Where's the health in health care reform?

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Where's the health in health care reform?

 

 

 

In the months and years ahead, you're going to hear a whole lot of

talk about health care reform, but most of what you're going to hear

is about reform, not health. You see, there's this great lie out

there, this huge misconception, this big shell game, where all these

politicians and power-hungry people think they can convince the public

that health care reform is just about shifting paper around and

deciding who pays.

 

But I say that you cannot talk about health care reform with any

degree of honesty or credibility until you talk about health. None of

the discussion I have seen from anybody out there – not the press, not

the health care authorities, not the American Medical Association, not

the politicians who are going to ride this issue all the way into

public office – covers substantial ideas about actually making people

healthier. So I ask: Where's the health in health care reform?

 

You can't reform your way out of chronic disease by changing who pays

for it. You can't take away a nation of degenerative brain disorder

sufferers and a whole generation of children who have been born with

malfunctioning nervous systems because of the malnutrition the mothers

have been experiencing. You can't take that away by changing who's

writing the check. You can't solve obesity and diabetes by insuring

all the uninsured. This is not a paperwork problem, yet that's the

solution we hear out there. It's all about paperwork.

 

It's all trending towards a national system – a government-sponsored

health care system, just like they have in Canada. Now, personally,

I'm not necessarily for or against the government-sponsored system.

I've seen countries do it very well; I've seen countries do it poorly,

too. It's not the system that's good or bad; it's the idea that you

can wiggle your way out of the health care crisis just by shuffling

paperwork around and changing who's writing the checks to cover the costs.

 

Health care reform: Money vs. people

Now, let's get serious about this: If you want to reform health care,

what are you really talking about here? You're talking about two

things: Cost and people. And that's the order that most people think

of them in, by the way. It's the money first. Why? As a nation, we're

going bankrupt. We're already bankrupt, actually, but we're just

making it even worse with these sky-high health care costs.

 

Our employers are going bankrupt trying to fund the health insurance

of their employees. It makes U.S. workers unable to compete in the

global marketplace. This is one of the reasons jobs are increasingly

shifting overseas. It's because U.S. workers are just too expensive to

insure due to our health care system (if you can call it that). I say

you can't solve this problem by subsidizing insurance or by forcing

employers to cover everybody. You can only solve the problem by making

people healthier. You've got to address the health.

 

Now, secondly, it comes down to the people because now we have a whole

nation of unprecedented illness and chronic disease. Anywhere from 25

to 46 percent of our nation is suffering from mental illness,

depending on whom you ask. We have 40 percent of our people on

prescription drugs – drugs that take away mental clarity and quality

of life. These drugs are killing people at a rate that's approaching

the Holocaust.

 

At the same time, we've got a nation with a public school system that

continues to feed our children junk food, soft drinks and candy bars.

The school lunch programs are a nutritional disaster. We've got

hospitals serving hamburgers and fries. We've got hospitals where we

can buy a pizza. " Come out of heart surgery and get yourself some

extra cheese! "

 

Health reform starts with food reform

You see, all this talk about covering the uninsured and saving people

money and all these ridiculous distractions like the Medicare drug

discount card are all a shell game. It's all a show; it's just theater

designed to keep people occupied so that nobody has to talk about the

real issues.

 

The real issues start with the foods – that's right, the foods. These

products are manufactured by big businesses that have a whole lot of

influence in Washington, and they don't want anybody talking about

them because their foods are causing these diseases. It's all that

added sugar and white flour, and all those refined carbohydrates.

You've got hydrogenated oils that function as brain poison and heart

poison in the human body. You've got sodium nitrate that causes

cancer. That's why people who consume processed meats have a risk of

pancreatic cancer that is 67% percent higher than everybody else.

You've got added salts, artificial colors, all kinds of preservatives

and monosodium glutamate (MSG) hidden in foods. It all starts with the

foods, so all this talk about who's going to pay for the disease is

all just a distraction so no one has to talk about the foods and the

beverages that are causing these diseases in the first place.

