Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  And that's true, but I think that the big bankruptcy in this country is the ethical bankruptcy. We are morally and ethically bankrupt as a nation. The results of that bankruptcy include skyrocketing rates of chronic disease, increased stress in daily life, reduced quality of life, growing social problems, the mass diagnosis of mental and behavioral disorders, a failing health care system, deep bankruptcy at the federal government level, and much more. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  It can only lead to one ultimate outcome: The bankruptcy of the U.S. government. It's not a question of if, but when. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  So if you want to be a fiscal patriot, go ahead and die early to save the government from bankruptcy. But if you want to be healthy, focus on those things you can control and make the best of them. This nation may end up flat broke, but at least you can walk away from it all with your health fully intact.
To me, that's a lot more valuable than a bunch of IOUs from a government that's already neck-deep in the tar pit of financial ruin. | | The only discussions on the table are about shifting money from one party to another, lowering prescription drug costs, passing the buck, shuffling around paperwork, and basically just changing who's accountable for the bankruptcy, rather than actually trying to make people healthy.
We need to start investing in prevention, but of course, as I've pointed out many times, if we actually had a healthy population, the government wouldn't be able to afford it. Taxes would have to go up considerably if the average lifespan increased by only five years. | | Regardless of what you believe on this issue, it's sort of a moot point, because our nation is going bankrupt anyway, and much of that bankruptcy is caused by health care costs. Today, our health care costs absorb 25 percent of our gross domestic product. One out of every four dollars is spent for healthcare, and that number is rising. It is bankrupting our nation, and just as significantly, it is reducing our competitiveness in the global marketplace. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | And that's true, but I think that the big bankruptcy in this country is the ethical bankruptcy. We are morally and ethically bankrupt as a nation. The results of that bankruptcy include skyrocketing rates of chronic disease, increased stress in daily life, reduced quality of life, growing social problems, the mass diagnosis of mental and behavioral disorders, a failing health care system, deep bankruptcy at the federal government level, and much more. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Frankly, I don't think our government has the financial sense to prevent bankruptcy in the first place. We're already bankrupt. Social security is already broke. What will it matter if the government is a little more bankrupt because people are living longer and collecting more social security? This massive government theft from private citizens is a system that's going to collapse anyway. Kiss your social security deposits goodbye if you're under 40. Chances are, you'll outlive social security's solvency by a long shot. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | For some families, filing for personal bankruptcy may be the only way to escape the debt they've piled up. However, the recent overhaul of federal bankruptcy laws makes it even tougher to extinguish those debts.
According to a Harvard study, illness and medical bills contributed to approximately half of the personal bankruptcy filings in 2001. More than 75% of the filers were insured when they incurred the debt that set them back, yet many lost coverage during their illness.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
If you have health insurance, there are a few things you can do to help avoid financial trouble. |
Melody Petersen
See book keywords and concepts |  Even having insurance was no longer a guarantee that families would avoid medical bills that threatened to send them into bankruptcy. Almost half of all personal bankruptcy filings in 2001 resulted from an illness or medical bills, according to a study by academics at Harvard. And more than three-quarters of those people said they had been covered by insurance when illness struck.
The surging cost of medical care was limiting opportunity in the land of opportunity. Some would-be entrepreneurs stayed in jobs that offered health benefits rather than set out on their own. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Not coincidentally, health problems are the major driver of bankruptcy, and then bankruptcy cycles back to be a major driver of more stress-related health problems. That's why it's important to create some kind of emotional comfort zone with money-that is, just the feeling that you have some sort of nest egg can ease your stress. And that's why socking away 10 percent of your income every month (or at least $100 every month) can start the process of giving you a backup plan. |
Michael J. Panzner
See book keywords and concepts |  But as circumstances deteriorate, the potential for fraud, bankruptcy, and various other counterparty risks will grow, making the trade-off more precarious.
And because they are equities, mining company stocks also will be vulnerable to the liquidation pressures affecting share prices overall, as well as to fundamental operating factors such as rising interest rates, which will impact most businesses and sectors. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Buy wine from the wineries, buy cacao from a farmer-owned cooperative, and seek out ways to get your food, clothing, personal care products and other items from a source that actually supports local farmers rather than driving them into bankruptcy.
Many macadamia nut farms in Hawaii that used to exist five years ago just gave up and either sold their farms to the large nut processing companies like Hershey's or turned them into coffee farms in order break even. Some of the farms opened up bed-and-breakfasts to try to rent out their rooms just to make ends meet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Many cities and states are right now facing the very real possibility of bankruptcy due to health care costs (providing benefits to current and former government employees). A large percentage of those costs are spent on monopoly-priced pharmaceuticals. This Dorgan amendment would set city and state governments free to finally engage in fundamental free market price comparisons and save substantial sums of money in sourcing the very same chemical medications for their employees and retirees. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Many corporations, city governments and states are headed to near-certain financial bankruptcy in large part due to monopoly pricing on prescription drugs. The near-collapse of the U.S. auto industry, for example, is largely due to health care costs. General Motors spends more on health insurance than it does on steel. The cost of doing business in the United States is now unbearable for many companies, and they're fleeing to other countries where health care costs are a fraction of U.S. costs.
