Rachel Levine swearing in as
Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services
"Modern “Public Health” is Based on Utilitarianism and Socialism"
by Robert Malone, MD, MS
Excerpt: "Modern “Public Health” primarily focuses on disease prevention and treatment, rather than on health promotion. “Public Health” relies on top-down, centrally planned interventions imposed on populations rather than individually optimized health promotion and treatment decisions. The “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement strives to focus on health promotion rather than disease treatment. Success in this enormous transformational endeavor will require a re-examination of the organizational, cultural, and structural drivers that have led to the currently dominant focus on disease.
One simplistic argument is that this modern focus on disease is the consequence of “capitalism” and the profit motive (as embodied by “Big Pharma”) distorting what should be a public utility (“healthcare"). While the predatory nature of many large pharmaceutical firms and their marketing arms is self-evident, they have become adept at exploiting a niche, a business opportunity, that emerged consequent to fundamental political and sociological trends towards centralized planning based on utilitarianism and socialist theories.
Public Health, Utilitarianism, and Socialism: “Public Health” as defined by current Western two-year “Masters in Public Health” (MPH) training programs (that require no prior medical or biological training), theorizes that imposing healthcare management decisions on the population at large will achieve statistically optimal minimized average disease for all people.
In other words, Western “Public Health” is based on the political and sociological logic of both utilitarianism: the greatest good for the greatest number, and socialism: equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity, coupled with a form of medical authoritarianism in which “healthcare” interventions are imposed on the population in general, rather than developed and negotiated on an individual basis in a private physician-patient relationship.
Current western “Public Health” is characterized by a commitment to achieving equality of statistically optimized “minimal disease” outcomes across the overall population, rather than equality of opportunity to achieve health, and rather than optimizing health on a case-by-case basis for each individual citizen. As history has repeatedly demonstrated, when centralized planning and decision-making imposed on populations errs in assumptions or interventions, the consequences are typically catastrophic due mainly to the scale of the imposed mistake. This is one of the key truths illustrated by the COVID “pandemic” debacle.
The modern practice of “Public Health” relies on big data, and primarily involves statistically isolating and defining measurable medical signs and symptoms associated with existing “bad” public health, and then identifying interventions that are demonstrated to move population-based statistical parameters towards “good” public health. In many cases, “good” and “bad” are subjective, and often myopically lack broader context.
In modern practice, these subjective determinations are made by an “expert” elite (that typically benefits from the priorities it establishes), separate and isolated from the general population- typically in the “ivory towers” of the academy- rather than subjected to any public deliberative democratic process. There are no referendums on injecting fluoride into public water systems, discouraging a meat-based diet or substituting seed oils for animal fats. It is no wonder that one consequence of modern “Public Health” has been the rise of various “health” priesthoods, such as now exist in pediatrics, cardiology, infectious disease, and epidemiology. This is the direct consequence of the logic of centralized planning and socialist philosophy (ends justify the means!) infiltrating the entire US national and global (WHO) healthcare enterprise. Central planning requires an anointed expert elite to guide and justify centralized decision-making."
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