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Did you ever stop to
think, “maybe we got it all wrong?”
Health care in America, call it Medicare, Obamacare, Trump
Care, Congress Care, Illegal Immigrant Care, or Welfare Care, whatever you
prefer. It might be the greatest hypocrisy
in modern politics, and certainly the greatest insult to the revered Hippocratic
Oath, the sorry state of our health, and health care system.
It is not just broken, it is disappearing before our very
eyes into the mists of political gobble-de-gook. Sinking into quicksand. It is time to pull the plug. Somewhere in our storied history once upon a
time not all that long ago someone determined our health care system had
enormous profit potential.
Now health care in America really sucks. That is what the system gave us when the
money mongers took control and profits became the new standard. We have the most expensive health care in the
world, yet it ranks mediocre in performance at best. Of course, mediocre is the result achieved by
accepting that what we have got is good enough.
Truth is, it is not good enough!
Being “good enough” was never a part of the American Dream
for our nation, or the peoples in that nation.
People came to America to help make the world a much nicer place for
everyone. They came here for freedom,
truth, protection, diversity, religious tolerance, and economic opportunity, among
other reasons. It was quite a noble
statement of the mission of this new nation in the New World back in 1776.
We were up to the challenge.
The American spirit was a powerful force for freedom and even
exceptionalism. It carried us through
the Revolution where we earned our sovereignty down the barrel of a gun.
It powered us again in the Civil War and helped us heal the
wounds of a bitterly House divided. In
the Great War (World War I) and the War to End All Wars (World War II) it
carried us toward our destiny of becoming the most dominant force in the world.
We did too.
Then, we hit a plateau.
With the eventual fall of the Soviet Union we were number one in just
about everything. For the first time in
our history, we had no competition for leadership of the world. It has now been about seventy-two years since
we came to dominate the world as the only viable super-power.
Americans seem to get a little soft when they do not have formidable
competition. Suddenly we started to
believe all those good things people said about us, and realized it was okay to
win. It was only natural for winners to
want to keep on winning, we might just be as great as others say.
Well, that leads to a false sense of self-confidence, we get
lax in our diligence, and lethargic in our response when bad things happen
around us. Yet, if everything was so
good in our lives, why did the Cold War happen.
Then came Korea and Vietnam wars, with over 58,000 killed in that
jungle skirmish. The questions go on,
and on, and on.
It was also a time of miraculous medical breakthroughs in
treatment and in prescription drugs, in replacing limbs and organs, rebuilding
hearts, and rewiring brains. The
transformation of the medical industry had begun. From now on the motto of Wall Street would be
“Balance sheets and profit Margins, not public health and public safety.
The financial vultures dug up every avenue of profit
possible in the medical universe, and put them all in play. What a vast and diverse range of players
entered the game. Profits could be
squeezed out of doctors and hospital services, if the paradigm changed. Give them rapidly changing new services for
all kinds of new forms of diseases, and treatments.
Suddenly health insurance companies exploded on the scene to
help you pay the cost of those new services when you get sick. Then reinsurance companies were needed to prop
up the insurance companies. Public and
private health insurance programs exploded. So, did the multitude of integrated
steps to achieve superior quality.
Sophisticated testing laboratories with the most advanced
technology and toys were needed to keep up with the speed of the changes. Then there were clinics, emergency rooms,
rehab center, and trauma unit needed to support the new treatment methods.
The tentacles of the medical community reach far and wide, but
the body and brain for all those tentacles resides on Wall Street, where gold
rules. Here the Captains of Commerce
toast the minions of the powerful puppet masters of the world, those few remaining
bloodlines who control all.
Which is more important, Capitalism or Democracy?
Odd that a force as powerful as Capitalism and dominant in
world affairs is not mentioned in our own founding documents, the Declaration
of Independence, and the Constitution. So,
what does that have to do with medical services today? Today we have achieved the most expensive
health care in the world as a result of Capitalism conquering the medical world. Still our quality of service sucks.
To add insult to injury, health care in America does not
even include eye care or tooth care.
What is that all about? The two medical
problems that almost everyone experiences and they do not even count as medical
procedures? Congress let them get away with
that and we are left paying the bills.
