week's

stay in any North American hospital - five minutes.

 

 

Everybody knows the North American health care system is broken.

North Americans, for a number of years, have been spending their

health dollars outside of the normal conventional system seeking

" health " care, as opposed to " medicine. " 88% of US adults use, and

believe in, some form of what's been labeled " Alternative Medicine, "

to the point where, now, over 50% of the total US health dollar is

spent on those alternatives. " Alternatives " are not paid for by

insurance, Medicare, or Health Canada. People pay out-of-pocket` for

them.

 

 

Why is the North American health care system broken? Because it is

centered around the use of prescription " drugs, " as the do-all,

be-all, therapy. And, the " drug " companies are by far, and beyond

belief, the most greedy and corrosive, of multi-national industries.

They are draining the blood out of the North American economy. Just

in the last few years, with no good reason, big Pharma has quadrupled

the price of prescription " drugs " in North America.

 

 

Big Pharma, as the " drug " industry is known, has for years funded, and

operated, a covert group commonly known as the " quackbusters. " The

" quackbuster's " purpose in life, is to stomp out competition to " drug

therapies. " For years they were very successful. But not any more.

 

 

The North American Health Freedom Movement found out what they were up

to, and decided to go nose-to-nose with them - and it has gotten very

interesting. In fact, the " quackbuster " operation has been beaten,

kicked, punched, and just-plain-mauled for a couple of years now.

It's been embarrassing for them. So, now, they are changing tactics.

 

 

Why are they changing tactics?...

 

 

The " quackbuster's " flagship, the so-called National Council Against

Health Fraud (NCAHF), currently run out of a hair removal salon in

Braintree, Massachusetts, lost so many Court battles in California,

that they owe an unending amount of attorney fees (they can't afford

to pay) the Courts awarded to their victims.

 

 

Most of the " quackbuster " losses can be credited to their " expert

witness " testifying program. Now laughable, quackbuster " experts "

claiming expertise in virtually everything in health care, like NCAHF

president Bobbie Baratz, " quackwatch.com " author Stephen Barrett,

walked into traps set for them in Courtrooms, and were blown out of

the water, when their " real " resumes were brought into the light.

Those " experts " were not expert in anything. Lies and misdirection

were their game. They got caught at it.

 

 

So the " quackbuster " operation has had to change tactics. It looks to

me like the real " quackbuster " operation, the one run out of the New

York ad agency, has had to step in, and take charge and are now are

relying on a gambit, that heretofore has been used only sparingly -

the " liar for hire " ploy.

 

 

And here is how the new tactic works...

 

 

One of the key " quackbuster " players, according to James Carter MD's

authoritative book " Racketeering in Medicine, " is the so-called

American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), According to

Mindfully.org, and other watchdog groups, " ACSH is heavily financed by

corporations with specific and direct interest in ACSH's chosen

battles. Since it was created in 1978, it has come to the enthusiastic

defense of virtually every chemical or additive backed by a major

corporate interest. "

 

 

The ACSH, which no longer publishes a list of its paying clients,

previously admitted to representing a myriad of North America's major

environmental polluters, and a slew of foreign owned pharmaceutical

giants. The ACSH has been continuously accused of maintaining a " liar

for hire " program - where their doctors and scientists seemed to

testify to virtually anything ACSH's clients were willing to pay for.

 

 

So, What's Happening in Connecticut?...

 

 

Several things.

 

 

One of the biggest " liar for hire " programs in North America centers

around insurance companies seeking ways to deny health claims. There

is a whole coterie of " testifying whores " who'll prostrate themselves

for insurance company mega-bucks. Insurance companies will pay

generously for favorable testimony - for if they don't - they'll pay

dearly when a jury of twelve finishes looking at what their insured

did to a victim.

 

 

One of the biggest issues, and one of the most argued by insurance

companies, is exposure to chemicals.

 

 

Not too long ago, Robban Sica MD testified in Court on behalf of a

patient of hers, making claim against an insurance company. The

patient, because of Sica's testimony, received a settlement. The next

thing Sica knows, the opposing witness working for the insurance

company, Marc Bayer MD, is " evaluating " Sica's practice of medicine

for the Connecticut Department of Health (DOPH), for the purpose of

revoking her license to practice that medicine.

