The Health Care Conspiracy

It defrauds you not only of your money but of your health as well.

Follow the Money Trail

• Total US spending on healthcare: $1.5 trill in 2001 -> $2.7 trill 2011
• Pentagon spending : $19 bill in2001 -> $50.7 bill in 2011
• US spends 2x as much per capita on healthcare as the next closest nation but ranks 19th out of 19 on mortality amenable to medical care and 37th in the general health of the population
• Best practice and performance is sacrificed to lobbyists for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry
• CMS estimates healthcare costs to be 19.5% of GDP by 2017
• The Congressional Budget Office released its estimate of Obama’s budget, including its health-care program. From 2011 to 2020, the cumulative deficit is almost $10 trillion. Adding 2009 and 2010, the total rises to $12.7 trillion.
• CBO estimate for the Affordable Healthcare Act for Americans will cost over $2 trillion over the next 10 years. So what’s affordable about that?
• Expenditures from HSA tax exempt insurance plans under the new bill, unless modified, will only be allowed for approved medical procedures and Prescription medications. This encourages the use of prescription drugs.

Myths and Lies by Untrustworthy Guys

• Low Fat or No Fat diet is best
• Pesticides only hurt the bugs
• Cholesterol levels are the best markers for cardiovascular disease
• High Fructose Corn syrup is healthier than sugar
• Artificial sweeteners are safe
• Antacids are best treatment for acid reflux and heartburn
• Drugs like Fossamax reduce osteoporosis and the chance of fracture
• Vaccinations are safe
• This is a routine surgery, everybody’s getting them
• We need more money to cure Cancer
• We need more drugs

FDA REVOLVING DOOR

Members and leadership roles in the FDA, the government agency that is in charge of making sure that food and medicines are safe for the public, are a frightening example of conflict of interest. The only thing these people are safeguarding is their personal careers as they rotate between positions in the FDA and corporate jobs in the food and pharmaceutical industries. This is all a matter of public record, so if you’re interested in knowing how their career paths intertwine, you may want to look them up.

TV Commercials

Marketing isn’t just about running a sale, it’s become a science. Specialists in marketing have moved their industry to become one of the most sophisticated in the application of targeting emotion and mind control. If you want to know how the human brain responds to stimuli, how we learn or what motivates us, you will get better information from a marketing specialist than an educator or scientist. They have come into our homes over the airways and collectively convinced us to become the largest consumer nation in the world, the most overweight country and now, the largest debtor nation in the world.

10 Leading Causes of Death

Number of deaths for leading causes of death

• Chronic Heart disease: 631,636
• Cancer: 559,888
• Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 137,119
• 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

#1 ??? Drug effects and medical errors account for 669,000 deaths annually

• The conventional medical system is in fact the LEADING cause of death in this country. Not heart disease, not cancer–doctors. In all fairness, doctors themselves are not to blame for all of this. The entire modern health care system, however, is responsible for allowing, even promoting, so many unnecessary procedures, drugs and mishaps. This illustrates precisely why the system is so desperately in need of change
• JAMA: medical cause of hospital deaths is the 4Th leading cause of death right after cancer, heart disease and stroke
• 78 studies on adverse drug effects and medical errors account for 669,000 deaths annually, making it the leading cause of death
• We need to catalyze a transformation of this fatally flawed medical system that has been corrupted by multinational corporate drug and food industry interests which put their bottom line profits far ahead of improving the human condition.

