John J. Ratey, MD
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 THE LIFE LIST
Much of the public discourse on aging focuses on baby boomers becoming senior citizens and the belief that their vast numbers will take an unprecedented toll on the health care system, in the form of dementia and other costly health problems. But I don't believe we're stuck with this picture of doom and gloom. Despite my generation's familiarity with fast food and pay per view, we also came of age with Kenneth Cooper's revolutionary concept of aerobics. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Personally, I opted out of the American health care system long ago. I'm a holistic nutritionist, and I exercise, eat right, get lots of sunshine and gorge on superfoods and raw berries. I have no need for a doctor, or a pharmaceutical, or a health insurance policy. I don't get annual physical exams, and I have zero risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes or other common health conditions. (I posted my health statistics at www.HealthRanger.org if you want to see my blood workup.)
At the same time, I realize that not everybody is in such a fortunate health position. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Lie #7: The U.S. health care system is the best in the world.
Truth #7: The health of U.S. citizens is actually the worst of any industrialized nation. We pay double, triple, and even quadruple the price for prescription drugs as any other country. We also have the highest rates of obesity, Alzheimer's, cancer and diabetes, plus the highest health insurance costs in the world. The U.S. health care system ("sick care system") is so bad that people are fleeing the country to seek medical services in Asia. It's a trend called "medical tourism," and it's flourishing.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's interesting that even nurses and health practitioners are fed up with the current greed-based health care system that operates in America today. Doctors are buried under insurance paperwork (which takes up about 70% - 80% of the staff at a given clinic or hospital), insurance companies play the "we won't pay" game with everybody, and the people end up paying for insurance that won't cover them when they need it anyway. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Without question, the healthiest people in the United States are those who operate outside the health care system. Health care reform doesn't matter to them, because they've already reformed their own health! They make informed choices about foods, medicines and exercise. They don't see M.D.s, and many don't even carry health insurance. They are skeptical, informed and healthy consumers. They're the kind of people who read NewsTarget. And it's an honor to write for people like you. You are the only hope for the possibility of a brighter future in the United States and around the world. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you think there's anything resembling "health" or "care" in our modern health care system, you're dangerously underinformed. The system is an out-of-control profit-accumulating machine that, right now, harms far more people than it helps. It has become a corporate empire where profits, not patients, come first. And drug companies now exercise astonishing degrees of control over the FDA, the USDA, the DEA, medical schools, doctors, media outlets and non-profit groups.
The way out
How do we end this medical madness? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Moore is an independent thinker who simply refuses to follow the crowd, and with this film, he's doing the job that the American people should have been doing all along -- questioning the sanity of our health care system. But sadly, the truth is that most Americans are sheeple who just follow the herd and do what they're told. A recent poll revealed that nearly 45% of Americans still trust the FDA! That's astounding, given that I've solidly established the Food and Drug Administration is far more dangerous to the health and safety of the American people than all the terrorists in the world. |
| Moore is simply pointing out what's wrong with America's health care system, and he does so brilliantly and convincingly, regardless of his own personal health status. And besides, if you want to argue about the health of "experts," just walk into any hospital and take a look at the health of all the people who work there. Many aren't any healthier than Moore, and they work in the industry! The average lifespan of a U.S. doctor is less than a Cuban peasant. That's not a joke. |
| It reveals the deep-rooted corruption in America's health care system and explains why the whole system was actually designed to deny health care to the American people.
I've been ranting about America's health care failures for years, and as I've consistently stated to the amazement of some, the health care corporations actually have a plan to keep people sick. There's no money in preventing disease, especially in the cancer industry. |
| What's wrong with America's health care system?
