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​Title: With The Wind with Dr. Paul - Show 162; Pediatric Perspectives: -Reviewing Turtles All The Way Down With Zoey O'Toole Presenters: Dr. Paul Thomas, Zoey O'Toole Length: 30 minutes Links to Websites: DoctorsandScience.com Kids First Forever Donate to Children's Health Defense Sign Up for Children's Health Defense Updates Turtles All the Way Down on Amazon The Lancet Journal BMJ Journal The Truth About the Drug Companies on Amazon VAERS – Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System Key Points: 00:00:59 - Introduction to Turtles All the Way Down and Zoey O'Toole's role as editor 00:03:00 - Discussion on vaccine trials and lack of placebo testing 00:05:01 - The placebo problem: How studies often use previous vaccines as controls 00:10:10 - "Who are the companies obligated to?" – Exploring pharmaceutical companies' priorities 00:13:11 - Uncovering flaws in vaccine safety studies 00:18:30 - Harvard Pilgrim study on adverse events, challenges with VAERS 00:23:50 - Advice to parents on vaccine decisions and trusting intuition Summary: Dr. Paul welcomes Zoey O'Toole, editor of Turtles All the Way Down, to discuss the book's insights on vaccine trials and the limitations of current safety data. They delve into how vaccines are tested, what is often hidden from public view, and explore studies showing potential flaws in the vaccine approval process. The conversation highlights the importance of informed consent and trusting one's intuition, especially regarding children's health. Conclusion: The episode encourages listeners to ask questions, trust their instincts, and thoroughly understand vaccine safety to make informed health decisions for their families. Hashtags: #PediatricPerspectives, #TurtlesAllTheWayDown, #VaccineSafety, #InformedConsent, #HealthAndWellness

In this episode, we talk to Jonathan Strimling, CEO of CleanFiber and the recipient of the 2024 Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the NH Tech Alliance, about the highs and lows of leading a series of tech companies and growing his latest venture. For more information about CleanFiber, click here. Sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim. Also sponsored by the Business NH Magazine's NH Futurecast: 2025.  

We talk with Joe Tuplin, a veteran who, after serving in the national guard, turned his hobby of making wooden outdoor furniture, which helped him relax after serving in war zones, into a thriving business—Kilted Moose Outdoor Furniture. Joe is one of more than 70 makers who are participating in the click here.  Sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim. Also sponsored by the NH Fiscal Policy Institute's 2024 Budget and Policy Conference.

This week we talk with Nick Soggu, president and CEO of SiverTech and CEO of Pannos Marketing about how he built some of the most successful web development and marketing agencies in NH and what it fueling their current growth. For more information about Silvertech, click here.   For more information about Pannos Marketing, click here.   Sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim. Also sponsored by the NH Fiscal Policy Institute's 2024 Budget and Policy Conference.   . 

This week we talk with Brent Kiley, co-founder and CEO of Rise Private Wealth Management, one of NH's top wealth management firms and the number two Best Company to Work For in NH, about what people need to consider when planning their financial futures as well as what it takes to create a company culture of caring. For more information about Rise Private Wealth Management, click here.   Sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim. Also sponsored by by the Very Merry Holiday Gift Festival. 

Shaunte Whitted shares her powerful story of enduring a series of tragedies, including the death of her father and an attempted kidnapping, in the same year and finding strength in her faith to continue to grow her marketing and events business. For more information about  SDW Communications, click here.   Sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim. Also sponsored by by the Very Merry Holiday Gift Festival. 

We talk with Joe Whitten, co-founder and CEO of Apparel Impact about being a serial entrepreneur and finding his mission to keep clothing out of the waste stream. Fore more information about Apparel Impact, click here. Sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim. Also sponsored by by the Very Merry Holiday Gift Festival. 

We get a chance to meet the new director and CEO of the Currier Museum of Art, Jordana Pomeroy, and talk about her career path that has included the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C.  For more information about the Currier Museum of Art, click here. Sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim. Also Sponsored by Launch 603.

After leading efforts to attract and keep more young people in NH at Stay Work Play NH, Will Stewart is now inspiring leaders to consider a deeper involvement in their state as the new executive director of Leadership NH. For more information about Leadership NH, click here. Sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim. Also Sponsored by Launch 603.

Most medical bills contain errors. Over-billing and outright fraud are far too common. What's a consumer to do? In this episode,  CEO Scott Speranza shares how HealthLock performs automated audits of medical bills by seamlessly connecting with the patient's health plan portal. We also discuss an exciting new partnership with MasterCard that gives many cardholders (including me) free access.I connected my insurance to HealthLock and soon got a helpful audit of my claims (which turned out to be clean --thanks Harvard Pilgrim!)Scott unravels the complexities of coordination of benefits --where he offers reflection on my experience with my dependents--, the significance of automated HIPAA authorizations, and provides practical insights for managing family healthcare. And he shares his views on the delicate balance of privacy and oversight. One thing he recommends (which providers hate) is to wait for a while to pay your medical bills since charges initially attributed to the patient may actually be covered in the end.Host David E. Williams is president of healthcare strategy consulting firm Health Business Group. Produced by Dafna Williams.

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According to VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) the official  national vaccine safety monitoring system powered by the CDC (Center for Disease Control), there are over 1,500,000 sustained vaccine injuries (including death) attributed in part to the administrations of the COVID-19 mRNA platform vaccines.According to the Harvard-Pilgrim study, VAERS data is underreported (for many reasons) and in order to calculate an approximate volume total of events, a VAERS reader can apply a factor of as much as 100 to the displayed number. Most health statisticians use a minimum of a factor of 30. This puts the approximate number of COVID vaccine injures at over 45,000,000.Fortunately, a group of physicians have put YOUR safety and health first, regardless of the resistance and lack of support that they have endured from several US government health organizations. The FLCCC has released a protocol which is continuously updated. It is extensive and is accompanied by rationale while being reviewed by a multidiscipline panel of physicians. Join Ken & Eric as they put the FLCCC protocol into context!Be sure to LIKE & SHARE on RUMBLE! Thank YOU for joining us on the GCP!FLCCC Homepage: https://covid19criticalcare.com/FLCCC Post Vax Protocol: https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/I-RECOVER-Post-Vaccine-Protocol.pdfFLCCC Protocol Summary: https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/I-RECOVER-Post-Vaccine-Summary-1.pdfVAERS: https://vaers.hhs.gov/Harvard-Pilgrim Study: https://rickjaffeesq.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-20116.pdf

On this month's episode, Dr. Christina Madison speaks with Bruce Berger, PhD, president of Berger Consulting LLC, on how pharmacists should best use motivational interviewing for patients. Bruce is President of Berger Consulting, LLC and Emeritus Professor at Auburn University. He has developed comMIt (Comprehensive Motivational Interviewing Training for health care providers) and AU MITI (Auburn University Motivational Interviewing Training Institute) and AU MITI (Auburn University Motivational Training Institute.) He has taught motivational interviewing in health care and methods for improving treatment adherence for over 30 years. He received his BS in Pharmacy from The Ohio State University. After practicing pharmacy for two years he returned to Ohio State and received his Masters and Ph.D. in social and behavioral pharmacy.  He taught at Ohio State before moving to West Virginia University in January, 1980.  After two years at WVU, Bruce moved to Auburn University and taught there until his retirement from the university in September of 2009. He has been a consultant and trainer for the US Air Force, VA, US Army, Pfizer, Inc., Procter & Gamble, Abbvie, Novartis, Astra-Zeneca, Sanofi-Aventis, GSK, and over 50 health plans, including Humana, Harvard Pilgrim, Tufts Health, ConnectiCare, Medical Mutual of Ohio and numerous BlueCross BlueShield plans. Bruce's Website: mihcp.com LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-berger-phd-b557a2b/ Purdue University - Bruce's MI Elearning website: https://tinyurl.com/PurdueCE-MI-HCP

