Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Today's health care system is nothing short of a medical monopoly -- many even consider it a medical dogma -- and it is achieved through the censorship of alternative and the aggressive commercialization of medical products and services that most patients don't even need.
This is no casual accusation. Read the articles on this website covering the FDA, Big Pharma and conventional medicine to learn the documented truth of how the profiteering corporations that dominate conventional medicine actually seek to exploit patients for profit rather than helping them heal. |
| Conventional medicine (also called "Western medicine" or "modern medicine"), you see, is a system of medical profiteering that destroys both patients and the health care practitioners attempting to help them (doctors, nurses and other health care professionals largely despise America's current health care system, much like patients do). |
| In all, declaring your freedom from America's failed health care system is the single most important thing you can do for your health. To learn more about how to join millions of other people who have already done this, keep reading the articles on this site. Also, please remember: Never stop taking pharmaceuticals abruptly. You'll need to work with your naturopathic physician to slowly wean yourself off pharmaceuticals, only under the supervision of a qualified naturopathic health practitioner. |
Stacy Malkan
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 As one example, when Kaiser Permanente, the largest nonprofit health care system in the US, decided to purchase PVC-free materials for new construction, a carpet manufacturer agreed to develop a new PVC-free product made with non-toxic, recycled plastic at no extra cost. In exchange, the vendor won an exclusive contract with the health care system to supply carpet for millions of square feet in new construction. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Asch, MD, Rand Health, and West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs health care system, and associate professor of medicine, University of California at Los Angeles.
Elizabeth A. McGlynn, PhD, associate director, Rand Health.
The New England Journal of Medicine.
All Americans are at risk of receiving substandard health care, regardless of gender, race, income or even insurance status. In fact, a recent study found that only 54.9% of the patients surveyed received the care that experts usually recommend for their condition. |
Dan Buettner
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 The economic impact of cardiovascular disease on the U.S. health care system continues to grow as the population ages. The cost of heart disease and stroke in the United States has been estimated at $432 billion for 2007, including health care expenditures and lost productivity. Imagine how much America might save if we could bring our heart disease rates down to those of Okinawa.
Since lifestyle, not genes, is the chief determinant of how long we live, I argued that the Okinawan Blue Zone offered the world's best practices in health and longevity. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 In a separate analysis, the World Health Organization ranked the United States thirty-seventh best in the world according to health care system performance.20 Our health care system is clearly not the best
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1997 in the world, even though we spend, far and away, the most money on it.
Too often in the United States, a doctor's treatment decisions are made on the basis of money, not health. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's all part of our commitment to the best health care system in the world!"
If the RFID tags don't work, U.S. health authorities have announced plans to simply barcode everyone instead. Talks are under way with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to corral Americans into "barcode camps" as a way to fight terrorism and defend freedom.
FDA discredits tomatoes
Surprise! The FDA has announced a new research finding they claim proves that lycopene is a useless nutrient for preventing prostate cancer. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Just like in the human health care system, nutrition has been thrown out the window and is now replaced with a system of chemical invasion that can only lead to a worsening of the long-term health of the animals exposed to such dangerous treatments.
The proper use of pharmaceuticals
Some chemical medicines do have a limited role in quality veterinary care, however. Painkillers have a useful but narrow role. Antibiotics, although they are widely abused, can be helpful in certain limited situations. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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Is it possible to feel great all the time? According to David it is... |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Treasury debt), an international reputation in ruins, a dysfunctional national press, a national health care system that actually promotes disease and cures no one, a mentally impaired President, a broken public education system, an irreversible addiction to oil, a drugged-up population of voters and a deeply-ingrained habit of spending itself into financial oblivion. Anyone who thinks this system is sustainable is kidding themselves. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Diabetes prevention and natural treatments
Cancer prevention and natural treatments
Prenatal nutrition, infant nutrition and childrens' nutrition
Modern health care system, health insurance and health care reform
The FDA and FDA reform
Dangerous prescription drugs, drug warnings, drug fatalities, advertising, etc.
Junk food marketing, sodas, marketing to children, etc.
We're also open to other topic suggestions, so if you have a special area of passion or expertise, feel free to apply and let us know what area you'd like to cover. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 I also began to wonder about the connections between the lack of good science behind a lot of medicine and our health care system. Why was American health care so much more expensive per capita than health care in other industrialized countries, and getting pricier by the year? And why were our health statistics so much worse?
In running down these questions, it became clear to me that the lack of rigorous science and evidence was just one of many factors that lead physicians and hospitals to deliver care that doesn't improve health. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Rather, I think the future of human civilization will involve mass starvation, mass sickness, a failed health care system and dwindling natural resources like fresh water and hydrocarbon fuels (oil and gasoline). If we don't make changes right now in the way we treat our seeds, foods, children and environment, then we are all inconvenient passengers on a ship that has set course for a future far more bleak than the one portrayed in I Am Legend. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: America's disastrous health care system is heaving the country head-first into near-certain economic collapse. Just about everybody's either financially strained or going broke due to spiraling health care costs: the people, the employers, state governments and even the federal government. Multinational corporations are fleeing the United States due to health care costs, taking jobs and economic productivity with them. Meanwhile, 50 percent of personal bankruptcies in the U.S. are due to medical expenses.
