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Health Insurance Market is expected to Reach USD 2,541.78 Billion by 2029 at a Potential Growth rate of 4.6%, Market Analysed by Future Trends, Industry Growth and Application Overview

Health Insurance Market is expected to Reach USD 2,541.78 Billion by 2029 at a Potential Growth rate of 4.6%, Market Analysed by Future Trends, Industry Growth and Application Overview
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NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A Qualitative Research Study accomplished by Data Bridge Market Research's database of 350 pages, titled as "Global Health insurance Market" with 100+ market data Tables, Pie Charts, Graphs & Figures spread through pages and easy to understand detailed analysis. Health Insurance Market business report provides accurate market research that aids identifying business areas that are performing well, those that need more attention, and also those that business should perhaps give up. If businesses have got their pulse on what a customer is thinking, they can create products that solve their issues, reach out to them when they are most ready to listen, and help them become loyal ambassadors. The universal Global Health Insurance Market report makes it possible, to follow what customers are talking about, listen to them, and then deliver on their needs with its timely customer-centered market research.

Data Bridge Market Research analyses that the health insurance market is expected to reach the value of USD 2,541.78 Billion by the year 2029, at a CAGR of 4.6% during the forecast period. "Corporates" accounts for the most prominent end-user segment in the respective market owing to rise in the demand for group health insurance by corporates. The market report curated by the Data Bridge Market Research team includes in-depth expert analysis, import/export analysis, pricing analysis, production consumption analysis, and climate chain scenario.

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Health insurance policy consists of several types of features and benefits. It provides financial coverage to policyholder against certain treatment. Health insurance policy offers advantages including cashless hospitalization, coverage of pre and post-hospitalization, reimbursement, and various add-ons.

Increasing costs for medical services and the growing number of day care procedures are some of the drivers boosting health insurance demand in the market.

Recent Developments

  • In August 2020, International Medical Group, Inc. (IMG) had enhanced their product offerings to support organizations with the necessary planning and research for safe international travel. Company's unique, new assistance services were designed to support clients as they make plans for 2020 and beyond. This development helped company to sustain and thrive in pandemic.
  • In June 2021, Vitality has announced it has partnered with Samsung UK to integrate Samsung Health into the Vitality Programme, providing members with more ways to track their activity and improve their health. The new partnership with Samsung will unlock the full benefits of the Vitality Programme to Android users as members will be able to link their Samsung Health profile to their Vitality Member Zone account to automatically capture daily steps and heart rate activity to earn Vitality activity points.

Competitive Landscape:-

The health insurance market competitive landscape provides details by competitor. Details included are company overview, company financials, revenue generated, market potential, investment in research and development, new market initiatives, global presence, production sites and facilities, production capacities, company strengths and weaknesses, product launch, product width and breadth, application dominance. The above data points provided are only related to the companies' focus related to health insurance market.

Some of the major players operating in the health insurance market are

  • Bupa,
  • Now Health International,
  • Cigna,
  • Aetna Inc. (a subsidiary of CVS Health),
  • AXA,
  • HBF Health Limited, Vitality (a subsidiary of Discovery Limited),
  • Centene Corporation,
  • International Medical Group,
  • Anthem Insurance Companies,
  • Broadstone Corporate Benefits Limited,
  • Allianz,
  • HealthCare International Global Network Ltd,
  • Assicurazioni Generali S.P.A.,
  • Aviva,
  • Vhi Group,
  • UnitedHealth Group,
  • MAPFRE,
  • AIA Group Limited,
  • Oracle

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Key Drivers/Opportunities in the Health Insurance Market

  • Increasing Cost of Medical Services

Health insurance provides financial support in cases of serious sickness or accident. Increasing medical services' costs for surgeries and hospital stays has created a new financial epidemic around the world. The cost of medical services is comprised of the cost of surgery, doctor fee, hospital stay cost, cost of the emergency room, diagnostic testing cost, among others. Therefore, this increase in the cost of medical services propels the growth of the market.

  • Growing Number of Daycare Procedures

Daycare procedures are those types of medical procedure or surgery that primarily requires less stay time in the hospitals. In the day-care procedure patients are required to stay in the hospital for a short period. Most of the health insurance companies are now covering the procedures of day-care in their insurance plans, and for the claim of such types of surgery, there is no compulsion on spending 24 hours in the hospital, which is the minimum stay in the hospital to claim insurance. While most of the health insurance plans cover hospital stays and major surgeries, the policyholders can also claim day-care procedures under their health insurance policy, which propels the demand of the market.