 

 

The insurance company, and apparently, Bayer, don't want Sica

testifying any more. Isn't it nice that insurance companies can use a

government licensing agency (DOPH) to eliminate those that would

testify against their interests - sarcasm intended.

 

 

Bayer, who claims an affiliation with the University of Connecticut,

is one who repeatedly testifies that " there is no such thing as

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity or Chronic Fatigue. " Examining Bayer's

testimony in this, and other, cases makes me wonder what planet this

guy is from.

 

 

Several important issues popped up...

 

 

(1) What is really disappointing is the Connecticut Department of

Public Health (DOPH) management's complete inability to see through

this insurance company ruse to deny Connecticut citizens adequate

health care, after an injury, by using DOPH to remove doctors who

could, and would, testify to an honest medical opinion that would

force those insurance companies to pay a claim. Apparently, insurance

companies call the shots at DOPH.

 

 

(2) I attended Sica's Federal Court " Motion for Temporary Injunction "

hearing in Bridgeport Connecticut on October 5th and 6th. I was

scheduled to testify about a number of things relating to the

quackbuster operation, and their association with this case. Why was

I there to testify? Because, in legal discovery, who should we find

sending EIGHT letters to the DOPH attorney, but sleazy little Bobbie

Baratz, the current president of the Courtroom discredited National

Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF), the " quackbuster " flagship.

 

 

The opposition attorneys to the Federal Motion went out of their way

to keep me from testifying. It was clear they simply didn't want the

volumes of information I've gathered about Baratz and his poisonous

friends, entered into the Federal Record. Part of their gambit was to

cross-examine the DOPH attorney in charge of the Sica case, who

testified that " Baratz was looking for a job, and I had no intention

of hiring him. "

 

 

(3) What is really interesting about Sica' Federal Motion hearing was

that the testimony of the DOPH management, including an Affidavit from

the Commissioner of Health, Robert Galvin, himself, shows that there

is NO DECISION TREE, and no guidelines, at Connecticut DOPH. Attorney

prosecutors in Connecticut, like Wisconsin, answer to NO ONE in terms

of who to prosecute, or for what. They, like prosecutors in

Wisconsin, are simply not supervised. Although " Accusations, " that

go to an Administrative Hearing, must be signed-off by DOPH

supervision and management, the Federal Court testimony showed that

that management merely signs the documents for approval, doing no

investigation of their own. Not even a cursory one. They don't even

ask ANY questions.

 

 

Sica has been falsely charged, and is being forced to stand trial,

solely because of the accusations made by Marc Bayer MD, a man she

testified oppositely to in an insurance claim case - who has NO

expertise, what-so-ever, regarding Sica's practice. As Will

Shakespeare said " Something's rotten in Denmark... "

 

 

Sica has a VERY large support network, very well organized, and very

well motivated. Things are going to change in Connecticut - by sheer,

brute force, if necessary.

 

 

Connecticut DOPH, by the Sica case, has indicated that it has a policy

in place to intervene in a difference of medical opinion, by siding in

an issue, and removing the license to practice medicine of the one it

disagrees with. Well, if this has now become the public policy, then

let's use it. Let's turn the tables.

 

 

Considering the policy above, one of my recommendations, in this case,

is that Sica's support network actively seek to question Marc Bayer's

professional ethics regarding his attack on Sica. And, if he fails

that test, and actually is a " liar for hire, " then it is time to take

Marc Bayer MD's license to practice medicine away from him.

 

 

In the last few years the " liar for hire " program has come under

national scrutiny by the industry itself.. The North American Health

Freedom Movement, outnumbering the quackbusters 100,000 to 1, needs to

exercise its power. The " liar for hire " program has to go. America

needs health care - not pharmaceuticals.

 

 

Stay tuned...

 

 

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.savedrclark.net/by_whom2.htm. A copy of THIS

newsletter, and older ones, are viewable at the website

http://www.quackpotwatch.org/default.htm.

 

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