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Image Credit: YouTube Screenshot, News 19 WLTX The former Speaker of the House in the South Carolina legislature, Jay Lucas, left his role about a month ago. Now, he’s been named the top lobbyist for the state’s largest hospital corporation, Prisma Health.
That’s sus. Here’s why.
This year, South Carolina came within inches of passing one of the most important healthcare reforms on the table: a full repeal of certificate of need laws.
Certificate of need laws, more commonly referred to by their (highly appropriate) acronym— CON laws—are some of the most corrupt on the books. These laws were largely put in place during the 1970s, with the direct intention of limiting the supply of healthcare services.
Why would someone want to do that? Pretty simple. When you limit the supply of healthcare, service providers can charge more.
Major healthcare corporations love these laws, and they spend a lot of money on lobbying to keep them—as was the case in South Carolina this year. Under CON laws, people who want to build a new hospital, add new healthcare technology, or even just expand the number of beds in their company for treatment must go before a regulatory board and argue why they need this expansion. Their (typically much larger and better funded) competitors then get to come in and argue against them.
And guess who staffs these regulatory boards? Usually, people who are pretty highly connected to politicians and major healthcare corporations. Long story short, the smaller competitors are often blocked from offering new services.
You get the scheme now, right?These laws are not only one major reason why healthcare costs have skyrocketed in recent decades—they also have deadly consequences.One study found that states with CON laws have healthcare prices 11% higher than those that don’t. Others show they diminish hospital quality and even contribute to […]
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
Thank you, and God Bless!
JD Rucker