Avoid the V@X Plague (Audio) David Eells - 1/8/23   God Showed Us His Cure for Every Disease David Eells - 1/8/23   God has totally borne our curse according to Galatians 3:13-14, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree: 14 that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.   This curse is delineated in Deu. 28 as all sickness and plagues. God has taken the curse of sin and of death and  put it upon His Son for those who believe. He has blessed us because of our Passover Lamb. When we eat the words of the Passover in Exo. 12, we find that the destroyer angel passes over us but still destroys the wicked.   This is proven in God's Word in Exo. 15:26 …If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his eyes, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians: for I am Jehovah that healeth thee.   And Psa. 103:2-4 Bless Jehovah, O my soul, And forget not all his benefits: 3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases; 4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies.   And 1Pe. 2:24 who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed. (You will notice that you do not have to talk God into this. He says it has already been done. The only thing left is to repent and believe. Heb. 4:2 For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.)   And if this is not enough, Jesus said in Mar. 11:24-26 Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. (You will notice that Jesus also told us that we are to believe it's already done.)     25 And whensoever ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against anyone; that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. 26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your trespasses. (You will notice that unforgiveness is one of the reasons people don't get delivered from the curse. In fact it will deliver them over to the demons who administer the curse. Mat. 18:34-35 And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due. 35 So shall also my heavenly Father do unto you, if ye forgive not everyone his brother from your hearts. Unforgiveness comes in many forms. Bitterness, criticism, anger, hurt feelings and offense, faction, slander, railing, etc.)   So, as long as we have forgiven everybody from the heart, He sets us free and provides us everything necessary to protect us or heal us in this world through His promises. He is raising up children to walk as sons of God in these days to demonstrate the provision of His great salvation. Here is a book that goes into this subject in much more detail:   Learn from God's Vaccine Book 7 simple steps to be immune fromplagues/pestilences Considering that God showed us the free cure for every disease in these pages if we believe Him; could He be angry enough to show us that trusting in men is very destructive. Let's see why God is angry. (Hos.9:11) [The vax is another false flag 911.] As for Ephraim [God called them the "fullness of the nations” and millions of them are being robbed of their children.], their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.(12) Though they bring up their children [and get them vaxed], yet will I bereave them, so that not a man shall be left: [depopulation agenda of the D/S is to bring down the population of the world to 500,000,000] yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!(13) Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre (An island type of the U.S. “in the midst of the sea”), is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slayer.(14) Give them, O Jehovah-what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.[Miscarriages are up 4070% and there is still a baby formula shortage here in the U.S.. This does not include the babies born with every kind of sickness because their immune system is destroyed. And the babies can pass on the plague of the vax as well as the grownups. The death rate is climbing geometrically.](15) All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house; I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters. (Foolish “Christian leaders” do not believe or teach what God says about God'sVaccine, so they are guilty of much blood.)  (16) Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb. (Man can't escape the curse. It is there to send men to God for His salvation. Man's methods only shift the curse from one area of our lives to another. Jer. 17:5-9 Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah. (Now multitudes who have taken the vaccine have discovered this to be true.) 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in Jehovah, and whose trust Jehovah is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?) Would any sane person trust a Rockefeller/Gates Depopulationist to make a vaccine for Covid 19 when no one, not even the CDC has ever isolated Covid 19. They have never had a sample of it and admit it.  And here is a clue: as the statistics for C-19 go up the statistics for the flu go down so now they're calling the Flu Covid 19. When mixed with 5G, as happened in Wuhan, it killed them. Same in Europe. They had just put in 5G in both places and turned it up when the slaughter began.    Pictures of damage to lungs from 5G and so-called C-19 are identical. C-19 is not the problem, the vax is. Rockefeller dictated that Remdesivir, and respirators was the cure, but the tests proved it deadly. While the CDC scared everyone away from the successful treatments such as Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine and others that cost almost nothing, big Pharma made a huge amount of money with their poisons. Follow the money!   God has the answer, and we are having success praying over people who believe in God's Words.     Pfizer's COVID Vaccine Causes Miscarriages, Stillbirths 1/21/22 - by: Mary Villareal (Natural News) After initially being denied, the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency finally gained access to documents containing Pfizer's data on their COVID-19 vaccine, revealing that the big pharma company received over 150,000 reports of serious adverse events, including miscarriages and stillbirths, within three months of vaccine rollout. What is especially concerning about the data found are the number of pregnant and lactating women who received the shots in the first few months of the rollout. The data states that of 270 “unique pregnancies” exposed to the vaccine, “no outcome was provided for 238 pregnancies,” leaving only 32 with known outcomes. Out of these, 32 known outcomes, 23 resulted in spontaneous abortions (miscarriages), two premature births with neonatal deaths, two spontaneous abortions with intrauterine death, one spontaneous abortion with neonatal death and one pregnancy with “normal outcome.”(Likely, this person became a believer or received the placebo.) This means that of 32 pregnancies with known outcomes, 28 resulted in fetal death. If results are to be based only on the known outcomes of the vaccines in pregnant and lactating women, there is an 87.5 percent pregnancy loss rate. Public health agencies remain adamant that pregnant women and their children are more likely to die of the virus than from the vaccine, but there is little evidence that proves such claims, as the study they usually refer to comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) itself. A comparison of stillbirth rates in 1,249,634 deliveries at 736 hospitals from March 2020 to September 2021 among women with and without COVID infections established that there was indeed a surge in stillbirths, but not during the height of the first deadly wave of the virus: only during the period when the delta variant was dominant, or after pregnant women were pressured into getting vaccinated. (Related: UK now pushing pregnant women to take covid vaccines despite miscarriage, infertility risks.) Despite the numbers (only 0.98 percent of COVID-19 affected deliveries pre-delta compared to 2.70 percent after vaccines were introduced) the CDC still won't consider that the experimental injections could be the reason for the increasing stillbirth rates. Because the COVID-19 vaccines are said to be highly effective and vaccination among pregnant women was approximately 30 percent as of July 2021, most women with COVID-19 at delivery were likely to be unvaccinated, according to the CDC. This information does not sound very scientific because science isn't usually an assumption based on a slogan added to the guesstimates. Another study that experts heavily relied on was a study that was later corrected when analysts recognized the error in their data collections, adding the possibility of an 82 percent miscarriage rate in early pregnancy despite concluding that COVID shots were safe and effective. Too much unknown information to definitively say vaccines are “for the good of all” The Pfizer vaccine has already been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and these COVID vaccines have already caused 1.8 million adverse events that included deaths, miscarriages, bells palsy, heart attacks and various permanent disabilities, to name a few. While research continues regarding how natural immunity from COVID is more robust than vaccines, 79 percent of fully vaccinated individuals had been infected with any one of the variants of the virus. This means that injecting bodies with foreign substances that have been rushed through development causes harm or even death, negating any “duty to seek to preserve our bodies.” If previous studies are any indication, it shows that vaccines are anything but safe and effective. In mid-2021, Dr. Simone Gold, founder of America's Frontline Doctors previously explained that there is a known potential mid-pregnancy fertility risk with the use of the vaccine. She acknowledged that while getting COVID-19 has been associated with a high risk of mid-pregnancy miscarriage because “the placenta fails,” She noted that the vaccine may do the exact same thing. “It's lunacy to get this experimental vaccine if you're a young female,” she said. “It's that simple … I would flat out forbid any young female from getting this vaccine, and I think it's very unethical for any physician to offer this to a young female,” she said.  Vaccine Shedding is NOT a Conspiracy Theory 12/08/2022 - By Kevin Hughes Ohio-based lawyer Tom Renz discussed a variety of topics during a recent episode of “Another Renz Rant.” Renz shared that renowned cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough has been talking about the possibility of vaccine shedding – meaning, the unvaccinated can also be infected with diseases caused by the vaccines. Renz said this appears terrifying, but it is not a conspiracy theory. The lead counsel in three major cases concerning the COVID lockdowns, mask mandates and false death/case data told his viewers that McCullough doesn't say anything he can't back up with evidence. Renz, a patriot and freedom fighter, said he has been talking about vaccine shedding since early 2021 shortly after the jabs came out. He cited that there was a document about “reportable safety events” in studies at Pfizer. “If a pregnant woman came in contact with someone who was vaccinated… (that is considered a) reportable safety event. Why is that? Why were they tracking that? Well, they didn't answer. No contact and they were specific contacts, didn't necessarily mean anything more than just being around it. I mean literally shedding [when] you get near someone who was recently vaccinated. They were concerned – why?” Renz asked. (Related: Truth confirmed: Research proves two more “conspiracy theories” related to vaccine shedding, pregnant women to be true all along.) Renz also mentioned that when Comirnaty was fraudulently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Pfizer did a bunch of post-authorization studies on it. These post-authorization studies include vaccine shedding, as well as viral and bacterial gene therapy products. The Ohio-based lawyer asked why Pfizer is concerned about shedding if it is not possible and why it is calling the vaccine a gene therapy product if it is not. He pointed out that Pfizer and the FDA are lying, and the American people are trusting liars. “Everything about the jabs has been a lie,” he said. DON'T SHED ON ME!  The Covid “Vaccinated” are a Health Threat to the Unvaccinated, Warns Dr. Peter McCullough 12/07/2022 - By Ethan Huff Is it possible as an unvaccinated person to become contaminated with covid chemicals through exposure to others who have been jabbed? The answer is yes, according to Dr. Peter McCullough. In a recent interview with Action Canada's Tanya Gaw, McCullough discussed the risks that covid “vaccinated” people pose to the “unvaccinated.” In a nutshell, he likened the situation to non-smokers inhaling the second-hand smoke of smokers. Citing a paper recently published in the TMR journal Infectious Diseases Research, McCullough shared details about how messenger RNA (mRNA) can transfer from the fully jabbed to the unjabbed since these chemicals persist in the blood for at least two weeks – and likely much longer – post-injection. Another study recently published found that mRNA remains in the lymph nodes of the fully jabbed for months, which further backs McCullough's claims. There is also another recent medical study that McCullough called the “most disturbing” that shows mRNA poisons can transfer from breast milk to babies. “It seems the body can't clear it,” McCullough stated soberly. (Related: McCullough faces losing his medical license for breaking the script on covid.) Do mRNA Poisons Stay in the Body Permanently? McCullough Thinks So... If an unvaccinated person gets close to a vaccinated person, either through sexual activity or even just kissing, the so-called “vaccine” can transfer through this route as well. It is currently unknown how long an unvaccinated person should wait before engaging in this type of contact with a vaccinated person. In McCullough's estimation, these poisons could remain for years, or maybe even permanently, making the fully jabbed an indefinite public health risk. “This is very disturbing,” McCullough stated. Early on in the “pandemic,” McCullough advised that the unvaccinated should wait at least a month before having close contact with someone who got jabbed for the Fauci Flu. Now he has bumped that to 90 days or more. After each shot, mRNA accumulates even more “with no ability for the body to get rid of it,” McCullough maintains. “It looks like they permanently install into the human genome through what we call reverse transcription,” he explained. In other words, mRNA poisons reprogram human genes and turn a person, it seems, into a non-human automaton with strange, foreign DNA. At best, mRNA turns the fully vaccinated into fully transhuman beings that look human but that have non-human genetic blueprints. Autopsies of deceased fully jabbed bodies show the presence of this altered genetic material throughout the vital organs. This, McCullough says, is proof all on its own. “So I can tell you everyone who's taken the vaccine has this material in their brain, their heart, adrenal glands, reproductive organs,” McCullough said. “It's really a terrible thought. My heart goes out to anyone taking the vaccine, yeah.” You can watch the interview between Gaw and McCullough at the RAIR Foundation website. “If a war is to be fought, it's with this NWO (New World Order) fascist system,” wrote a commenter in response to McCullough's claims and revelations. “They are already at war with us.” “This is just the start of ‘the beginning of sorrows' Jesus prophesied in Matthew 24:8,” wrote another, pointing to the Holy Scriptures for guidance about what comes next. “Much more is on the way in the form of continued pestilence[s], war[s], famine[s] and natural disaster[s]. What makes these different than in past sorrows is the intensity and frequency. Then to stop this mass death there will be enforced false worship worldwide (Matt.24:9-11, Rev.13:11-18). The last counsel and warning is found in Rev.14:6-12.”   COVID VACCINE SHEDDING: UNDERSTANDING WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE UNSEEN REALM. (Video)   Fix the World Project - 5/6/21   In this presentation we review the most recent phenomenon of non vaccinated people who are experiencing extreme health effects after being in close proximity with a vaccinated person for a short period of time. Specifically, hundreds of thousands of reports have been given and then censored by MSM of women's menstrual cycles being severely affected including miscarriages when a non vaccinated person are around someone who has had a Covid Injection. People are waking up to this new bioweapon unleashed on the public and we have reports of doctors, stores and schools telling vaccinated people to stay away.   Watch the presentation on Bitchute at this link here: https://www.bitchute.com/video/5JqnXOmdSxY9/    We believe the key to understanding what is happening lies in the unseen realm. In this presentation we do a deep dive into areas of science that are overlooked in order to explain in plain terms what is happening in the unseen realm when it comes to COVID Vaccine shedding.(Video)   Big Pharma's Rape of All Mankind:  Exposing the Dangers of the Masks and PCR Tests Banned.Video Link - 4/27/21 (Transcribed by Eve Brast) “People are finding strange fibers inside their masks and in the covid 19(PCR) test swabs. Many people are pointing out the similarities between these fibers and Morgellons disease, (which is)a mysterious, unexplained skin condition characterized by small fibers emerging from skin sores. But the fibers we are seeing in the masks and test swabs seem to be different.  Many have suggested that they are normal constructive fibers, but upon close examination, they do exhibit strange qualities. In the video, (we see that)when exposed to wind, this fiber behaves exactly as one would expect,but when breathed upon it acts differently. It appears to come to life.  The fibers appear to behave similar to how “theragrippers” are described. Similar to parasitic worms, theragrippers were created at Johns Hopkins University. Theragrippers are as small as a grain of dust and are designed to deliver medication into the host's body. They operate like small compressed springs with a temperature triggered coating that releases the stored energy autonomously at body temperature (i.e. compressed springs with temperature controlled coating). These fibers can easily be described as spring-like and while (people are)wearing a mask(they) can easily spring towards their mouths as the people breathe, as if the masks (and PCR tests) are a delivery system loaded with drugs ready to be delivered into the host's bloodstream. Under magnification the PCR test swabs appear to have glasslike fibers. In one experiment the PCR test swab was rubbed against a piece of raw meat to emulate the tissue inside our nasal cavity. These microfibers deeply penetrated themselves into the flesh. Is this happening inside of our nasal cavity when we are being swabbed with the PCR tests?…  DARPA has been developing BCI's (Brain Computer Interfaces) since the 1960's and now they are ready to inject our military with a technology that will continuously test their blood. “It's not a dreaded government microchip to track your every move but, a tissue-like gel, engineered to continuously test your blood. The overwhelming desire of the “Powers That Be” seems to be putting something inside of us, putting an experimental vaccine inside of us; putting the remnants of an aborted child inside of us. How is that any different than rape? How is it that anyone is okay with this? (Narrated by Greg Reese with infowars.com.)   Are Vaccines Fueling New Covid Variants? 1/4/23 - by: Ethan Huff (Natural News) There is another new covid “variant” (or so we are told) that is spreading across the Northeast. And The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) admits that covid “vaccines” are making people more susceptible to it. XBB, as they are calling this latest variant, is not necessarily any deadlier than previous variants. It is also a lot different, we are told, than previous variants in that it evades “protection” from the injections. “Growing evidence also suggests that repeated vaccinations may make people more susceptible to XBB and could be fueling the virus's rapid evolution,” writes Allysia Finley, admitting what many of us have known for years now. XBB supposedly belongs to the Omicron (anagram for Moronic) family of variants, which comes with “numerous descendants,” according to Finley, “many of which have popped up in different regions of the world curiously bearing some of the same mutations.” A study published on December 19 explains that the rapid and simultaneous emergence of all these variants possessing “enormous growth advantages is unprecedented.” The reason, we now know, is the jabs. “Under selective evolutionary pressures, the virus appears to have developed mutations that enable it to transmit more easily and escape antibodies elicited by vaccines and prior infection,” Finley clarifies. (Related: Here is more proof showing that covid injections are spreading more variants). Pre-print Study Says Covid Bi-valent “Booster” Jab Responsible for Spreading New Variants Another study currently in pre-print contains similar revelations. This one looked at the so-called bi-valent “booster” jab for covid, which authorities are pushing on the masses as the solution to all the new variants. Workers at the Cleveland Clinic were used to assess the efficacy of bivalent boosters, which were found to provide “modest protection.” The key sentence in that study, though, is one specifying that “the virus strains dominant in the community were those represented in the vaccine.”   This would seem to suggest that the variants supposedly covered by bi-valent boosters at any given time just so happen to be the very same ones that continue to spread like wildfire, particularly among the “fully vaccinated.” In Finley's article, it is further admitted that covid “vaccines” provide poor and inadequate protection against new “strains” of the virus that come along. As opposed to natural immunity, which is generalized, but jab “immunity” is strain-specific (or so we are told), meaning when new strains come along there is no available protection against them. “Bi-valent vaccines that target the Wuhan and BA.5 variants (or breakthrough infections with the latter) prompt the immune system to produce antibodies that target viral regions the two strains have in common,” Finley writes. “XBB has evolved to elude antibodies induced by the vaccines and break through infections.” This “immune imprinting” caused by the injections, as they are calling it, was also addressed in a New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) study published last month. That one, along with another one published this month in Cell, both show that those who get injected are only protected against older strains of the virus because their immune systems were imprinted, aka damaged, to not generally recognize all mutations of viral invaders. “A bi-valent booster only slightly increased antibodies against XBB,” Finley writes. “Experts nevertheless claim that boosters improve protection against XBB. That's disinformation, to use their favored term.” “It might not be a coincidence that XBB surged this fall in Singapore, which has among the highest vaccination and booster rates in the world. Over the past several weeks a XBB strain has become predominant in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts, making up about three-quarters of virus samples that have been genetically sequenced.” The latest news about covid jabs can be found at Immunization.news.   HOSPITALS MOBBED with Every Room and Even HALLWAYS Occupied With Portable Cots … Has the Spike Protein Apocalypse Begun?   12/17/22 - by: S.D. Wells (Natural News) The hospitals in Virginia are full, with nearly every room occupied, including the emergency rooms, and even portable cots in the halls are becoming the norm for the overflow. As witnessed by investigative reporters and journalists, several hospitals in major cities of Virginia are full past capacity, so not only is every room occupied, but many portable cots, with patients on them, are lined up along the walls of the long halls and numbered. It's like a horror scene from a pandemic movie, and people are walking up and down the halls while patients are sleeping on cots with IV tubes in their arms, with people around them coughing and sneezing and carrying on about the bad conditions. It's most likely a fire hazard also, with hardly enough staff members to assist the overflow of patients if an emergency evacuation situation should arise. One can only guess at the reasons for the mobbing of hospitals right now, but complaints can be heard in the waiting rooms, and at the check-in desk in the emergency rooms. Patients are lined up for check-in, complaining of chest pains, high blood pressure, trouble breathing, and other symptoms that all seem to relate to spike protein syndrome – a critical illness caused by millions of prions that clog the vascular system and strain the heart and cleansing organs. Big Pharma raking in the bucks as patients sleep on cots in hallways of major hospitals as the scamdemic rages on Should you or a loved one spend the night in the hallway on a cot at an overcrowded hospital for any reason, the average cost of that overnight stay ranges from a whopping $9,300 on up to $13,600, depending on the type of coverage, or non-coverage, that you have. This is according to data collected from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, even though the quality of care when sleeping in the hallway at the emergency room leaves much to be desired. Imagine how much money the hospitals are making with every room full, and all the hallways crowded with cots against the wall, spread out about every 10 feet with a sick person, even overnight. Police are having to battle ‘crazy' people in fits of rage. In the middle of the night, police are having to escort crazed patients from the premises during “emergency lockdowns” in the emergency areas of hospitals. Patients can't even rest properly in the halls, with all the critical care machines beeping, opening of supply closets, nurses talking at full volume, and no emergency call buttons for the patients in the hallways to call for help. How can anyone get well or recover from surgery in conditions like this? Someone could go to the emergency room because the spike proteins are causing tiny clogs in their vascular system, driving their heart to beat at irregular rhythms. They spend a night or two on a cot in the hallway, it costs them $25,000, and the doctors can't figure out what's wrong, after running very expensive CAT scans and other diagnostic tests. Then, after being exposed to lots of sick patients roaming the hallways with Fauci Flu and other RSVs, plus the risk of getting a superbug infection (think MRSA here) from the IVs and the dirty, crowded conditions, the visit to the hospital might serve as a ‘shovel' for digging your own grave. A ‘spike' (pardon the pun) in illnesses has led to a shortage of hospital beds across Virginia, including for pediatric hospitalizations. For example, the Children's Hospital of Richmond says they are operating at greater than 95 percent capacity. Could it have to do with compromised immune systems due to the Wuhan Flu injections and “boosters?” Since the deadly Covid jabs have been administered to teens and kids, there has been a 40 percent increase in pediatric hospitalizations. Looks like the Spike Protein Apocalypse has begun. How much worse can these hospital conditions become? Sounds like it's time to blame those darned video games, referee whistles, and cold showers again. Bookmark Vaccines.news to your favorite independent websites for updates on experimental gene therapy injections the CDC and fake news claim are “safe and effective” when they're really dangerous and health-damaging. Experts Estimate 20 Million are Already Dead Due to COVID Vaccination & Over 2 Billion Injured The Liberty Beacon (Link) - 10/1/22 Europe Reloaded Editor's note: These calculations, provided by Peter Halligan on his Substack account (linked to below), are based on the Lazarus Report or as is more commonly known, the Harvard-Pilgrim study from 2011, which estimated that less than 1% of vaccine adverse events are ever reported. To our knowledge, this claim has stood the test of time. As many independent doctors have noted, this ‘vaccine' has been the deadliest so far produced. THE EXPOSE Peeling back the layers of deception and obfuscation reveals a shocking truth that may not be all that shocking to our informed readers: Covid-19 “vaccines” are injuring and killing far more people than the government is letting on. Estimates compiled from pieced-together data suggest that as many as 20 million people worldwide have died so far from the shots, while another 2.2 billion have suffered injuries – and we are only just getting started. “Add the EUDRA and VAERS adverse event data on deaths and “events” together, multiply by an under-reporting factor of 40, globalize the EU+US one-eighth share of 12.5 billion global doses.   VAERS (take only the US data) 13,972 deaths and 854,084 adverse reactions to 5 August 2022 VAERS Summary for COVID-19 Vaccines through 8/5/2022 – VAERS Analysis EUDRA (ignore the headline and scoot to the first image on the landing page) – 46,999 deaths and 4,731,833 injuries 76,789 Deaths, 6,089,773 Injuries Reported in U.S. and European Databases Following COVID-19 Vaccines – Vaccine Impact Number of US injections = around 600m (increased to 608 million in the last few weeks) CDC COVID Data Tracker: Vaccinations in the US Number of EU injections = around 900m (increased to 915 million in the last few weeks) Number of global injections = around 12 billion (increased to 12.5 billion in the last few weeks) Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations – Our World in Data The Lazarus Report showing less than one in 100 vaccination injuries are reported – see page 6 of 7 that states – “..fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported. Low reporting rates preclude or slow the identification of “problem” drugs and vaccines that endanger public health.” Electronic Support for Public Health–Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP:VAERS) (ahrq.gov) Using a one in 100 under-reporting factor (URF) would make the injections horribly deadly and injurious (1.4 million deaths and 85 million injuries for the 600 million doses administered). A more recent attempt at estimating the URF is around 40, here: Determining the VAERS Under-Reporting Multiplier (healthimpactnews.com) So, EU+US deaths = 13,972 + 46,999 = 60,971 deaths and EU+US injuries = 854,084 + 6,089,773 = 6,943,857 (multiple per person, half of which are “serious”). Multiply by 40 for URF and then by 8 to “globalize” Global deaths are around 19.5 million SO FAR and global injuries are around 2.2 billion. In the coming months and years, these figures will balloon even higher as lingering spike proteins progressively damage the bodies of the “fully vaccinated,” leaving them prone not only to every illness that comes along (autoimmune disease) but also to deadly clots (i.e., myocarditis and pericarditis). It requires a bit of digging to come up with the aforementioned figures as governments work overtime to keep all pertinent data hidden, or at least confusing. The way post-injection injuries and deaths are calculated varies from country to country and even from municipality to municipality, making it difficult to come up with accurate numbers. The safety and effectiveness claims for the shots are also highly skewed, one way being how “cases” of the Fauci Flu are determined. All throughout the alleged pandemic, illnesses and deaths were falsely attributed to the “virus” so that later the injections could be framed as the “cure.” In 2020, before the official launch of the vaccines, the annualized rate of covid “cases” was around 70 million – and keep in mind that the official definition of a “case” is still just as murky today as it was at the beginning of the “pandemic”. Following the launch of Operation Warp Speed in the USA, the annualized number of Covid cases increased nearly fivefold to 330 million. The annualized mortality rate also increased from 1.7 million pre-Operation Warp Speed to 2.9 million post-Operation Warp Speed. This is significant because it shows that the shots are not “saving lives” as is still being claimed. The opposite is actually true as many more people are getting sick and dying in the injection era. “Rather than a 95% (or 91% in the trials) reduction in cases and deaths, there has been a 370% INCREASE in the annualized case rate,” writes Peter Halligan on his Substack.  “Annualized Deaths have INCREASED by 180%.” Halligan looked at data in the government's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) to come up with the 20 million dead and 2.2 billion injured figures. Since VAERS only captures a very small percentage of actual vaccine-related adverse events, Halligan extrapolated true figure estimates using multiplication. The “butcher's bill from the battlefield,” as he calls it, points to these figures being far more accurate than anything the government or Big Pharma are admitting. And were these figures to spread widely across the population, there would surely be a whole lot of angry folks with a lot of questions for the powers that be. Source Published to The Liberty Beacon from EuropeReloaded.com   More Than 25% of Americans Believe They Personally Know Someone Who Died from Covid “Vaccines”   1/3/23 by: Ethan Huff   (Natural News) It is official: most people living in the United States today agree that covid “vaccines” are to blame for higher-than-normal rates of unexplained and sudden death. Further, 28 percent, or more than one in four, say they know someone who died suddenly, likely from the injections. We know this from the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey, which found that 49 percent of American adults believe that covid jab side effects are responsible for a significant number of unexplained deaths throughout the country. More than one in four, the survey also found, have been personally affected in some way by shot damage. Forty-eight percent of Americans told pollsters that they believe there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of covid injections, while 15 percent are unsure. Only 37 percent say that concerns about jab safety are the product of wild “conspiracy theories.” (Related: Since post-covid jab deaths are not being autopsied, there is no way to really know the true number of injection-caused deaths.) If you're a Democrat, chances are you got vaccinated and believe fully in the “safety and effectiveness” of the shots The poll included 1,000 American adults, 71 percent of whom say that they personally received at least one covid injection. Only 26 percent of respondents have clean, untainted blood that was not affected by the shots. Of those who never got injected, 77 percent told Rasmussen that they believe it is at least somewhat likely that covid jab side effects are associated with the uptick in unexplained deaths. Of those who took the jab(s), just 38 percent feel the same way. Forty-five percent of unvaccinated respondents told pollsters that they think they personally know someone who died because of the jabs while only 22 percent of fully jabbed adults believe the same thing. Among the fully vaccinated, 46 percent said people who worry about the safety of the jabs are spreading conspiracy theories. Just 15 percent of the unvaccinated share that same belief. “Sixty-nine percent (69%) of those who haven't gotten the COVID-19 vaccine think there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, as do 40% of those who have gotten vaccinated against the virus,” Rasmussen further reported. As you might expect, the fully vaccinated lean heavily in the direction of being Democrats. Eighty-five percent of the fully jabbed who participated in the survey identify as left-wing, after all. A majority of Republicans, 63 percent, are also vaccinated, as are a majority of people not affiliated with either major party. The unvaccinated, meanwhile, remain a minority in the U.S. “More Republicans (60%) than Democrats (44%) or the unaffiliated (43%) think there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines,” Rasmussen further reported. “However, there is less political difference in the number who suspect someone they know might have died from vaccine side effects – 33% of Democrats and 26% of both Republicans and the unaffiliated.” What might come as a surprise to some is the fact that younger Americans tend to be less vaccinated than older Americans. The vast majority of people who complied with Operation Warp Speed are elderly – and the elderly are also less likely than younger Americans to believe that the shots are unsafe. While 35 percent of adults under 40 in the U.S. believe they personally know someone who died from covid jabs, only 28 percent of those between the ages of 40 and 64 believe that. Meanwhile, just 14 percent of Americans aged 65 and older believe there is anything to fear about the injections, showing that previous generations are far more trusting of the establishment then newer generations. EXCESS MORTALITY: Over 2400 Americans are DYING Each Day Following Vaccine Mandates… Ed Dowd Unveils Alarming, Evidence-Based Data   11/16/22 by: Mike Adams   (Natural News) Today we feature an interview with Ed Dowd, author of Unknown Causes: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022. Ed Dowd, along with his team of analysts, has assembled the most comprehensive and compelling data revealing excess mortality following the introduction of covid vaccines. His website where some of these results are presented is TheyLiedPeopleDied.com. Ed Dowd is also head of The Humanity Project found at this link:http://phinancetechnologies.com/HumanityProjects/Humanity%20Projects.asp Today he joins me in an interview to discuss his findings, warning that sooner or later, the medical and scientific community will be unable to ignore the fact that over 2,400 Americans are dying each day — almost certainly from vaccines — which comes to about 900,000 Americans killed in a year. Here's just one chart from Ed Dowd that shows excess deaths following the introduction of covid-19 “vaccines” (experimental mRNA injections): Across the population, Ed Dowd explains in the interview, excess mortality is running about 32%. Around 7,700 Americans routinely die each day, and 32% of that comes to 2,400+ deaths per day. That's only counting America. Global deaths are, of course, far higher. Credible estimates of global deaths from covid-19 vaccines have been compiled by other analysts and experts, and they claim that at least 20 million people have already been killed worldwide from covid-19 vaccines, making the scale of this “vaccine holocaust” more than triple the size of the historical Holocaust atrocity. If you want to watch the interview with Ed Dowd, here's the standalone interview video: Brighteon.com/fedc3b74-6f5b-42c8-9386-8f8abbd8ef91   7,500 Americans are Killed or Disabled EACH DAY as Vax Jabs Take Heavy Toll… USA Imploding Under “De-civilization” Assault   12/29/22 - by: Mike Adams   (Natural News) Ed Dowd, author of Cause Unknown ... shared updated and slightly horrifying numbers about post-vaccine excess fatalities and excess disability claims. The short version of ... is that each day in America, there are about 2,500 excess deaths and 5,000 excess disability victims due to covid-19 vaccines. This means, on average, about 7,500 Americans are removed from the potential labor pool each day. Granted, not all 7,500 are currently working, but most of them theoretically could contribute to the work force if they chose to. ... We look at the macroeconomic implications of this daily removal of 7,500 people from the potential labor pool and what it means for America's economy and military security, among other things. ... The De-civilization of the USA One of the more startling realizations in all this is that the United States of America is suffering the early stages of a “decivilization” event, not merely a temporary bump in the road. That term refers to the dismantling of the critical, complex pillars of a modern advanced civilization, rendering it unable to function. The sudden collapse of Southwest Airlines' flight schedule now being witnessed across the country is an excellent example of this. Here's an airline company that can hardly fly planes because it can't schedule its own crew members to show up. Reportedly, Southwest Airlines failed to invest in its IT systems and after “years of neglect,” the crew scheduling systems have cratered. Now the airline has cancelled more than 10,000 flights and may not survive much longer as a viable business entity. The level of rank incompetence that Southwest Airlines demonstrates here is also widely demonstrated by banks, government offices, utility companies and many other service providers. But many people miss the reasons behind it all. One of the primary reasons is that the covid vaccine is removing competent, experienced people from the work force by killing or injuring them. In fact, as Ed Dowd reveals, the vaccine did the most damage among those who are employed. 2021 was a very dangerous year to have a job, it turns out, as the Biden regime forced employers across the country to mandate vaccines for all their workers. Many workers complied with the jab mandates and have since died or become disabled as a result. The fact that 7,500 additional Americans are suffering this fate every day points to not merely an economic recession or depression, but a decivilization outcome that risks ending western civilization as we know it, forcing the vaccine survivors into an existence they hardly recognize. The “glacial Mad Max” Ed Dowd calls this the “glacial Mad Max” scenario: It's going to get very bad but not all at once. The slow, steady erosion of the pillars of civilization will become increasingly apparent over time as another 2.7 million people are killed or disabled by the vaccines each year. And that's based on current rates of mortality and disability… rates that may become significantly worse among those who continue to take the mRNA jabs that obliterate their immune systems and caused their bodies to generate mysterious fibrous clots (which are not simply blood clots, by the way). “Globalization is over,” Dowd declares in the interview (below). And that means the era of cheap, easy stuff is also coming to an end. The world we once knew, where we could visit a local Walmart or Target store and pick up foreign-made goods on the cheap, is over. From here, things are going to become a lot more expensive and less available. Rather than a global expansion into long, complex supply chains and economies of scale, we are living through the early stages of a global contraction and the collapse of globalism itself. The world is about to become a lot more local, with all the global supply chain efficiencies vanishing in short order. And this is colliding with the fact that the U.S. work culture is practically non-existent among younger Americans. They have grown up never expecting to actually produce anything. They are consumers, after all, not factory workers or creators of anything real (your favorite celebrity NFT or crypto coin doesn't count). Thus, at a time when globalization is collapsing and when Americans are going to have to grow, manufacture and process things at the local level, there's hardly any local work knowledge remaining that could accomplish such a transition. Those who know how to do anything — the working class of America — are being systematically annihilated by the jabs, leaving behind the non-working welfare class who possess no practical skills and believe they are deserving of never-ending universal basic income subsidies so they can continue to be consumers. Their world is about to come to a frustrating end, and America as a whole is going to witness the ravages of the reversal of the globalization miracle that made goods affordable, readily available and easily replaced. Why the Pentagon can't fight a war with Russia Part of the definition of a nation is the ability to project power for the purposes of both defending your own shores and also extracting resources from other nations (via trade, coercion, or otherwise). This has been accomplished throughout history under various empires such as the British Empire, and the U.S. empire mastered the art of global resources extraction with its 1944 Bretton Woods agreement and the positioning of the dollar as the world reserve currency. But to project power, a nation must maintain a degree of domestic industrialization so that it can manufacture munitions and weapons of war. This requires a long, complex supply chain of steel, polymers, oil, rubber, electronics and the like. More importantly, it requires a skilled and willing labor force that's able to work in munitions factories. No such work force currently exists among American culture. Soy boys don't build bombs, and woke idiots can't run lathes. In the USA, the productive labor force is being decimated by the jab. The culture wars have also sapped any last shred of work ethic out of the youth, rendering a generation of virtue signaling snowflakes who are incapable of using their hands to do anything other than play video games… As a result, there's nobody left in America to run the war factories. That is, until you consider the illegals who are crossing over the open borders by the millions. My contention is that the DoD plans to recruit illegals to run the munitions factories, because otherwise the United States has near-zero ability to run the industrial manufacturing necessary to sustain any real war effort with Russia or China. After killing Americans with the bioweapon, the Pentagon will recruit illegals to man the munitions factories After having sent the vast majority of its supply of artillery shells, drones, anti-tank systems and now even artillery pieces to Ukraine, the United States of America has very little left to defend itself against an invasion force from an enemy nation like China. Granted, the Pacific Ocean is a large moat, but given advances in the scale and efficiency of maritime transportation, it's no longer the formidable chasm it was in World War II. China has the capability to sail hundreds of millions of tons of military equipment to invasion forces that might assault the West Coast of America, and China has the blackmail to force Joe Biden to order America to stand down its own military as such an invasion takes place. The loss of the ability to defend your own borders is part of the decivilization now accelerating in the United States. And the vaccine fatalities and disabilities only accelerate this alarming phenomenon. Combined with the anti-fertility effects of the mRNA jab, it now looks like the USA will be utterly unable to achieve a sustainable reproduction rate to maintain its labor force.  The Americans people are being deliberately killed off and replaced by illegal migrants, and those migrants are both willing to work and capable of reproduction — two critical properties that are being stripped away from Americans via the weaponization of the vaccine. The end result of all this is not in doubt: The economic, military and demographic collapse of the United States of America — a top goal of one world government globalist types who have long regarded the USA (and its Constitution) as a thorn in the side of global domination. Thus, the positioning of the vaccine as a depopulation weapon is just one part of an engineered collapse event designed to take down America and terrorize the world with another set of carefully planned (and previously simulated) crisis events. You are being annihilated, then replaced Those who fail to understand the macroeconomic and geopolitical implications of the vaccine depopulation scheme are missing the bigger picture. It isn't merely about killing people off, it's about killing certain people so they can be replaced by a foreign workforce that's still willing to run the munitions factories and sweep the floors. The robot takeover, after all, hasn't arrived yet. Until it does, the globalists are happy to make do with a migrant takeover, just as long as they can keep the weapons factories operating as long as possible. The vaccines targeted the most competent, first world professionals on purpose. As those people are swept out of the way, they will be replaced by obedient, low-education illegals who will be granted amnesty, then work permits, and then voting rights to help keep the uniparty in power as they engineer the total collapse of western civilization — a process now accelerating by the day across Western Europe, by the way. Note carefully that both Democrats and RINO Republicans are all in favor of amnesty. This should be no surprise once you understand the reality of the replacement effort now under way. In summary, we are not merely watching genocide; we are witnessing the permanent rejiggering of the economic order by malicious, anti-human Luciferians who celebrate death and destruction. Every person who takes another booster shot is inadvertently working on their behalf, by the way, helping to achieve their malicious aims. And to top it all off, the oblivious masses have no idea any of this is happening, even as their own family, friends and coworkers are being maimed or killed by the vaccines. The global vaccine holocaust is being carried out right under the noses of the ignorant, and thanks to CIA-controlled narratives across media and tech platforms, those who don't possess the mental capacity to question false authority are instead spellbound by it, and they will soon be destroyed by it. Praise Delivers Us from Our Enemies Anna Stewart - 1/3/23 (David's notes in red)   I dreamed I was sitting on a bench outside of a building that was elevated off of the ground. The building was made up of four parts with a pathway intersection dividing it through the middle. I seemed to be on the east side of the building. A large man was sitting with me, and I had my head on his shoulder, but I never saw his face (the Lord). Other believers were also there with us.    Then we came under siege from the enemy. Men were patrolling and not allowing anyone to leave the bench. The enemy seemed to be “the French” but they looked more like ancient Roman soldiers. (The French and Roman overlords of history terrorized and persecuted people who didn't agree with their ideology, such as Christians today, as we will see.)   At one point a group of soldiers stampeded their horses right past us, while the horsemen cracked long scourging whips at us. The cracks of the whips were so loud and I could see the metal on the ends of the whips, but I wasn't afraid. No one was hurt by them.    Then … Michael, said that we needed to praise the Lord. I got up and raised my arms and started walking around the building singing Revelation Song. Others joined me. As we got to the south side of the building I could see that the enemy filled the huge open space before the building. They were firing gunshots at us and using many forms of ancient artillery.    I thought to myself that I would rather die praising the Lord than sitting on the bench. (Sitting on the bench means you're not in the game; You're a serf.) I didn't look at the enemy but just focused on praising the Lord. It was in the back of my mind that the Lord might even supernaturally keep us from enemy fire as a testimony.    After three or four times around the house, I finally looked down where the enemy had been and saw that they were scattering and fleeing. Praise the Lord! (Let's try it on the Beast of our day like in Psalm 149:6-9 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand; 7 To execute vengeance upon the nations, And punishments upon the peoples; 8 To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron; 9 To execute upon them the judgment written: This honor have all his saints. Praise ye Jehovah.)   Only One  Wings of Prophesy - 10/20/11 (Reposted 1/1/23) (David's notes in red)   (Though this word has been reposted once, it is such a serious and powerful word, I feel it warrants us being reminded again.)   “The days ahead will require you to determine and decide who and what is really your god. Many of you think you know already but you have never truly been made to choose only one. You think you will choose Me above all others, but you see not the gods lurking within your mind and heart. Gods the enemy used to tempt you away from Me.”   (At this point I heard heartbreaking sadness in the voice of the Lord, like you hear in the voice of someone who just found out their spouse was unfaithful).   “Some of you have allowed these gods to invade your lives. You have welcomed them. Some of you are even aware of their presence, yet you do nothing to cleanse your hearts of them, thinking I will understand and excuse your idolatry.   Did I not say in My Word thou shalt have no other gods before Me?” (At this point I heard serious anger in the Lord's voice)“And so you shall not. If you are Mine, act like it.   Days coming will bring hard circumstances that will require you to choose which god you will serve. Only one. Think hard and decide well, My children, for this choice cannot be undone.   Some of My children have already chosen. They have followed Me wherever I led them, laying aside their own dreams and desires and taking up My cross. For them this choice has already been made and the days to come will be far easier than for others.   For those who have remained enmeshed in the world and all of its temptations, the times to come will be very hard indeed; for you have lived a soft life, putting your faith in what you can see instead of Me. Your faith is flimsy. It is like a reed that bends with every new wind of doctrine. You are easily deceived because you have not built your house of faith on the Rock of My Son.   You must choose which god you will serve for the rest of your earthly lives. That is the god you will serve in eternity as well.   My children, many of you underestimate the importance and lateness of the time you live in. You do not see My Son's return approaching. Did I not say like a thief in the night? Yet many of you do nothing to prepare yourselves for His soon return.   Will His Bride not ready herself for her Groom? Will yo be found not dressed when the wedding party arrives? Will you be left behind?    You must think on these things now while there is still time and choose well. In the days soon coming, chaos shall abound in many nations. There will be very little time to think later for some of you who read this word. Your lives will be cut short because of “this disaster” or “that uprising”.   Do not make the mistake of thinking you have more time than you do. Some decisions should not be put off until another time. Do not be like the “rich man” in My Word who stored up in his barns and set himself to enjoy his worldly pleasures, whose soul was required of him that night, for you know not the seriousness of all that is about to transpire.   Do not wait. Choose now. Which god will you serve?   I have given you all you need to survive and prosper in this time. You need only ask to receive of what I have for you.   Adversity has risen up against you time and time again. Many of you have prayed and asked why this is so. Adversity is your teacher, My children. Adversity brings hardship that prepares you for what is harder still that is yet to come.   Trust Me. I can see further down the road into your future, you cannot. This is why you must allow Me to guide your paths and not try to understand every tiny nuance of what happens. It is not always for you to understand, but for you to simply obey Me in faith, trusting that I love you. I know what is best for all concerned.   This next year will bring many changes you cannot see from where you are. I am trying to position each of you to be ready for these changes but some of you resist My paths. This will cause further hardship to come into your lives. Often what My children suffer is a result of not obeying Me at some earlier time.   Some of what is to come is far worse than My children are expecting. I am trying to protect you by guiding your paths to a safer place. Obey Me and all shall be well. Resist and you are left with the results of your own way.   Come up high with Me. Let us commune together as you worship Me in Spirit and in truth. Allow Me to prepare you for all that is to come.”   Mat. 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.   Exo. 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.   Mat. 11:7 And as these went their way, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken with the wind?   Jas 4:4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.   1Pe. 2:7-8 For you therefore that believe is the preciousness: but for such as disbelieve, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner; 8 and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.   Luk 12:16-20 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: 17 and he reasoned within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where to bestow my fruits? 18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. 20 But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?   Jos. 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.   Isa. 30:20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden anymore, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers;   Pro. 3:5-7 Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding: 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he will direct thy paths. 7 Be not wise in thine own eyes; Fear Jehovah, and depart from evil:   Joh. 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers.   Video Links to other informative videos:   "A Very Large Increase In Deaths"!! Funeral Directors And Embalmers Talk About New Death Trends!! | Alternative | Before It's News   Funeral Directors and Embalmers Alarmed By Freakishly Large Blood Clots Clogging Veins in Vaccinated Bodies | Christian Research Network   Dr. Sherri Tenpenny: 4 Phases Of Jab-Related Death!! The Worst Is Yet To Come!! - O.N.E. News   https://amg-news.com/the-plan-the-who-has-a-plan-of-10-years-of-infectious-diseases-starting-from-2020-to-2030-are-you-ready/   I would like to leave you with God's promise of protection in His Word. Please believe it and confess it!   Psa. 91:5-11 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, Nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 6 For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. 7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, And ten thousand at thy right hand; But it shall not come nigh thee. 8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, And see the reward of the wicked. 9 For thou, O Jehovah, art my refuge! Thou hast made the Most High thy habitation; 10 There shall no evil befall thee, Neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent. 11 For he will give his angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways.   SERVICES Ubbs Outreach Friday Night Worship CONTACT Share Your Testimony Request Prayer Technical Support Questions   SUPPORT US We are a non-profit organisation based in United States. Our goal is to empower and equip people to discover more about Christianity and point them to a life of happiness, peace and purpose. Donate

