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"How about the health care system in the United States? How would you say it ranks? " Dr. Whitaker: "We actually have one of the worst health care systems in the world. If you compare total life expectancy of a person minus their years of illness, we rank 22nd out of 23 industrialized countries. And to add insult to injury, the average expenditure per person in the United States is more than $6000 a year on health care, which is more than twice as much as in other developed countries." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The periodic physical may not only reassure the patient, it might also keep them loyal—prevent them from "falling through the system's cracks"—to the health care system. After this craven promotion of self-interest, the editorial continued: "The regular laying-on of hands and stethoscope (and maybe phlebotomy needle [drawing blood from a vein], too) is not a needless ritual if it fosters trusting clinical relationships."21 Thus, we see that the goal of "trust" in and of itself becomes the reason, perhaps the primary reason, for doing—and justifying—the routine physical." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"In the next chapter, I show how Wyeth joined with the British Government and with the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), to maintain - if not increase - its guarantee of drugs sales to the British socialised health care system. Some of this work is done by playing a part in the socialised health care system by, for example, funding nurses to administer vaccines in community health practices. There is, however, one more conventional way of influencing governments." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"Exercise and Cardiovascular Health," Jonathan Myers, PhD From the Cardiology Division, VA Palo Alto health care system, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. Correspondence to Jonathan Myers, PhD, Cardiology 111-C, VA Palo Alto health care system, 3801 MirandaAve, Palo Alto, CA 94304. Roizen, Dr. Michael R; Oz, Dr. Mehmet C. You the Owner's Manual. Harper Resource books, 2005. Chapter Six-Superfoods for Immune System Nelson, Nancy. "The Majority of Cancers Are Linked to the Environment." National Cancer Institute, US National Instituesof Health. June 17,2004. Brush, J.; Mendenhall, E." - Jan Lovejoy, Get Balanced-the Natural Way to Better Health with Superfoods (Get the book.)

"In fact, patients like Linda, lacking clear physical markers of disease, are generally not taken seriously by their doctors: Over the years I've learned that almost every aspect of our health care system is more responsive to the needs of patients with major organ failure. We miss the mark for those who fear they have a serious yet undiagnosed disease and who have unexplained pain, weakness, fatigue, headaches, mood changes, or interrupted sleep. ... To the extent that they cannot function, they are truly disabled." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Harvard University Department of Psychiatry Depression and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital covered by the country's national health care system, and in fact is the number one prescribed antidepressant in Germany and most of Europe. According to noted expert Steven Bratman, M.D., author of the excellent reference book The Natural Pharmacy, St. John's Wort has a scientific record approaching that of many prescription drugs, and is effective in about 55 percent of cases." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"The economic impact of cardiovascular disease on the U.S. health care system continues to grow as the population ages. The cost of heart disease and stroke in the United States has been estimated at $432 billion for 2007, including health care expenditures and lost productivity. Imagine how much America might save if we could bring our heart disease rates down to those of Okinawa. Since lifestyle, not genes, is the chief determinant of how long we live, I argued that the Okinawan Blue Zone offered the world's best practices in health and longevity." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Congress learned a good deal about what Congressman Henry Waxman termed the "hidden corner of the health care system." We all learned that in addition to the $4 billion spent in direct-to-consumer marketing, the industry spent more than $5.5 billion to promote drugs to doctors ($5.5 billion is more than all the U.S. medical schools spend yearly to educate medical students). The industry employed over 90,000 sales representatives ?one for every 4.7 doctors ?to "educate" doctors about new drugs and new indications." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"The main motivating force behind today's health care system, or shall I say, sickness care system, is the incessant need or greed to amass money, power, and control. The desire to help humanity to achieve health and vitality is shared only by those doctors and health practitioners who have genuine love and compassion for their fellow human beings. The symptom-oriented approach to treating disease generates a tremendous number of potential symptomatic side effects that, in turn, require further treatment." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"In 2006, the American College of Physicians warned that "primary care, the backbone of he nation's health care system, is at grave risk of collapse. The report dwelled on patient dissatisfaction, mostly related to difficulties in timely access, as well as physician dissatisfaction, mostly related to financial issues. Whatever the reason, fewer and fewer medical students are choosing a career in primary care. Between 1997 and 2005, graduates entering family practice residencies dropped by 50%." What are the implications of this trend for our thought experiment?