  • Mandatory Provision of Healthcare Insurance in Public and Private Sectors

Buying a healthcare insurance policy is a mandatory provision for the employees in the public as well as the private sector. Health insurance offers key medical benefits which the employee can avail of while working in a corporate. In case of any emergency or medical issues, the health insurance cover is highly useful to meet treatment expenses. The employee's health insurance is an extended benefit, given by the individual employer to their employees. The health insurance provided not only covers the employee but also covers their family members under the same policy plan. Also, in certain cases, the employer may pay a part of a premium or insurance coverage of the health insurance policy.

  • Advantages of Health Insurance Policies

In the health insurance plans, the policyholder gets the reimbursement insured for their medical expenses such as hospitalization, surgeries, treatments that arise from the injuries. A health insurance policy is a type of agreement between the policyholder and insurance company, where the insurance company agrees to guarantee payment for the treatment costs in case of future medical issues, and the policyholder agrees to pay the amount of premium according to the insurance plan. Thus, the advantages of health insurance policies increases the growth opportunities for global health insurance market.

  • Increasing Healthcare Expenditure

Spending on health is growing faster around the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report, global health spending has an upward trajectory growth. Global spending on health more than doubled over the past two decades, reaching USD 8.5 trillion in 2019, or 9.8% of global GDP. However, it was unequally distributed, with high-income countries accounting for approximately 80% of the world's health spending. Health spending in low-income countries was financed primarily by out-of-pocket spending (OOPS; 44%) and external aid (29%), while government spending dominated in high-income countries (70%). Thus, the increasing healthcare expenditure is expected to act as opportunity in the global health insurance market.

Core Objective of Health Insurance Market:

Every firm in the Health Insurance market has objectives but this market research report focus on the crucial objectives, so you can analysis about competition, future market, new products, and informative data that can raise your sales volume exponentially.

  • Size of the Health Insurance market and growth rate factors.
  • Important changes in the future Health Insurance Market
  • Top worldwide competitors of the Market.
  • Scope and product outlook of Health Insurance Market.
  • Developing regions with potential growth in the future.
  • Tough Challenges and risk faced in Market.
  • Global Health Insurance top manufacturers profile and sales statistics.

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Global Health Insurance Market Scope

Type

  • Product
  • Solutions

Services

  • Inpatient Treatment
  • Outpatient Treatment
  • Medical Assistance
  • Others

Level of Coverage

  • Bronze
  • Silver
  • Gold
  • Platinum

 Service Providers

  • Private Health Insurance Providers
  • Public Health Insurance Providers

Health Insurance Plans

  • Point Of Service (POS)
  • Exclusive Provider Organization (EPOS)
  • Indemnity Health Insurance
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Qualified Small Employer Health Reimbursement Arrangements (QSEHRAS)
  • Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
  • Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
  • Others

Demographics

  • Adults
  • Minors
  • Senior Citizens

Coverage Type

  • Lifetime Coverage
  • Term Coverage

End User

  • Corporates
  • Individuals
  • Others

Distribution Channel

  • Direct Sales
  • Financial Institutions
  • E-Commerce
  • Hospitals
  • Clinics
  • Others

Health Insurance Market Regional Analysis/Insights

The health insurance market is analysed and market size insights and trends are provided by country, type, services, level of coverage, service providers, health insurance plans, demographics, coverage type, end user, and distribution channel as referenced above.

The countries covered in the health insurance market report are the U.S., Canada and Mexico, Germany, France, U.K., Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Rest of Europe in Europe, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan & Rest of Asia-Pacific, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Egypt, Israel, Rest of Middle East and Africa, Brazil, Argentina and Rest of South America.

North America dominates the health insurance market because of the high disposable income of consumers. North America is followed by Europe and is expected to witness significant growth during the forecast period of 2022 to 2029 due to growing demand for health insurance from corporates sector in the region. Europe is followed by Asia-Pacific and is expected to grow significantly owing to the rising awareness of benefits and advantages offered by health insurance plans.

Competitive Landscape and Health Insurance Market Share Analysis

The health insurance market competitive landscape provides details by competitor. Details included are company overview, company financials, revenue generated, market potential, investment in research and development, new market initiatives, global presence, production sites and facilities, production capacities, company strengths and weaknesses, product launch, product width and breadth, application dominance. The above data points provided are only related to the companies' focus related to health insurance market.