"As I scientist I ask-- where's the data on COVID vaccines? How many women, how many men, how many shots? Which arm? Did it cause their diabetes to get better? Did it affect their time off of work? What kind of reaction? We need to know this." Renowned physician and executive Dr. James Weinstein is here, talking public health, policy, wasteful spending, and transparency— or lack of— in our medical system. Life can throw us medical curveballs, sometimes one after another. How is a patient, regardless of having healthcare or not, supposed to know what is best for him or her? Jim Weinstein's model, conceived at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, is one he calls “informed choice.” Can doctors and patients work together to find a way to better decision-making? Where is the basic data on responses to mRNA vaccines that the public can access and look through? Why is public messaging often so muddled? With a deeply personal story interwoven with family tragedy and a wealth of expertise in the corporate and academic medical worlds, this is a unique perspective on the complex inner workings of the system most close to us all— our health. If you like what we do, please support the show. By making a one-time or recurring donation, you will contribute to us being able to present the highest quality substantive, long-form interviews with the world's most compelling people. Dr. James N. Weinstein joined Microsoft in July 2018 as Senior Vice President, Microsoft Healthcare, leading strategy, and innovation. During the pandemic, he has worked with Operation Warp speed and various organizations around the world, including, WHO, CDC as well as state and local government efforts to bring the Microsoft vaccine platform for enrolling, disseminating, and tracking vaccine participants. He serves as executive sponsor for some the largest health delivery systems in the world, including, NHS, HCA, CVS, MGB (the Harvard system), John's Hopkins, Centene, Kaiser and many others. Dr. James N. Weinstein is the immediate past Chief Executive Officer and President of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health. The $2.5 billion system includes New Hampshire's only academic medical center and a network of affiliated hospitals and clinics across Vermont and New Hampshire, serving a patient population of about 2 million. Under his leadership, Dartmouth-Hitchcock worked to create a “sustainable health system” for the patients and communities it serves, for generations to come. As leader of a bi-state health system, he created an operating model based in population health locally and nationally. The 7 hospital system ranked in the top 1% for quality. He created a joint venture with Harvard Pilgrim to create a new health plan for Northern New England. He worked with Congress during three prior administrations, and helped lead the ACO, population-based strategies and led national efforts in Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROM's) and Health Equity. In the past few years, he's helped lead the formation of the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI), funded initially by an $80 million grant from the Department of Defense and more than $300 million in private sector funding. ARMI uses 3D technology to print human organs, a development that could transform the world of organ transplantation and the lives of millions affected by diseases such as kidney disease and diabetes. He is a member of the Board of Directors of ARMI/BioFab.

