(NaturalNews) The great lumbering health care reform gears are in motion in Washington D.C., and the Big Government machine is spitting out a new recipe for the bankruptcy of America: A "health care reform" bill that pleases all the special interest groups and pharmaceutical companies but does nothing to improve the health of ordinary Americans.
Health care reform in Washington today isn't about health, or reform. It's about mandating monopoly-priced western medicine for the masses. It's about fining people who wisely opt out of the criminally-operated
health insurance industry, and it's designed to keep the American people sick and diseased while emptying their pockets of any remaining earnings they might have somehow squirreled away during the ongoing financial / real estate crash.
For starters, this Senate
health reform bill would financially penalize people who take care of their own
health and choose not to hand over $1,000 or month (or more) to a corrupt, criminally-operated health
insurance system. This is a bill that actually
punishes people for staying healthy! At the same time, it just happens to expand the monopoly of
western medicine to encompass the entire U.S.
population, criminalizing those who have opted out of the failed
health care system.
The other joke in this
health care reform is the idea of a new government-run health plan, which is being hilariously presented as a way to "drive down
costs."
Since when has
Big Government ever been able to drive down the costs of anything? It was Big Government, under the Bush administration, that actually made it illegal for
government to negotiate price discounts with drug
companies, locking in monopoly prices that filled the coffers of
Big Pharma while bankrupting the taxpayers.
Even now, the FDA (under the
Obama administration) continues its outright war against the natural products
industry, censoring truthful
information about the health benefits of dietary supplements in a tyrannical effort to eliminate Big Pharma's competition. This has the effect of eliminating choice for consumers, ultimately driving up monopoly
health care costs under the system of western
medicine that (laughingly) claims to provide health care today.
Life is a pre-existing condition
The one good thing in the current discussions about health care
reform is the idea of barring insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. Because, after all, who doesn't have a pre-existing condition? Simply being born is a pre-existing condition, isn't it? (Hospitals consider pregnancy and childbirth to be medical emergencies requiring
drugs and surgery...)
According to drug-pushing psychiatrists, life itself is a pre-existing condition requiring pharmaceutical intervention. Merely experiencing emotions like sadness or
happiness (or too much happiness followed by too much sadness) is a
disease, they claim. Where are the
reforms that would outlaw this psych drugging nonsense?
Meanwhile, there is nothing in these reforms that would actually teach Americans how to be healthy. Where are the calls for the arrest and imprisonment of Big Pharma executives, corrupt
FDA officials and rogue FTC enforcers who have indirectly caused the deaths of millions of Americans through their war on
natural remedies? Where is the ban on pharmaceutical TV ads, or the requirement that medical studies practice something resembling honest science instead of just making up whatever numbers they want and submitting those to medical journals for publication?
Why is aspartame still legal? Or monosodium glutamate? Or Ritalin? Where are the real reforms that Americans desperately need to raise a generation of healthy children?
Those reforms, of course, are never to be discussed. They would threaten the profits of too many powerful food and
drug corporations. So they aren't even part of the discussion.
My own Health Revolution Petition (
www.HealthRevolutionPetition.org) is the real pathway to health reform in
America. And yet even that petition is still a long way from the needed 100,000 signatures. That's because good ideas don't get much traction in mainstream America these days. Now, if I had a movie about teenage vampires (Twilight), that would get some traction. But sensible ideas about helping teens get healthy are utterly ignored.
The last sputtering gasp of western medicine in America
I've watched the health care situation in America quite closely for the past five years, and it's not difficult to see where this is heading.
The political whores and sellouts in
Washington routinely and predictably trade your future for their own short-term political gain, and that means selling out to medical special interest groups that thrive on disease and disinformation.
The last thing these people want is a healthy population that needs fewer medical services. They don't want a cure for cancer. They don't want natural
remedies for reversing heart disease. They don't want kids to be healthy and happy without drugs.
