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"To put this in perspective, the average annual health care costs for a diabetic are approximately $12,000, while health care costs for an adult without diabetes are about $3,000. Diabetes is responsible for more than 30 million doctor visits each year, along with more than 15 million days of hospitalization for diabetes-related issues. Diabetes Is a Silent Killer Approximately one-third of the 17 million people in the United States with diabetes are unaware that they have it." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.)

"But though fast food may be good business for the health care industry, the cost to society—an estimated $250 billion a year in diet-related health care costs and rising rapidly—cannot be sustained indefinitely. An American born in 2000 has a 1 in 3 chance of developing diabetes in his lifetime; the risk is even greater for a Hispanic American or African American. A diagnosis of diabetes subtracts roughly twelve years from one's life and living with the condition incurs medical costs of $13,000 a year (compared with $2,500 for someone without diabetes)." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Why is our government so baffled by the obesity problem and what to do about skyrocketing health care costs? As a country, we consistently take ineffective steps to head off the obesity epidemic, and with each misstep we are packing on the pounds and exposing ourselves to more preventable diseases, which drive health care costs into the stratosphere. For some reason, the brain trust in our government has not figured out how to provide significant legislation to reward people for leading a healthier lifestyle or reward companies for providing programs that help improve the health of employees." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"To put this in perspective, the average annual health care costs for a diabetic are approximately $12,000, while health care costs for an adult without diabetes are about $3,000. Diabetes is responsible for more than 30 million doctor visits each year, along with more than 15 million days of hospitalization for diabetes-related issues. Diabetes Is a Silent Killer Approximately one-third of the 17 million people in the United States with diabetes are unaware that they have it." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.)

"Over the past few years, tens of thousands of Americans have recast their votes and joined unions, largely due to rising health care costs and the pressures of managed care. The National Writers' Union, for one, invites various scribes to join their guild and subscribe to their health plan—you don't even have to be a published novelist...yet. In some cases, former executives-turned-freelance writers have found themselves allied with former factory workers, all in the name of obtaining better health care coverage." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"These patients also incur increased health care costs because of being chronically ill, the need to see multiple subspecialists, and the tests performed on them until the correct diagnosis is obtained [86]. Corrao and other investigators of the Club del Tenue Study Group formed a prospective cohort study that included 1072 adults with diagnosed celiac disease and 3384 first-degree relatives. These individuals were followed for 32 years. The number of deaths between the two groups were compared and expressed as the standardized mortality ratio (SMR) and relative survival ratio." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"And even if the one-in-a-million reactions are considered "rare" by the CDC, the health care costs associated with those "rare" reactions are not insignificant. Here's one example. One recognized complication of the flu shot is a condition called Gullian-Barre Syndrome (GBS). Guillian-Barre is disorder characterized by progressive paralysis, beginning in the feet and advancing up the body, often causing paralysis of the diaphragm and breathing muscles within a matter of hours or days. Nearly all patients with GBS are hospitalized because of paralysis. The prognosis of GBS varies." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"As we move toward an organic, live-food diet, we also move from: low-nutrient to high-nutrient-dense foods; from the suffering of disease symptoms to their dissolution; dead food to vibrant, living food; maximum to minimum health care costs; below-average to above-average life span; millions dying of starvation to almost none; a translative diet of eating for comfort alone to a transformative diet of eating as a means and support for personal growth." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"National Governors Association sponsored a conference in New Orleans to explore innovative ways for states to control their unsustainably increasing health care costs. I presented research that I had done as a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow showing the benefit of offering inner city of Cleveland families covered by Medicaid the option of enrolling in a health maintenance organization that would give them access to private primary care doctors." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Despite the poor performance of the American health care system, our health care costs are simply staggering. In 2004, health expenditures in the United States are projected to exceed $6100 for every man, woman, and child. How does this compare with other countries? The United States spends more than twice as much per person on health care as the other industrialized nations. Even taking into account our higher per-person gross domestic product, the United States spends 42 percent more on health care per person than would be expected, given spending on health care in the other OECD nations." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Drug COfTlparties, government, doctors, patients, insurers. health care costs keep rising, with no end in sight, and despite the myths about the excellence of our medical care, we are not realizing commensurate improvements in our health. The American health care system keeps edging ever closer to the breaking point. Many factors are contributing, but in the eye of the storm is a single factor: the transformation of medical knowledge from a public good, measured by its potential to improve our health, into a commodity, measured by its commercial value." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "How is it that those sweeping changes, adopted to control health care costs and improve the quality of care, had precisely the opposite effect? People tend to point a finger at one of two culprits: Many blame the HMOs and managed care companies for wresting control of medical decisions away from doctors and unreasonably restricting care in order to save money. Others blame the excessive power of the medical industries and particularly the drug companies, with their exquisitely honed marketing techniques, for the commercialization of medical practice." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Looking to the future, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts annual health care costs will hit $4.1 trillion by 201 6, eating up nearly 20 percent of our gross domestic product. We currently spend nearly $6,000 apiece on health care, two and a half times the median for the rest of the industrialized world. What do we get for our money? Politicians are constantly telling us we have the best health care in the world, but that's simply not the case." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "After the debacle of the 1990s, when patients and doctors rebelled against the restrictions imposed by managed care, insurers backed off from denying services or reimbursement, a retreat that triggered a return to rising health care costs and the current medical-technology arms race that is now helping spur the use of imaging tests. (You'll hear more about the demise of managed care in chapter 9." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"But, if consumers also open a medical savings account (MSA)—a relatively new, tax-advantaged option—they can draw from it to pay health care costs with tax-free dollars. When you consider that even the cost of parking at the doctor's office or hospital can be paid for with tax-free money, the high deductibles don't seem quite as high anymore. Also, the cost of things such as eyeglasses or dental care—which may not count towards your deductible—can be paid for out of your MSA." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"In fact, if there is one thing that could bankrupt America, it's runaway health care costs.59 In 2007, veteran CBS News 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft exposed the influence peddling that led to the passage of the prescription drug bill, the costliest welfare measure in the last four decades. He interviewed two Congressmen concerning the influence exerted by the pharmaceutical industry over the Congress in securing passage of the prescription drug bill and in achieving insertion of the drug price no-negotiation provision. Kroft interviewed Congressman Walter Jones (R-N.C)." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"By 1999, a vast majority of people who were insured by their employers were enrolled in managed care plans, the so-called solution to America's health care crisis, yet health care costs were once again rising at double-digit rates. Despite the fact that managed care's grip had loosened, Peabody found himself feeling angry all the time. Angry at his colleagues." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Best of all, managed care would rein in both unnecessary care and out-of-control health care costs. But it didn't work out as planned. Gordon Peabody was an ordinary doctor in private practice, not unlike thousands of other primary care physicians across the country who saw their livelihoods change with the advent of managed care. Like many young college graduates in the late 1960s, Peabody went into medicine because he was smart, he did well in school, and he wanted to do something important with his life. He wanted to make a difference. He didn't go into medicine to make a lot of money. " - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Not only will the burden of their health care costs be dramatically reduced. Those most advanced in years will also be most advanced in the quality of consciousness. The oldest generation will also be the most valuable. With a leadership group that has spent long years developing the quality of their consciousness, we can look forward to a time when the problems of our society will be resolved much more effectively. RESOLVING THE HEALTH CARE CRISIS The most immediate social benefit of implementing Maharishi Ayur-Ved, however, will doubdess be a reduction of the crushing costs of health care." - Hari Sharma, Freedom from Disease: How to Control Free Radicals, a Major Cause of Aging and Disease (Get the book.)