Christine O'Shaughnessy is the founder of Mindful Presence, which offers executive coaching and mindfulness training to corporations, groups, and individuals, helping people thrive in emotional intelligence, leadership, and creativity.  When utilizing mindfulness in executive coaching and leadership training, you cultivate core social competencies that drive growth and help change the way you speak, listen, and act, allowing for more mindful communication.  Christine's passion is helping clients cultivate better responses to life's challenges instead of reacting in automatic, habitual ways.   One of Christine's strengths is understanding the effects that stress can play in people's health as they progress in their careers. This has inspired her to focus her interest in incorporating mindfulness into daily life as an integral tool for stress management, self-awareness, emotional regulation, addiction, anxiety, depression, pain, and long-term illnesses.  She works with a broad spectrum of executives and corporations including non-profits, investment, and financial management firms, technology firms, healthcare, and education.  Her focus is on helping individuals create work/life balance while improving performance, communication, and fostering more behavioral flexibility.     Christine brings the depth and knowledge from her previous career as a corporate executive into her mindfulness training, guiding individuals to become more mindful leaders in the workplace. She has worked as the Managing Director of a search and consulting firm; the Director of Sales for a software company; and as a Vice President and Senior Credit Analyst at Loomis, Sayles & Co., an investment management firm in Boston. She holds a BA in Finance and an MBA from Babson College. Christine has completed intensive training programs and attended silent retreats at Insight Meditation Center, Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, and BCBS.  She has practiced Insight Meditation and yoga for 20 years, teaching for 15 years, and is RYT200 certified.  Christine is also a Senior Mindfulness Instructor for Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, the co-creator of Harvard Pilgrim's online instructional yoga videos, and the co-creator of the meditation app called Presence – Guided Meditation.   Website: www.mindfulpresence.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/havemindfulpresence/   Have a podcast topic suggestion for upcoming episodes? Email me at kate@holistichealthcollab.com   If you want to connect to others on the health and wellness journey or if you want a safe space to learn more about holistic health and the different modalities, come join our Facebook group at Empowered Health: Connection and Community through Holistic Health   Want to get general hints and tips about your health? Head on over to Instagram and follow @holistichealthcollab Listen to all the Empowered Health Podcasts here: https://www.about.holistichealthcollab.com/podcast

Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on WTAG this morning with Jim Polito.  He wanted me on to discuss the problems that Massachusetts was having with the rollout of their Vaccine Scheduling website. Here we go with Jim. For more tech tips, news, and updates, visit - CraigPeterson.com. ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. He had a special command appearance this morning to answer a major question that's been bothering people in Massachusetts. Their state just yesterday came out with a COVID vaccine registration site and a million people ages 65 and up became eligible that had not been eligible before. Of course, it did not work. They were getting errors like bad gateway error or this application crashed. It's just incredible. Incredible. Talk a little bit about what should have happened and the ways to really think about putting together something for your business. Should you, should the state be developing these systems from scratch? I give some alternatives here. You might know. I built one of the first large-scale websites in the world. The whole thing, including the data center for the silly thing, way back when. It was for Big yellow. I don't know if you remember that or not, which was the predecessor to Superpages. We were able to get it up and running in a matter of weeks from scratch, which was a database of every business in the entire region, multiple, multiple States.  In fact, we ended up covering the entire United States before we even launched.  We managed to get it finished at  2:00 AM. 9:00 AM they had a press conference down a New York City, and the site was released to the world and everything worked. It never crashed, which is absolutely amazing. In fact, we ended up after 18 months deciding maybe we should start rebooting some of these servers because they've been online yeah. For a year and a half. Of course, I was not running windows. Right. I have some credit here. I know what I'm talking about, kind of the bottom line.  I think you might find this a little interesting if you're wondering about these government projects. Cause I also bring up Obamacare and what ended up happening with this $600 check that people were getting for being laid off over the whole lockdown thing. So here we go with Mr. Jim Pollito. Jim Polito: [00:02:27] Charlie. Baker's not having a great day. Didn't have a great day yesterday. The governor of Massachusetts because his computer system to register people to get the COVID vaccination crashed. It's been opened up to people 65 and older, and apparently, 1 million people to log on to set up appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine. It just crashed. It crashed. Joining us now to sort this all out is our good friend. Who's usually you're on Tuesday, but this is why he's such a great asset to the show tech talk guru Craig Peter song. Good morning, sir. Craig Peterson: [00:03:06] Hey, good morning, Jim. Hey, not only was the site unavailable but if you called2-1-1, the vaccine hotline, it also failed, they couldn't transfer through. So, the frustration level was just out of this world. Jim Polito: [00:03:22] It reminds me of the old days when you were calling and trying to get tickets to see the Rolling Stones when they went on sale and the systems would just crash to try to get through. I have advertisers who really attempt to crash their systems because I want to send them so many people for their system. That's a good thing. Like they say, Oh my God, all these callers from the Jim Pollito show were all of these people trying to log onto our website. What happens? Why does that happen? Craig Peterson: [00:03:53] In one-word incompetence. We remember the rollout of course, of the Obamacare website.  I said, Hey, listen, this is going to take about three years for them to get right, after what is already online.  It took about three years for them to get right. I have done some amazing things and seen some amazing things done when it comes to websites over the years. You just can't find competent people in some of these organizations, particularly some of the larger ones. It is easy enough in this day and age. In fact, it's very easy in less than a week you could put together a website that is effectively crash-proof that will automatically scale itself up.  The question about why does it crash, has to do with the components that they're using and the way they're spreading the load. It's not as though all of a sudden yesterday a million more people were eligible for getting shots and they should've been concerned about this. There just weren't enough computing resources behind all of this is kind of the bottom line. Jim Polito: [00:05:01] It's like you got a bag that's rated for 10 pounds and you're trying to put 20 pounds in it. Craig Peterson: [00:05:07] Think about having a Toyota Prius and all of a sudden you want to get a hundred people into it. You should have known that since there were a hundred people that were going to line up, a Prius just wouldn't have done it. You needed a couple of buses. That's why it goes back to incompetence. Let's not even look all the way back through the Obamacare website. Let's look at what happened with unemployment, where people were getting these $600 checks, right? We have the exact same problem. All 50 States had it, but there's an even simpler solution besides designing this properly using sites like Amazon web services or Microsoft Azure, which both have systems to make sure that you can handle the load. It's something called queuing. They had something that many States adopted for their unemployment site. Very easy to add. I mean very easy to add. I looked into it because of problems I saw States having thought, well, maybe I could put a product together for them. I found Florida was using something and it took them all of about half an hour to put it in place. What this queuing system does is you go to the website and the queuing system says all the backend systems are pretty busy right now. So I'm just going to give you basically a line in number and when the backend systems are ready for you, then little it'll all be well and good. Now, I've got to give them a little bit of leeway here, Jim, because I'm not sure what's actually behind all of this. Are they actually trying to tie into all of these pharmacy's computer systems from that front-end website, ultimately, because there are so many pieces? Jim Polito: [00:06:59] No. Craig Peterson: [00:07:00] Okay. Jim Polito: [00:07:01] No, I don't think so. It's the super sites that they've set up, but I'm fairly sure that's how it is. Frankly, I have been suggesting, why don't we just put this in the hands of the people who've been doing it all along, and then it's their problem.  Say to CVS, Walgreens, Stop and Shop, Wegmans, Price Chopper, all these places where you can get vaccines. Send them to them, pay them and say here. Craig Peterson: [00:07:32] Yeah, exactly. Why do you build a website in the first place to take appointments? There are dozens of calendaring and scheduling websites out there. You talk about these events, getting rolling stone tickets. Well, there's a website called that is designed to do exactly what the state is trying to do right now. The cost of this is like next to nothing to use it. I've used it before for events. We use it for the FBI InfraGard events. It's so simple. Yet, no, we've got a bureaucracy. We have people who are here on phony-baloney jobs, as Mel Brooks would say. They need to design it. No. All we're talking about is some basic calendaring functions. To your point, why set up these sites? Walmart has pharmacies, and so do most grocery stores, as you've just mentioned. Let them do it. Maybe have one of these things like the event or one of the other scheduling pieces of software or websites do the scheduling. Just let them do it. We don't need a whole new bureaucracy. They can't get it done. Jim Polito: [00:08:45] Yeah. See, here's the thing though that's different with Charlie Baker versus when Deval Patrick was governor in Massachusetts. As you alluded to the Obamacare exchanges and that site kept crashing, but not just from demand, it just wasn't designed well. It was a mess but different Deval Patrick just made excuses about it. Charlie Baker went out. I think Wednesday and said, yep, it's all ready to go. Which knowing what I know about Charlie Baker when he ran Harvard Pilgrim health care, he went to the person said, is this ready to go? Are you sure? Okay. He went out there. That's why, yesterday, he actually used the word I'm pissed, which I think is better for him to say and he will say I own it. I'm pissed.  It's gotta be fixed. I would not, Charlie Bakers' a really nice guy. Some people say too nice. I wouldn't want to be the person who told him, it's ready to go. It's all set.  Craig Peterson: [00:09:45] The other side of this is the testing involved because again, you can put these systems under load test and you should, and in the regular non-governmental space, we do put them under load tests and make sure they're going to work. Obviously, none of this happened.  I can see why you're saying his hair is on fire and he's really upset, but so were all these other people. The design of the site was you went to the site, you filled out a PDF form online, and this form went on for pages and like you, so you're filling it all out, which I don't get either, right? Government paperwork and all of a sudden the site crashes. It does not keep any of the information that you just spent all your time filling out. Pages and pages form so that the design of it, even from that standpoint was ludicrous. What there is going to be a problem. The person's internet could go down, their computer could crash. Your website might not be able to handle the load. Then what are you going to do? Because now everybody has to start from scratch again. Jim Polito: [00:10:58] My goodness this is why you're the great resource. Hopefully, the state was listening and Rhode Island is listening to, and they'll call in and they'll say we got to get this Craig Peterson guy. Craig, by the way, while you're here, how would people get you through a system that would not crash? Craig Peterson: [00:11:16] Well, you can always just email me me@craigpeterson.com and I have all of my podcasts and everything up at my website, which of course is also. craigpeterson.com. If you have any questions or anything me@craigpeterson.com and I'm always happy to answer pretty much anything that comes my way. Jim Polito: [00:11:36] There you go. Craig. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. ---  More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