 

The food and beverage companies, of course, would love to keep it that

way. They would love for everybody to just keep arguing over who's

paying these sky-high prescription drug prices while ignoring the

simple fact that prevention programs and junk food advertising bans

could make prescription drugs practically irrelevant. Of course, all

these drug companies say they need the money to " find a cure for

cancer. " What a brilliant con!

 

You don't need to find a cure for cancer if you stop poisoning the

public with the national food supply. You don't need a cure for cancer

if nobody has cancer. The way you have a population that's cancer-free

is to teach people about the healing power of sunlight – about getting

some sunlight and some vitamin D. You teach people to avoid these

dangerous ingredients and you ban them from the food supply: You

outlaw hydrogenated oils. You outlaw refined sugar. You outlaw sodium

nitrate. That's what you do if you want to reform health care.

 

It's the only approach that makes any sense. It's the only sane

approach. That's exactly why no one's talking about it. No, we can't

have anything that actually works in this country because the

pharmaceutical industry would lose money. What would all those people

who work for the hospitals do and what would the drug companies and

all those drug reps and doctors do? Gee, what would people do for jobs

if so many people weren't so sick?

 

Big Business makes big bucks off a nation of diseased people

Health care and all the discussion about health care reform is really

a discussion about managing a nation of diseased people. It's not

about ending disease. It's not about curing cancer. It's not about

preventing heart disease. It's about managing these illnesses. The

question essentially becomes: " How are we going to keep people on just

enough prescription drugs so we make a lot of money from them, but not

so many that it kills them? " That's basically the strategy of Big

Pharma. " How are we going to extract a whole lot of profits out of the

general public and call it science-based medicine? "

 

There are all sorts of people – most of them in Washington D.C. – who

are scheming about how to make this happen. And sitting to the right

of them is, of course, the food industry – the Big Sugar people, the

oil processors and the grain processors – the big food companies.

They're all saying, " Hey, don't mention the foods. Don't talk about

us. Make sure you frame this whole discussion of health care reform in

terms of who pays for it and who gets coverage. " That's because if

they can keep you in that little box of thought, then you won't talk

about the causes of these diseases, which are largely found in foods.

 

Then over on the left side of these decision makers, you've got reps

from the pharmaceutical industry, and they're saying, " Make sure our

drugs are covered because we want to keep selling drugs and have the

government pay for them. That way we'll shift money from the pockets

of taxpayers to ourselves and our investors and we'll call it public

health. "

 

Wow, what a great scheme, and if the FDA is protecting the U.S. drug

market, they can set any price they want because the FDA will say the

drugs from overseas are dangerous. The drugs you buy in the United

States are perfectly safe, but if you buy the exact same chemical

compound from Canada, " No, no, those are dangerous. You're

unpatriotic. How dare you buy them from overseas? You must buy them

here in America where we set the prices. " It's called a monopoly. It's

called protectionism. It's called screwing the U.S. consumer and it's

what's going on right now, every single day in America.

 

Everyone's out to make a buck

Unless we see a radical shift towards disease prevention rather than

disease treatment in this country, what we're really going to end up

with is a health care system that is ultimately designed to do two

things. Number one: Extract as much money as possible from the

taxpayers and shift it into the pockets of drug companies. Number two:

Distract people from the real causes of disease so that everyone

continues to believe that disease is just a matter of bad luck or bad

genes, and that only drugs can treat or cure any disease.

 

It seems that everybody out there is greedy and wants to make more

money. And most don't really care who suffers in order to make that

money. The politicians, they want to get in power. How do you get in

power? You keep big, rich companies happy. That's how you get in

power, and that's how you stay in power. And once you're in power, you

thank them by passing new legislation that makes sure there is a

windfall of public money headed in their direction.

 

And how do you do that? You announce the Medicare drug discount card

and make it illegal for the government to negotiate volume discounts

with drug companies. You mandate mental health screening for the

entire population. You make sure that health insurance has to cover

Viagra even if it's being prescribed to sex offenders, which is

exactly what's going on in this country. That's a good example of how

insane our health insurance industry and health care coverage really

is. We're using taxpayer dollars to pay for Viagra for people who have

been convicted of sex crimes.

