Death in America - The Rest of the Story - from Guns to Hospitals

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Although it is clearly a distasteful subject, it is important people understand the truth behind the debates on such things as gun control, terrorism, homicides and other deaths in the USA.  If not, the newspaper headlines would leave you believing we are back in the wild west.

From the tragic Newtown murders to the Boston marathon, headlines and sound bites paint a dismal picture of being safe in America.  You might think you need a police escort to get our kids to school or go to the grocery store.  But is that really the case?

Here are several categories of deaths in America based on multiple public data bases.  I am extrapolating all categories to cover the years from September 11, 2001 until September 11, 2013, a period of 12 years.

Total Deaths in America - 9/11/01 - 9/11/13

Terrorism

Terrorism                                                           19

Homicides

Firearm homicides                                132,000

Firearm suicides                                    232,800

Murder by suffocation                              6,528

Murder by fire                                            1,068

Murder by poisoning                                   950

Murder by drowning                                   625

Medical

Heart disease                                       7,825,092

Cancer                                                     6,711,744

Stroke                                                     1,746,948

Chronic Lower Respiratory                1,571,196

Accidents                                              1,404,000

Bedsores                                               1,380,000

Hospital Infections                             1,056,000

Malnutrition                                        1,305,600

Prescription overdose                        1,272,000

Medical malpractice                           1,176,000

Outpatient malpractice                     2,388,000

Unnecessary procedures                      945,632

Surgery Related                                    384,000

Other Causes

Alcohol abuse                                         960,000

Illegal drugs                                             113,148

*Marijuana abuse                                              0

Iraq and Afghanistan wars                        6,737

Automobiles                                          460,000

*Abortions                                        14,400,000

*Marijuana overdose alone has not been a cause of death

**Note abortions legal under current law

Remember these are the total deaths in the 12 years since 9-11.  Consider the numbers and then consider the news media coverage of deaths in America.  No matter how you add it up, deaths from terrorism and urban gun deaths, which dominate all media, are far exceeded by multiple forms of medical malpractice and legal drug overdoses.

In fact of the 25 death or life termination categories only seven have fewer deaths than using a firearm to commit a homicide and one is terrorism with only 19 deaths in 12 years, the fewest of any category.

Ironically, there are seventeen categories with more deaths and medical related deaths far exceed those from firearm homicides and terrorism.  Note that during the 12 year period the US has spent more than a trillion dollars on Homeland Security and trillions more fighting wars in support of counter-terrorism.

The other interesting fact is the government actually admits that there has never been a death from a marijuana overdose.  Other legal and illegal drugs or alcohol are always present in victims.

Clearly media coverage is distorted and heavily favors terrorism (the Boston Marathon) and urban homicide (Trevor Martin-Zimmerman case) in order to make sure the news continues to keep the spotlight on the lucrative and ratings driven terrorism and murder categories.

With the overwhelming number of deaths related to medical malpractice, prescription drug overdose and related categories of unnecessary deaths, the absence of media and political focus is blatantly obvious.

Wake up America!  Your greatest risk of being killed unnecessarily in America comes from your doctors, hospitals and medical clinics, not guns, terrorists, illegal drugs or even wars.

So how tuned in are you to the truth?  Here is the latest Gallup poll on the most trusted professions in America.  Note the top three are all medical.  Yet the very same group of trusted categories dominate the cause of death statistics.

Hummmm.

Honesty/Ethics in Professions

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Now that we have a health care bailout - how about an American Health Care Reform?

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Obama and the Democrats have now delivered on their promise of massive health care bailout to protect the health care industry. If you have noted, the stock in pharmaceutical companies, health care providers, hospitals and insurance companies have all increased while the bureaucratic jobs in health care have increased.



Of course the only change we the people have noticed is that our taxes are going to increase to pay for the health industry bailout, the cost of our health care treatment is up to pay for the millions of dollars the health care companies are pouring into the campaigns of Congress and the president, drug prices are up, insurance premiums are up, hospital and emergency costs are up, and we are being told to be patient, we will see the benefits in a couple of years.



So we understand the health industry bailout has happened and we are supposed to all feel better about it. Well we are patient, but we are sick and tired of being patients. Now maybe the president and congress will turn attention to health care reform for the people who pay for health care, the American people.



Health care reform should never have been about protecting the industry. That is called political payback for all the bribes the industry made to congress and the president through campaign contributions. Now it is time for true and meaningful health care reform.



Wake up Washington! We want cost containment! We want incentives to get well! We want incentives for doctors to get us well! We want access to treatments to cure us, not make diseases more tolerable! We want to be rewarded for being healthy, not being sick! We want you to stop making us sick! We want you to stop letting other people make us sick!

Here is how we expect you to do it.