Some of the major players operating in the health insurance market are Bupa, Now Health International, Cigna, Aetna Inc. (a subsidiary of CVS Health), AXA, HBF Health Limited, Vitality (a subsidiary of Discovery Limited), Centene Corporation, International Medical Group, Inc. (a subsidiary of Sirius International Insurance Group Ltd.), Anthem Insurance Companies, Inc. (a subsidiary of Anthem, Inc.), Broadstone Corporate Benefits Limited, Allianz Care (a subsidiary of Allianz SE), HealthCare International Global Network Ltd, Assicurazioni Generali S.P.A., Aviva, Vhi Group, UnitedHealth Group, MAPFRE, AIA Group Limited, Oracle among others

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Asia-Pacific Health Insurance Market, By Type (Product, Solutions), Services (Inpatient Treatment, Outpatient Treatment, Medical Assistance, Others), Level of Coverage (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum), Service Providers (Public Health Insurance Providers, Private Health Insurance Providers), Health Insurance Plans (Point of Service (POS), Exclusive Provider Organization (EPOS), Indemnity Health Insurance, Health Savings Account (HSA), Qualified Small Employer Health Reimbursement Arrangements (QSEHRAS), Preferred Provider Organization (PPO), Health Maintenance Organization (HMO), Others), Demographics (Adults, Minors, Senior Citizens), Coverage Type (Lifetime Coverage, Term Coverage), End User (Corporates, Individuals, Others) Distribution Channel (Direct Sales, Financial Institutions, E-commerce, Hospitals, Clinics, Others) https://www.databridgemarketresearch.com/reports/asia-pacific-health-insurance-market

Europe Health Insurance Market, By Type (Product, Solutions), Services (Inpatient Treatment, Outpatient Treatment, Medical Assistance, Others), Level of Coverage (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum), Service Providers (Public Health Insurance Providers, Private Health Insurance Providers), Health Insurance Plans (Point of Service (POS), Exclusive Provider Organization (EPOS), Indemnity Health Insurance, Health Savings Account (HSA), Qualified Small Employer Health Reimbursement Arrangements (QSEHRAS), Preferred Provider Organization (PPO), Health Maintenance Organization (HMO), Others), Demographics (Adults, Minors, Senior Citizens), Coverage Type (Lifetime Coverage, Term Coverage), End User (Corporates, Individuals, Others) Distribution Channel (Direct Sales, Financial Institutions, E-commerce, Hospitals, Clinics & Others) https://www.databridgemarketresearch.com/reports/europe-health-insurance-market

Middle East and Africa Health Insurance Market By Type (Products, Solutions), Services (Inpatient Treatment, Outpatient Treatment, Medical Assistance, Others), Level of Coverage (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum), Service Providers (Public Health Insurance Providers, Private Health Insurance Providers), Health Insurance Plans (Point of Service (POS), Exclusive Provider Organization (EPOS), Indemnity Health Insurance, Health Savings Account (HSA), Qualified Small Employer Health Reimbursement Arrangements (QSEHRAS), Preferred Provider Organization (PPO), Health Maintenance Organization (HMO), Others), Demographics (Adults, Minors, Senior citizens), Coverage Type (Lifetime Coverage, Term Coverage), End User (Corporates, Individuals, Others), Distribution Channel (Direct Sales, Financial Institutions, E-commerce, Hospitals, Clinics, Others) https://www.databridgemarketresearch.com/reports/middle-east-and-africa-health-insurance-market

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Singapore Private Health Insurance Market, By Type (Critical Illness Insurance, Individual Health Insurance, Family Health Insurance, Disease-Specific Insurance and Others), Health Plan Category/Metal Levels (Bronze, Silver, Gold Platinum and Others), Provider Type (Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOS), Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOS), Exclusive Provider Organizations (EPOS), Point-Of-Service (POS) Plans, High-Deductible Health Plans (HDHPS) and Others), Age Group (Young Adulthood (19-44 Years), Middle Adulthood (45-64 Years) and Older Adulthood (65 Years And Above)), Distribution Channel (Direct Insurance Companies, Insurance Aggregators and Others) https://www.databridgemarketresearch.com/reports/singapore-private-health-insurance-market