SiCKO is a must-see documentary
SiCKO creator Michael Moore answers that all-important question in his best documentary yet. Forget whatever criticism you may have heard about SiCKO -- this is a Michael Moore masterpiece: A courageous, impactful and outrageous documentary that exposes the arrogance of modern medicine and the utter failure of America's corporate-controlled sick care system to provide decent health care to the people. Watching this movie will leave you either steaming mad or shedding tears (or both). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| REPPED: Starting June 29th, the launch day of the SiCKO documentary, nurses, doctors and other health care practitioners are launching a national campaign to urge support for a shift to a universal health care system. They'll be handing out flyers and recruiting people to support a campaign to shift America away from its current greed-based system of medicine to one that offers universal health care to everyone. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Hidden Dangers of Gastric Bypass Surgery
Edward Livingston, MD, Hudson-Penn Chair in Surgery, professor and chairman of gastrointestinal and endocrine surgery, University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine, Dallas, and chairman of the bariatric surgery work group, Department of Veterans Affairs' national health care system.
David Zingmond, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, Center for Surgical Outcomes and Quality, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles.
The Journal of the American Medical Association. |
Andreas Moritz
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 As a nation, the United States has become dependent upon a health care system that makes us sicker and which has become unaffordable for most, while pushing the country to the brink of financial ruin. Although we spend more on health care than do most developing countries taken together, 65 percent of the population is unhealthy and suffers from one health problem or another.
Never before have we had such a strong need to live a balanced life, but relatively few manage to do so. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 Because Peter was dealing with energetic structures, albeit quantum ones, and not the specific parts of the physical body per se, the clinical emphasis of the NES health care system is focused at the energetic systems level, not the physical symptoms level. The Infoceuticals do not directly affect anything physical in the body, for all of the organs and physiological processes and such are subsystems of the larger body, which itself is under the control, energetically, of the full body-field. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 That smoking and obesity account for more than one in three deaths should redirect the teaching of medicine, the considerable efforts of our health care system, and change the very nature of medical practice, for, as we shall see in chapter 8, physicians still give little attention to what are somewhat dismissively called "lifestyle" problems.
THOUGHTS ABOUT THE EXPERIMENT
A few days later conversation about the thought experiment resumed, this time in the car.
"I admit that it's an interesting idea," Fran said, "but there's something suspicious about it." She paused. |
| It is also popular these days to write about problems with our health care system, particularly about medicine's high cost, or inequalities in health care delivery—reducing individual physicians "to bits of flotsam on a great economic current," sniffed one editor of a prominent scholarly journal.28 Our book does not address these issues, though they are of central import to sociologists. Nor do we give much attention to the significant problems of race and gender inequities in health care. So what do we hope to accomplish? |
| The periodic physical may not only reassure the patient, it might also keep them loyal—prevent them from "falling through the system's cracks"—to the health care system. After this craven promotion of self-interest, the editorial continued: "The regular laying-on of hands and stethoscope (and maybe phlebotomy needle [drawing blood from a vein], too) is not a needless ritual if it fosters trusting clinical relationships."21
Thus, we see that the goal of "trust" in and of itself becomes the reason, perhaps the primary reason, for doing—and justifying—the routine physical. |
| In 2006, the American College of Physicians warned that "primary care, the backbone of he nation's health care system, is at grave risk of collapse. The report dwelled on patient dissatisfaction, mostly related to difficulties in timely access, as well as physician dissatisfaction, mostly related to financial issues. Whatever the reason, fewer and fewer medical students are choosing a career in primary care. Between 1997 and 2005, graduates entering family practice residencies dropped by 50%."
What are the implications of this trend for our thought experiment? |
| As it happens, emergency rooms have two separate roles within the health care system. The first is the obvious one, as providers of emergency care. Thus, as in all other chapters, we ask: what actually happens in the ER?3 and how many lives are saved? The second role of the ER is a safety net provider for vulnerable populations: the uninsured, those on Medicaid, and minorities. The question for this book then becomes: Is this latter function appropriate for the ER? and how does this second role affect the first one?
Let us examine this second set of questions first. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Their health care system is free for all citizens, and doctors receive bonuses for keeping their patients healthy and teaching them how to stay that way.]
Almost all prescribed drugs have a suppressive effect. This means that they interfere with the body's attempt to break down the very toxins that make it susceptible to disease-causing agents. To regain its balance, the body has to create a toxicity crisis, or disease. The current trend is toward chronic illness among today's youth, even in countries that have had excellent health records until recently. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| While no health care system is perfect, the fact is that thousands of people have found their health and well-being immeasurably improved by using the NES Infoceuticals. Many have found relief from chronic conditions that allopathic medicine could not treat.
