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Thanks for this wonderful insight!

I hadn’t looked at it that way.

I thought the DC elites would dig in further.

👍😂

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The bureaucracy as our real government has been the case since the New Deal.

The New Deal was of course like all Deals an exchange: Administrative government in exchange for benefits. This avoids the looting of pure democracy with it's fingers in the national purse by having the real purse controlled by a bureaucracy.

All that happened was when threatened they dropped the mask and rigged an election in the open. We can say "Democrats" but the GOP certainly knows this and did nothing for decades.

As it happens the interests of our governors and We The People are opposed, so there is a power struggle. All politics is Power, any political dispute a struggle for power.

Americans simply have to grow up and face the government they actually have as opposed to Schoolhouse Rock and 6th grade civics.

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The following is a report I made and sent to 100+ mass media outlets after my husband lost both parents in an Oklahoma nursing home. The report is written in essay format and is not for publication, but you may use this information any way you wish.

Drain The Swamp,

Introduction:

If they falsified the number of nursing home deaths in New York (Hogan et al., 2021), I wonder if they falsified the number of nursing home deaths in every state. It is apparent to me that ‘drain the nursing homes’ attitudes among some liberal politicians were pre planned and premeditated before the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (HealthInsurance.org, 2021). Although the following series of events amount to mostly circumstantial evidence, a seven-year long series of circumstances and strange coincidences led me to ‘drain the nursing homes’ conclusions.

Pre Obamacare:

Between 2001 and 2005, a national health care organization headquartered in Fort Smith, Arkansas was sued out of existence under suspicious circumstances (Cockburn, 2016). Beverly Enterprises was a long-term health care organization that provided nursing home services plus other healthcare services including skilled nursing facility (SNF), physical therapy, home health, and hospice services in 20+ states. The last lawsuit against Beverly Enterprises was because of an Arkansas nursing home neglect issue. It was rumored some of the same law firms that sued Beverly Enterprises later became some of the top campaign contributors to Senator Mark Pryor, D-AR 2004 election and were also donors to the Clintons. Mark Pryor was the only Democrat candidate to win the U.S. Senate campaign in 2003). Before Mark Pryor was elected U.S. Senator-D, AR, he was the Attorney General of Arkansas from 1999 to 2003. He was directly involved with former prosecution of Beverly Enterprises.

By 2006, Beverly Enterprises was bought by the San Francisco, California based Fillmore Capital Partners, LLC. Fillmore Capital Partners, LLC is a group with liberal-leaning board members and top investors known to have close ties to both Nancy Pelosi and the Clintons. According to Jake (2011) from the RedState website, Nancy Pelosi was the first candidate who ran her campaign on the phrase ‘drain the swamp.’ The Fillmore Capital Partners purchased Beverly Enterprises for pennies on the dollar (Bos MSc et al., 2017) just before Obama became President in 2008 and the Affordable Care Act (2010).

I was one of the top three health insurance collectors for Golden Living from 2006 to 2011. The first-year advertising campaign expense reported for Golden Living was reported as hundreds of billions of dollars, not millions. I thought the advertising expense amount reported had to be a typo and became suspicious of the direction and corporate climate of Golden Living. I resigned from my Account Receivable Analyst job at Golden Living to finish college. One year after I left Golden Living, the company requested economic stimulus bailout money from U.S. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. They may have received multiple bailouts from Nancy Pelosi.

Post Obamacare:

Most Americans do not realize the potential for healthcare and health insurance fraud that includes commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid increased under the Affordable Care Act (2010). I think one factor that contributed to the potential for the increase of corruption was the number of politicians who appointed family members to health care ‘administrative’ board jobs in most large health care organizations in the U. S. such as Golden Living. According to Steve Hilton in an Internet video, Steve Hilton (2017) exposes the political-healthcare administrative cronyism in large healthcare organizations. As a result of the lack of ethical over-site under Obamacare, the reporting of insurance fraud was controlled from the inside because of the new healthcare bureaucracy. The health care industry became so corrupt under Obamacare, I changed majors in college from a major in Healthcare Administration in 2013 to a major in Mass Communications and Journalism in 2014. I believe the impact Obamacare on the U.S. healthcare system encouraged healthcare administrator to behave like Spanish Inquisitors. Before Obamacare was law in 2010, it was not unusual to hear about a large healthcare organization being sued or fined for ethical misconduct. After Obamacare, I have not heard of one significant healthcare ethics new story except one which is the current New York nursing home healthcare scandal.

However, in Hilton's (Fox New, 2017) Swamp Watch, Hospitals report, he exposed a large healthcare system known as Ascension Health, based out of Saint Louis, Missouri. Ascension Health began growing exponentially under Obamacare beginning in 2013 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Today, Ascension Health is one of the largest employers in the state of Missouri. During my 2013 school year I wrote a report based on a Forbes (2011) article titled “Why Switzerland Has the World’s Best Healthcare” (Roy, 2011). I explained in my essay why Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the strongest dissenting opinion against the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Justice Scalia expected ongoing constitutional challenges to Obamacare and addressed some of the potential challenge scenarios in his written decision.

Another DNC Smash and Grab:

In another DNC ‘smash and grab’ of a large organization, President Obama and ‘friends’ (Madison, 2018) purchased the University of Phoenix. The same school I graduated from in 2016 majoring in Mass Communications/Journalism. The UOPX would not officially give me my diploma in Journalism until 2019. While in school at UOPX, I would get phone calls out of the blue for temporary health administrative job offers. Most of the job offers came from one health care organization, St. John of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Every time I made a negative comment about Obamacare in my home, I was let go from a job. I began to realize I was being stalked by some of the D.C. Swamp for holding conservative political views. The stalking continued in Kansas and Missouri while I was working for other employers. While I was finishing school, I researched various world views on healthcare, I did come across an article about the U.S Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act. Justices Antonin Scalia stated in his dissenting decision why he thought the Affordable Care Act (2010) could be challenged in another court case at a later date.

Conclusion:

Other important facts include the death of President Obama’s mother before he ran for Illinois state senator, and the death of President’s Obama’s grandmother just before he was elected U. S. President. I do not believe draconian quarentines for healthy people and people not in a high-risk catagory because it creates a potential for health care corruption. My husband, John Lee, Sr, lost his mother and father the same week of December 7, 2020, which was the same week of his birthday. According to the AARP (2021) web site, the Public Policy Instritute reported as of April 2021, Oklahoma had a higher Covid 19 nursing homes infection rate than New York in a four week period. I believe this was a Christmas message from President Obama and ‘friends.’ in a form of retaliation for our stand against the handeling for the Covid 19 virus and other political issues. Fortunately, the D.C. Swamp did not use the same smash and grab tactics to get control of all health care organizations in the United States yet.

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Keen observations. I’ve been wondering what has caused the complete shift in tone from the government and media, and why all my neighbors are suddenly walking their dogs maskless. Your explanation fits perfectly.

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What took them so long? I thought the scamdemic would end the day after biden was sworn in. Great article as usual.

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I was hoping for a bit more sarcasm in the headline, such as "How Team Biden Triumphed Over COVID" or something similar. To draw in the unsuspecting Covidiots, naturally.

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This is a calculated move. They push and push and push and take away our freedoms, but then when they push too far and they know that they have taken it too far they back off, but not all the way. They have successfully shown that they can disregard the Constitution without push back, and they have convinced us that they grant us our freedoms and that they can take them away when they want to.

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