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<li><a href="https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/gold-reserve-act" target="_blank">Gold Reserve Act of 1934 — Federal Reserve History.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/gold-convertibility-ends" target="_blank">Nixon Ends Gold Convertibility (1971) — Federal Reserve History.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/12/08/us-treasury-names-bitcoin-digital-gold-after-price-explosion/" target="_blank">U.S. Treasury Names Bitcoin 'Digital Gold' — Forbes.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2567554/" target="_blank">Flexner, A. (1910). Medical Education in the United States and Canada. Carnegie Foundation Bulletin No. 4.</a> — The original Flexner Report that evaluated 155 medical schools and led to closure of half of them.</li>
<li><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/198677" target="_blank">Beck, A.H. (2004). "The Flexner Report and the Standardization of American Medical Education." JAMA. 291(17):2139-2140.</a> — Analysis of Flexner's impact on medical standardization and its disproportionate effect on women and minority doctors.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/about/ama-history/ama-history" target="_blank">American Medical Association — AMA history.</a> — AMA's Council on Medical Education commissioned and supported the Flexner Report; AMA set licensing standards that became law.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/histories-product-regulation/sulfanilamide-disaster" target="_blank">FDA — The Sulfanilamide Disaster (1937).</a> — 107 deaths from Elixir Sulfanilamide (diethylene glycol poisoning) that triggered the 1938 Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/changes-science-law-and-regulatory-authorities/part-ii-1938-food-drug-cosmetic-act" target="_blank">FDA — Part II: 1938, Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act.</a> — New law required pre-market safety proof for all drugs, giving FDA broad regulatory power.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-reports/national-health-expenditure-data/historical" target="_blank">CMS — National Health Expenditure Accounts (Historical).</a> — Official U.S. health spending estimates from 1960; shows pre-Medicare spending of ~$41B in 1965 and growth to $4.5T+ by 2022.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-reports/national-health-expenditure-data/nhe-fact-sheet" target="_blank">CMS — NHE Fact Sheet (2024).</a> — 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.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.congress.gov/93/statute/STATUTE-87/STATUTE-87-Pg914.pdf" target="_blank">Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 (Pub.L. 93-222).</a> — Original statute that formalized managed care, mandated employer dual-choice, and replaced the doctor-patient relationship with the corporate provider-member model.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Maintenance_Organization_Act_of_1973" target="_blank">Wikipedia — Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973.</a> — Nixon administration, Dr. Paul Ellwood's "less care = more money" incentive structure, and the HMO market transformation.</li>
<li><a href="https://syntropy.institute/" target="_blank">Syntropy Institute.</a> — Open infrastructure for decentralized, patient-controlled medicine — biohacking, functional medicine, and direct-to-consumer health data ownership.</li>
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<div class="refs-back"><button id="refsBackBtn" onclick="document.getElementById('sceneRefs').classList.remove('visible');var c=window.refsCaller;if(c==='scene7b'||c==='scene8b'||c==='scene4a'||c==='scene4b'||c==='scene4c'||c==='scene4d'||c==='scene4e'||c==='scene5'||c==='scene10a'||c==='scene10b'||c==='scene10c'||c==='scene10d'||c==='scene10e'||c==='scene11')document.getElementById(c).style.display='flex';window.refsCaller=null;">BACK</button></div>
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