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WHAT'S WRONG WITH HEALTHCARE IN AMERICA (465 hits)

Medical science has absolutely, 100 percent, failed in the curing and prevention of illness, sickness and disease. Consider the following startling bits of data:

* More people get colds and flus than ever before.
* More people get cancer than ever before.
* More people have diabetes than ever before.
* More people have heart disease than ever before.
* More people have multiple sclerosis, lupus, muscular dystrophy, asthma, migraine
headaches, joint, neck and back pain than ever before.
* More people have acid reflux, ulcers, and stomach problems than ever before.
* More women have menopause problems than ever before.
* More women have frequent PMS and more severe PMS than ever before.
* More kids have attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity than ever before.
* More people have chronic fatigue than ever before.
* More people have insomnia than ever before.
* More people have bad skin, acne and dandruff than ever before.
* More people suffer from depression, stress, anxiety than ever before.
* More men and women suffer from s*xual dysfunction and infertility than ever before.
* More people suffer from allergies, arthritis, constipation, fibromyalgia , cold sores, and herpetic breakouts than ever before.
* More men from prostate problems than ever before.
* More women suffer from yeast infections than ever before.
YET SURPRISINGLY ENOUGH...
* There are more people going to visit doctors than ever before.
* There are more people getting diagnostic testing, such as blood test, and x-rays, than ever before.
* MORE PEOPLE ARE TAKING NONPRESCRIPTION AND PRESCRIPTION DRUGS THAN EVER BEFORE. Not only are more people taking drugs, but each person is taking more drugs than ever before.
* There are more surgeries performed than ever before.

What does this tell you? It tells that standard medical science is failing. More people are getting medical treatment, taking more drugs, having more diagnostic testing and having more surgeries than ever before in history. Yet more people are getting sick than ever before in history. MEDICAL SCIENCE IS FAILING IN MY OPINION ! According to Fortune magazine we are losing the war on cancer. The percentage of Americans dying of cancer today is the same as it was in 1970 and even 1950! Over $200 billion has been spent since 1971 trying to prevent and cure cancer. Yet today you have a higher chance of getting cancer than ever before in history, and you have the same chance of dying as you did in 1950. OK someone please tell me what's going-on. It's quite obvious we can call that a miserable failure. Hold on I have some more facts for you. Americans spend over $2 trillion a year on healthcare, yet the American infant mortality rate is higher than twenty other developed countries. People in thirty other countries live longer than Americans, yet Americans consume over half of all the drugs manufactured in the world, isn't it a wonder that not to many doctors want to advocate alternative therapies. There are over 200,000 nonprescription drugs on the market; there are over 30,000 prescription medications. Doctors write over three billion prescriptions each year. The average American has over thirty different prescription and non-prescriptions in their medicine cabinet. The bottom line: In my humble opinion as a clinical massage therapist is that the only winners in the cure and prevention of disease are the drug companies' and the healthcare companies themselves. It only makes since that the drug companies profits are at an all time high, check out some of the financial earnings of those healthcare companies that trade on the market it'll make your head spin. I believe that more than 80 percent of medical science has failed unequivocally in the prevention and curing of virtually every illness.
So if trillions of dollars in scientific research has failed in producing ways to prevent and cure illness and disease, and all-natural inexpensive prevention methods and cures do exist, why aren't we hearing about them? The answer may surprise you.