An interview with Tom Croswell, the CEO of the still unnamed company combining Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan. He talks about the benefits of consolidation but also raises questions about its value in other areas of health care.

Health care benefits are not “one size fits all.” Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is leading the way, using data to drive point solutions to address a variety of participants’ health issues.   Point solutions are often delivered digitally through apps to provide a personalized approach to a specific health condition.   To help employers find the appropriate point solutions, Harvard Pilgrim’s senior vice president of commercial business, Beth Roberts, says health insurers are uniquely positioned to understand outcomes and engagement rates to determine which point solutions are making a difference in order to address specific health care needs.      “It can be challenging for HR benefit providers because there are so many point solutions available in the marketplace,” she says. “However, we can match and marry pharmaceutical patterns with medical and behavioral care and see a holistic picture.”    Roberts notes that by measuring the success of available point solutions, they can ensure the best one is available to members.   Various point solutions have been vetted and can be made available to members, says Harvard Pilgrim’s Kate Wallis, vice president of population health and clinical operations. Popular options include those addressing issues such as fertility, pregnancy and early parenting, type 2 diabetes and apps that help reduce the symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression.   Point solutions options are scalable to work for any size employer and even individual members. The goal is to make them widely available to encourage all participants to take care of their health, according to Roberts.   Press play to hear the latest on point solutions’ role in an overall employee benefit strategy and how they can be personalized to best address employer and member needs.

As health care expenses rise, insurers seek to contain costs, enhance consumer experience   Thanks to a collaborative approach among providers, patients and employers, cost containment and positive consumer experiences are possible, say Harvard Pilgrim Health Care experts.   Health care expenditures continue to rise. However, health insurers, such as Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, are finding innovative ways to reign in costs without sacrificing consumer experience.   According to Harvard Pilgrim’s Kate Wallis, vice president of population health and clinical operations, health plans are uniquely equipped to find solutions that strike the balance between cost and care.    “We have a comprehensive view of members’ care and the services they are using, whether it’s medical, behavioral health or pharmaceutical,” says Wallis. “This, along with care management data, allows us to identify where the coverage gaps are and guide us to the right initiatives.”   These include innovative utilization management programs that tackle specialty pharmaceutical medication, as well as chemotherapy and radiation therapy programs that focus on minimizing patient side effects, unnecessary toxicity and over utilization, while also producing a provider satisfaction rate of 96%.   It’s important to find programs that not only address cost drivers, but are collaborative between doctors, patients and health plans, adds Beth Roberts, senior vice president of commercial business at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.   “Providers and health plans are working together to ensure the member is getting the best care out of the gate in an affordable care pattern, which means it’s a winning experience for all involved,” adds Roberts.   Listen to learn more about specific cost containment programs that are delivering results and keeping the patient experience front and center.

In this episode, TSC Talks had the honor and pleasure of speaking with Allison Chapman, Legislative Director~Health Choice 4 Action MA. I met Allison through a Facebook Group called, "FLU YOU BAKER CLASS ACTION", formed to "stay connected, informed & share ideas/information regarding the opposition to the MA DPH Flu Vaccine mandate". We started off hearing about Allison's personal connection to these issues, having 3 children, all of whom suffered significant side effects from vaccines, one of whom is permanently disabled. I'm the Legislative Director for health choice for action, Massachusetts, and it's an all volunteer organization, it's not paid. I think a lot of people misinterpret that. But the reason you do it is to make sure that your children and your family members, that may be a little different than others have provided, continue to be able to access the community, and opportunities as everyone else's creation and jobs and all of these things, we want to make sure that everyone has access to when people are not being denied on the basis of their underlying medical issues, or their religious beliefs, or whatever it is, because we're in Massachusetts, we have all these wonderful laws that don't allow discrimination. And unfortunately, there's still some discrimination. So I help with other moms like myself, and I've been doing it for about 15 years. Wow, I've been injury advocate. So a lot longer than I was doing anything else. But that's what I've done for the last about 15 years. But health choice for actions just for a year, a few other organizations in Massachusetts has been for the last four years. So, you know, I've been doing it a long time, but it's with different organizations. Allison Chapman is not an anti-vaxxer. She is, however, a firm believer in vaccine injury having watched all three of her children and her mother suffer significant effects from vaccinations. Allison is the Legislative Director for Health Choice for Action, Massachusetts and has been active with other organizations concerned with vaccine injury. Allison describes her journey and what happened to people she loved when they followed medical advice. The first vaccine and reaction (7:36) Why do my kids have physical reactions to shots (9:92) Changes in her son after vaccine (11:20) Years before doctors admitted her child had an “adverse event” (13:06) Child number three has an adverse reaction to shot as does her mother (13:47) Adverse reactions can happen and should be acknowledged. That doesn’t mean one has to be completely anti-vax (15:43) Legislation and vaccine exemptions (19:01) Religious exemptions (20:48) Autism and vaccines (24:16) Multiple vaccines administered together and what are the effects (21:44) Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund (26:26) Harvard Pilgrim study regarding vaccine injury (32:04) HHS failure to study how to reduce the rate of reaction (35:14) Poly-pharmacy and vaccine injury and failure to study efficacy/safety in people of color (36:55) Shame and bullying of the vaccine injured (42:30) Do the unvaccinated spread disease? (43:57) Vaccines and politics (49:25) Finding balance (50:55) Mandatory flu vaccines (47:41) Doctors and training and adverse events (52:23) Differences in vaccine dosage and effectiveness on people of color (58:27) Vaccines not studied long enough (1:00:31) Allison's Links: https://healthchoice.org/leader/allison-chapman/ https://www.healthchoicemassachusetts.org/about/ https://www.facebook.com/OpposeOverreach/ https://www.facebook.com/allison.chapman.184 https://www.telegram.com/article/20150603/NEWS/150609702 https://www.facebook.com/OpposeOverreach/posts/allison-chapman-legislative-chair-for-health-choice-4-action-ma-and-other-parent/366612521406100/ https://www.instagram.com/opposeoverreach.ma/