What they want is
a nation of drug addicts who play the role of helpless medical system dependants. They want people to be uninformed, nutritionally ignorant and irreversibly diseased because that's the way they make more
money and stay in power.
And that's why health care reform in America is ultimately about appeasing the special interest groups of the medical-pharmaceutical-agriculture industrial complex. It's all about keeping them in power (and in the money), and it has absolutely nothing to do with improving the health of a single American.
Yes, health care in America today is a disaster. But the last thing it needs is more Big Government running the show. Think about where our nation is headed right now with Big Government:
• Big Government now owns 50% of the
homes in America (through the bailout fiasco involving Freddie and Fannie).
• Big Government now owns the biggest
banks and investment houses in America.
• Big Government wants to become the landlord-in-chief by turning homeowners into
home renters, where half the population rents from the government (and has no ownership of the homes in which they live).
• Big Government now runs a significant portion of the auto industry.
• And now, Big Government wants to run the health care system, too!
How is this not some strange brand of American Communism? When government owns (and runs) everything, and the free choice of the citizens is stripped from them,
you no longer have a free country; you have Communism.
And that, unfortunately, is where America is headed: The land of the medical-financial-economic dictatorship, where all decisions are made for you by Big Brother, and free citizens who exercise free choice are either fined or imprisoned. It's already happening with vaccines and cancer treatments. Just wait to see what happens when you dare say "no" to the new Obama health insurance plan!
Health care dictatorship
This new "health care reform" bill might as well be called the
health care dictatorship bill. They say it will cover all Americans. Yes, it will, but it will cover them in a smokescreen of sickness and
bankruptcy, accelerating the rapid decline of the American empire and trapping its people in a quagmire of medical enslavement from which the nation will never escape.
We are, in a very real sense, watching the slow, miserable death of a nation. Between its insurmountable financial problems ($12 trillion in
debt right now, and nearly another $100 billion each month) and its health care failures (widespread degenerative disease now dominates the American population), America has positioned itself as a geopolitical
failure of truly historic proportions. Yet instead of working to actually solve its problems, America has decided to spend more debt money, drug more people, take over more banks, print more fictitious money and hurl itself head-first into a brick wall with even more rapidity than anyone had previously thought possible.
It's almost as if America's leaders can't wait to kill the nation, and they'd love to take a few million more citizens with them.
The philosophy in Washington today is like this:
• If the debt is too great to bear, spend more debt money!
• If health care is a disaster due to the monopolistic medical industry, enforce the
monopoly nationwide!
• If the financial system isn't working because of bad decisions made by
investors, just make bigger and "badder" decisions at a higher level! (And bail out the investors while you're at it.)
• If the money runs out, just print more!
Such is the mindset dominating America's decisions today. They are beyond reckless. They are hopelessly suicidal. And what we're seeing with health care reform today is merely a reflection of the national suicide being committed by our ethically-compromised representatives in Washington who would rather shore up their own six-year terms than help protect the next hundred years for the very people they hypocritically claim to represent.
About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health author and award-winning journalist with a strong interest in personal health, the environment and the power of nature to help us all heal He has authored more than 1,800 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the world who are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his articles. Adams is a trusted, independent journalist who receives no money or promotional fees whatsoever to write about other companies' products. In 2010, Adams launched NaturalNews.TV, a natural health video site featuring videos on holistic health and green living. He also founded an environmentally-friendly online retailer called BetterLifeGoods.com that uses retail profits to help support consumer advocacy programs. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded a personalized mass email software product used to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams also serves as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit consumer protection group, and enjoys outdoor activities, nature photography, Pilates and martial arts training. He's also author of numerous health books published by Truth Publishing and is the creator of several consumer-oriented grassroots campaigns, including the Spam. Don't Buy It! campaign, and the free downloadable Honest Food Guide. He also created the free reference sites HerbReference.com and HealingFoodReference.com. Adams believes in free speech, free access to nutritional supplements and the ending of corporate control over medicines, genes and seeds.
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