"As a country, we consistently take ineffective steps to head off the obesity epidemic, and with each misstep we are packing on the pounds and exposing ourselves to more preventable diseases, which drive health care costs into the stratosphere. For some reason, the brain trust in our government has not figured out how to provide significant legislation to reward people for leading a healthier lifestyle or reward companies for providing programs that help improve the health of employees. After all, we live in a performance-based society driven by incentives." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"The illusion that there is a successful treatment for every disease has led to the escalation of increasingly complex forms of illness and increasingly prohibitive health care costs. Many patients who are released from hospitals leave with the conviction that they are healed from whatever was wrong with them. They believe that since the problem has been "fixed" they can just get on with their lives again. Drugs, surgery, and other medical treatments deceive in this way." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"He is experiencing a quadruple whammy: increased health care costs, higher energy prices, out-of-control finance charges, and higher local taxes that far exceed his meager federal tax cut. Surprisingly, Barry cannot seem to stop himself from spending. Like an emotionally distressed person who overeats for comfort, Barry finds temporary pleasure in deluding himself that he is a man of means. He spends, his wife spends. They indulge their daughter's material desires. The more he has, the more he wants—and the more he needs to distract himself from the truth." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"It would also have a shorter life span and sky-high health care costs associated with the treatment of the chronic diseases it would undoubtedly experience. The healthy dog, on the other hand, would live longer and would be more vibrant, more emotionally stable, have greater lean body mass and lower body fat. It would have a healthier cardiovascular system, healthier teeth and would express a much higher degree of health than the other dog. It would also probably die someday from so-called natural causes, without all the medical costs associated with the unhealthy dog." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Our society should be much healthier and our citizens should be living much longer - and the public cost of health care costs should be going down substantially. Why, then, has just the reverse occurred? On the average people live longer - that is, many more live into old age - but the expectation of additional years by the time one reaches 50 has not changed in the past 100 years. What has gone wrong? Why did we not foresee these changes in i960 when our health plans were being formulated?" - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.) "Insurance companies, governments and citizens are the people that pay medical bills and they are the ones that can benefit from lower health care costs. We as health professionals and concerned citizens must continue to encourage our politicians to take a more active role in Health Maintenance." This is not a new call to action. In the 1950s, Dr T.D." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"If resveratrol lives up to its promise, it will put the entire cancer care industry out of business, usher in an era of true cancer prevention, and save billions of dollars in health care costs. Universal dietary and supplement regimens to successfully fight cancer... 494 The unproven versus the disproven ... 494 Physicians not likely to be swayed ... 495 The futility of removing or killing cancer cells ... 495 Cancer is prevalent... 495 Does every cancer patient need treatment? ... 496 Undetectable metastases... 496 Immunity and micrometastases ... 497 Stop metastases!..." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"MANAGED CARE Over the past two decades, managed-care organizations or their successors have come to dominate health care deliver)' in the United States, largely in response to rising health care costs. Managed care requires preapprovals for medical treatment and sets limits on some types of care. This has given third-party payers more leverage and has often constrained both the care given by doctors and the care received bv patients. To a degree, managed care has commercialized medicine and encouraged medical care organizations and doctors to emphasize profits over patient care." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"The diet that most people are following today in modern societies is a diet that will kill them much sooner with far higher health care costs and with far lower quality of life than if they were able to eat simpler foods — unprocessed, non-manufactured, and unrefined. So our diet is the number one cause of disease in this country. The American food supply is what's killing us, not our genes or bad luck (as many doctors would have you mistakenly believe)." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"By 1999, a vast majority of people who were insured by their employers were enrolled in managed care plans, the so-called solution to America's health care crisis, yet health care costs were once again rising at double-digit rates. Despite the fact that managed care's grip had loosened, Peabody found himself feeling angry all the time. Angry at his colleagues." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Health care costs would drop and medical mistakes would wane as premature death plummeted. In essence, our health care system would finally protect and promote our health as it is meant to do. SIMPLE BEGINNINGS As I look back, I often think about life on the farm and how it shaped my thinking in so many ways. My family was immersed in nature every waking moment. In the summer, from sunrise to sunset, we were outdoors planting and harvesting the crops and taking care of the animals." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

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