Philippines Private Health Insurance Market, By Type (Critical Illness Insurance, Individual Health Insurance, Family Health Insurance, Disease-Specific Insurance, and Others), Health Plan Category/Metal Levels (Bronze, Silver, Gold Platinum, and Others), Provider Type (Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOS), Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOS), Exclusive Provider Organizations (EPOS), Point-Of-Service (POS) Plans, High-Deductible Health Plans (HDHPS), and Others), Age Group (Young Adulthood (19-44 Years), Middle Adulthood (45-64 Years), and Older Adulthood (65 Years And Above)), Distribution Channel (Direct Insurance Companies, Insurance Aggregators, and Others) https://www.databridgemarketresearch.com/reports/philippines-private-health-insurance-market

Australia Private Health Insurance Market, By Type (Critical Illness Insurance, Individual Health Insurance, Family Health Insurance, Disease-Specific Insurance and Others), Health Plan Category/Metal Levels (Bronze, Silver, Gold Platinum and Others), Provider Type (Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOS), Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOS), Exclusive Provider Organizations (EPOS), Point-Of-Service (POS) Plans, High-Deductible Health Plans (HDHPS) and Others), Age Group (Young Adulthood (19-44 Years), Middle Adulthood (45-64 Years) and Older Adulthood (65 Years And Above)), Distribution Channel (Direct Insurance Companies, Insurance Aggregators and Others) https://www.databridgemarketresearch.com/reports/australia-private-health-insurance-market

New Zealand Private Health Insurance Market, By Type (Critical Illness Insurance, Individual Health Insurance, Family Health Insurance, Disease-Specific Insurance and Others), Health Plan Category/Metal Levels (Bronze, Silver, Gold Platinum and Others), Provider Type (Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOS), Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOS), Exclusive Provider Organizations (EPOS), Point-Of-Service (POS) Plans, High-Deductible Health Plans (HDHPS) and Others), Age Group (Young Adulthood (19-44 Years), Middle Adulthood (45-64 Years) and Older Adulthood (65 Years And Above)), Distribution Channel (Direct Insurance Companies, Insurance Aggregators and Others) https://www.databridgemarketresearch.com/reports/new-zealand-private-health-insurance-market

Malaysia Private Health Insurance Market, By Type (Critical Illness Insurance, Individual Health Insurance, Family Health Insurance, Disease-Specific Insurance and Others), Health Plan Category/Metal Levels (Bronze, Silver, Gold Platinum and Others), Provider Type (Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOS), Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOS), Exclusive Provider Organizations (EPOS), Point-Of-Service (POS) Plans, High-Deductible Health Plans (HDHPS) and Others), Age Group (Young Adulthood (19-44 Years), Middle Adulthood (45-64 Years) and Older Adulthood (65 Years And Above)), Distribution Channel (Direct Insurance Companies, Insurance Aggregators and Others) https://www.databridgemarketresearch.com/reports/malaysia-private-health-insurance-market

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Veterans Affairs Kept COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate In Place Without Evidence

Veterans Affairs Kept COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate In Place Without Evidence

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Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reviewed no data when deciding in 2023 to keep its COVID-19 vaccine mandate in place.

Doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in Washington in a file image. (Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

VA Secretary Denis McDonough said on May 1, 2023, that the end of many other federal mandates “will not impact current policies at the Department of Veterans Affairs.”

He said the mandate was remaining for VA health care personnel “to ensure the safety of veterans and our colleagues.”

Mr. McDonough did not cite any studies or other data. A VA spokesperson declined to provide any data that was reviewed when deciding not to rescind the mandate. The Epoch Times submitted a Freedom of Information Act for “all documents outlining which data was relied upon when establishing the mandate when deciding to keep the mandate in place.”

The agency searched for such data and did not find any.

The VA does not even attempt to justify its policies with science, because it can’t,” Leslie Manookian, president and founder of the Health Freedom Defense Fund, told The Epoch Times.

“The VA just trusts that the process and cost of challenging its unfounded policies is so onerous, most people are dissuaded from even trying,” she added.

The VA’s mandate remains in place to this day.

The VA’s website claims that vaccines “help protect you from getting severe illness” and “offer good protection against most COVID-19 variants,” pointing in part to observational data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that estimate the vaccines provide poor protection against symptomatic infection and transient shielding against hospitalization.