 

Health care reform goes far beyond crunching numbers

Now, I repeat my first statement here, which is that you can't have an

honest debate about health care reform unless you address the issue of

health. Yet in the months and years ahead, you're going to see a whole

lot of people out there with all kinds of credentials, degrees and

positions of authority, who are going to try to convince you, the

consumer, that health care reform has nothing to do with heath. It

only has to do with promoting a financial shell game by pushing

nonsensical ideas like " the government here to rescue you. " We're

going to mandate coverage for all drugs and it's going to be paid for

by the government.

 

They don't talk about who funds the government: The taxpayers. It's

your money. It's just a matter of how you wish to redistribute it. And

frankly, if our nation continues to be so diseased (cancer, obesity

and diabetes are all at record heights), then we're going to basically

drive ourselves into extreme poverty because you cannot afford to keep

funding chronic disease and the treatment of symptoms through

prescription drugs and expensive medical procedures. You can't keep

doing that over and over, with the same patients, generation after

generation, if you want your nation to be financially solvent. You

just can't keep doing that. You can't spend 25 percent of the GDP on

health care and be the world economic leader. Do the math.

 

You've got other nations spending a fraction of that on health care.

They manage to cover everybody. Most nations will spend at least one

or ten percent of their health care budget on prevention. But here in

the U.S., we don't spend anything on prevention. Nothing. In this

country, we think prevention should almost be outlawed. " How dare you

teach people about nutrition? It's unproven, " say these doctors,

medical researchers, medical journals and corrupt health authorities.

" How dare you teach people to heal themselves with foods? " They want

to outlaw healing. They want to outlaw nutrition (see related ebook on

nutrition). They want to make sure people only choose drugs. Choose

drugs: that's what makes money for the people in power.

 

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

The bottom line is that if you have a nation of people who are

healthy, your health care costs plummet. Do you know what my own

personal health care expenses are? Zero. I spend nothing on

over-the-counter or prescription drugs and nothing on doctors; nothing

whatsoever.

 

I do spend some of my money on prevention, of course. How do I do

that? I visit natural health care practitioners and naturopaths to

keep me healthy – not because something hurts or is falling off, not

because I'm having a heart attack, or I'm going blind or I'm having

seizures and my leg went numb because I'm diabetic and I'm still

drinking soft drinks by the gallon. I'm going to my health

practitioners because I want to stay healthy. It's all about

prevention, people. Prevention is dirt cheap. So is good nutrition.

 

A drugged nation can't think clearly about health

Now, here's the ironic thing about all of this: No matter what health

care reforms they come up with and try to pitch to the public, no

matter how ludicrous and insane they may seem, most people will buy

into them because half the nation is drugged. I'm not making this up.

Half the nation is literally drugged up. They've lost mental clarity.

They can't think straight. They can't make good decisions anymore.

They've got brain fog side effects from their prescription drugs (like

anti-inflammatory drugs).

 

So, when a politician comes along and says, " We're going to provide

universal health care and cover everybody, " people are going to say,

" I'm voting for you! " But they don't realize what it means. What it

means is financial bankruptcy because, again, if you don't address the

health, there is no real solution. We are at a crossroads here in

terms of the history of human civilization on this planet. What's

going to happen to this particular nation, the United States of America?

 

I think that if we had some courage, some honesty and some people who

were willing to stand up and tell the truth, we could turn this

around. We could ban junk food advertising to children. We could ban

dangerous ingredients. We could arrest the criminals at the drug

companies and decision makers at the FDA who have deliberately put us

in this mess. We could reform the USDA and break the ties between food

companies and regulators. There are people in government who have been

colluding with the very industries they are supposed to be regulating.

 

With some major changes in place, in one generation we could have a

nation of really healthy and happy children who have the ability to

learn well, who are emotionally balanced and who are not predisposed

to diseases like schizophrenia, type 2 diabetes, heart disease or

obesity. We could have a nation that could get back to doing some good

things, some creative things, and a nation that could take a

leadership role in the world.

