stock here, my idea, but A-Eye frames it with some original ideas.

Check latest news, and related to Ron Johnson and Rand Paul.

https://townhall.com/columnists/briandarling/2025/12/05/senator-rand-paul-idea-replaces-obamacare-with-free-market-alternative-n2667422

Then consider this, sound bite and below, further explanation.

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Republicans always promised to replace Obamacare.
Rand Paul’s new plan actually could—not by spending more money, but by unleashing buying power.

Here’s the real play:

1. Let Americans buy insurance the way they buy Costco memberships. Huge pooled groups = lower prices.
2. Let everyone use a Health Savings Account—even to pay premiums. That turns health money into a tax-free weapon.

But here’s the part nobody sees:

• Letting Amazon, Costco, and Walmart form giant health groups effectively creates a corporate-run national health system overnight.
• And universal HSAs could collapse traditional insurance as people shift to cash-based, price-transparent medicine.

It looks like reform.
It might actually be the quiet revolution of U.S. healthcare power.

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For years, Republicans said they would repeal and replace Obamacare.
Nobody believed them anymore—until an old idea resurfaced with a new twist.

Rand Paul’s “Health Marketplace and Savings Accounts for All Act” sounds boring on the surface.
It’s not.
Underneath the legislative language is a structural shift big enough to reroute the entire healthcare economy.

Washington thinks this is just about lowering premiums.
That’s the distraction.
The real story is about who ends up controlling healthcare in America.

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THE PROBLEM THEY ADMIT IN PUBLIC

Obamacare subsidies exploded:

• $57B a year → $125B a year
• And rising fast, with no price negotiation
• Federal debt climbing past $38 trillion

Everyone knows this is unsustainable.
But the political class has only one tool: throw more money at insurers and pretend that’s “helping families.”

It’s a blank check with no price discipline.
And yes—when you feed the insurance industry taxpayer cash without limits, they eat without limits.

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THE PUBLIC SOLUTION: GROUP BUYING AND UNIVERSAL HSAs

Sen. Paul says:

• Let groups (Costco, Amazon, Sam’s Club, chambers of commerce, churches) negotiate insurance for millions—across state lines.
• Let every American have an HSA and use it to pay premiums.

On paper, this is market reform.
In practice, it’s far bigger.

This doesn’t just lower premiums.
It shifts power.

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🧩 THE PART THEY DON’T TALK ABOUT: THE STRUCTURAL REVOLUTION

1. CostcoCare, AmazonCare, and WalmartCare Become America’s Quiet New Health System

If giant corporations can legally pool millions of members and negotiate their own insurance plans, something massive happens:

The center of American healthcare power moves away from Washington and into the hands of five or six megacorporations.

Think about it:

• Amazon already owns One Medical
• Walmart is building clinics
• Costco is dipping into telehealth
• CVS and Walgreens are half-pharmacy, half-hospital already

Once they negotiate insurance for millions, they don’t just bargain for lower rates—they dictate them.

This is a corporate version of a national health system…
created without ever calling it one.

Politicians call it “market forces.”
It might actually be the largest consolidation of health authority in U.S. history.

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2. Universal HSAs Could Quietly Collapse Traditional Insurance

Letting HSAs pay premiums is the quiet nuclear bomb in the bill.

Once people can:

• stash money tax-free,
• pay premiums tax-free,
• pay deductibles tax-free,
• pay providers directly…

…suddenly, the insurance companies lose their grip on the payment system.

Why?

Because a tax-free spending account changes patient behavior:

• People shop differently
• Providers compete differently
• Hospitals lose pricing opacity
• Insurance becomes catastrophic-only

It’s not deregulation—it’s evaporation of the old model.

Traditional insurance becomes a dinosaur overnight.

All because Congress tweaks the tax code.

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🧨 THE CONSPIRACY ELEMENT: FOLLOW THE POWER SHIFT

Here’s the big question elites never want to answer:

Who benefits when the government loosens control but corporations tighten theirs?

If Amazon runs your doctor’s office…
If Costco negotiates your premiums…
If Walmart controls your primary care…
If CVS owns your pharmacy + urgent care…

Is that market freedom, or is that just a different flavor of centralization?

Here’s the conspiracy twist:

Washington insiders know that federal healthcare programs are fiscally doomed.
They need a lifeboat.
Corporate-led care is the only structure big enough to absorb the collapse if subsidies shrink or debt pressures hit.

This isn’t “Repeal and Replace.”
This is Prepare and Transfer.

Transfer control from government → corporations.
Transfer payment structure from insurance → HSAs.
Transfer power from public policy → private networks.