There have also been increasing concerns among outside scientists about confirmed side effects like heart inflammation—the VA hid a safety signal it detected for the inflammation—and possible side effects such as tinnitus, which shift the benefit-risk calculus.

President Joe Biden imposed a slate of COVID-19 vaccine mandates in 2021. The VA was the first federal agency to implement a mandate.

President Biden rescinded the mandates in May 2023, citing a drop in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. His administration maintains the choice to require vaccines was the right one and saved lives.

“Our administration’s vaccination requirements helped ensure the safety of workers in critical workforces including those in the healthcare and education sectors, protecting themselves and the populations they serve, and strengthening their ability to provide services without disruptions to operations,” the White House said.

Some experts said requiring vaccination meant many younger people were forced to get a vaccine despite the risks potentially outweighing the benefits, leaving fewer doses for older adults.

By mandating the vaccines to younger people and those with natural immunity from having had COVID, older people in the U.S. and other countries did not have access to them, and many people might have died because of that,” Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine on leave from Harvard Medical School, told The Epoch Times previously.

The VA was one of just a handful of agencies to keep its mandate in place following the removal of many federal mandates.

“At this time, the vaccine requirement will remain in effect for VA health care personnel, including VA psychologists, pharmacists, social workers, nursing assistants, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, peer specialists, medical support assistants, engineers, housekeepers, and other clinical, administrative, and infrastructure support employees,” Mr. McDonough wrote to VA employees at the time.

This also includes VA volunteers and contractors. Effectively, this means that any Veterans Health Administration (VHA) employee, volunteer, or contractor who works in VHA facilities, visits VHA facilities, or provides direct care to those we serve will still be subject to the vaccine requirement at this time,” he said. “We continue to monitor and discuss this requirement, and we will provide more information about the vaccination requirements for VA health care employees soon. As always, we will process requests for vaccination exceptions in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and policies.”

The version of the shots cleared in the fall of 2022, and available through the fall of 2023, did not have any clinical trial data supporting them.

A new version was approved in the fall of 2023 because there were indications that the shots not only offered temporary protection but also that the level of protection was lower than what was observed during earlier stages of the pandemic.

Ms. Manookian, whose group has challenged several of the federal mandates, said that the mandate “illustrates the dangers of the administrative state and how these federal agencies have become a law unto themselves.”

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Are Voters Recoiling Against Disorder?

Are Voters Recoiling Against Disorder?

Authored by Michael Barone via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

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Authored by Michael Barone via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The headlines coming out of the Super Tuesday primaries have got it right. Barring cataclysmic changes, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be the Republican and Democratic nominees for president in 2024.

(Left) President Joe Biden delivers remarks on canceling student debt at Culver City Julian Dixon Library in Culver City, Calif., on Feb. 21, 2024. (Right) Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump stands on stage during a campaign event at Big League Dreams Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nev., on Jan. 27, 2024. (Mario Tama/Getty Images; David Becker/Getty Images)

With Nikki Haley’s withdrawal, there will be no more significantly contested primaries or caucuses—the earliest both parties’ races have been over since something like the current primary-dominated system was put in place in 1972.

The primary results have spotlighted some of both nominees’ weaknesses.

Donald Trump lost high-income, high-educated constituencies, including the entire metro area—aka the Swamp. Many but by no means all Haley votes there were cast by Biden Democrats. Mr. Trump can’t afford to lose too many of the others in target states like Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Majorities and large minorities of voters in overwhelmingly Latino counties in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley and some in Houston voted against Joe Biden, and even more against Senate nominee Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas).

Returns from Hispanic precincts in New Hampshire and Massachusetts show the same thing. Mr. Biden can’t afford to lose too many Latino votes in target states like Arizona and Georgia.

When Mr. Trump rode down that escalator in 2015, commentators assumed he’d repel Latinos. Instead, Latino voters nationally, and especially the closest eyewitnesses of Biden’s open-border policy, have been trending heavily Republican.

High-income liberal Democrats may sport lawn signs proclaiming, “In this house, we believe ... no human is illegal.” The logical consequence of that belief is an open border. But modest-income folks in border counties know that flows of illegal immigrants result in disorder, disease, and crime.

There is plenty of impatience with increased disorder in election returns below the presidential level. Consider Los Angeles County, America’s largest county, with nearly 10 million people, more people than 40 of the 50 states. It voted 71 percent for Mr. Biden in 2020.