Environment: Our Body’s Toxic Burden

• Average of 1300 chemicals in water, many are drugs
• 5 billion pounds of pesticides/herbicides used each year
• 3 million pounds of antibiotics/hormones given to livestock each year
• 3200 FDA approved food additives
• 600,000 tons of lead used in products each year
• Average of 300 chemicals and toxic metals found in new born cord blood
• Average of 350-400 chemicals found in human body fat that weren’t on earth before 1940
• 80,000 chemicals used in US, no proof of safety required
• Cleaning this up would cost Big Industry $Billions

Big Pharma

• Total US spending on healthcare: $1.5 trill in 2001 -> $2.7 trill 2011
• Pentagon spending : $19 bill in2001 -> $50.7 bill in 2011
• 200,000 Rx filled for military personal / day
• In 2007, $286.5billion spent on Rx drugs, 72% increase over past decade
• Americans pay 4-10 times as much as Canadians and Europeans do for the same drugs
• 7 out of 10 leading causes of death are due to diet and lifestyle. We don’t need more pills, we need more health education.

How Did This Happen?

• Founding Fathers avoided medical licensing to preserve personal choice of care
• AMA founded in 1847, pushed for licensing laws/ joined by pharmaceutical industry to eliminate competition on grounds:
• License laws were needed to make medical care safe
• Only allopaths (drug doctors) should be allowed to practice, other practitioners were excluded and their colleges closed
• This was all done for the good of the people, offered only the best, safe and scientific medical system. All others were sub-standard. This war of misinformation and political lobbying continues

Vaccination Cash Cow

Using new technology to test eight infectious attenuated viral vaccines, the results showed three of the vaccines contained “unexpected viral sequences”:

• A measles vaccine was found to contain low levels of the retrovirus avian leucosis virus
• Rotateq, Merck’s rotavirus vaccine, was found to contain a virus similar to simian (monkey) retrovirus
• Rotarix (GlaxoSmithKine’s rotavirus vaccine) was found to contain “significant levels” of porcine cirovirus 1 – 300,000 kids vaccinated in US, millions worldwide.

So in their tests, nearly 40 percent of the vaccines they tested contained viral contaminants. The implications of these findings on the alleged safety of the vaccine supply remains to be seen, but clearly there is contamination occurring that was a complete surprise to researchers, health officials and vaccine manufacturers alike.

“With mounting evidence that cross-species transfer of viruses can occur, the United States should no longer be using animal tissues to produce vaccines.”

This is also the same reason why Donald Miller, a cardiac surgeon and professor of surgery at the University of Washington, suggests in his more User-Friendly Vaccination Schedule that if you choose to get your child vaccinated against polio, you request only an inactivated (dead) virus vaccine that is cultured in human cells, not monkey kidney cells

Whatever you do, please do your homework before subjecting your children to any vaccine. A great way to get started is to simply use the Search Feature at the top of each of the Web pages at Mercola.com and search that site as it contains a litany of research on vaccine safety, and the lack thereof. A letter from Congressman David Weldon (R-Fla.), M.D. to the director of the CDC, Dr Julie L. Gerberding, in which he alludes to a study by a Dr. Thomas Verstraeten, then representing the CDC, on the connection between infant exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccines and neurodevelopmental injury.

In this shocking letter, Weldon refers to Dr. Verstraeten‘s study which looked at the data from the Vaccine Safety Datalink and found a significant correlation between thimerosal exposure via vaccines and several neurodevelopmental disorders including tics, speech and language delays and possibly to ADD.

Weldon questioned the CDC director as to why, following this meeting, Dr. Verstraeten published his results, almost four years later, in the journal” Pediatrics” to show just the opposite. That is, there was no correlation to any neurodevelopmental problems related to thimerosal exposure in infants. In his letter, Weldon refers to a report of the minutes of this meeting held in Georgia, which exposes some incredible statements by the “experts” making up this study group.

The group‘s purpose was to evaluate and discuss Dr. Verstraeten‘s results and data and make recommendation that would eventually lead to possible alterations in the existing vaccine policy

I find it almost incomprehensible that thimerosal, the well-documented, toxic mercury-containing preservative, is still in many vaccines, years after federal agencies have mandated that it be removed from vaccines. Most people, physicians included, don’t understand that thimerosal is still used in most vaccines and is likely one of the major contributing factors to vaccine toxicity.