Posted By: James CLARK
Wednesday, August 19th 2009 at 4:38AM
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I think we have all become a society of wanting someone else to fix our problems...theres a drug for this a pill for that and even now they are promoting garmets that cost, I believe $175, that claim to drop dress sizes instantly. Now...I am not saying this product doesn't do what it claims, while you have it on, but do you wear this thing the rest of your life or are you willing to make some lifestyle changes that will actually make you drop the weight and maintain a healthier weight. You raise the question about so much more dis-order/dis-ease, you are sadly correct, but really a large reason for this is US, the people that continue to make unhealthy choice when it comes to our health. How many years have we known that smoking causes lung cancer...but people continue to smoke, how many years have we know the negative effect of excessive alcohol consumption...but people continue to brag about how they went out and got plastered last Friday night, how long have we known the alarming numbers about obesity in this country but people continue to go to the all you can eat, super size me, biggie this weekly? The sad thing is that we have the knowledge and we continue the behavior that is killing us and our next generation. Children, except in rare cases, are not born obese...they are obese because WE the stewards over them made them that way. They grow into obese adults because they were given no solid foundation to build on and in turn there is a real chance their children will be obese.
Type 2 diabetes can be controlled and for many perople reversed...I know because my mother is an example of this...she did not have to take any natural supplement or anything...she had to change the manner in which she ate. There is an excellent book "Death to Diabetes" authored by an African American who was facing his own mortality due to diabetes and he after doing the work needed to make the change shared it with anyone who wants it.
So...not that I am opposed to holistic/alternative modalities...I love massage, chiro care, herbal supplements and all...but they alone will not fix the problem. The real answer to the plight of the continued rise in the dealth rates and statistics is YOU (whom ever is reading this post). You have the ability to make lifestyle changes that can/will not only impact your health but also can change the future of the next generations to come.
Thursday, August 20th 2009 at 12:22PM
Belinda Anderson

You see the manner in which she ate was a form of alternative therapy, She changed her mind set, that was the first step in the right direction to get the results that were achieved. Nothing can be more natural than that. How wonderful!!
Thursday, August 20th 2009 at 3:30PM
James CLARK

I have read these blogs and strongly agree as a nursing student and one who takes personal time to research and understand all that is applied to these issues. Within recent years, especially as I have gone further in my studies, I found that we all need to take, not some, but 100% responsibility over our lives and well-being, and that is to include health and fitness. Lately I have been pushing myself to explore different styles of fitness and focusing on their benefits to my body inside and out. I have also gone back to the roots of what have been taught to me by my parents and other seniors in society from so long ago, many of them not ever having the need to worry or run to a physician for anything. Like James have mentioned in his blog and I often question myself and our American healthcare standards, why is that people of other countries and cultures spend less time in the hospitals and clinics and more time just living without health problems and dilemmas that cause a major set back in life and in so-called medical and healthcare progress. So, what's official? What is official is holistic care for one self and nations and how there are alternative routes to living healthy and fit. "Prevention" is the greatest part of it! Clean body, clean mind, clean spirit, clean soul, clean environment, clean conscience, and being clean of medical bills, appointments, and allowing America to dictate that we already know and can learn for ourselves without the headaches. We must be the forerunners of our own care and not leave it totally in the hands of the stranger who at some point are obligated to tell you something good or not and most of the time that's not on point.
Example: Why am I asked to take PT for pain that I have been having for over three years now in my legs and R-arm after my physician have run out of ideas of pain meds to prescribe? The fact is, she never even ran any test or have given any close observations as to what the cause of the pain may be stemming from. It's almost as if I'm believed to be exaggerating the facts of what I've been experiencing for quite some time and have been reporting to her for just as long. O Kkkee, pills and therapy sounds, ummm, alright, but only after one have found the root of the problem to match the treatment and the outcome of the treatment. Help me on this one friends!!!
Saturday, August 22nd 2009 at 8:28PM
Dionne F

I have seen it all to often, a client will come to me with a specific issue such as yours and my first mission is to find the cause of the pain, and as i have taught many students that in order to properly address a muscle issue, one must know the action of that particular muscle, so to comment on the statement you made about finding the root cause I am in full agreement, as a massage therapist this is what we do with an intake form to provide the right modality for your particular issue. Most doctors are specialist in their craft and have either forgotten or don't care about basic anatomy and physiology of muscles. I would assess from the information that you have provided about your legs and R-arm is from a postural imbalance from possibly wearing heals over an inch, sitting for extended periods of time, and using a mouse or lap top. You may want to seek out a clinical massage therapist.
Sunday, August 23rd 2009 at 12:27AM
James CLARK