 

But we've got to make that decision now because, if we don't make that

decision, if we go the other way – that is, the way of protecting

special interest groups, protecting the corrupt profits of drug

companies and keeping the FDA in power so it can continue to exploit

public health in order to send more profits to the drug companies – if

we make this decision, we keep protecting the politicians that act on

the interests of private business instead of protecting the public. If

we allow junk food companies to keep marketing to children, if we

allow our schools to be infiltrated by all these foods that promote

disease and learning disabilities and aggressive behavior in young

children, then we are doomed as a nation. We really are. We're heading

down the path of self destruction and we won't be the first nation to

go down in history as one that imploded.

 

America could fall, simply from bad health

You might recall that the Roman Empire did sort of the same thing.

It's amazing what a bit of heavy metal in the plumbing will do for a

city. In the case of ancient Rome, the lead poisoning drove the

citizens (and their leaders) mad. But today, instead of poisoning

ourselves with lead, we are poisoning ourselves with food additives.

We are doing it consciously. We know it's happening. It isn't a

mystery, but we are allowing it to happen because the special interest

groups are running the country; they are arm-twisting these

politicians who don't have the courage to stand up and do what's right

for the people.

 

If we don't make some changes fast, we're going to get past the point

of sanity. We may be past that point already. We're going to get to a

point where maybe 60 or 70 percent of the people in this country are

diseased and beyond the ability to think. How do you run a democracy

when 60 or 70 percent of the people don't have the presence of mind to

even vote rationally? How do you run a democracy like that? Well, you

don't. It's gone. It's basically run by the special interest groups,

just a few people in power who are acting like it's a democracy. I

think that's actually where we are today.

 

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we can turn this around, but I don't see any

indication of it. I don't see any honest discussion of health care

reform, do you? Look around out there! We don't see people talking

about health care reform and saying, " We need to address the health:

We need to ban dangerous food ingredients. We need to teach people

about sunlight and water. We need to educate mothers on how to have

good nutrition for their children. " Have you seen any of that going on

out there? I haven't and I've been paying attention. I review hundreds

of news articles every single week and I haven't seen a word about

this. It's all about who pays for the drugs.

 

A nation invested in disease must change from the top down

We are a nation invested in disease. There are so many vested

interests in chronic disease that it's almost impossible to change the

system incrementally. You have to really reform this system from the

top down. You have to overhaul it; you have to unleash a health care

revolution.

 

All the top Fortune 500 companies out there (and a lot of people's

egos, careers and positions of power) are all invested in disease. Did

you know the top ten drug companies in America make more money than

the other 490 companies on the Fortune 500 list?

 

On top of that, you've got the American Cancer Society, which is based

on cancer. You've got the American Diabetes Association, which is

based on diabetes. You've got drug companies that are counting on the

next wave of Alzheimer's patients and counting on another generation

of obese children growing up and consuming these foods so that they're

obese just like their parents are today. They are counting on all of

this. They've mapped this out and they're rolling out new, patented

drugs to cash in!

 

So, what happens if you try to challenge this system? Oh boy, you're

in for a ride! You're going to be discredited. You're going to be

censored. You're going to be attacked because there's simply too much

money at stake here. Politicians and power brokers are counting on

this disease to pay some salaries, make some profit, pocket some cash

and to keep them in office because when there's a health care crisis

going on, somebody can always get elected by promising a solution,

regardless of whether or not that solution makes any sense.

 

Any real solution to health care must involve addressing health; any

solution that addresses health must challenge the status quo; any

solution that challenges the status quo will be viciously attacked by

the interests that already hold positions of power and profit in our

nation. So, you see how this system is very difficult to change. In

fact, if I was a betting man – and I'm not – I would bet that this

system's going to implode. I don't think we're going to turn this around.