We hope, too, that we have whetted the appetite of frontier researchers to join us in exploring these intriguing new directions in biology and health care. The field is rich almost beyond imagining. We at Nutri-Energetics Systems—a young company of people dedicated to changing the paradigm in health care—think big. |
Andreas Moritz
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| What we need most in today's health care system is to encourage a balanced lifestyle right from the beginning of a person's life. This will help everyone to maintain the vital energy of the body on a continual basis. Vital energy is made available throughout the body by Vata—the principal power of movement in the body.
Vata—The Power of Movement
Ayurvedic medicine has always had a very thorough understanding of the human body and its intricate functions. Thousands of years ago, Ayurveda proclaimed that the main cause of ill health and premature death is located in the bowel. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Harvard University Department of Psychiatry Depression and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital covered by the country's national health care system, and in fact is the number one prescribed antidepressant in Germany and most of Europe.
According to noted expert Steven Bratman, M.D., author of the excellent reference book The Natural Pharmacy, St. John's Wort has a scientific record approaching that of many prescription drugs, and is effective in about 55 percent of cases. |
Anne Harrington
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 In fact, patients like Linda, lacking clear physical markers of disease, are generally not taken seriously by their doctors:
Over the years I've learned that almost every aspect of our health care system is more responsive to the needs of patients with major organ failure. We miss the mark for those who fear they have a serious yet undiagnosed disease and who have unexplained pain, weakness, fatigue, headaches, mood changes, or interrupted sleep. ... To the extent that they cannot function, they are truly disabled. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Even though we may have eaten to excess, smoked until we were blue, drunk copious amounts of alcohol for years, we expect our health care system to remedy the results of that behavior — pronto. "Give me a pill, a shot, whatever," has become our collective mantra. Or as the old phrase goes, "Better living through chemistry!" The majority of Americans have been divorced from their natural instincts. We mistakenly believe that our ills can be cured through science and medicine. Some can, that's true, but most cannot.
Advances in science and medicine give us a false sense of success. |
| Take Responsibility for Your Body and Health
A s convenient as it would be to place sole responsibility for these problems on the physicians, the pharmaceutical industry, the FDA and the drug approval process, or on our health care system, it would not solve the problem. Only you can take responsibility for your own body and your health. You must be active and vigilant.
Our bodies are composed of 11 extremely complicated systems that include the skeletal, muscular, integumentary, circulatory, nervous, respiratory, digestive, excretory, reproductive, endocrine and immune systems. |
| This strains the health care system and diverts much needed resources and research. It goes far beyond the destruction of individual health and well-being and extends to the undoing of society itself.
Consider what an incredible impact could be made if we actually practiced preventive medicine rather than focused on (and paid for) drugs and surgery once the patient is already ill. The 2007 estimates for direct and indirect costs associated with cardiovascular disease are $431.8 billion and $66.4 billion for high blood pressure. |
| That our health care system does not provide any plan for prevention, and we are getting sicker and sicker, spending more to treat disease than ever before in our history, is negligent and unnecessary. Americans spent approximately $2 trillion on health care in 2004, up over 100 percent from a paltry $962 billion in 1994. Someone is making big money on our deteriorating health. |
| Rather than create a viable model that actually benefits all Americans, our politicians, operating under the narcotic influence of health care industry lobbyists armed with tons of cash, have allowed the creation of the costliest health care system in the world. Despite the high cost, the World Health Organization ranked the U.S. 37th out of 191 countries. We are not getting what we paid for, or we are paying for the wrong things. It is enough to give one a migraine. |
Melody Petersen
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 More and more dollars were flowing out of Iowans' pockets and savings accounts into the amalgam of hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, laboratories, insurers, and medical companies known as the health care system. There actually didn't appear to be much that was systematic about this "system." Every one of its profit-making members seemed to be out for itself.
The good times enjoyed by this medical complex could be seen starting with the giant construction crane working above Mercy Hospital in downtown Des Moines in the summer of 2005. |
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