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[sSRI-Research] The American Medical System is Broken...

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/american%20health%20system.htm

 

The American Medical System is Broken...

 

Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen

 

Thursday, May 27th, 2004

 

Everybody knows that the US MEDICARE System will go belly-up in the

year 2011. It's going to be, at that point, so costly that the United

States simply won't be able to afford it anymore. Foreign owned " Big

Pharma " is bleeding us to death.

American corporations, right this moment, are cutting back their

health care offerings. No one can afford the skyrocketing costs.

Foreign owned " Big Pharma " is bleeding us to death.

 

Health Insurance companies are desperately trying to reduce provider

expenditure - and because of that, Americans are being offered a

poorer, and poorer, quality of health care. Everything NEW is being

banned. Foreign owned " Big Pharma " is bleeding us to death.

 

But, more shocking, is that the system itself is a deadly rip-off of

gigantic proportion. A new study, a compilation of most recent

studies, called " Death by Medicine, " says:

 

" It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause

of death and injury in the United States. The total number of

iatrogenic deaths shown ... is 783,936. The 2001 heart disease annual

death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate, 553,251. " .

 

The number of people having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR)

to prescribed medicine is 2.2 million. Dr. Richard Besser, of the CDC,

in 1995, said the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed

annually for viral infections was 20 million. Dr. Besser, in 2003, now

refers to tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics.

 

The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed

annually is 7.5 million. The number of people exposed to unnecessary

hospitalization annually is 8.9 million. "

 

And that's only the " deaths. " The Lazarou study on Hospital ADR also

showed that, besides the 106,000 " deaths, " twenty times that number of

people had health problems caused by that same hospital Adverse Drug

Reaction. There were an additional 2,200,000 health problems caused by

Adverse Drug Reaction to drugs in hospitals. It would be reasonable to

assume, then, that that factor of twenty times the number of deaths

could be applied to all of the death statistics - meaning that in

addition to the total 783,936 deaths there were 15,678,720 serious

health problems caused by the American Medical System.

 

Shocked? It gets worse... Wait until you read who slovenly our system

actually operates.

 

The top three causes of Unnecessary Deaths in the United States are

related to our health care system...

 

The number one cause of unnecessary death in the United States, called

Iatrogenic deaths (783,986) is shown in the table below, re-printed by

permission of the authors:

 

Condition Deaths Cost Author

Hospital ADR 106,000 $12 billion Lazarou1 Suh49

Medical error 98,000 $2 billion IOM6

Bedsores 115,000 $55 billion Xakellis7 Barczak8

Infection 88,000 $5 billion Weinstein9 MMWR10

Malnutrition 108,800 -------- Nurses Coalition11

Outpatient ADR 199,000 $77 billion Starfield12 Weingart112

Unnecessary Procedures 37,136 $122 billion HCUP3,13

Surgery-Related 32,000 $9 billion AHRQ85

 

TOTAL 783,936 $282 billion

 

The number two cause of unnecessary death in the United States is

Heart Disease. Statistics show " The 2001 heart disease annual death

rate is 699,697. "

 

The number three cause of unnecessary death in the United States is

Cancer. Statistics show " the annual cancer death rate, 553,251. "

 

The total number of known unnecessary deaths, per year, directly due

to the American Medical System is 2,036,884.

 

The government regulatory systems " we the people " put into place to

make sure this didn't happen have been compromised...

Does anybody, for a minute, believe that the US Food & Drug

Administration (FDA) is working for " we the people? " Don't be absurd.

The FDA is managed, completely, by " Big Pharma. " Doubt that? Then you

aren't watching the drug pricing scam, where prescriptions drugs are

marketed in the United States from 2 to 20 times their cost in other

countries - and the FDA, literally, is with guns-drawn, raiding

companies attempting to import those SAME prescriptions from Canada,

Mexico, etc.

 

Does anybody, for a minute, believe that the Federal Trade Commission

(FTC) is working for " we the people? " Don't be absurd. The FTC is

manipulated, completely, by " Big Pharma. " Doubt that? Then why has the

FTC manufactured a different standard for " health claims " for

supplements, herbals, electro-medicine devices, etc - those things

that compete with drugs in the health market? And, how is it that the

covert FTC " Operation Cure-All " exists at all? Congress never

authorized the FTC to run covert operations - only the CIA, and other

" intelligence " groups can do that. So, how is it that " Operation

Cure-All, " which I believe is actually run out of a New York ad

agency, and has no offices, phone numbers, directors, employees,

accountability, etc., is allowed to use the FTC name?

 

State Licensing Boards have been given the responsibility for

regulating health care in America, State by State. Do they do anything

to solve the problems listed above? NO, they do not. There is NOT ONE

STATE in the United States that has a program to do something about

the problems described as the number one killer of Americans -

Iatrogenic deaths (783,986). Not one State has a program to put a stop

to, or even look at, the problems of Hospital Adverse Drug Reactions

(106,000 deaths), medical errors (98,000 deaths), bedsores (105,000

deaths), infections (88,000 deaths), malnutrition (108,800 deaths),

outpatient Adverse Drug Reactions (199,000 deaths), unnecessary

procedures (37,136 deaths), surgery related (32,000 deaths).