In this episode, TSC Talks had the honor and pleasure of speaking with Allison Chapman, Legislative Director~Health Choice 4 Action MA. I met Allison through a Facebook Group called, "FLU YOU BAKER CLASS ACTION", formed to "stay connected, informed & share ideas/information regarding the opposition to the MA DPH Flu Vaccine mandate". We started off hearing about Allison's personal connection to these issues, having 3 children, all of whom suffered significant side effects from vaccines, one of whom is permanently disabled. I'm the Legislative Director for health choice for action, Massachusetts, and it's an all volunteer organization, it's not paid. I think a lot of people misinterpret that. But the reason you do it is to make sure that your children and your family members, that may be a little different than others have provided, continue to be able to access the community, and opportunities as everyone else's creation and jobs and all of these things, we want to make sure that everyone has access to when people are not being denied on the basis of their underlying medical issues, or their religious beliefs, or whatever it is, because we're in Massachusetts, we have all these wonderful laws that don't allow discrimination. And unfortunately, there's still some discrimination. So I help with other moms like myself, and I've been doing it for about 15 years. Wow, I've been injury advocate. So a lot longer than I was doing anything else. But that's what I've done for the last about 15 years. But health choice for actions just for a year, a few other organizations in Massachusetts has been for the last four years. So, you know, I've been doing it a long time, but it's with different organizations.Allison Chapman is not an anti-vaxxer. She is, however, a firm believer in vaccine injury having watched all three of her children and her mother suffer significant effects from vaccinations. Allison is the Legislative Director for Health Choice for Action, Massachusetts and has been active with other organizations concerned with vaccine injury. Allison describes her journey and what happened to people she loved when they followed medical advice.The first vaccine and reaction (7:36)Why do my kids have physical reactions to shots (9:92)Changes in her son after vaccine (11:20)Years before doctors admitted her child had an “adverse event” (13:06)Child number three has an adverse reaction to shot as does her mother (13:47)Adverse reactions can happen and should be acknowledged. That doesn’t mean one has to be completely anti-vax (15:43)Legislation and vaccine exemptions (19:01)Religious exemptions (20:48)Autism and vaccines (24:16)Multiple vaccines administered together and what are the effects (21:44)Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund (26:26)Harvard Pilgrim study regarding vaccine injury (32:04)HHS failure to study how to reduce the rate of reaction (35:14)Poly-pharmacy and vaccine injury and failure to study efficacy/safety in people of color (36:55)Shame and bullying of the vaccine injured (42:30)Do the unvaccinated spread disease? (43:57)Vaccines and politics (49:25)Finding balance (50:55)Mandatory flu vaccines (47:41)Doctors and training and adverse events (52:23)Differences in vaccine dosage and effectiveness on people of color (58:27)Vaccines not studied long enough (1:00:31)Allison's Links:https://healthchoice.org/leader/allison-chapman/ https://www.healthchoicemassachusetts.org/about/https://www.facebook.com/OpposeOverreach/https://www.facebook.com/allison.chapman.184https://www.telegram.com/article/20150603/NEWS/150609702https://www.facebook.com/OpposeOverreach/posts/allison-chapman-legislative-chair-for-health-choice-4-action-ma-and-other-parent/366612521406100/https://www.instagram.com/opposeoverreach.ma/

This week our publisher, Ernesto Burden, attended the New Hampshire Business and Industry Association Economic Summit and talked to BIA President Jim Roche afterward on his takeaways from hosting the event. Jeff Feingold, Liisa Rajala and Ernesto talk through the event, from attendance to logistics to the general vibe, discuss Roche's conclusions and add their own analysis. Live business events in NH? Too soon? This week's episode of Down To Business is sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. While so much has changed, Harvard Pilgrim's commitment to their members and local community has not. Whether you are looking to shake it up, stretch it out, or get centered, Harvard Pilgrim's new live virtual well-being courses have you covered with Zumba®, Yoga, Guided Mindfulness, and more. All courses are available to everyone at no cost. Get more details and check out the class schedule at harvardpilgrim.org/livingwellathome

This week's episode is a must listen for those looking for a light at the end of the tunnel. Jim Glassman, Head Economist, Commercial Banking, at JPMorgan Chase and Tom Cunningham, Vice President for JPMorgan Chase Commercial Banking in Manchester, NH join the NHBR team to talk about the JP Morgan Midyear Outlook. The report asks, "Can the Recovery Keep Its Momentum?" Spoiler alert, Jim and Tom say there's reason for optimism. Find out why. This week's episode of Down To Business is sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. While so much has changed, Harvard Pilgrim's commitment to their members and local community has not. Whether you are looking to shake it up, stretch it out, or get centered, Harvard Pilgrim's new live virtual well-being courses have you covered with Zumba®, Yoga, Guided Mindfulness, and more. All courses are available to everyone at no cost. Get more details and check out the class schedule at harvardpilgrim.org/livingwellathome

NH Business Review Publisher Ernesto Burden guest hosts this episode with Bob Sanders and Liisa Rajala. They talk about the results of the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) survey of 1,549 businesses, as well as the last of the current assistance offerings, the New Hampshire General Assistance & Preservation (GAP) program. Finally, a coalition of statewide organizations including the Business & Industry Association of New Hampshire, have released a letter urging residents to wear masks and pointing out a recent study that says mask wearing could prevent a 5% drop in the U.S. GDP. This week's episode of Down To Business is sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. While so much has changed, Harvard Pilgrim's commitment to their members and local community has not. Whether you are looking to shake it up, stretch it out, or get centered, Harvard Pilgrim's new live virtual well-being courses have you covered with Zumba®, Yoga, Guided Mindfulness, and more. All courses are available to everyone at no cost. Get more details and check out the class schedule at harvardpilgrim.org/livingwellathome

NH Business Review editors Jeff Feingold and Liisa Rajala discuss the tight housing market from two first person perspectives, that of a recent seller and a current home seeker. Then writer Bob Sanders brings us up to speed on all that legislature has been up to on the housing front. Spoiler: it's at a standstill. This week's episode of Down To Business is sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. While so much has changed, Harvard Pilgrim's commitment to their members and local community has not. Whether you are looking to shake it up, stretch it out, or get centered, Harvard Pilgrim's new live virtual well-being courses have you covered with Zumba®, Yoga, Guided Mindfulness, and more. All courses are available to everyone at no cost. Get more details and check out the class schedule at harvardpilgrim.org/livingwellathome

NH Business Review Editor Jeff Feingold sits down with the Puritan Backroom's General Manager Eric Zink to talk about how the restaurant has adapted, and continues to adapt, to the limits on dining created by Covid-19. This week's episode of Down To Business is sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. While so much has changed, Harvard Pilgrim's commitment to their members and local community has not. Whether you are looking to shake it up, stretch it out, or get centered, Harvard Pilgrim's new live virtual well-being courses have you covered with Zumba®, Yoga, Guided Mindfulness, and more. All courses are available to everyone at no cost. Get more details and check out the class schedule at harvardpilgrim.org/livingwellathome

Cynthia Ring is the Chief People Officer of Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare. Her passion is in curating and continually improving the essentials of effective corporate culture -- from HR and business operations to building programs that sustain and nurture organizational and staff development. With a big focus on coaching and mentoring resources, she's designed employee experience and recognition programs that have secured Harvard Pilgrim's long track record as one of Boston's Best Places to work. Cynthia has served in a variety of leadership roles within Human Resources over the last twenty-five years.  Within the last ten, she's received special recognition from the Stepping-Up Program, JobClubRI and the Governor's office for her work in establishing an innovative career ladders program and her commitment to community workforce investment & development programs.  Community service and corporate responsibility are both passions for Cynthia and she serves on many non-profit Boards. 

On this episode, NH Business Review writer Bob Sanders breaks down some of the 75 business-related bills passed by the New Hampshire House in a session held Tuesday at the Whittemore Arena at the University of New Hampshire. He and editor Jeff Feingold also dig into which bills don't have much of a chance at eventual passage. Next, Liisa Rajala fills Jeff in on the economic forecast predicted by TD Bank's economist. This week's episode of Down To Business is sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. While so much has changed, Harvard Pilgrim's commitment to their members and local community has not. Whether you are looking to shake it up, stretch it out, or get centered, Harvard Pilgrim's new live virtual well-being courses have you covered with Zumba®, Yoga, Guided Mindfulness, and more. All courses are available to everyone at no cost. Get more details and check out the class schedule at harvardpilgrim.org/livingwellathome

New Hampshire has a long history of contributing to space exploration, and NASA is again looking to NH businesses as it prepares for the Artemis program – launching the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024. Liisa Rajala fills editor Jeff Feingold in. Then staff writer Bob Sanders explores the unprecedented economic situation New Hampshire finds itself in after the pandemic-related shutdown. This week's episode of Down To Business is sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. While so much has changed, Harvard Pilgrim's commitment to their members and local community has not. Whether you are looking to shake it up, stretch it out, or get centered, Harvard Pilgrim's new live virtual well-being courses have you covered with Zumba®, Yoga, Guided Mindfulness, and more. All courses are available to everyone at no cost. Get more details and check out the class schedule at harvardpilgrim.org/livingwellathome

NH Business Review's Jeff Feingold and Liisa Rajala talk to Lisa Carter-Knight, the president of Drinkwater Marketing in Exeter. Lisa describes her experiences as an African-American woman in moving to and founding a business in New Hampshire and the overall impact racism and a lack of diversity can have on the state's future economy. This week's episode of Down To Business is sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. While so much has changed, Harvard Pilgrim's commitment to their members and local community has not. Whether you are looking to shake it up, stretch it out, or get centered, Harvard Pilgrim's new live virtual well-being courses have you covered with Zumba®, Yoga, Guided Mindfulness, and more. All courses are available to everyone at no cost. Get more details and check out the class schedule at harvardpilgrim.org/livingwellathome

In this episode, Jeff Feingold talks to writer Susan Geier on the crisis facing the New Hampshire childcare industry, and that impact that will have on business in the state's economy overall. Then staff writer Bob Sanders gives Jeff an update on where the state stands in the reopening process, including a potential phase out of additional unemployment benefits instituted to help workers through the shutdown. This week's episode of Down To Business is sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. While so much has changed, Harvard Pilgrim's commitment to their members and local community has not. Whether you are looking to shake it up, stretch it out, or get centered, Harvard Pilgrim's new live virtual well-being courses have you covered with Zumba®, Yoga, Guided Mindfulness, and more. All courses are available to everyone at no cost. Get more details and check out the class schedule at harvardpilgrim.org/livingwellathome

Jessica Young, PhD is a biostatistician in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School who joins the show to discuss the ins and outs of her interesting and important work. Tune in to learn the following: How confounding factors in a study can influence the findings of the study, and how/why the gold standard of randomized trials can address this What is meant by the “fundamental challenge of causal inference” and how this explains why assumptions are always necessary in order to claim that a statistical analysis is unbiased Why large subject numbers or data points can't overwhelm biases; why bias is a function of the thing being studied Dr. Young's job is two-fold: she works on both the applications of statistical methods for public health and clinical medicine, and also on the development of methods in these areas. She focuses on causal inference, which is the formal process of understanding how to estimate causal effect from data collected in real-world studies. Through examples including a longitudinal study on nurses starting in the 1970s to present day studies revolving around the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Young discusses confounding factors in studies and the effect they have on interpretations of findings, the importance of randomization, the presence of bias regardless of how statistically significant a finding is, meta-analyses, where she sees the field of biostatistics heading in the near future, and more.   To learn about the basics of causal inference, Dr. Young recommends reading The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect. Visit https://www.populationmedicine.org/JYoung to learn more about her work and publications.

