"Let's face it, in America today we don't
have a health care system, we have a sick
care system."
- Tom Harkin
- Tom Harkin
I like Bill
Maher if for no other reason than he's even
more sarcastic than I could ever hope to be.
He makes fun of everything and everybody but
I find 90% of the time he hits the mark. This
short clip is one of the most profound
statements from anyone I've seen yet on the
subject of illness in the U.S. We as a Nation
are ill because we make ourselves ill. You
don't see big pharma or even your HMO
spending billions of dollars promoting eating
and living healthy. The simple act of
eliminating the crappiest food from your diet
and even the most rudimentary exercise plan
eliminates a whole host of health problems at
zero cost to you. Of course this would be at
great cost to the purveyors of junk food and
the companies that sell drugs invented for no
reason other than to allow you to maintain a
very unhealthy lifestyle and feel better
about it.
Google
search results for "FDA Coverup":
Results 1 -
10 of about 526,000 for FDA cover up
Let's conservatively say .1% of the above referenced pages are real non-repeated data. That leaves you 526 incidences of the government not on your side. You can see where this is going... I recently read somewhere (forgive me for not linking it here) that in the last four years the FDA had over 100 meetings with major drug manufacturers and 4 with advocacy groups. Did you know there are all kinds of drugs and treatments available in other parts of the world that aren't available in this country? Many of them actually work. But they aren't owned by US manufacturers or they are simply too cheap or might actually cure you. No money in it. A friend of mine from a few years back used to visit the Restaurant I owned then quite frequently. Really cool guy. He was an emergency Doctor in Miami at the time. I enjoyed every conversation I ever had with him. He's no longer an MD. He retired at the earliest moment he could (I think he was about 45.) Some months before that he wrote a letter to the editor of the local daily newspaper in response to another letter writer. The other guy had written about the state of health care in the Florida Keys in a very negative light. The paper printed Dr. Steve's letter as a guest column. Check it out-
Americans face really tough decisions about which health care path to take
The line about getting business and law out of medicine is what rang home for me. The solutions aren't easy, but I think it has to start with the folks who look at our illnesses as some kind of cash cow. They aren't the people who go to school for years and years to become MDs or RNs either. I'm happy to report Dr. Steve is now a Florida Park Ranger and living full time in the Keys.
Let's conservatively say .1% of the above referenced pages are real non-repeated data. That leaves you 526 incidences of the government not on your side. You can see where this is going... I recently read somewhere (forgive me for not linking it here) that in the last four years the FDA had over 100 meetings with major drug manufacturers and 4 with advocacy groups. Did you know there are all kinds of drugs and treatments available in other parts of the world that aren't available in this country? Many of them actually work. But they aren't owned by US manufacturers or they are simply too cheap or might actually cure you. No money in it. A friend of mine from a few years back used to visit the Restaurant I owned then quite frequently. Really cool guy. He was an emergency Doctor in Miami at the time. I enjoyed every conversation I ever had with him. He's no longer an MD. He retired at the earliest moment he could (I think he was about 45.) Some months before that he wrote a letter to the editor of the local daily newspaper in response to another letter writer. The other guy had written about the state of health care in the Florida Keys in a very negative light. The paper printed Dr. Steve's letter as a guest column. Check it out-
Americans face really tough decisions about which health care path to take
The line about getting business and law out of medicine is what rang home for me. The solutions aren't easy, but I think it has to start with the folks who look at our illnesses as some kind of cash cow. They aren't the people who go to school for years and years to become MDs or RNs either. I'm happy to report Dr. Steve is now a Florida Park Ranger and living full time in the Keys.
"The health of the people is really the
foundation upon which all their happiness and
all their powers as a state
depend."
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Benjamin Disraeli
I think the
only real question to me is this: "why is the
U.S. the only Western country that has no
universal health care system for its
citizens?" I'm all for free markets, but
government regulations are not always a bad
thing. Corporations are not people and don't
deserve the same rights as individuals. When
it comes to this subject I'm not necessarily
for a government solution, but it appears the
free market, as far as health care goes, has
not served us well at all. According to
the Institute of
Medicine of
the National Academy of
Sciences, the
United States is the "only wealthy,
industrialized nation that does not ensure
that all citizens have coverage" (i.e.
some kind of insurance). We are also the
only country that allows "for profit"
companies to sell health insurance. Fact:
When Blue Cross and Blue
Shield were
first created they were both non-profit
entities.
Further Your
Health Education:
HealthFreedomUSA.org - Visiting this site could literally save your life. Learn about the efforts of many groups that are out to protect your health from big pharma, the FDA, and genetically modified foods. Ever heard of Codex or Nutricide?
HealthFreedomUSA.org - Visiting this site could literally save your life. Learn about the efforts of many groups that are out to protect your health from big pharma, the FDA, and genetically modified foods. Ever heard of Codex or Nutricide?