Current returns show county District Attorney George Gascon winning only 21 percent of the vote in the nonpartisan primary. He’ll apparently face Republican Nathan Hochman, a critic of his liberal policies, in November.

Gascon, elected after the May 2020 death of counterfeit-passing suspect George Floyd in Minneapolis, is one of many county prosecutors supported by billionaire George Soros. His policies include not charging juveniles as adults, not seeking higher penalties for gang membership or use of firearms, and bringing fewer misdemeanor cases.

The predictable result has been increased car thefts, burglaries, and personal robberies. Some 120 assistant district attorneys have left the office, and there’s a backlog of 10,000 unprosecuted cases.

More than a dozen other Soros-backed and similarly liberal prosecutors have faced strong opposition or have left office.

St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner resigned last May amid lawsuits seeking her removal, Milwaukee’s John Chisholm retired in January, and Baltimore’s Marilyn Mosby was defeated in July 2022 and convicted of perjury in September 2023. Last November, Loudoun County, Virginia, voters (62 percent Biden) ousted liberal Buta Biberaj, who declined to prosecute a transgender student for assault, and in June 2022 voters in San Francisco (85 percent Biden) recalled famed radical Chesa Boudin.

Similarly, this Tuesday, voters in San Francisco passed ballot measures strengthening police powers and requiring treatment of drug-addicted welfare recipients.

In retrospect, it appears the Floyd video, appearing after three months of COVID-19 confinement, sparked a frenzied, even crazed reaction, especially among the highly educated and articulate. One fatal incident was seen as proof that America’s “systemic racism” was worse than ever and that police forces should be defunded and perhaps abolished.

2020 was “the year America went crazy,” I wrote in January 2021, a year in which police funding was actually cut by Democrats in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Denver. A year in which young New York Times (NYT) staffers claimed they were endangered by the publication of Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-Ark.) opinion article advocating calling in military forces if necessary to stop rioting, as had been done in Detroit in 1967 and Los Angeles in 1992. A craven NYT publisher even fired the editorial page editor for running the article.

Evidence of visible and tangible discontent with increasing violence and its consequences—barren and locked shelves in Manhattan chain drugstores, skyrocketing carjackings in Washington, D.C.—is as unmistakable in polls and election results as it is in daily life in large metropolitan areas. Maybe 2024 will turn out to be the year even liberal America stopped acting crazy.

Chaos and disorder work against incumbents, as they did in 1968 when Democrats saw their party’s popular vote fall from 61 percent to 43 percent.

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times or ZeroHedge.

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The Coming Of The Police State In America

The Coming Of The Police State In America

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times,

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Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times,

The National Guard and the State Police are now patrolling the New York City subway system in an attempt to do something about the explosion of crime. As part of this, there are bag checks and new surveillance of all passengers. No legislation, no debate, just an edict from the mayor.

Many citizens who rely on this system for transportation might welcome this. It’s a city of strict gun control, and no one knows for sure if they have the right to defend themselves. Merchants have been harassed and even arrested for trying to stop looting and pillaging in their own shops.

The message has been sent: Only the police can do this job. Whether they do it or not is another matter.

Things on the subway system have gotten crazy. If you know it well, you can manage to travel safely, but visitors to the city who take the wrong train at the wrong time are taking grave risks.

In actual fact, it’s guaranteed that this will only end in confiscating knives and other things that people carry in order to protect themselves while leaving the actual criminals even more free to prey on citizens.

The law-abiding will suffer and the criminals will grow more numerous. It will not end well.

When you step back from the details, what we have is the dawning of a genuine police state in the United States. It only starts in New York City. Where is the Guard going to be deployed next? Anywhere is possible.

If the crime is bad enough, citizens will welcome it. It must have been this way in most times and places that when the police state arrives, the people cheer.

We will all have our own stories of how this came to be. Some might begin with the passage of the Patriot Act and the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security in 2001. Some will focus on gun control and the taking away of citizens’ rights to defend themselves.

My own version of events is closer in time. It began four years ago this month with lockdowns. That’s what shattered the capacity of civil society to function in the United States. Everything that has happened since follows like one domino tumbling after another.

It goes like this:

1) lockdown,

2) loss of moral compass and spreading of loneliness and nihilism,

3) rioting resulting from citizen frustration, 4) police absent because of ideological hectoring,

5) a rise in uncontrolled immigration/refugees,

6) an epidemic of ill health from substance abuse and otherwise,

7) businesses flee the city

8) cities fall into decay, and that results in

9) more surveillance and police state.