The NH Business Review team looks at the latest on the class action lawsuit against Atrium Medical Corp and the now 2,136 cases filed in Concord, with trials slated to begin in September. Also, there's one sector of the New Hampshire economy that's booming as the result of the pandemic, stay-at-home orders and limited travel: landscaping. This week's episode of Down To Business is sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. While so much has changed, Harvard Pilgrim's commitment to their members and local community has not. Whether you are looking to shake it up, stretch it out, or get centered, Harvard Pilgrim's new live virtual well-being courses have you covered with Zumba®, Yoga, Guided Mindfulness, and more. All courses are available to everyone at no cost. Get more details and check out the class schedule at harvardpilgrim.org/livingwellathome

Jeff and Bob take a look at how businesses are reopening in New Hampshire, including some that may be pushing the limits on what the guidelines say is allowed. Then Liisa fills us in on what the troubles at the United States Postal Service mean for New Hampshire. This week's episode of Down To Business is sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. While so much has changed, Harvard Pilgrim's commitment to their members and local community has not. Whether you are looking to shake it up, stretch it out, or get centered, Harvard Pilgrim's new live virtual well-being courses have you covered with Zumba®, Yoga, Guided Mindfulness, and more. All courses are available to everyone at no cost. Get more details and check out the class schedule at harvardpilgrim.org/livingwellathome

Jeff Feingold sits down with Bob Keach, co-chair of Bernstein Shur's Business Restructuring and Insolvency Group, to dig into how the CARES act is opening up access to Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief to better meet the needs of small business. This week's episode of Down To Business is sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. While so much has changed, Harvard Pilgrim's commitment to their members and local community has not. Whether you are looking to shake it up, stretch it out, or get centered, Harvard Pilgrim's new live virtual well-being courses have you covered with Zumba®, Yoga, Guided Mindfulness, and more. All courses are available to everyone at no cost. Get more details and check out the class schedule at harvardpilgrim.org/livingwellathome

The New Hampshire Business Review team looks at when, and how, live entertainment such as concerts and theater will happen again in New Hampshire. Also on the docket, an interesting, if temporary, side effect of the pandemic shutdown: paid family leave in New Hampshire. This week's episode of Down To Business is sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. While so much has changed, Harvard Pilgrim's commitment to their members and local community has not. Whether you are looking to shake it up, stretch it out, or get centered, Harvard Pilgrim's new live virtual well-being courses have you covered with Zumba®, Yoga, Guided Mindfulness, and more. All courses are available to everyone at no cost. Get more details and check out the class schedule at harvardpilgrim.org/livingwellathome

Writer Susan Geier discusses her recent story on the coronavirus' impact on New Hampshire agriculture: while small farms are seeing a boom, wholesalers are seeing their markets vanish. Then Jeff talks with Tiffany Eddy for pro tips on looking great on your next Zoom call. This week's episode of Down To Business is sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. While so much has changed, Harvard Pilgrim's commitment to their members and local community has not. Whether you are looking to shake it up, stretch it out, or get centered, Harvard Pilgrim's new live virtual well-being courses have you covered with Zumba®, Yoga, Guided Mindfulness, and more. All courses are available to everyone at no cost. Get more details and check out the class schedule at harvardpilgrim.org/livingwellathome

We sat down with Paul Bartosic, Director of Sales at Harvard Pilgrim, to discuss how they've been responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, what their clients are doing with their wellness funds, how they are utilizing bundled payments and what their service team is doing to help improve the member experience.

The team talks about how early stage capital inventors here in New Hampshire are dealing with the shutdown. They also look at how the stage two rollout of PPP loans went. The word "fiasco" may have come up. This week's episode of Down To Business is sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. While so much has changed, Harvard Pilgrim's commitment to their members and local community has not. Whether you are looking to shake it up, stretch it out, or get centered, Harvard Pilgrim's new live virtual well-being courses have you covered with Zumba®, Yoga, Guided Mindfulness, and more. All courses are available to everyone at no cost. Get more details and check out the class schedule at harvardpilgrim.org/livingwellathome

Host Danielle Holly is joined by Janelle Woods-McNish, Director of Service and Giving at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation and one of the newest members of Common Impact’s Board of Directors. Janelle leads Harvard Pilgrim’s employee giving and service initiatives across New England, the latter of which has an impressive volunteer participation rate of 96%. Janelle and Danielle reflect on skills-based volunteering events they’ve lead together, including Making Good Happen at Work, an employee service and giving event for small and medium-size businesses, and Skills for Cities Boston, a day of flash consulting targeted toward alleviating local social issues for which Harvard Pilgrim was an early participant. Janelle also shares about her work to raise awareness of and end human trafficking and how being unafraid to say “no” allows her to focus on the things she values most. To learn more about Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation, visit harvardpilgrim.org/public/our-foundation.

Part one in a series from NEHRA's annual conference, 2019! Dave hosted NEHRA's HR Live event, where he spoke with Cynthia Ring, CPO at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and new Chair of the NEHRA Board. Cynthia talks on the importance of HR to business success, hiring for fit while mirroring the populations Harvard Pilgrim Health Care serves, and her bid to change the way HR responds to the question, "what do you do?" to be "we enrich people's lives."

This was one of the most eye opening interviews we've ever done on the show!Anastasia is an absolutely incredible human who tells us all about her life growing up in the Uzbekistan and Russia including all the struggles she had to go through to get to the U.S. We touch on many topics during this transition including family life, work, and more!I, personally, took a lot of what Anastasia said into perspective and couldn't believe how much I take for granted living where I do. I know I personally want to travel more after our conversation to get a better understanding of what life is like outside of this bubble that I've lived in!Anastasia also gets into how she got into Human Resources and Harvard Pilgrim. She touches on her current family life including how she met her husband (a Holliston grad) through Craigslist!At the end of the recording, we reminisce about Anastasia's first experience with us which involved much intimidation, skepticism, and soreness. Shortly after though, she fell in love with the program and the community.Thank you so much Anastasia for dedicating an hour of your time to this episode! We're so fortunate to have you at the gym!

Today on Boston Public Radio: Chuck Todd discussed the latest political headlines. Todd is moderator of Meet the Press and political director for NBC News. We opened the lines to hear from listeners about whether they think there is a disconnect between the way government operates and the will of the people. Former Suffolk County sheriff and former public safety secretary Andrea Cabral discussed how Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide is casting a spotlight on how federal prisons are rife with violence, sexual harassment, and chronic under-staffing. Cabral is now CEO of Ascend. Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung discussed new MBTA cars on the orange line and the planned merger between Harvard Pilgrim and Tufts Health Plan. Paul Reville discussed the tuition hike at UMass and other education headlines. Reville is former secretary of education and a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, where he runs the Education Redesign Lab. Corby Kummer discussed a potential meat tax in Germany as the country reckons with the industry's environmental harm. Kummer is executive director of the Food and Society policy program at the Aspen Institute, a senior editor at The Atlantic, and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. We opened the lines to discuss the sales tax holiday in Massachusetts.

On today's show, we have Amy Cueva and Amy Bucher of Madpow. Take one-part cutting-edge motivational science, add in a strong dash of design psychology, a high level of insight & innovative design...and round it off with 80 strongly-skilled and passionate professionals. And you have Mad*Pow, a market-leading design company that has worked with the top names in healthcare - including CVS Health, Harvard Pilgrim and even the CDC. This show episode was so chock full of great information, that it became the first ever 2-part interview series I have done! In this episode. Dr. Steve Ambrose, Amy Cueva, and Amy Bucher discuss the following:

Join our discussion and learn how to apply mindfulness in the workplace.  Where else are you investing in an employee program with a 99.9% satisfaction rate? Tara Healey is the founder and director of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care's Mind the Moment program.  Tara initially joined Harvard Pilgrim as an health educator and organizational development professional in its HR department, a position which she occupied for over 20 years. She brought a mindfulness course to Harvard Pilgrim's own staff members in 2006, long before mindfulness had hit the mainstream

Today's guest is Dr. Michael Sherman, the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for Health Services at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. Harvard Pilgrim is a New England-based regional health plan with 1.25 million members. It has been ranked #1 by NCQA for the past ten years. Michael holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in Medical Anthropology, he attended Yale Medical School, and is a board certified anesthesiologist. In the mid-1990's he made the decision to pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School with the thought that he would seek to blend together his clinical expertise with a business education, but he was sure of one thing: that he would never work for an insurance plan. In this podcast he tells the story of his career, about becoming a physician, making the transition to executive leadership, and how he ultimately worked for three health insurers (ironically, the payers he said he would not work for). Michael's career involves a great deal of serendipity, but it also shows his deliberateness as he worked to develop the skills he knew he needed to progress as an executive by gaining exposure and experience in a wide array of organizations. He is also quite candid about his successes and challenges, which shows that the road to senior leadership is never smooth sailing. His discussion of the work he is doing with value-based payment and bundling at Harvard Pilgrim is particularly useful and timely. It is very popular to demonize health insurers, but Michael’s efforts to create win-win arrangements between Harvard Pilgrim and its partners in the provider community shows what is actually possible. It is interesting to see how his passion for developing these agreements meshes with a recurring theme of negotiations from different points in his career leading up to his current role. The podcast concludes with a discussion about Michael's leadership style, and his recommendations for physicians who are looking to make the transition from clinical leadership to executive leadership. A podcast timeline and links to the organizations and topics discussed are available on our web page, http://healthleaderforge.org

Today's guest is Dr. Michael Sherman, the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for Health Services at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. Harvard Pilgrim is a New England-based regional health plan with 1.25 million members. It has been ranked #1 by NCQA for the past ten years. Michael holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in Medical Anthropology, he attended Yale Medical School, and is a board certified anesthesiologist. In the mid-1990's he made the decision to pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School with the thought that he would seek to blend together his clinical expertise with a business education, but he was sure of one thing: that he would never work for an insurance plan. In this podcast he tells the story of his career, about becoming a physician, making the transition to executive leadership, and how he ultimately worked for three health insurers (ironically, the payers he said he would not work for). Michael's career involves a great deal of serendipity, but it also shows his deliberateness as he worked to develop the skills he knew he needed to progress as an executive by gaining exposure and experience in a wide array of organizations. He is also quite candid about his successes and challenges, which shows that the road to senior leadership is never smooth sailing. His discussion of the work he is doing with value-based payment and bundling at Harvard Pilgrim is particularly useful and timely. It is very popular to demonize health insurers, but Michael’s efforts to create win-win arrangements between Harvard Pilgrim and its partners in the provider community shows what is actually possible. It is interesting to see how his passion for developing these agreements meshes with a recurring theme of negotiations from different points in his career leading up to his current role. You are listening to the abridged version of the interview. The full interview is also available on our web page, http://healthleaderforge.org , along with an outline of the interview, and links to the organizations and papers discussed in the podcast.