Part 2: How healthcare became the system it is today: Post Flexner, what did Rockefeller have up his sleeve?
So yesterday we covered Mr. Flexner and his report and “research” (paid for by Carnegie and Hopkins and Rockefeller) that led to how medical schools became research and science focused, rather than patient care focused. Today, we introduce you to Mr. John D. Rockefeller. Most of us know him as a monopolized oil tycoon. Rockefeller owned Standard Oil, and through a network of acquisitions he owned 90% of all oil refineries in the United States.
https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2020/05/04/how-psychopath-john-rockefeller-wiped-out-natural-cures-to-create-big-pharma
The American Medical Association (AMA) was founded in 1847, and by the late 1800’s it had heavy financial involvement by Rockefeller. This was the pivotal moment when the AMA was no longer about the medicine and the physicians, it became America’s most profitable LOBBY group. The AMA is is essentially bribery, as they pay the state large sums of money, support political agendas, and the state in turn enacts laws that the AMA wants supported. Around the same time that the AMA became a lobby organization with ZERO to do with healthcare and EVERYTHING to do with state and federal policy, another organization emerged. The Council for Medical Education was founded in 1904. It was founded BY the AMA. Rockefeller gave the council for medical education a boatload of money to support the Flexner agenda that eventually utilized the AMA and the CME to enact the Flexner report into law via senate passage. Money talks, and bullshit walks. The AMA and the CME Rockefeller funded agenda accomplished the following: The practice of the Negro doctor will be limited to his own race, universities reverted to male-only admissions, to reduce the number of aspiring physicians, and strict, state-supervised licensing regimes were implemented, along with minimum terms of study required before becoming licensed.
Meanwhile, Rockefeller was busy with other shenanigans.
Back in the early 1900’s, Rockefeller discovered petrochemicals, or petroleum derivatives that could create other things from oil. Namely, in 1907, he discovered a plastic substance that could be made from oil. The name of that product was Bakelite. After this invention, it was discovered that synthetic vitamins could be used to treat things such as scurvy or rickets, which are vitamin deficient conditions. Petrochemicals could be used to create vitamins and medications. And THIS opened a door for Rockefeller to add to his empire: Petrochemicals. He would be able to patent these petrochemical products and sell them for huge profits. In order to facilitate this new endeavor, Rockefeller purchased I.G Farben Manufacturing from Germany. Remember in yesterday’s report about Flexner, his studies that led to changing how medical schools operated and forever changed healthcare came from researching GERMAN medical schools. Coincidence here? And remember…..this was pre WWI WWII Germany. Who knows what kind of evil was being cooked up between the Oligarchs in the USA and the government of Germany.
There was another piece that Flexner helped Rockefeller with: in order to “science” and “modernize” the training of physicians per “their standards (or German standards), there was a big part of medicine that had to go away: natural and herbal medicines. WHY was Flexner hired to write his report? Germany did not embrace holistic and natural health methods in their curriculum like American schools did. So, Rockefeller decided that in order to build HIS pharmaceutical empire, he had to eliminate the homeopathic holistic practice of healthcare. And when he teamed up with Carnegie and hired Flexner, who traveled the country to identify WHICH schools and hospitals were teaching and practicing holistic naturopathic health treatments, deemed them to be deficient on his grading scale, and tagged them for closure. Eliminated the competition by only keeping schools and hospitals that would “embrace the science” and “focus on research” and “advance petrochemicals” AKA future pharmaceuticals. Flexner absolutely decimated anything homeopathic and natural in his 1910 report. At that SAME TIME, Rockefeller donated 100 MILLION DOLLARS to all the colleges and hospitals that were willing to subscribe to the “Carnegie/Flexner/Rockefeller” way of educating and practicing medicine. At the same time, Rockefeller threw more money at newspapers and media outlets to heavily advertise and claim that natural medicines and homeopathic treatment options were unsafe, deadly, old school, and scare people into not using them in favor of his “petrochemicals” he was producing. Gee. Sounds like what we hear modern day in how media spins the healthcare agenda one way and bastardizes any treatment other than what “they” want the public to receive.
Oh, and Rockefeller didn’t stop with just “modernizing” the healthcare system in the United States. He went into China to spread Western Medicine. Rockefeller wasn’t content with just wiping out traditional medicine in America, he saw a bigger market on the other side of the world and wanted to remove Traditional Chinese Medicine from China! Luckily, his venture in China mostly failed and the practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine won the battle. The China Medical Board (CMB) was created in 1914 by the Rockefeller Foundation and were given a $12 million grant. Rockefeller’s goal was to “modernize medical education and to improve the practice of medicine in China”. They started by building a hospital in Beijing (Peking Union Medical College, opened in 1919), but they were unable to expand to other locations (as planned) due to mounting expenses. His agenda did not spread in China like it did in the United States. China stayed loyal to their eastern medicine homeopathic practice.
Sadly for the United States, the shenanigans of Rockefeller and Carnegie were a smashing “success”. They crushed the underfunded, grassroots small medical schools and created our current modern day medical system. This system today where “Big Pharma” makes large “donations” to medical schools in exchange for teaching the medical students to use their patented drugs. (Remember the post about evidence based practice and how universities are paid by pharma to write certain journals to promote them as evidence based treatment?) As part of this system, many alternative treatments are criminalized. For example, by law, it is illegal to treat cancer with any modality except chemotherapy, surgery or radiation. It is actually a criminal felony for a medical practitioner to treat cancer with anything but these three modalities. Why is this the case? Follow the money. The average cost of cancer treatment is in the multi hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, so clearly Rockefeller and his gang of collaborators were focused on the monopoly of pharma and cancer treatment. It is no coincidence that the American Cancer Society was founded by none other than John D. Rockefeller in 1913. https://meridianhealthclinic.com/how-rockefeller-created-the-business-of-western-medicine/
Rockefeller's approach worked incredibly well as he decimated the holistic alternative medicine competition and ultimately created our current medical system. This system continues today: Big Pharma makes large donations to medical schools in exchange for these schools to prescribe their drugs.The next time your doctor spends 3 minutes with you during your visit and you feel like a "customer" instead of a patient, this post will hopefully give you clarity.
Not surprisingly, the cost of medical care in the US is #1 in the world, yet our quality is ranked at #37. We can all thank John D. Rockefeller for that.