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CDC Thomas Frieden Billions in Potential Scandals
September 13, 2018 / 9 Comments
Former CDC Director Thomas Frieden was recently arrested on August 24, 2018 for forcible touching, sexual abuse, and harassment. Is that what this has come down to? Arresting a man responsible for preventing a 19-year CDC veteran whistleblower from speaking up against vaccines, to exaggerating the swine flu and pushing vaccines, making mandatory and involuntary tracking of pregnant womenβs ongoing diabetes results law, and assisting former President Barack Obama with his healthcare scheme, and yet, they nail him on βgroping a womanβ. Not that sexual abuse should be taken lightly, but it wreaks of cover-up. Meanwhile, billions of taxpayer dollars have been injected into these potential scandals.
Sexual scandals seem to be a theme lately for those who are involved in much higher levels of corruption. Thomas Frieden is not βone of the nations most respected medical expertsβ, as the MSM would have you believe. In fact, Friedenβs history with a long chain of corrupt politicians and βphilanthropistsβ is much bigger than most people realize. Thomas Frieden is a peg on the board, years in the making, being moved to where they need him, while always staying within the circle, and heβs still at it. Reviewing the nearly 30-year timeline, connections, and events below, one can draw their own conclusions as to what they believe the βbigger pictureβ is.
Thomas Friedenβs Career Timeline:
1990 β 1992: Frieden was an epidemic intelligence service officer for the Atlanta-based CDC, and was assigned to New York City.
1992 β 1996: Frieden was assistant commissioner of health and director of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and Bureau of Tuberculosis Control. While there, he secured city, state and federal funding for tuberculosis control. After controlling a tuberculosis epidemic and reducing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis by 80%, the cityβs program became a βmodelβ for tuberculosis control on a global scale.
1995 β 2001: Frieden worked as a technical advisor for the World Bank, health and population offices.
1996 β 2002: Frieden worked in India, as a medical officer for the World Health Organization on loan from the CDC. He helped the government of India implement the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program.
2002 β 2009: Frieden served as Commissioner of Health to the City of New York. He was also instrumental in the two-year test project of the electronic health record (EHR), a new system Obama was preparing to establish under the American Reinvestment & Recovery Act in 2009, just before appointing Frieden as CDC Director.
2004: As Commissioner, he proposed to eliminate separate written consent for HIV testing, which created controversy. Apparently he believed this would encourage physicians to offer HIV tests during routine medical care, which is what the CDC recommended. Advocates fought this legislation, believing it would undermine patientsβ rights and become forced testing.
2006: As commissioner, he implemented the A1C test which involuntarily tests and tracks diabetes of pregnant women.
2009 β 2017: Former President Barack Obama appointed Thomas Frieden to CDC Director. He led the efforts on combatting the pandemic flu, Ebola, and Zika epidemics. In a statement, Obama called Frieden, βan expert in preparedness and response to health emergenciesβ who in seven years as the city health commissioner has βbeen at the forefront of the fight against heart disease, cancer and obesity, infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and AIDS, and in the establishment of electronic health records.β He promptly resigned on January 20, 2017 when the Trump administration stepped in.
2017 β present: Frieden began leading the $225 million initiative called βResolveβ to save 100 million lives over the next 30 years by preventing heart attacks and strokes. The effort is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and housed in New York City by a non-governmental organization, Vital Strategies.
Letβs cut to the chase and point to the facts of seven big red flags that Frieden was instrumental in. There are far more than seven, but these particular red flags will illustrate the patterns well.
7 BIG RED FLAGS:
RED FLAG #1: Involuntary Tracking of Pregnant Womenβs Diabetes Data
A1C Mandatory Diabetes Registry
In 2005, when Frieden was the Health Commissioner of New York City, he worked to raise awareness about diabetes in pregnant women. He established an involuntary, non-disclosed hemoglobin A1C diabetes registry to track patientsβ blood sugar control over several months. The information is reported to treating physicians. This decision, passed by the New York City Board of Health, that required laboratories to report A1C test results, created huge debates where many saw it as a violation of medical privacy.
As Chicago-Kent College of Law reported: βWhose Business is Your Pancreas? Potential Privacy Problems in New York Cityβs Mandatory Diabetes Registeryβ
This raises the question, what data was Frieden really after? Itβs interesting this information gathering pertained to pregnant women, considering 10 years later they stated the Zika virus has the most impact on pregnant womenβs babies, so much so, they created a βZika pregnancy registryβ as well, whereby they track the babies medical history until itβs second birthday. They actually have a short video of how this registry works on their site. Just what exactly are they tracking?
RED FLAG #2: More Data Scraping with Electronic Health Records (EHR)
This story is a tad bit longer, as it involves several players and shows the Obama/Frieden connection before Frieden became the CDC Director. What was Barack Obamaβs βThe American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009β, which established the Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Program, all about? Obama created this stimulus package for physicians to buy this technology and make all health records electronic. But why? There was a big push for this. In fact, prominent venture capitalists jumped at this opportunity.
The Obama administrationβs plan was to spend $19 billion to accelerate physicians using computerized medical records. Supposedly the physician incentive was for more than $40,000 spread over a few years for a physician who buys and uses the electronic health records. Physicians will only be paid for βmeaningful useβ of digital records. The Primary Care Information Project in NYC was the βmodelβ, headed by Dr. Farzad Mostashari, an assistant commissioner in the cityβs health department at the time. The NY projectβs brief history began in 2007 with $27 million financing.
Interestingly, in this article by The New York Times, they donβt seem to mention the fact that Thomas R. Frieden was the NYC Health Commissioner at that time. Thatβs strange because Obama made it a point to praise him for his work βin the establishment of electronic health recordsβ in a statement when he chose Frieden to be his CDC Director in 2009.
To be clear, NYC was working on this 2-yr βprojectβ, Obamaβs 2009 Act was put in place, then Frieden moves over to CDC Director. But this story doesnβt end here because this was a well thought-out project with several players involved. Whoβs behind the technology?
They are βWell placed to benefit from President Obamaβs stimulus package β which includes $19 billion for a national rollout of electronic medical record systems β the software company is preparing for breakneck growth.β
Meet eClinicalWorks 3 founders. India natives and American entrepreneurs Girish Navani, brother Mahesh Navani, and cousin Rajesh Dharmapuriya. They were so psyched, just one month after the new Act passed, they were taking on Walmart. Yes, the one Hillary Clinton used to serve on the board and work for.
By 2013, supposedly over half of the doctors in the U.S. have ditched their paper-based systems for the electronic health records (EHRs), according to U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services. The market was estimated at $6-$10 billion!
The Washington Post and The New York Times couldnβt say enough good stuff about it, and by September, 2015 eClinicalWorks was kicking butt, and decided to buy this property for a cool $21.5 million to house their incoming staff.