The 10th stage is the sacking of liberty and civilization itself.

It doesn’t fall out this way at every point in history, but this seems like a solid outline of what happened in this case. Four years is a very short period of time to see all of this unfold. But it is a fact that New York City was more-or-less civilized only four years ago. No one could have predicted that it would come to this so quickly.

But once the lockdowns happened, all bets were off. Here we had a policy that most directly trampled on all freedoms that we had taken for granted. Schools, businesses, and churches were slammed shut, with various levels of enforcement. The entire workforce was divided between essential and nonessential, and there was widespread confusion about who precisely was in charge of designating and enforcing this.

It felt like martial law at the time, as if all normal civilian law had been displaced by something else. That something had to do with public health, but there was clearly more going on, because suddenly our social media posts were censored and we were being asked to do things that made no sense, such as mask up for a virus that evaded mask protection and walk in only one direction in grocery aisles.

Vast amounts of the white-collar workforce stayed home—and their kids, too—until it became too much to bear. The city became a ghost town. Most U.S. cities were the same.

As the months of disaster rolled on, the captives were let out of their houses for the summer in order to protest racism but no other reason. As a way of excusing this, the same public health authorities said that racism was a virus as bad as COVID-19, so therefore it was permitted.

The protests had turned to riots in many cities, and the police were being defunded and discouraged to do anything about the problem. Citizens watched in horror as downtowns burned and drug-crazed freaks took over whole sections of cities. It was like every standard of decency had been zapped out of an entire swath of the population.

Meanwhile, large checks were arriving in people’s bank accounts, defying every normal economic expectation. How could people not be working and get their bank accounts more flush with cash than ever? There was a new law that didn’t even require that people pay rent. How weird was that? Even student loans didn’t need to be paid.

By the fall, recess from lockdown was over and everyone was told to go home again. But this time they had a job to do: They were supposed to vote. Not at the polling places, because going there would only spread germs, or so the media said. When the voting results finally came in, it was the absentee ballots that swung the election in favor of the opposition party that actually wanted more lockdowns and eventually pushed vaccine mandates on the whole population.

The new party in control took note of the large population movements out of cities and states that they controlled. This would have a large effect on voting patterns in the future. But they had a plan. They would open the borders to millions of people in the guise of caring for refugees. These new warm bodies would become voters in time and certainly count on the census when it came time to reapportion political power.

Meanwhile, the native population had begun to swim in ill health from substance abuse, widespread depression, and demoralization, plus vaccine injury. This increased dependency on the very institutions that had caused the problem in the first place: the medical/scientific establishment.

The rise of crime drove the small businesses out of the city. They had barely survived the lockdowns, but they certainly could not survive the crime epidemic. This undermined the tax base of the city and allowed the criminals to take further control.

The same cities became sanctuaries for the waves of migrants sacking the country, and partisan mayors actually used tax dollars to house these invaders in high-end hotels in the name of having compassion for the stranger. Citizens were pushed out to make way for rampaging migrant hordes, as incredible as this seems.

But with that, of course, crime rose ever further, inciting citizen anger and providing a pretext to bring in the police state in the form of the National Guard, now tasked with cracking down on crime in the transportation system.

What’s the next step? It’s probably already here: mass surveillance and censorship, plus ever-expanding police power. This will be accompanied by further population movements, as those with the means to do so flee the city and even the country and leave it for everyone else to suffer.

As I tell the story, all of this seems inevitable. It is not. It could have been stopped at any point. A wise and prudent political leadership could have admitted the error from the beginning and called on the country to rediscover freedom, decency, and the difference between right and wrong. But ego and pride stopped that from happening, and we are left with the consequences.

The government grows ever bigger and civil society ever less capable of managing itself in large urban centers. Disaster is unfolding in real time, mitigated only by a rising stock market and a financial system that has yet to fall apart completely.

Are we at the middle stages of total collapse, or at the point where the population and people in leadership positions wise up and decide to put an end to the downward slide? It’s hard to know. But this much we do know: There is a growing pocket of resistance out there that is fed up and refuses to sit by and watch this great country be sacked and taken over by everything it was set up to prevent.

Tyler Durden Sat, 03/09/2024 - 16:20

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