What You Don't Know about Hillary's Health Plan Hurts by: Vince Ryan The Spolight Volume XIX Number 27 July 5, 1993 - Page 12 Little-known facts about first lady Hillary Clinton's health care reform program were discussed on the June 12 broadcast of SPOTLIGhT Editor Vince Ryan's weekly talk forum, Editor's Roundtable. Ryan's guest was a veteran author and researcher Eustace Mullins, who has been studying the political origins of Bill and Hillary Clinton and the untold story behind their vaunted "health care reform." (Mullins' book on the medical Establishment, Murder by Injection, is available for $20 from Liberty Library, 300 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. 20003.) An edited transcript of the interview with Mullins follows. --- === --- Ryan: What have you learned about the Clinton administration's so-called health reform program for the American people? Mullins: This program is a new type of Federal Reserve System. It was conceived at a secret meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with the representatives of the "Big Five" insurance companies, including Metropolitan, Prudential and Aetna. What they are planning is a takeover of the entire health care insurance industry. In fact, it was on the front page of the Wall Street Journal on May 18 that the headline read: "Hillary to insurers: Get out of the business." What Mrs. Clinton is Saying is she wants 165 small health care insurance companies to get out of the business because, she claims, only the Big Five will have the resources to handle the tremendous liabilities and claims that will be coming in under the new system. They plan to give health care coverage to 37 million Americans who don't currently have insurance. This means they are creating 37 million customers out of nothing. The Wall street Journal, however, reported nothing about the secret meeting at Jackson Hole where this program was planned. The New York times (on April 15, 1992) mentioned that the big insurance companies had been meeting at Jackson Hole over the last several years. This was reported some seven months before the 1992 election. The Times headline read: "Managed Competition of Health Care." What all of this means is they were planning to go ahead with this plan regardless of whether George Bush or Bill Clinton was elected president in November of 1992. In April of that year it was not certain Bill Clinton would be nominated by the Democratic Party, let alone elected. Ryan: You compare the health care plan to the Federal Reserve, which is a privately owned and controlled monopoly on America's money system. Are you suggesting we are going to have a federally administered, but privately controlled monopoly over health care that will profit private industry? Mullins: That's what's happening. In fact, it's the same cast of characters. One of the directors of Prudential -- one of the Big Five -- is Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve board of governors. As another example, on the board of Aetna you have Melvin Laird, former secretary of defense. The directors of these big insurance companies come right out of the Establishment. Ryan: Who are some of the secret players behind the planning of all of this? Mullins: The media has sold the American people a bill of goods to the effect that this is Hillary Clinton's health plan. She is simply a figurehead. the actual planners behind the whole thing are Dr. Paul Ellwood of Jackson Hole, a retired professor from the University of Minnesota, and Dr. Allen Enthoven, a professor of public management at Stanford University. Enthoven was one of Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara's famous "whiz kids" at Ford Motor Co. (where MacNamara was ensconced before heading the Defense Department). They came up with the Edsel car that nearly bankrupted Ford. Enthoven went to the Defense Department with MacNamara. Under "managed competition" in health care, I think, Enthoven will help do to the American treasury and taxpayers what MacNamara did to the Ford Motor Co. Ryan: The Rockefeller family owns a major resort at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Is there any connection to the fact that the secret meetings on health care reform were held there? Mullins: That's exactly right. The Jackson Hole Lodge is also there. That's a Rockefeller-owned resort where world-class meetings have been held with the Soviet government. For example, John D. Rockefeller bought the whole Jackson Hole area in 1924, and he donated part of it as the Grand Teton National park. Rockefeller kept the rest of it for himself and sold it for many millions of dollars in profits. It is an unofficial headquarters of the rockefeller family. It also happens to be an old outlaw hangout where the famous "Hole in the Wall Gang" used to meet back in the 1880s. Ryan: What role will Congress play in all of this? Mullins: They will be manipulated by the big interests to help set up this monopoly. Congress will not know anything about this. It will be delivered to them as an accomplished fact, as though it was something worked out strictly by Hillary Clinton's health care commission. This is like the National Monetary Commission which supposedly drafted the Federal Reserve Act. Actually that commission had nothing to do with the creation of the Fed. It was at a secret meeting at Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia that the plans for the Fed were drawn up. Hillary Clinton was a corporate attorney and is the ideal person to set up this Federal Reserve-style plan for health care for the benefit of the Big Five insurance companies. Ryan: How do the insurance companies expect to benefit? Mullins: The reason they are doing this is because right now health care in the United States costs $960 billion a year. They predict by the year 2000 it will be $2 trillion a year. If they get this monopoly through, the Big Five insurance companies will be making $1 trillion a year through this health care monopoly. Hillary Clinton supposedly got the "best authorities" in the field to advise her in developing her health care program. What she did was to draw in 300 ordinary government workers to be a silent chorus. Actually the whole thing is dominated by the big insurance companies. Ryan: How will this health care program affect the American people and their pocketbooks? Mullins: Once the monopoly is set up, there will be higher prices and less choice. It's the exact opposite of what they are claiming the program will do. They are calling it "managed competition" but managed competition does not guarantee freedom of choice. Instead, it sets up a monopoly. Ryan: Will there be any room for alternative health care and holistic therapy under the Clinton program? Mullins: They are absolutely planning to force alternative health care out of the field. you can bet this big monopoly will ban any kind of insurance payment for any kind of "unapproved" alternative health therapy. Ryan: Won't all of this drive up the national debt even further? Mullins: If they extend health benefits to 37 million more Americans, somebody is going to have to pay for it. the taxpayers will have to assume that burden. Ryan: How will the big drug companies, the major hospital corporations and doctors fare under the new health plan, if enacted? Mullins: They will all have a feeding freenzy. The drug trust, represented by the National Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, with superlawyer Lloyd Cutler representing them, is 100 percent behind this program. They see their profits mushrooming under a monopoly situation. Ryan: Essentially, then, the health care program has been imposed upon Hillary Clinton? Mullins: That's right. This is a Rockefeller plan. Clinton is a Rockefeller president. Basically, the whole state of Arkansas was bought up by the Rockefellers years ago. I recall reading sometime ago that there was a rising young politician from Arkansas named Bill Clinton, and I knew he was being groomed for the presidency. Clinton is a Rockefeller man, through and through, and as I point out in my book, Murder by Injection, the Rockefeller interests are represented in all of the major drug companies. It was John D. Rockefe ller who, in 1907, affected a total turnaround of the entire health care system in this country, changing it from an emphasis on natural, homeopathic treatment to allopathy, the German system of medical care that uses a lot of drugs, extended hospital treatment and radical surgery. Ryan: Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.va.) was a leading advocate in Congress of so-called health care reform during the Reagan-Bush era. Now he has an ally in the White House. Mullins: Jay Rockefeller is still the congressional point man. He is calling the shots from behind the scenes on Capitol Hill. On June 4,1992 it was Rockefeller who said it was time to get behind one candidate for the Democratic Party, and that was Bill Clinton. So Clinton was as good as president. People need to know about the Rockefeller role behind all of this health care reform in order to fight it. ---- The Spotlight (ISSN 0191-6270) The Spotlight is published weekly, except for two issues combined into one at the beginning of the year, by Cordite Fidelity, Inc. at 300 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. To subscribe, call tool-free (800) 522-6292. In Maryland, (301) 951-6292. Subscription price; $36 for one year, $66 for two years. For delivery outside the U.S. by surface mail, $64 for one year, $122 for two years. ---- Other than as a subscriber, Lance Bledsoe has no connection, financial or otherwise, with The Spotlight or Cordite Fidelity, Incorporated.