Fwd: [BurzynskiSupport] OT: Health Care Hierarchies and Minorities

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I am not posting this to show any supposedly new treatment, but to show as a an

example of what goes on in the medical industry.

 

The economic selfinterest motivations ( it used to be called greed before

doublespeak) comes before what is good or best for the patient.

 

The present medical system is much more of an economic system, than a health

care system. The purpose is mainly to make money and it does, it makes a lot of

money. and way way, down the line is very little consideration to make the

patient actually well or healthy and it usually doesn't either.

 

Frank

 

BurzynskiSupport

" postman23_2000 "

 

Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:27:41 -0000

[burzynskiSupport] OT: Health Care Hierarchies and Minorities

 

Article from Hispanic Vista

 

http://www.hispanicvista.com/html3/032403bh.htm

 

We can prevent end-stage kidney disease

 

By Dave Moskowitz MD

 

For the past year, we have been issuing press releases to the effect

that we

can prevent end-stage kidney disease in American Indians, Latinos,

African

Americans, and non-Hispanic whites. This is big news, since the first

three

groups have about 5 times as much kidney failure as non-Hispanic

whites,

even with the same starting diseases of diabetes or high blood

pressure.

 

What I find extremely interesting is that there has been absolutely

no mention

in the mainstream (Caucasian) press about this finding. Nor have any

Medicals of health plans been interested in avoiding dialysis for

their

members. Let me tell you the reasons I've heard so far:

 

1. " Medicare pays for end-stage kidney disease; it's not a budgetary

problem

for my health plan " (told to me yesterday afternoon by the Medical for

a Medicaid plan).

 

2. " Kidney doctors (nephrologists) make 95% of their money from

dialysis

patients; why would we want to kill our golden goose? "

 

3. " We won't try anything new; we're concerned about our

liability--our Board

would be dismissed if people thought they were being 'experimented

upon' "

(told to me by the CEO of an inner city health plan; also relayed to

me from the

CEO of an American Indian tribe).

 

The treatment is safe, published in a peer-reviewed medical journal

(Diabetes

Technology & Therapeutics), and therefore represents the

state-of-the-art in

preventive nephrology. It is not experimental, by definition, since

it has been

published. Admittedly, DT & T is not the New England Journal of

Medicine, but

neither are 70,000 other well-respected journals. DT & T is indexed in

Medline.

The treatment method, safety data, and patient outcomes are available

from

our website, at: http://www.genomedics.com/index.c

fm?action=investor & drill=

publications (Click on the first paper, " From pharmacogenomics to

improved

patient outcomes... " . You'll need a fast connection to download it,

since it's 3

Mb, a large file. The other 2 papers give further scientific support.

In fact, we

believe effective ACE inhibition may slow down the diseases of aging.

Had

you heard about any of this?)

 

It's as if minorities get to suffer Tuskegee twice: immoral

experimentation

during the 20th century, and then no medical innovation in the 21st,

when

there's an epidemic of diabetes and kidney failure going on.

 

The main reason, I believe, why you haven't heard about what we can

do is

because the health system in this country, as in every country, makes

its

money from the Intensive Care Unit and the dialysis unit. 70% of

healthcare

dollars are spent in the last year of a patient's life. By

definition, the money is

spent in utter futility.

 

What I'm saying is that my company can keep people out of the

hospital. This

sounds like what all the health plans have been saying for 20 years

that they

want to do, too.

 

But why haven't they licensed our treatments?

 

Again, I've heard why. The main reason is that health plans have 20%

turnover per year, so no health plan is interested in preventing

something that

takes longer than 12 months. Their talk of prevention is purely lip

service. The

Indian Health Service has a different reason: they're not going to

try anything

new. Period.

 

Another reason is that the hospitals don't feel like giving up their

70% share of

$1.5 trillion a year.

Historically, disease was confronted in the hospital. But genomics

and better

prevention allows high risk patients to be identified early, before

they even

have symptoms, let alone severe disease. At this early stage,

prevention can

be dramatically effective. For example, having found the gene that

causes

kidney failure, we can now completely prevent kidney failure in

blacks and

whites (and Latinos) with diabetes or high blood pressure if we get

to them

early, before their serum creatinine reaches 2 mg/dl.

 

This kind of gene-based early warning system will make hospitals

obsolete. It

will shift the battleground where disease is met (and outwitted) to

the

outpatient clinic. But hospitals, like any entrenched status quo, are

not going

to give up easily. What's at stake here is literally a revolution in

medicine.

There are only two parties that gain, and neither has any power: the

patient,

and the primary care physician. The hospitals, health plans,

government, sub-

specialists, and academic medicine all stand to lose, and they have

all the

power.

 

Obviously, this doesn't only affect African Americans, but patients

of every

ethnicity. But African Americans are especially affected, as are

American

Indians and Latinos, because of their 5-fold higher rate of kidney

failure

relative to the non-Hispanic white population.

 

I happen to think this is the healthcare story of the next

millennium, or at least

of the 21st century, since medical genomics will turn hospitals into

the TB

sanitaria of the past.

 

I hope you'll agree.

 

David W. Moskowitz, MD, MA (Oxon.), FACP Chairman, CEO and Chief

Medical Officer GenoMed, Inc. website: www.genomedics.com

 

 

 

 

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