Mercury is a potent neurotoxin. Injecting it into a child, whose nervous system is rapidly developing, could have terrible consequences. So, before you decide to vaccinate your children, do them a favor and look into the many risks and side effects associated with common childhood vaccines. Doing so could mean the difference between life and death.

(Autism, ADD, Learning and Behavioral Disabilities)

Big Food and Agribusiness

Obesity

The single largest source of calories for Americans comes from sugar—specifically high fructose corn syrup. Just take a look at the sugar consumption trends of the past 300 years:

• In 1700, the average person consumed about 4 pounds of sugar per year.
• In 1800, the average person consumed about 18 pounds of sugar per year.
• In 1900, individual consumption had risen to 90 pounds of sugar per year.
• In 2009, more than 50 percent of all Americans consume one-half pound of sugar PER DAY—translating to a whopping 180 pounds of sugar per year!

Sugar is loaded into your soft drinks, fruit juices, sports drinks, and hidden in almost all processed foods—from baked goods to chips to Worcestershire sauce to cheese spread. Almost any processed or prepared food has some form of sugar in it. And now most infant formula has the sugar equivalent of one can of Coca-Cola, so babies are being metabolically poisoned from day one if taking formula.

Low Fat/ No Fat food tastes bad so they added sugar to make it taste better, and charged more.

R&D in the Fast Food and snack food industry is not centered around a healthy product but how to get you to eat more.

No wonder there is an obesity epidemic in this country. Being overweight increases your risk factors for all degenerative diseases. 2/3 of Americans are overweight and 32% are obese. This Health Issue is now affecting our children as well.

Today, 32 percent of Americans are obese and an additional one-third are overweight. Compare that to 1890, when a survey of white males in their fifties revealed an obesity rate of just 3.4 percent. In 1975, the obesity rate in America had reached 15 percent, and since then it has doubled. We are a nation of Carboholics.

Big Agribusiness

Big Agribusiness promotes the use of chemical pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers and hormones that are steadily destroying the ability of our soils to produce nutrient rich foods while poisoning our environment and our families. Modern farming techniques and green harvesting of produce to give a longer shelf life in the market, robs them of potential nutrients. Fruits and vegetables are picked before their natural growing cycle allows nature to endow them with all of the nutrients they could have had. The rampant use of GMO crops having no long term studies places the environment, plants, animals and humans too, in unnecessary danger. This practice has already gotten US farm products banned from importation in many countries around the world. “You are what you eat,” and most of the food in this country isn’t safe to eat anymore. Most of the food is tainted with an array of chemical contaminants, drugs and hormones all served over a bed of genetically modified organisms.

What is Missing From the Health Care System?

Drug companies, by and large, are not here to bring health to the population but to bilk them for vast amounts of money, by promoting a system that treats the symptom but does not address the cause. There Is No Accountability!

A health care system that continues to buy into this methodology, which focuses on drugs and surgical interventions instead of valuing your body’s innate ability to heal when given proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle, will ultimately fail you. It is a system based on disease management instead of wellness. Where is the debate about limiting unnecessary, ineffective treatments and stopping fraud? Why is no one talking about the fact that there are effective, inexpensive natural-based alternatives? We don’t need more pills, we need more health education.

These are the discussions that could actually make Americans’ healthier … but the fact of the matter is that the Big Pharma Cartel has a supreme hold over our government, and this is, most likely, why you do not see any discussions about these very real, underlying problems …and why the drug companies, not you or your family’s health, will be the primary beneficiaries of the new health care reform. As long as your focus is on drugs and surgical interventions, you will never see the fundamental changes that are so desperately needed. It can only be accomplished by a radical change in how you, and how society as a whole, think about health. This change can’t be accomplished one person at a time. The goal is to have a critical mass of people refuse the unnecessarily dangerous and counterproductive solutions currently offered by conventional medicine. This is the only stimulus powerful enough to generate authentic change in the system.

A healthier population would place fewer demands on are overly burdened healthcare system, but that would mean a leaner bottom line for the industries that profit from our illness.