Back in April of 2024, I wrote an article posted in Brownstone Journal that detailed the current state of healthcare in America. At that time, I stated that in my opinion, the healthcare system in this country was on life support. I then presented my credentials in healthcare and detailed what I had learned over the course of the pandemic that led me to that conclusion.
Over the ensuing 10 months, my opinion has not changed. However, the confirmation of RFK, Jr. as Secretary of the Dept of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and the expected confirmations of Drs Marty Makary and Jay Bhattacharya as head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH), respectively, does give me hope that this ship can be turned around before the entire system collapses. I’ll now add additional details that I had not provided 10 months ago that give me a greater sense of optimism.
The first person I encountered in any forum who spoke or wrote about the Covid response that made any sense to me was Dr Makary. That occurred in the spring of 2021. While I sensed that he would waffle a bit on occasion, I saw it as his effort, which was largely successful, to continue to be invited on media outlets across the entire political spectrum in order to reach as large an audience as possible. I stand by that assessment. Dr Makary’s communication skills will be of prime importance going forward.
The author had a list of questions that should be answered by the current powers-that-be, with only one of them where the data is not already on-hand: ” Who are the perpetrators of the fraud?” It is paramount that we discover who they were to preventing the same thing happening in the future; such as with Bird Flu or MonkeyPox or another somesuch scary disease.