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"THE LIFE LIST Much of the public discourse on aging focuses on baby boomers becoming senior citizens and the belief that their vast numbers will take an unprecedented toll on the health care system, in the form of dementia and other costly health problems. But I don't believe we're stuck with this picture of doom and gloom. Despite my generation's familiarity with fast food and pay per view, we also came of age with Kenneth Cooper's revolutionary concept of aerobics." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"As it happens, emergency rooms have two separate roles within the health care system. The first is the obvious one, as providers of emergency care. Thus, as in all other chapters, we ask: what actually happens in the ER?3 and how many lives are saved? The second role of the ER is a safety net provider for vulnerable populations: the uninsured, those on Medicaid, and minorities. The question for this book then becomes: Is this latter function appropriate for the ER? and how does this second role affect the first one? Let us examine this second set of questions first." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The following chart shows that Japan and Switzerland stand ^Includes level of health (25 percent), distribution of health (25 percent), fairness of financial contribution (25 percent), level and distribution of responsiveness of health care system (25 percent). FIGURE 4-1. HEALTHY LIFE EXPECTANCY AND PER PERSON MEDICAL EXPENDITURES FOR 23 OECD COUNTRIES J^pan Sweden Switzerland • ? United States Czech Republic • $1000 $2000 $3000 $4000 Per Person Health Care Expenditures 2001 $5000 $6000 out for their good health, and the Czech Republic stands out for its low cost and poor health." - 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.) "We all have a relationship to the health care system: patients and potential patients, doctors and other health care professionals, researchers, workers in health care industries, health policy experts, government officials, lawmakers, and investors. We have all been pulled into this enormous and complex system by our hopes and fears, our myths and ideologies, our dedication and pursuit of scientific knowledge, and our personal and institutional aspirations." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Needless to say, these industries, as well as many doctors whose high-priced specialty services would not be needed in such high volume in a more efficient health care system, will do everything possible to prevent reform, as they have so successfully done in the past. Courageous leadership is urgently needed to redirect American health care—not unlike the leadership provided by President Teddy Roosevelt a century ago when the enormously concentrated power of the railroad, steel, and oil "combines" similarly threatened the public's interests." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Because Peter was dealing with energetic structures, albeit quantum ones, and not the specific parts of the physical body per se, the clinical emphasis of the NES health care system is focused at the energetic systems level, not the physical symptoms level. The Infoceuticals do not directly affect anything physical in the body, for all of the organs and physiological processes and such are subsystems of the larger body, which itself is under the control, energetically, of the full body-field." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "While no health care system is perfect, the fact is that thousands of people have found their health and well-being immeasurably improved by using the NES Infoceuticals. Many have found relief from chronic conditions that allopathic medicine could not treat. We hope, too, that we have whetted the appetite of frontier researchers to join us in exploring these intriguing new directions in biology and health care. The field is rich almost beyond imagining. We at Nutri-Energetics Systems—a young company of people dedicated to changing the paradigm in health care—think big." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"It is also popular these days to write about problems with our health care system, particularly about medicine's high cost, or inequalities in health care delivery—reducing individual physicians "to bits of flotsam on a great economic current," sniffed one editor of a prominent scholarly journal.28 Our book does not address these issues, though they are of central import to sociologists. Nor do we give much attention to the significant problems of race and gender inequities in health care. So what do we hope to accomplish?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The big health care lie In fact, the very name "health care system" is using the strategy of misdirection. It's called a health care system, but if you look closely at it, it is really just a disease-maintenance system. It is neither healthy nor caring. All our system does is maintain chronic diseases by managing their symptoms with prescription drugs and surgical procedures. Patients rarely, if ever, get better once they venture down the path of chronic disease, and try to resolve it through the use of conventional doctors, hospitals and prescription drugs." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"THE ACCIDENTAL PATIENT The U.S. health care system grew out of a series of historical accidents. Today, most commercially insured Americans receive their health care coverage through their jobs or unions. This is a legacy of our metaphorical shipyard boss's attempt to cope with the economic struggles created by World War II. Those who retire from the shipyard, are fired, cannot get hired, or end up permanently disabled all count on a combination of federal and state government agencies for help." - J.D. Kleinke, Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System (Get the book.) "Because of a unique and difficult moment in our nation's history, our health care system was slapped on top of our employment system, with the government picking up the enormous slack for most of those who fell outside that system. And so it began. The imposition of the nation's employers, insurance companies, legislators, lawyers, investment bankers, insurance brokers, and countless other corporate and regulatory middlemen into the financing and delivery of medical care is the source of the fundamental structural problems that cripple health care in this country." - J.D. Kleinke, Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System (Get the book.) "As discussed in Chapter One, the imposition of the nation's employers into the U.S. health care system is a legacy of World War II. The first HMO was a product of this same twist of fate: the Kaiser Health Plan began as a prepaid set of clinics and hospitals surrounding the shipyards of Henry J. Kaiser, one of the war's largest contractors (Starr, 1982)." - J.D. Kleinke, Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System (Get the book.)

"In her book The Medical Mafia, Guylaine Lanctot, MD, explains that our health care system is controlled by a group of three: the American Medical Association, the health insurance industry and, most of all, the pharmaceutical companies. She once practiced medicine in the USA, as well as in France and Canada where medicine is socialized. She urges Americans not to socialize medicine, explaining that the only ones who profit are the pharmaceutical companies. Allopathic medicine focuses only on treating illness, not on creating health." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Count your blessings, starting with the reality that you are alive and have been blessed to find the superlative alternative health care system, complete with the ten energy enhancers, including the live food factor! S Take an active role in creating your nurturing relationships with humans. But even if your primary nurturing relationship is with nature or an animal, these can be highly health promoting. Others find their very most nurturing relationship with God and derive a highly health-promoting strength from this spiritual relationship." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Furthermore, you have no hope or desire to search for a workable alternative health care system, no desire to learn how to take personal responsibility for your own health. Natural Hygiene at Its Very Best • Natural Hygiene holds that health is the normal state of all living organisms and that health is maintained through natural, self-initiating, self-healing processes!" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "This concludes my seven lists on Natural Hygiene as The Superlative, Alternative health care system. Now Susan takes the lead with Dr. Vetrano and me to back her up. Even Deficiency Diseases Can Stem from Toxemia Concerning deficiency diseases, Dr. Shelton and Dr. Vetrano have noted that a very few situations arise not from toxic overload, but from malnutrition due to inadequacies of other basic requisites of life. Examples are scurvy (Vitamin C deficiency), beriberi (Vitamin B] deficiency) and pernicious anemia (Vitamin B)2 malabsorption)." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Yet, somehow, our so-called health care system claims to be the best health care in the world. That claim is, once again, classic misdirection to distract us from the true nature of our health care system, which is designed primarily to generate profits for drug companies. The "featured ingredient" tactic in cosmetic products Cosmetics companies love to use misdirection as well." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Let's examine a few facts: • We have the most expensive health care system on the planet, with Americans spending twice as much money on health care as other countries. • The World Heath Organization (WHO) ranks the U.S. health care system thirty-seventh. • U.S. women rank nineteenth for life expectancy; men rank twenty-ninth. • U.S. citizens pay anywhere from two to ten times as much for the same drugs sold in other countries. • Forty-five percent of all global drug sales ($248 billion) were in North America. Okay, that's depressing; where's the Paxil?" - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Kilmer McCully, chief of pathology and laboratory medicine service in the Boston Veterans Administration health care system, is the father of the homocysteine theory, a revolutionary explanation of how arterial disease develops. "In the production of plaques in the artery wall, it is well known that cholesterol becomes damaged by oxidation," McCully says. "But homocysteine is a potent catalyst for this oxidation reaction and orchestrates all the things in the arterial wall that produce the plaque." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

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