Stop campaign contributions from companies and non-profits who benefit from us being sick. That means no pharmaceutical, hospital, doctor, malpractice lawyer, health service provider and any related campaign bribes to our elected officials.



Stop senseless examinations using MRIs, CAT scans and other high tech, high profit means of destroying our immune system with electromagnetic and radiation waves.



Stop malpractice lawyers from stealing often over 50% of the settlements from class action and malpractice suits supposedly on behalf of the patients. Give them reasonable expenses and a cap at 15% of the settlement so the victims can truly benefit. At the same time limits damages to actual costs, not some hypothetical fee inspired sum with no basis in reality.

If people have health insurance and stay healthy give them a rebate for being healthy, stop penalizing them because other people are sick.

If companies provide food or products that destroy our immune system, thus making us susceptible to a host of diseases, then make the companies liable for the destruction of health. Food or products that are proven to kill should be destroyed themselves.



Make pharmaceutical companies liable for the damages to the immune system for any vaccines, over the counter or prescription drugs, and other products sold for the purpose of healing us.

Allow alternative health care providers a fast track approval process for techniques using natural means and products that heal and require health insurance compensation for the techniques.

Prohibit television advertising for any drugs administered by a third party, meaning a supposedly independent doctor, hospital or clinic.

Declare illegal any endorsements by practicing doctors of a drug or treatment in which they financially benefit.

Establish massive fines as a disincentive for companies that claim health benefits when a product may actually harm the health of the recipient.



Stop allowing drug companies to directly fund the Food and Drug Administration drug approval process which creates a conflict of interest. This is no different than allowing Wall Street to fund the credit rating agencies for approving their credit and we know how that worked out.

Reward doctors for healing patients rather than simply treating the patients.

Make sure that the politicians you support in the fall elections believe in the real American Health Care Reform actions which I outlined. If not, make sure they are no longer in a position to help destroy you through actions like the Obama Health Care Bailout bill. Throw them out of office before it is too late.

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Does Health Insurance Really Keep Us Alive?

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It seems every Democrat, Republican and special interest let alone the media have been throwing around reasons why the American health care industry is broken. So many lies have flooded the media and airways that no one could possibly know the truth.

Yet the President wants to force all Americans to have health care. Right now about 258 million Americans are insured and 46.3 million are uninsured. That means about 15% of all Americans are not insured. Health studies indicate that 45,000 die each year because they have no health insurance thus did not receive treatment.



What about those insured? According to The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) patients in hospitals under health care insurance who were victims of medical malpractice has now reached 225,000 deaths per year, and that does not even count those who died before they reached a hospital.



Here are the JAMA findings.

106,000 patients die each year from the negative effects of medication
80,000 patients die each year due to complications from infections incurred in hospitals
20,000 deaths per year occur from other hospital errors
12,000 people die every year as a result of unnecessary surgery
7,000 medical malpractice deaths per year are attributed to medication errors in hospitals

This totals up to 225,000 deaths each year, due to medical negligence of some nature. And that number is ever growing.



That means at a minimum five times as many people who have insurance die from medical negligence than the total who die from lack of health insurance (225,000 versus 45,000).

But that only tells part of the story. Even if you have health insurance and are getting treatment this is the number of people who will still die every year in America from health problems.



Heart disease: 631,636
Cancer: 559,888
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 137,119
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,583
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 121,599
Diabetes: 72,449
Alzheimer's disease: 72,432
Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,326
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,344
Septicemia: 34,234

Then there are deaths attributed to vaccinations that are required by the government. While the FDA lists about 11,000 SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) deaths annually, the FDA acknowledges the vast majority of such deaths go unreported. Studies in New York alone indicated 97% of SIDS deaths were not reported by doctors and hospitals, meaning the real SIDS death rate, attributed to adverse reaction to the vaccine, are really over 100,000 per year. Some vaccines kill up to 100 times more people than the deaths from the disease they are treating.



In spite of the fact Japan and England have both changed the vaccine programs moving the start date from 2 months, like we have in America, to 2 years, that resulted in a significant decrease in SIDS deaths, we in America have ignored the results.

I could go on and on with the deaths relating to chemo treatment from cancer to deaths from the flu vaccine. What is clear is that having health insurance is no guarantee you will survive the treatment and the staggering number of deaths from malpractice and unnecessary vaccines make we wonder if the whole nation should be on health insurance.



The Obama health reform bill may very well put 46.3 million people at risk if the health care industry that does treat the insured isn't fixed first. It seems as if our priority should be fixing the problems before we throw over 46 million more people to the mercy of a flawed health care industry.

When making all those promises people should remember that there are about 250,000 unnecessary deaths every year because people have health care insurance, not because they don't have insurance. And nearly 2 million more people being treated under health insurance die from the disease. Do you really think the health problems are being solved by Congress?

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