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"Government health insurance was set up, but only for orthodox medical treatment. health insurance companies were convinced that the medical association treatment methods were the best and that natural healing methods were ineffective. With these organizations in place, the pharmaceutical cartel's control was complete, and tremendous profits were assured. CODEX ALIMENTARIUS In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in "alternative" medicine, with its preference for non-invasive and natural therapies, including herbal supplements." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Forty-three million Americans go without health insurance, and that number is growing. We are also paying a lot of money for health care we may never even receive, as a result of the rising costs of individual health insurance, health-care benefits that drive companies into the ground, expensive Medicare drug benefits, and uncontrollable Medicaid costs. Many of the aforementioned expenses are related to expensive drugs that we often don't need, that are no more effective than older alternatives, or that are simply not as valuable as drug companies make them out to be." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"In today's world many of us find ourselves in a managed care setting with what can sometimes feel like too few options. Some health insurance companies dictate your care by assigning you a doctor, which is a bit like an arranged marriage: sometimes it works out, sometimes not. Sadly, many patients complain to me that "I don't really like my doctor," or that "My doctor hardly knows me," or worse, "My doctor seems uninterested in me." Their complaints are too often well founded." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"That meant that a working person without health insurance was paying taxes that covered the cost of medical care for the poor, the elderly, veterans, prison inmates, and public employees yet would be on his own if he got sick. Analysts said there was no end in sight to the soaring costs. By 2015 America is expected to spend 20 percent of all it produces on health care. By then Pfizer may be the biggest company on the planet, Mercy Health System may be one of the largest landowners in Des Moines and its suburbs, and Iowa will need many more casinos." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "The bills piled up even though he and Janice had paid for their own health insurance, a plan that cost them $8,000 a year. Six months after his chemotherapy ended, the couple did not know how they would pay the $120,000 they still owed. And Gary was scheduled for yet another surgery. "Our savings, everything, just went," Janice said. Wendy Sontag, who works with cancer patients at her job at the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in Des Moines, said such stories were no longer unusual." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"We don't need to label someone just because it is demanded by a health insurance billing code or a politician's budget. Our scientific understanding of Alzheimer's disease becomes more complicated every day. The story of brain aging is ultimately your own story to tell, not mine, not your doctor's, and certainly not the self-interested pharmaceutical companies or research institutions that capitalize on our biological classification of AD as a disease. Alzheimer's has been the way Western culture has described brain aging for the past one hundred years." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"I believe we should all be taking at least 400 mg per day, regardless of our dietary intake, as a sound health insurance policy. The only contraindications to magnesium therapy that I know are kidney failure or kidney insufficiency. Since magnesium also helps to relax and "slow" down the heart, patients with very slow heart rates less than 60, should also exercise caution in taking magnesium therapy. In most patients however, magnesium therapy is extraordinarily safe and even in high doses, no side effects have been noted except for a "cleansing effect." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Although there are many sophisticated blood tests to detect toxic blood substances, those tests are often not covered by health insurance. For example, Lp(a) is one of the most virulent cardiovascular risk factors, but some insurance companies refuse to cover the cost of this test. This is especially infuriating because today's technology provides cardiologists with tests to make highly accurate predictions and follow up with specifically targeted treatment." - 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.) "The changes resulting from these effects include improvement of atherosclerosis, reduction of myocardial ischemia and left ventricular hypertrophy, reduced health insurance claims for CVD, and reduced mortality. Meditation Plus Meditation is a cornerstone of the Program for Reversing Heart Disease developed by Dean Ornish, director of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco." - 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.)