The public thinks it’s about premiums.
The elites think it’s about stability of the system when the debt bomb eventually hits.

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🎯 BOTTOM LINE

Rand Paul’s plan isn’t just a reform.
It’s a pivot point.

• It could lower premiums.
• It could empower consumers.
• It could expand HSAs.
• It could weaken federal subsidies.

But beneath the surface, two massive shifts unfold:

1. Corporate America quietly becomes the new health authority.
2. Traditional insurance begins its long, slow collapse.

This is not repeal.
This is not replace.
This is a controlled demolition of the old model—and a migration to a new one.

Whether that future is better or worse depends on who you trust more:

• Bureaucrats,
• or corporations,
• or neither.

stock here, she is Board Certified

stock here: extreme events in space weather!

stock here: been meaning to write this for a while. But it deserves a good write-up that I won’t give to A-Eye, nor have time myself. So I will sound bite it here:

Way more than 10 children were killed by the mRNA Injections. But at least they are admitting that children were killed, even though they no nearly no risk from the COVID Flu.

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https://brownstone.org/articles/the-fda-memo-that-shakes-the-world/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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And Ukraine being investigated for $100 million, unaccounted for!!!!!!!!!!

Let’s try at least $100B. Keep in mind Russia’s total military budget is like $60 B.

“Rocks inner circle”

$100 Million Vanishes—Ukraine Aid Scandal Explodes

stock here: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/11/26/nx-s1-5621944/medicare-drug-prices-ozempic-and-wegovy

A-Eye sayeth

Yes, there is real “bounce-back” after stopping Ozempic/Wegovy, and there are non-trivial complication risks. These drugs generally work well while you stay on them, but they’re not a one-and-done fix.

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1. “Bounce-back” / weight regain data

Both Ozempic and Wegovy are semaglutide. Wegovy is just a higher dose, approved for obesity.

Key trial: STEP-1 extension (Wegovy 2.4 mg in people without diabetes)

• On the drug for 68 weeks → average 17.3% body-weight loss. PubMed+1
• Drug was then stopped and people were followed for another year (to week 120).
• During that off-drug year they regained ~11.6 percentage points of that weight loss.
• Net result: after 2 years total they were only about 5.6% below their original weight. PubMed+1
• Blood pressure, lipids, HbA1c, etc. also drifted back toward baseline.

So roughly two-thirds of the lost weight comes back within a year of stopping.

Other data:

• A big real-world study of >40,000 GLP-1 users found that weight regain after stopping was common, and even a 1% regain was associated with a higher chance of restarting the drug (people felt the rebound). JAMA Network
• A recent “Bounce-Back Effect” study in people with HIV using low-dose semaglutide also saw substantial regain after cessation, reinforcing that this pattern isn’t unique to one trial. PubMed+1

Big picture: for most people these behave like blood-pressure meds: they work while you take them. If you stop, biology (appetite hormones, energy expenditure) pushes you back toward your prior weight.

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2. Complications & side-effects

Very common (especially at higher obesity doses)

From trials and the FDA label:

• GI issues – nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, abdominal pain.
  • In one Wegovy trial, 62% on semaglutide vs 42% on placebo had GI side-effects; about 2–3% had to stop the drug because of them. novoMEDLINK+1
• Increased heart rate – average resting HR bump of a few beats per minute. AAFP

These are usually “mild to moderate” but can be miserable and can lead to dehydration.

Serious but uncommon risks

From FDA labels, reviews, and safety alerts:

• Acute pancreatitis – rare but documented; listed as a warning on both Ozempic and Wegovy. FDA Access Data+2Ozempic+2
• Gallbladder disease – cholelithiasis/cholecystitis risk is clearly increased (gallbladder problems in up to ~5% of semaglutide patients vs 1–3% with placebo). NCBI+1
• Kidney injury – usually secondary to severe vomiting/dehydration. Ozempic+1
• Diabetic retinopathy worsening in people with pre-existing retinopathy when glucose improves very fast. Ozempic+1
• Thyroid C-cell tumors (rodent data) – caused tumors in rats/mice; human risk is unclear, but there is a boxed warning and it’s contraindicated in people with personal/family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma or MEN2. FDA Access Data+1
• Mental-health signal – regulators (e.g., Australia’s TGA) have issued class warnings about suicidal ideation reports with GLP-1 drugs, including Ozempic and Wegovy, though a direct causal link isn’t proven yet. News.com.au
• Newer case reports/series suggest rare events like non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, acute kidney injury, etc., under investigation. PMC

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3. How to interpret all this

• Effectiveness is real but maintenance requires staying on the drug or having a very strong long-term lifestyle plan; “bounce-back” is the rule, not the exception, when you stop.
• Most side-effects are GI and reversible, but there are real, albeit uncommon, serious risks that you want a clinician to stratify (pancreas, gallbladder, thyroid, eyes, kidneys, mental health).
• Long-term (>4–5 year) safety for obesity doses is still being accumulated; we have good medium-term data but not “lifetime” data yet.

stock here: LOL I deleted it. Of my 2025 10 point plan for a Better Lifestyle, number 9 is Control Spam and Distractions. Expand that out to…don’t stick around in Dopamine Traps.

