How and why some doctors will intentionally shorten a life.

Dr. David A. Cohen, CA License number G 9820. who retired approximately two years ago, residence address - 12102 Woodland Avenue, Santa Ana CA 92705, in Orange County, worked all the local area nursing homes and psychiatric wards in the local hospitals. Barbara Lee, Lucille Lee's daughter and durable power of attorney, complained about the unauthorized over sedation of her 90 year old mother, by Dr. Cohen and by Dr. Michael A. Zona. Both these doctors refused to abide by orders from the durable power of attorney and refused to change the medical orders to stop the over sedation. Both of these doctors took part in warehousing patients on a very large scale.
See: http://barbaranancylee.com - The Silent Extermination of The Elderly.

Dr. Cohen worked with Dr. Michael A. Zona, Ca License number 66875, is a practicing Forensic Psychiatrist who works in Orange County, CA., psychiatric hospital wards. He is no longer associated with the Coastal Community Hospital in the Golden Years Ward. Dr. Zona overmedicated Lucille Lee, against the wish of her daughter, Barbara Lee who was also durable power of attorney. His actions of warehousing patients by over sedation so they sleep all the time speeds up their deaths. He has no office anywhere. The California Medical Board says he keeps a post office box at: P.O. Box 5007, Garden Grove, CA 92845. From that P.O., First American Title reported that his residence is listed as - GLD Living Trust, 3 Mira Las Olas, San Clemente, California, 92673.

The patient died and not from any disease but from cost saving medical care. Dr. Cohen made the arrogant statement to the family when they complained "that they should think of it as money in the bank."

"Money in the bank," related to killing off any patient means no money is being spent on patient care by anyone. For some unethical doctors this also means they falsely bill for services that either are not needed or never happened. For a senior this is generally Medicare - government money. For the insurance company or Medicare,"Money in the bank" means they don't have to pay out at all anymore if the patient is dead. How the patient dies isn't their problem or care. There is always someone else to replace them.

With some of these programs the doctor you sign on with gets paid whether you ever see them or not. If you start seeing the doctor for medical problems though that is going to cut into his paycheck because some of that money will have to actually be spent on medical care. Some doctors may not like that and will do unethical things like over sedate a patient until they die or pretend that a life threatening illness is instead depression until it is too late to treat or worse perform an operation that they know will kill the patient. There is always going to be another patient/victim to fill their slot that these types of doctors will gamble won't need any medical care and will keep the money freely flowing in.

Once a patient is going to start costing either the government system or a private HMO medical insurance company money for long term care it is very likely that person will have a medically induced rapid decline and die. If the patient has something happen though in this type of system that is a quick fix and won't be a drain on the system they probably will be readily treated or repaired.

With most other forms of insurance you pay your money in and eventually the day comes that someone collects the amount you have been insured for. When you pay for car insurance and have an accident the amount of money you are covered for is paid by the insurance company. The insurance company is gambling that they will get more money from you paying premiums then they will eventually have to pay out.

When you buy medical insurance in the form of a government sponsored/financed HMO such as Kaiser primarily is they will do what they can to not pay out for your care even though you have paid in to the program for decades. These types of operations up front are very low cost for the patient or government entity and leads the patient to believe they have got a real deal. You could spend 40 years paying into an HMO or Medicare but when the day comes that you actually need to use the services for a long to the entity period of time and if you have the wrong HMO plan or the wrong Medicare doctor you will probably suddenly have a series of serious problems that will end in your death. So now the patient is gambling that they have made the right choice.

For these schemes to survive the company has to have far more people paying in than can possibly be cared for. The doctor to patient ratio is dangerously unrealistic. This type of company is gambling that most people will remain healthy and that the few that do get sick will either quickly recover or just die. They do not have enough money on hand to pay for services they promise and remain within budget. There are all sorts of grandiose variations of this scheme and all of them are failures yet people keep spending their money on them because they are cheap. Again, most people remain healthy for decades and all insurance gambles on that and that is why these schemes survive.

True medical insurance as was common prior to the creation of any HMO is more expensive and is realistically balanced in what they actually do provide for. In that type of plan generally what they promise is exactly what you get. If everyone in this type of plan gets the flu or breaks a leg and needs to see the doctor the company has the money to pay for the costs. The HMO government financed company does not have it in their budget.

When the HMO was allowed to be created by our government we were promised a form of affordable insurance that would actually work. What it really is - "All the incentives are toward less medical care, because—the less care they give them, the more money they make." - Mr. Erlichman quoting Edgar Kaiser to President Nixon on February 17, 1971

The government cannot openly admit this fraud upon the people or they would have a bunch of very angry people on their hands. The above statement to Mr. Nixon is exactly what Dr. Cohen's incentive was for committing unethical medical acts. He got away with it because the system simply does not have the capability to honor the promises made to the people and therefore refuses to severely admonish those that will intentionally bring harm to a patient.
That is exactly why the Lee family's mother is no longer alive.