Fifteen Democratic and thirty-three Republican senators believe U.S. |
Michael J. Panzner
See book keywords and concepts | | In a typical example, the side assuming the risk sells protection covering the value of a bond or other obligation in case a default, bankruptcy, or other "credit event" occurs. In exchange, the buyer of what is essentially a form of insurance pays an annual fee over the life of the agreement and, in some cases, another amount up front, with the total depending on the degree of perceived risk of the underlying borrower. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  It's going to take courage, honesty and ethics to get this done, but the alternative is to lose our nation to a dark future of medical tyranny, bankruptcy and despair.
Conventional medicine, as practiced today, has truly become the No. 1 obstacle to the health of the American people. Get medicine out of the way, and we would all be healthier, happier and better off. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  In fact, many new legislative initiatives have been designed precisely to protect the profits of private industry (the Cheeseburger Bill designed to make fast food companies immune to lawsuits, the mandatory mental health screening initiative designed to hook more children on prescription drugs, the new bankruptcy laws that make it more difficult for consumers to file for bankruptcy, etc.)
It's not enough to say that Big Business and Big Government are in bed together... they are, in fact, nearly indistinguishable. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The end result of all this is not in question by any serious thinker: Widespread bankruptcy, disease pandemics, environmental collapse and a bursting of the food production bubble.
Papua New Guinea may ultimatey emerge as one of the few successful, sustainable nations in the world. If you're not sure why, I urge you to read Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, and then study the history of human civilization from a geographic viewpoint. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The American empire will be no different: It will drown in its own greed and corruption, collapsing into a state of moral and financial bankruptcy, and then will likely be reborn as a series of smaller nation-states like the Washington / Oregon / Idaho / Northern California region that has very different values and interests than, say, the Texas region. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Congress is to creating a future of death, disease and bankruptcy for the American people. You gotta give 'em kudos on consistency, however. At least the lawmakers are predictable.
Welcome to the United States of Big Pharma.
Comments by Byron Richards
On Wednesday, July 11, 2007 the House passed HR.2900 without allowing the Ron Paul (R-TX) amendments to protect dietary supplements. Representatives Frank Pallone, Jr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The future of these people is easy to see: Cancer, diabetes, heart disease, chemotherapy, pharmaceuticals, pain, death and bankruptcy.
Thankfully, there are other people who believe in taking care of their health and in living informed lives with outstanding health. For these people, there are living foods, superfoods, raw cacao, sprouts, rainforest herbs, sunshine, juicing and joyful exercise. Their future is also clear: Exceptional mental performance, freedom from chronic pain, excellent vitality and longevity, spiritual awareness, abundant living and much more. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Little by little, the plantation owner enslaved the indentured servants in a never-ending cycle of debt that could only be repaid by a lifetime of work ending in death and bankruptcy.
Sound familiar? Americans are trapped in a lifetime of medical debt being paid to wealthy drug corporations. If you live in America and need medicine, the FDA and Big Pharma are doing everything in their power to make sure you have no choice but to buy it from "the company store" -- the monopoly-controlled U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | The results of that bankruptcy include skyrocketing rates of chronic disease, increased stress in daily life, reduced quality of life, growing social problems, the mass diagnosis of mental and behavioral disorders, a failing health care system, deep bankruptcy at the federal government level, and much more.
I find it astonishing that even in our public schools, children can go through 12 years of so-called "education" and not receive a single class on ethics. Unless they happen to have gifted teachers, they're never told about honesty or the power of doing good deeds for others. |
Michael J. Panzner
See book keywords and concepts | | Hence, when the same newspaper noted that "[t]he nation could soon face its worst fiscal crisis since at least 1983, when Social Security bordered on bankruptcy," the federal entitlement system clearly had become a cancer, growing more dangerous with each passing year. Standard & Poor's warned, in the summer of 2006, that if current fiscal trends prevail, the U.S. sovereign credit rating could easily decline from AAA to A or BBB in the decade ahead.
Yet efforts at reform, including attempts by the George W. Bush administration to privatize Social Security, have gone nowhere. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | The results of that bankruptcy include skyrocketing rates of chronic disease, increased stress in daily life, reduced quality of life, growing social problems, the mass diagnosis of mental and behavioral disorders, a failing health care system, deep bankruptcy at the federal government level, and much more.
I find it astonishing that even in our public schools, children can go through 12 years of so-called "education" and not receive a single class on ethics. Unless they happen to have gifted teachers, they're never told about honesty or the power of doing good deeds for others. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  When the largest banks desperately need high interest rate loans to bail themselves out of bankruptcy, you know something is seriously wrong with the debt bubble...)
Oil is now flirting with $100 a barrel, a price level that virtually all economists and politicians thought was laughable just two years ago. But smart-minded economics like Stephen Leeb saw this coming well ahead of the masses. If you want to know what's in the picture for the near future, I recommend Leeb's newest book: The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel. |
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