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🔥 The Temu Challenge — If You Can’t Delete It, You’re Not in Control

Here’s the part nobody says out loud:

Temu is not a shopping app.
It’s a psychological operation wearing a discount sticker.

China didn’t pour billions into a storefront — they built a behavioral engine designed to capture the Western attention span, hollow it out, and keep you scrolling like a lab animal waiting for the next pellet.

Every color is optimized.
Every pop-up is timed.
Every “deal” is a dopamine micro-dose.
Every notification is a tug on your reward circuitry.

This is not retail.
This is neural conditioning at scale.

And the creepiest part?
You feel it.

Try deleting it.
Seriously — try.
Your thumb will hesitate. Your brain will make excuses.
“I might need it later.”
“I want to check one thing.”
“This is dumb, why am I deleting it?”

That’s not you talking.

That’s what addiction sounds like.

Temu is a casino built to live in your pocket — a brightly colored Trojan horse siphoning your attention, your data, your impulse control, and your time.

So here’s the gauntlet:

Delete the app.
If you can’t…
If you feel that little pull in your gut…

Then congratulations.
You’ve just proven the point.

Temu isn’t following you.
It’s inside you.

stock here: From a Midwestern Doctor, affects all of us, but is another clear sign of child abuse by the “system”. They know full well what they are doing.

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/rejuvenating-the-nervous-system-and?publication_id=748806&post_id=180282856&isFreemail=true&r=3g15g1&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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🔥 90-Second Sound Bite — “The Dopamine Trap”

Something very strange is happening to kids — and honestly, to all of us.

Modern screens aren’t just “entertaining.” They’re engineered to hijack the brain’s dopamine system the same way casinos and slot machines do. Bright colors, rapid cuts, sing-song voices, instant rewards — every few seconds. It’s not a show anymore; it’s a neurological IV drip.

You’ve seen the result:
kids melting down the moment you turn it off, zoning out, losing patience, losing spark, losing interest in anything that isn’t flashing and screaming for attention. That isn’t misbehavior — that’s withdrawal. A child’s nervous system literally crashing from dopamine overstimulation.

And here’s the part no one wants to say out loud:
the exact same trap is being used on adults. Doomscrolling, TikTok loops, notifications, outrage cycles — all designed to spike dopamine in tiny bursts until normal life feels dull, slow, and empty. The more they feed you, the more you need, and the less you feel.

This is the real crisis:
we’re raising a generation whose brains expect life to move at algorithm speed. And the tragedy is that real life — eye contact, curiosity, nature, imagination — simply can’t compete with a digital slot machine.

Pull the device away and it looks like chaos.
Give it a few days, and something amazing happens:
kids calm down, attention returns, creativity restarts, and the human nervous system reboots.

Because beneath all the noise, your brain still remembers how to be alive. You just have to break the dopamine trap long enough to feel it again.

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Expanded Explanation — The Dopamine Trap, Addictive Programming, and the Nervous System

Modern childhood is the canary in the coal mine.

Parents are noticing something primal:
children today are different — more irritable, less resilient, quicker to explode emotionally, more vacant-eyed, harder to settle, and harder to pull back into real life after screen exposure.

And beneath all of it sits a single, overarching mechanism:

THE DOPAMINE TRAP

This phrase does not just mean “screens release dopamine.”
It means:

A system is intentionally engineered to repeatedly spike dopamine in unnatural, unsustainable bursts, then crash it — conditioning the brain into a cycle of craving, emptiness, and dependency.

Dopamine itself is not pleasure; it is anticipation, craving, and the drive to chase the next stimulus.
When that circuitry is hijacked early in life, it reshapes the nervous system in profound ways.

Let’s break this down.

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1. What Dopamine Is Actually For

In a natural environment:

• A bird finds berries → dopamine rises.
• A child solves a puzzle → dopamine rises.
• You take a meaningful step toward a goal → dopamine rises.

Dopamine’s true purpose is to reinforce behaviors that support survival, bonding, learning, and exploration.

