Rational actors nominated their people, staffed the process, and won. Independent physicians were correct on the policy and were not in the room. One of those facts is fixable.
We totally understand the concern about lack of independent voices on the Healthcare Advisory Committee, whose job is to advise federal government on Medicare, Medicaid, physician payment, and claims processing.
Given what happened to a more independent ACIP committee on immunization practices reconstituted by HHS Secretary RFK Jr., it’s no wonder independent doctors don’t waste their time joining yet another “advisory” committee that has no real power, no pay, and likely would be overridden by the captured deep state of CDC and US courts.
Example: U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy, with the stroke of a pen and an activist judicial opinion, unwound all progress made to rein in childhood vaccines since ACIP was reconstituted.
FACA literally is a joke — it’s performance theater at best.
Heartbreaking to admit that we the people have NO voice in America, no matter how loudly we shout (figuratively speaking). But it’s true.
In a related example, we just spent three miserable months working full-time (as an unpaid citizen volunteer) assessing the lion’s share of ~1000 pieces of legislation introduced in our state since January 2026.
We analyzed hundreds of opaque unreadable bills, prepared summaries, offered our written recommendations, called legislators, and asked others to do so.
The result? Some very good bills passed (likely would have passed anyway). Unfortunately, many new taxes, regulations, liberty stealing surveillance laws, and spending bills also passed. And many good bills sat in committee chairmen’s drawers, never to be seen again. The legislative session, mercifully, ends this week.
So to say we’re jaded and cynical is an understatement. Our sympathies are with the independents who want to stay independent, including from government committees where they work like dogs for little to no reward (often at their own expense), only to get the old heave ho from those behind the scenes or in the courts.
In an election year, the current administration — which started off so promising with its “Make America Healthy Again” noises — no longer wants to rock the boat with “controversial” issues that matter most to so many Americans.
We hope independents will thrive as more Americans start looking carefully at medical systems in our own country as well as Canada and Europe (whose captive medical systems are collapsing in parallel with our own). Americans now crave honest, awake (not woke), patient centered medicine and are looking to independents for that.
When does the window to submit nominations open?
This independent physician wants nothing to do with CMS or Medicare. But I’m happy to nominate you Dutch.
And that’s why we keep getting smoked. Independence and isolation are not the same. Appreciate you and the work you do.
I played the game for 20 years and Medicine continues to get its ass whipped. I got tired of sitting at the debate podium and being ignored.
I’m now in the build it and screw the rest mode. It’s going to be better that way.
We totally understand the concern about lack of independent voices on the Healthcare Advisory Committee, whose job is to advise federal government on Medicare, Medicaid, physician payment, and claims processing.
Given what happened to a more independent ACIP committee on immunization practices reconstituted by HHS Secretary RFK Jr., it’s no wonder independent doctors don’t waste their time joining yet another “advisory” committee that has no real power, no pay, and likely would be overridden by the captured deep state of CDC and US courts.
Example: U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy, with the stroke of a pen and an activist judicial opinion, unwound all progress made to rein in childhood vaccines since ACIP was reconstituted.
FACA literally is a joke — it’s performance theater at best.
Heartbreaking to admit that we the people have NO voice in America, no matter how loudly we shout (figuratively speaking). But it’s true.
In a related example, we just spent three miserable months working full-time (as an unpaid citizen volunteer) assessing the lion’s share of ~1000 pieces of legislation introduced in our state since January 2026.
We analyzed hundreds of opaque unreadable bills, prepared summaries, offered our written recommendations, called legislators, and asked others to do so.
The result? Some very good bills passed (likely would have passed anyway). Unfortunately, many new taxes, regulations, liberty stealing surveillance laws, and spending bills also passed. And many good bills sat in committee chairmen’s drawers, never to be seen again. The legislative session, mercifully, ends this week.
So to say we’re jaded and cynical is an understatement. Our sympathies are with the independents who want to stay independent, including from government committees where they work like dogs for little to no reward (often at their own expense), only to get the old heave ho from those behind the scenes or in the courts.
In an election year, the current administration — which started off so promising with its “Make America Healthy Again” noises — no longer wants to rock the boat with “controversial” issues that matter most to so many Americans.
We hope independents will thrive as more Americans start looking carefully at medical systems in our own country as well as Canada and Europe (whose captive medical systems are collapsing in parallel with our own). Americans now crave honest, awake (not woke), patient centered medicine and are looking to independents for that.
You can find some independent medical resources here: https://eolson47.substack.com/i/136557135/independent-medical-resources
Long live independence and independents! And thank you, Dutch, for supporting them.