 

And, what about those 15,678,720 serious health problems caused by the

American Medical System? Those numbers INCREASE every year because our

State regulatory agencies ignore their responsibilities.

 

The " Support System " has been compromised...

 

What's the common thread that wends its way through the American

Cancer Society, the AIDS network, the local " Run-For-Whatever? "

 

Drug money. All of those above are primarily funded, directly, or

indirectly, by " Big Pharma. " So the so-called " War on Cancer, " the

" War on AIDS, " the " War on whatever. " is ONLY about promoting new

expensive drugs - NOTHING ELSE.

 

But, Worst of All...

 

Worst of all is that the American Medical System KNOWS it's broken,

and is taking steps, not to fix its problems, but to destroy those

trying to make changes for the better, those trying to make, and keep,

people healthy, those focusing on finding cures for Cancer, AIDS,

heart disease, etc.. It is trying to maintain the status quo.

 

Not only have the agencies " we the people " put in place intentionally

ignored the problems in health care, but they have been carefully

re-focused to attack solutions that compete with the drugs-surgery

paradigm.

 

There is a real war, with large stakes, going on in North America.

It's way bigger than the " war on terrorism. " I call it " the war

between health and medicine. " The FDA, the FTC, some of the State

Regulatory Agencies, and a large part of the " Support System " have

knowingly, or unknowingly, joined ranks against solutions to the problems.

 

The FDA, as we know, raids supplement manufacturers, electro-medicine

installations, using battering rams, automatic weapons, asset seizure

- all the tricks to stop competition against their " big pharma "

masters. The FTC runs the covert " Operation Cure-All, " targeting

American citizen's attempts to communicate new ideas in health care.

 

But, that isn't all. There's more. For instance, the " Quackbusters, "

we know, are a subversive organization formed, and funded by

twenty-six drug companies, after the American Medical Association

(AMA) was ordered by the Federal Court to cease its covert operation

against the Chiropractic profession. Their job is to harass market

competitors to the drug treatment paradigm. I believe they are run out

of a New York ad agency.

 

The " bible " for the quackbusters, the place where all the

" quackbusters " send their unsuspecting victims for allegedly " good

information, " is the website " quackwatch.com, " run by a de-licensed,

failed MD out of his basement in Allentown. Pennsylvania.

The quackbuster " flagship, " the so-called National Council Against

Health Fraud (NCAHF) is currently being run out of the office of its

current president, a hair removal and ear-piercing specialist in

Braintree, Massachusetts.

 

The biggest " quackbuster " success was in 1996 when they took over the

Federation of Medical Board (FSMB)'s conference in Chicago, and used

that meeting to re-focus all of the State Medical Boards away from the

Federal Government's definition of " health fraud, " (overbilling,

un-bundling, etc.). There, they were able to to insert their own

definition - that " alternatives " to the drug/surgery paradigm was

" health fraud. "

 

The FSMB, for all of it's high sounding goals, has NEVER addressed the

issue of its individual State members coming down hard on the number

one cause of deaths (783,986) - Iatrogenic deaths - in the United

States. In fact - they have NEVER brought up the issue at all - and

obviously have no intention of doing so. Certainly, they have NO

INTENTION of suggesting that their members DO SOMETHING about the problem.

 

The State of Wisconsin, where I'm working on a problem with the

State's Department of Regulation & Licensing (DRL), for instance, has

a population of 5,461,710. Extrapolating that to the US population of

284,000,000 we find that Wisconsin has 1/52 of the US population.

Dividing 52 into the total number of deaths (2,036,884), and the

15,678,513 health problems, shows that Wisconsin's share was 39,170

total deaths, and 301,513 health problems. And, Wisconsin's DRL

prosecutors, I've found, won't prosecute anything BUT alternative

practitioners. The over-druggers, the bad surgeons, the bedsore

ignorers, the malnutrition deliverers, etc. are perfectly safe in the

cheese State.

 

Foreign owned " Big Pharma " is bleeding us to death.

 

Can We Do Something About It?

 

Of course we can. And, we are...

 

Stay tuned...

 

Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate

 

This " Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter " is about the

battle between " Health and Medicine " on Planet Earth. Tim Bolen is an

op/ed writer with extensive knowledge of the activities of a

subversive organization calling itself the " quackbusters, " and that

organization's attempts to suppress, and discredit, any, and all

health modalities that compete with the allopathic (MD) paradigm for

consumer health dollars. The focus of the newsletter is on the ongoing

activities, battles, politics, and the victories won by members of the

" Health Freedom Movement " against the " quackbusters " It details " who

the quackbusters are, what they are, where they are operating, when

they appear, and how they operate - and how easy it is to beat them... "

 

For background information on the " Battle between Health and Medicine "

go to: http://www.savedrclark.net/by_whom2.htm. A copy of THIS

newsletter, and older ones, are viewable at the website

http://www.quackpotwatch.org/default.htm.

 

For EVEN MORE interesting and related articles go to

http://www.bolenreport.com.