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Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer Shannon Brownlee See book keywords and concepts

By 1999, a vast majority of people who were insured by their employers were enrolled in managed care plans, the so-called solution to America's health care crisis, yet health care costs were once again rising at double-digit rates. Despite the fact that managed care's grip had loosened, Peabody found himself feeling angry all the time. Angry at his colleagues.

Why Michael Moore's SiCKO is a health care documentary every American must see Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I predict America will not survive its health care crisis. It won't be the first empire to crumble from arrogance and corruption. In fact, it will join a long (and growing) list of civilizations that have risen and fallen, securing its place in the pages of history as yet another imperialist nation that thought it could rule the world while abandoning the needs of its own people. The bottom line on SiCKO It's a must-see documentary. It's surprisingly even-handed and well grounded, never resorting to unsubstantiated claims merely to shock the audience.

Kevin Trudeau's Natural Cures book review Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Null were in charge of the health of our nation, and could have free reign to change public policy to enact genuine health reforms, he'd have this country out of its health care crisis in less than ten years. If there's anyone who deserves the national spotlight on health, it's Dr. Null. But he's not the only one who deserves a little recognition. Guys like Dr. Julian Whitaker, Dr. Sidney Wolfe (of Public Citizen), Dr. David Williams, Dr. Bruce West, Dr. Jonathan Wright, Dr. Elson Haas and many others have been fighting this battle for decades. Heck, even I'm a relative newcomer to this arena.

Be a fiscal patriot: die early and save your government from bankruptcy Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We have a worsening health care crisis in this country, and yet no one is talking about real solutions. 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.

Where's the health in health care reform? Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It's not the system that's good or bad; it's the idea that you can wiggle your way out of the health care crisis just by shuffling paperwork around and changing who's writing the checks to cover the costs. Health care reform: Money vs. people Now, let's get serious about this: If you want to reform health care, what are you really talking about here? You're talking about two things: Cost and people. And that's the order that most people think of them in, by the way. It's the money first. Why? As a nation, we're going bankrupt.

Politicians and power brokers are counting on this disease to pay some salaries, make some profit, pocket some cash and to keep them in office because when there's a health care crisis going on, somebody can always get elected by promising a solution, regardless of whether or not that solution makes any sense. Any real solution to health care must involve addressing health; any solution that addresses health must challenge the status quo; any solution that challenges the status quo will be viciously attacked by the interests that already hold positions of power and profit in our nation.

Pretend medicine: Let's play doctor! Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

As all this unfolds, of course, the mainstream media will pretend to offer objective reporting on the health care crisis, relying on journalists who pretend to actually know something about health. Conventional medicine exists in a fantasy world. While cancer groups, researchers and drug companies promise enhanced health and quality of life, the reality is far different: Accelerating chronic disease, skyrocketing health care costs that are putting U.S.

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele See book keywords and concepts

America's health care crisis can be cured, and, unlike almost every other major challenge facing the nation, it can be solved without spending more money. We already invest enough of our national wealth on medical care. The plan should be to treat this crisis as seriously as if it were an epidemic, and to redirect resources where they belong—into taking care of the health needs of every American. t was billed as a "Garage Sale for Mason." By the time all the donations had come in, no garage could hold them.

Innocent Casualties : The FDA's War Against Humanity Elaine Feuer See book keywords and concepts

A $30 MILLION GOVERNMENT STUDY The 1990s health care crisis may have been averted if Americans had been told in 1971 about the Department of Agriculture's Benefits From Human Nutrition Research study. In 1970, health care in the United States accounted for $67.2 billion, 7 percent of the GNP; death rates for most illnesses were higher in the United States than in other countries of comparable economic development. In 1993, health care accounted for 14 percent of the GNP, and death rates still remained higher than in other industrialized countries.

The Politics of Cancer Revisited Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

These costs are major factors in the current health care crisis, with per-case Medicare payments exceeding those of any other disease. We express further concerns that the generously funded cancer establishment, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the American Cancer Society (ACS) and some twenty comprehensive cancer centers, have misled and confused the public and Congress by repeated claims that we are winning the war against cancer.

The Vitamin Revolution in Health Care Michael Janson, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Your Personal Power for Health The intensity of debate in government circles that revolves around solving the "health care crisis" is misguided, misinformed, and misnamed. It has nothing to do with health, but is really an effort to find ways to pay for the excess disease care that too many Americans need. They need this extra care because they do not take proper care of their personal health. You can personally do more than the entire government toward solving the health crisis and the cost of medical care—simply by taking care of yourself and decreasing your own costs of health care.

Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy skepticism about national health care Jane M. Orient, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

One cause of the supposed health care crisis is said to be the behavior of doctors. There are bad doctors, and there are others who are not as efficient, cost-conscious, or cooperative (compliant) as they should be. The idea is to force them to be better. Yes, the actual word force is used, although sometimes it is called "education" or "incentives." Two of the "bad" character traits that need fixing are: a tendency toward deviance (wanting to do things their own way) and greed (wanting to be paid for their work).

Health Care Meltdown: Confronting The Myths and Fixing Our Failing System Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H. See book keywords and concepts

Defenders of our current health care system tout the myth that everyone in America, including the uninsured, has access to care through the emergency rooms (see Chapter 1, Myth #1), so there's no health care crisis (Myth #2). The uninsured are not hurting. Yet nearly every epidemiological study done on health care in America has shown that the uninsured have much higher morbidity and mortality than the insured.2 The discrepancy, moreover, is not just related to social class or economic status.

A favorite theme of some right-wing pundits is to deny that America has a health care crisis. This line of rhetoric assumes that the system must be functioning well since it works for 85 or 90 percent of Americans. It is still true that, for people with good health insurance and good connections to our health care system, the quality of the care they receive can be excellent. In an opinion piece that appeared in American Medical News, Richard F. Corlin, MD, the president of the AMA, extolled the medical care he received when he was traveling and suffered a collapsed lung. He concluded that, "..

Do We Still Need Doctors?: A Physician's Personal Account of Practicing Medicine Today John D. Lantos, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

There was a time, not so long ago in our national life, when discussion of our national health care crisis focused on problems of access. Buoyant with postwar optimism, we created an army of doctors and dentists and nurses that embarked upon the medical equivalent of the Normandy invasion. We created a national research initiative that embarked on the medical equivalent of the Manhattan Project. We imagined these projects to be finite—that once we had a hospital in every town, some doctors to staff it, and some new antibiotics to deliver in it, the project would be over, the war would be won.

Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy skepticism about national health care Jane M. Orient, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

GETTING IT WRONG Most proposed remedies for the "health care crisis" are snake oil, and you shouldn't swallow them. There, I have already made an absolute statement in the very title of this chapter. (People offended by a belief in an absolute have been warned.) In mathematics and the hard sciences, problems have a right answer. That's one thing I like about them. There are also an infinite number of wrong answers. The difference between right and wrong is not simply a matter of opinion or taste. The right answer agrees with observation (with reality). The wrong answers don't.

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