 

I think only a few individuals are going to emerge from this with any

degree of sanity or health, and those will be the individuals who take

charge of their own health, who work outside the system, who find a

naturopath, who say no to prescription drugs and who start feeding

themselves healing foods and outstanding nutrition. They'll be parents

who take charge of the health of their children and don't feed them

soft drinks and candy bars and who don't allow them to eat those

nutritionally depleted school lunches. These are the people who are

going to emerge from this system as being sane, healthy and

emotionally balanced.

 

But the masses will probably never come around to the power of

nutrition. If you have a nation of people who are mad (who don't have

fully functioning nervous systems), I don't think you can last very

long in the competitive global marketplace. You've got people in India

who make top U.S. students seem retarded. You've got people in China

who work for a fraction of what we work for. You've got schools with

real quality standards all around the world; meanwhile, in America, we

have daycare that we call public education. We're stuffing our

children full of these toxic foods, just to make sure they don't

" misbehave. " You can't compete like that anymore.

 

No health discussion = No health care solution

Unless we make some changes and really start talking about the health

in health care reform, nothing's going to change. It will just be the

status quo applied to another generation of sorry, suckered Americans

who are now chronically diseased just like their parents. To drive

this point home, America used to be number one in a lot of things: We

used to be number one in information technology and computer

programming. We used to be number one in science and math. You know

what we're number one in today? Mental illness. We are the best in the

world at driving our population mad. That's right, mental illness –

number one in the world; no one comes close to us. We're also number

one in obesity.

 

Here in the U.S., we poisoned an entire generation with fast food,

sugars and hydrogenated oils. We made sure they never got good

nutrition. We drove them mad with violent television programming,

violent video games and insane public school systems. We did a good

number on those kids, didn't we? What are we going to do when those

kids grow up and they have diseases? What are we going to do then?

There's an estimate out there that says that 100 percent of the

population will be diabetic if the current trends continue – just in

the next decade or so, 100 percent. Think about that and then think

about the real conversation out there about health care reform.

Remember, if you don't address health, any discussion is essentially

pointless.

 

It's like the captain of a sinking ship arguing about the color of the

deck paint.

 

Now frankly, if the mentally unstable people who run this country were

crazy enough to put me in charge of the national health system, oh my,

we would have this thing licked in a couple of years. Every

pharmaceutical company out there would hate me and the food companies

would hate me because I'd make them use nutritious ingredients. I

would outlaw those toxic substances that are now added to the food

supply (like MSG, aspartame, yeast extract, etc.).

 

I would make school lunch programs actually serve nutritious food to

children. I would ban junk food vending machines. I would have the

taxpayers pay for nutritional supplements for all pregnant women

because we would save billions of dollars in long-term health care

costs by spending PENNIES on nutrition for each expectant mother. I

would have some pretty radical ideas that would definitely disturb the

status quo. Not surprisingly, we'd end up with a generation of people

who are actually healthy.

 

Wow, imagine that for a change. Drug companies would go out of

business. And that's why they can't let it happen. That's why they

would never let a guy like me, or even someone with a lot of public

health credentials who shared my beliefs, call the shots. It's just

too good. It solves so many problems. It eliminates all these jobs in

the health care and disease management industries. It would shrink the

pharmaceutical industry. It would shrink the sick care system out

there. Hospital beds would go empty.

 

People would live longer and start collecting more social security

because now they'd be living longer. The government would have to pay

more money because these people wouldn't be dying off as they are

today. It would cost the government and the pharmaceutical companies

money. Gee, the only people that would be better off would be...

well... real people! The public would experience happier people,

longer lives, greater cognitive function, greater clarity of mind and

healthier, happier children. There would be far less disease, more

stable mental states and enhanced learning abilities. These are the

benefits that would occur.

 

So, call me a pessimist if you like, but I think I'm actually a

realist and an optimist on a personal level. I'm an optimist in my own

health and the health of everybody who wants to take responsibility

for their own health. And there are many, many people like that. Just

don't expect to hear anything sane or useful from our public health

officials or politicians who claim to be solving this health crisis

with their ridiculous proposals for health care reform. This is Mike

Adams, the Health Ranger, for Truth Publishing.

 

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