It is slow, steady, and tied to real-world effort and reward cycles, not constant stimulation.

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2. The Modern Dopamine Problem: Hyper-Stimulation Without Earned Reward

Children’s programming today — especially YouTube-native shows like Cocomelon, Ms. Rachel clones, TikTok micro-animations, etc. — is not simply “faster” or “more colorful.”
It is designed with:

• Rapid scene changes (1–2 seconds)
• Unnatural vocal patterns
• Bright, high-contrast colors
• Music loops engineered for reward prediction
• Emotional exaggeration
• Instant gratification at every micro-moment

This pushes dopamine pathways into overdrive.

The result?

Dopamine spikes become artificially large and artificially frequent — far beyond what normal life can offer.

The nervous system begins expecting this intensity.

Then real life — slow, subtle, relational, textured, sometimes boring — feels intolerable.

This is the true dopamine trap.

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3. What the Dopamine Trap Does to the Nervous System

✔ Shortened attention span

The brain adapts to rapid scene changes, making ordinary pacing feel unbearable.

✔ Emotional dysregulation

Tantrums are withdrawal symptoms, not misbehavior.

✔ Loss of “spark”

Children who once explored the world now sit still, slack-jawed, waiting for their next digital hit.

✔ Irritability and mood swings

Exactly what sugar withdrawal looks like — but happening ten times a day.

✔ Delayed social development

Screens provide predictable, exaggerated emotional cues; real humans do not.

Many pediatric occupational therapists report that modern toddlers now resemble children with sensory-processing disorders from 20 years ago.

This is not a coincidence. It is dopamine-driven nervous system dysregulation.

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4. Why Many Parents Are Returning to “Old Shows”

Parents who switch from modern children’s content to:

• Mr. Rogers
• Sesame Street (the early era)
• Blue’s Clues (slow original version)
• 80s–90s cartoons
• Nature documentaries
• Simple animation styles

report dramatically calmer behavior.

Why?

Older shows were paced for human neurology, not for addiction.

They had:

• Long takes
• Soft voices
• Predictable rhythms
• Human-to-human communication
• Limited emotional intensity
• No algorithmic optimization for engagement metrics
• No dopamine spikes per second

These programs support a child’s developing nervous system rather than overwhelm it.

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5. The Broader Point: Children Are the First to Break

When A Midwestern Doctor writes:

“The dopamine trap society uses to control us and make us feel dead inside.”

He is pointing to something larger:

Children’s programming is only the most blatant example.
Adults are caught in the same trap through:

• Social media
• Doomscrolling
• Porn
• Gambling apps
• Online outrage
• Constant novelty
• Hyper-fast news cycles
• Addictive short-form videos

All of these train dopamine pathways to expect rapid, exaggerated stimulation.

This destroys:

• patience
• curiosity
• resilience
• creativity
• joy
• ability to feel subtle pleasures
• capacity for deep work or deep relationships

When dopamine receptors wear down from overstimulation, people feel:

• flat
• anesthetized
• chronically dissatisfied
• restless yet tired
• disconnected from life

This is the “dead inside” feeling he is referring to.

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6. Why Children Expose the Problem So Clearly

Adults can mask their dysregulation with caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, workaholism, or dissociation.

Children cannot.

Their tantrums, meltdowns, and emotional instability are honest neurological feedback about how toxic the dopamine environment has become.

Children reveal the truth adults hide.

This is why seeing children lose their spark feels tragic:
it forces us to confront how much of our own spark has been stolen.

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7. The Predatory Aspect

It is not accidental.

Modern platforms use:

• Behavioral psychology
• A/B testing
• AI-optimized thumbnails
• Hyper-stimulating audio/visual patterns
• Reward loops perfected through massive data
• Instant novelty
• Infinite scroll
• Micro-dopamine triggers every few seconds

Kids’ shows on YouTube are not designed by educators.
They are designed by engagement teams, UX psychologists, and algorithm feedback loops.

The product is not entertainment.

The product is addiction.

And the consumer is your child’s brain chemistry.

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8. Reconnecting the Nervous System to Real Life

Parents who remove hyper-stimulating screens sometimes report:

• a 2–5 day tantrum period (dopamine withdrawal)
• followed by sudden calm
• increased eye contact
• willingness to explore
• imaginative play returning
• improved sleep
• fewer meltdowns
• curiosity replacing irritability

Essentially:

The nervous system wakes back up once it is no longer drowning in dopamine spikes.

This applies to adults as well — often profoundly.

stock here: I have been watching this incredible Moon for the last few days. It looks different, brighter, more textured in Hawaii.

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