But not everybody's doing badly. |
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| Edward Livingston, chairman of gastrointestinal and endocrine surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine and chairman of the bariatric surgery work group for the Department of Veterans Affairs' national health care system.
"Bariatric surgeries result in weight loss, but they can [also] result in complications and death. They can improve the complications of obesity and the quality of life, and they may increase longevity," says Livingston. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Should we believe, as stated in Death by Medicine, that the number one cause of death is not disease but the health care system? Perhaps we should go one step further and look for criminal intent and criminal wrongdoing in the pharmaceuticals' pursuit of profit.
The criminal landscape includes a wide range of victims and potential victims. Doctors and the government now classify obesity as a disease. Remember the deaths and disabilities caused by FenPhen? Consider also those who suffer from depression, bipolar disease, or other psychiatric disorders. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| Practically everything in our personal interactions with the health care system tells us that far from getting too much care, we're getting too little. If you're like most Americans, everybody from your primary care physician to your insurance company seems bent on denying you the care you think you really need. When you go to the doctor's office feeling sick, you spend time cooling your heels first in the waiting room and then again, sitting in a flimsy paper gown, on an examining table. |
| REPPED: Why can't the United States seem to fix its health care system?Today, forty-seven million Americans, or one in six under age sixty-five, have no health insurance. Two million of them are veterans who have been denied access to VA hospitals either because they earn more than twenty-five thousand dollars a year or because their condition is not service related. Huge and unpayable medical bills have become the leading cause of personal bankruptcy. Uninsured cancer patients receive half as much care as the insured and may be more likely to die, depending upon the type of cancer. |
| But managed care's most devastating legacy is that it has damaged primary care, the backbone of the nation's health care system.
Gordon Peabody grew up in Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia, the son of a legal secretary and a clothing salesman. He attended medical school at Cornell University with no financial help from his parents, scraping by on odd jobs, scholarships, and loans. He graduated in 1967 owing thirty-five thousand dollars. |
| Now consider what kind of health care system you will want, not knowing ahead of time what sort of health care you will soon enjoy. This thought experiment is what philosopher Norman Daniels, author of Just Health Care, calls "the veil of ignorance," and it's a useful tool for thinking about how we would create an equitable and more-functional system if we had the luxury of starting from scratch.
Looking out from our unbiased vantage point, it's a pretty good bet that we wouldn't want a system like the one we have now. |
| Aaron puts it, "I look at the U.S. health care system and see an administrative monstrosity, a truly bizarre melange of thousands of different payers with payment systems that differ for no socially beneficial reason."
Other health care economists point to "moral hazard," the term they use to suggest that being insured changes the behavior of patients. The moral hazard argument says that because people don't pay out of pocket, they use more health care than they really need. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's not just the doctors, of course, but the doctors have played a significant role in promoting the dogmatic beliefs that have helped deliver this disastrous failure of a health care system that we all suffer under in America today. Cuba actually has better health care results than America, and that country has virtually none of the technology, pharmaceuticals and insurance programs that we have.
That says a lot right there. To some, it's downright hilarious. Personally, I can't help but laugh at the whole system of western medicine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 From corporations like Wal-Mart to the newly-elected Democratic majority in the House, it seems that everyone -- business, government and the public -- recognizes our health care system is broken. And it is widely recognized that it needs to be fixed. But so far, nobody in any position of power has offered a plan that would actually make Americans healthier and therefore prevent disease. Prevention isn't even on the negotiating table. |
J.D. Kleinke
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 In the final analysis, most "managed care" really was "managed cost" all along—but it failed to accomplish even that goal, and the U.S. health care system is worse off for the experiment.
Although it is easy and occasionally fun to pick on the bad manners and various hypocrisies of managed care, it is also unfair. The nation's managed care organizations were asked to do a job that simply cannot be done. Out of our collective naivete and idealism, we did not know this at the time. As a society, we expected managed care to fix, in a few short years, the disaster in slow motion that is the U.S. |
| Collectively, these three forces represent a death sentence for almost any fix for what ails the U.S. health care system, be it a private market initiative or act of public legislation. Every "solution" an entrepreneur or politician can dream up runs headlong into the utter complexity of the system, the uncanny ability of those working in it to defend their precious turf against the solution, and the constant disconnect between what people in health care say they are going to do and what they actually end up doing. This is nobody's fault. It is the fault of a badly broken system. |
| After ten years of expensive flirtation with risk-based provider contracting, "discounted" fee for service remains the dominant payment mechanism across the U.S. health care system, and all the well-documented market failures associated with fee-for-service medicine continue. The long view of our industry's history shows that health care is not changing so much as running in place, faster and faster, consuming more and more dollars as it tries to "reengineer" itself out of its own realities. |
| Finally, because the overriding tone of Oxymorons is politically impassioned, emotionally unvarnished, and admittedly vitriolic, the ninth and final chapter is my own story—a narration of the odyssey that has informed and inspired my deepest beliefs about what is best and worst about the U.S. health care system. |
Stacy Malkan
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| In exchange, the vendor won an exclusive contract with the health care system to supply carpet for millions of square feet in new construction. "In an era of rising construction costs, you don't have to pay extra money and use precious healthcare dollars just to be green," Christine Malcolm, a vice president at Kaiser Permanente, told the Wall Street Journal.3 With the industry's purchasing power, "we can force suppliers to generate environmentally sensitive products. |
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