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  • Gold Reserve Act of 1934 — Federal Reserve History.
  • Nixon Ends Gold Convertibility (1971) — Federal Reserve History.
  • U.S. Treasury Names Bitcoin 'Digital Gold' — Forbes.
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  • Flexner, A. (1910). Medical Education in the United States and Canada. Carnegie Foundation Bulletin No. 4. — The original Flexner Report that evaluated 155 medical schools and led to closure of half of them.
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  • Beck, A.H. (2004). "The Flexner Report and the Standardization of American Medical Education." JAMA. 291(17):2139-2140. — Analysis of Flexner's impact on medical standardization and its disproportionate effect on women and minority doctors.
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  • American Medical Association — AMA history. — AMA's Council on Medical Education commissioned and supported the Flexner Report; AMA set licensing standards that became law.
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  • FDA — The Sulfanilamide Disaster (1937). — 107 deaths from Elixir Sulfanilamide (diethylene glycol poisoning) that triggered the 1938 Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act.
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  • FDA — Part II: 1938, Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act. — New law required pre-market safety proof for all drugs, giving FDA broad regulatory power.
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  • CMS — National Health Expenditure Accounts (Historical). — Official U.S. health spending estimates from 1960; shows pre-Medicare spending of ~$41B in 1965 and growth to $4.5T+ by 2022.
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  • CMS — NHE Fact Sheet (2024). — U.S. health spending reached $5.3T in 2024, up from $27B in 1960 — a 100x increase driven partly by Medicare/Medicaid third-party payer system.
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  • Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 (Pub.L. 93-222). — Original statute that formalized managed care, mandated employer dual-choice, and replaced the doctor-patient relationship with the corporate provider-member model.
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  • Wikipedia — Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973. — Nixon administration, Dr. Paul Ellwood's "less care = more money" incentive structure, and the HMO market transformation.
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  • Syntropy Institute. — Open infrastructure for decentralized, patient-controlled medicine — biohacking, functional medicine, and direct-to-consumer health data ownership.