Some leadership in our nations’ capitol.
What we have today, whether under Obama or Trump, are the
most expensive services possible to assure you have the latest and greatest
diagnostic and treatment equipment in existence. There are new diseases discovered nearly
every week while magically, prescription drug medicine for the new diseases is available
at nearly the same time.
Bio-engineering has brought you artificial limbs,
replacement parts for organs, even replacement organs. Of course, that means more antibiotics, to
keep you well, and prescription drugs, to keep you going. All the new services, diseases, drugs, and
diagnostics along with the clinics, rehab centers, hospitals, hospices, assisted
living, retirement living centers, offices, and pharmacies made medicine and
the prolonged treatment of patients the fastest growing profit centers in
capitalism.
All of these profit centers are necessary for the profiteers
to get their tentacles beyond your checking account, and beyond your health
insurance, to your retirement funds and remaining assets such as property, in
other words, they are now into all parts of your nest egg. Often the result is bleeding your assets dry.
Did I mention the health care lobbyists throwing big bucks
at the doctors and politicians desperate to get a few bucks for their campaigns? All of these factors combined to feed the new
and massive profit centers of medicine and Wall Street fell in lock step to
protect this new and ever-expanding profit center extravaganza.
We remain sicker than ever, more out-of-shape if not
downright obese, more dependent on prescription drugs, and more willing to
accept chronic pain as long as big pharma could provide the prescription pain
relief. Now depression and mild altering
prescriptions have opened the floodgates to prescription drug addiction (opioids)
becoming the leading cause of heroin addiction.
Our health care system is designed to manage our health
maintenance, not cure our health issues.
An entire industry has developed to provide permanent dietary supplements
to keep us addicted to even the more harmless revenue streams as well. We are led to believe that our immune system
will never work without the endless bottles of dietary supplements.
It does not matter if we choose to support the Obama or Trump
medical solution, or the Democrat or Republican solution, the politicians and
the people are slaves to a system that cannot and will not work.
We deserve a system that makes us healthy and keeps us
healthy, not makes it more comfortable to stay sick. Doctors should be given an incentive to heal
patients, not send them on an endless round of referrals throughout the failed
health care system.
Western Medicine in America is a convoluted maze of
conflicts of interest, ethical violations, black market subsidies, off the
books prescription sales, over-prescribing and under-performing throughout the
world’s most expensive health program.
At the same time the pharmaceutical industry, which first
cooped Obama and now seems to have the entire Congress at their beck and call, also
used every trick in the book to discredit and stop the use of folk medicine,
Chinese traditional medicine, Druid herbology, Greek and Egyptian treatments
for diseases that were successfully used for thousands of years before western
medicine ever existed.
Most of those
incredibly successful techniques are as valid today as when they were popular
but they are not profitable today.
Finally, there is incredible progress made by Tesla and
Raymond Rife, to mention just two people in the use of frequency machines to
analyze the human boy, isolate diseases, and use the proper frequency to
destroy them. They were forced out of
the market between 80 and 100 years ago when there were clinics coast-to-coast curing
people.
Today the work by Tesla and Rife and others is finally being
brought back, but far from the level it achieved more than half a century
ago. It is the key to proper nutrition, becoming
health consciousness, and using medicine to rebuild the immune systems and
break the dependence on our western medical system. The rest of what we need is in the mind.
Diet does not work without food, fasting, and prayer or
meditation. Medical care does not work
without proper diet, fitness, and health consciousness. None of it works without freeing your mind of
addiction, freeing your body of unhealthy junk, treating your body as a temple,
and kicking yourself in the ass for allowing something as important as your
personal health and happiness to be dictated by others.
We do not need a broken system patched up yet again, we need
a viable alternative to what does not work.
That alternative is to embrace all the wonderful gifts God gave us in
terms of herbs, food, awareness, and prayer, and do what makes sense for us,
not Wall Street.
Healthy people are the only way to drive down health care costs
and nothing being considered by our esteemed Congress, no matter what the
blabber-mouths say, promise or claim, makes sense. Send a little love to Washington along with a
little light and maybe the dark mist that currently shrouds our nation’s
capital and stunts their creative actions might just begin to be lifted.
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