"And so he continued to serve up lunches of steak sandwiches with potatoes on the side for the reasonable price of $6 to afford health insurance that was anything but reasonable. In 2006 the monthly premium for him and his wife, Mary, was $957, as much as he paid to rent the small restaurant on Seventh Street and up 27 percent from the year before. "They're killing me," he said, "and everybody else who has to pay for his own. If I quit work, I wouldn't be able to pay the bill." Even when Mr. Hatzigiannakis turns sixty-five, his problems won't be over." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Millions of Americans work at jobs that provide no health insurance. Many of them cannot afford to buy their own coverage and live one serious illness away from financial devastation and bankruptcy. And millions of others work at jobs that they hate just because it provides health insurance. Teaching a class to seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds, I discovered that one of the most popular topics was "The Most Accepted Religion in the U.S." These teenagers knew that while the United States is pre-dominandy Christian, the true religion of the majority of Americans is something quite different." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"With growing competition from other aspects of health care and with continued threats of onerous governmental and health insurance constraints on reimbursement for osteoporosis diagnosis and treatment, it is not at all certain that an explosive increase in fragility fractures and their consequences will be avoided. References 1. National Osteoporosis Foundation. (1998), "Physician's Guide to Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis." Excerpta Medica, Bell Mead, NJ. Available at http:// www.nof.org/physguide/inside_cover.htm. 2. Melton, L. J. III. (1995). How many women have osteoporosis now?" - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Insurance companies cannot do it all for us, and life is about choices. Most health insurance is typically great for catastrophes and hospitalizations but not so great for our day-to-day maintenance. That's where you need to take charge and decide what your priorities are and what you can do for yourself. You need to seek out a practitioner whom you like and trust, someone who will take the time to listen and get to know you, a true partner. Be proactive with your health care. You may need to pay for some specialty testing or expert consulting on your own." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"In addition, there are tens of thousands of underprivileged people who have cancer, but will not even receive a diagnosis because they cannot afford health insurance or a visit to the doctor. Cancer is not just a word, but also a statement that refers to abnormal or unusual behavior of the body's cells. However, in quite a different context, cancer is referred to as a star sign. When someone tells you are a "cancer," are you going tremble with fear of dying? Such a reaction is unlikely, because your interpretation of being of the cancer sign does not imply that you have cancer, the illness." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "As a result of the high cost of Herceptin and Avastin, I am going to hit my lifetime max of $1 million on my health insurance before the end of 2007." Beware of arthritis drugs Do Arthritis Drugs Cause Cancer? This is the title of an article published in the New York Times, June 5, 2008. As stated in the article, the FDA has received reports of 30 cases of cancer among children and young adults treated with drugs for rheumatoid arthritis psoriasis, Crohn's disease, and other immune system diseases. The drugs involved are: 1. Enbrel, sold by Amgen and Wyeth 2." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "In 1976, Los Angeles County registered a sudden reduction of its death rate by eighteen percent when many medical doctors went on strike against the increase of health insurance premiums for malpractice. In a study by Dr. Milton Roemer from the University of California, Los Angeles, 17 of the largest hospitals in the county showed a total of 60 percent fewer operations during the period of the strike. When the doctors resumed work and medical activities went back to normal, death rates also returned to pre-strike levels. A similar event took place in Israel in 1973." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"The bipolar diagnosis makes it more difficult or impossible to get health insurance or long-term care insurance. In contrast, a proper diagnosis of substance-induced mood disorder identifies an acute neurological disorder that typically goes away after the medication is discontinued. Instead of lifetime medication, the proper diagnosis discourages further use of the offending drug. None of the dozens of individuals described in this book went on to repeat their criminal or dangerous behaviors after they were removed from the drugs." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"When that happened, many Americans would demand similarly high value, low cost health insurance, effectively extending to all Americans coverage for medical services, drugs, tests, procedures, and therapies based upon certification by the independent federal body. All Americans would then be winners?the currently uninsured and the insured alike—as the quality of their health care improved and their costs declined as the result of objective standards of medical excellence replacing our current commercially based standards of care. MARKET FAILURE OR MARKET SUCCESS?" - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "This market-based approach successfully tamed the double-digit percentage increases in health insurance premiums of the late 1980s and early 1990s, bringing the annual rate of increase down from a peak of 18 percent in 1989 to less than 2 percent by 1996. PATIENTS BECOME CONSUMERS Almost all of my patients welcomed the new plans. The broader insurance coverage meant that they no longer had to pay for their office visits or go through a lot of paperwork to collect from their indemnity insurance." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "HMOs and managed care plans quickly came to dominate health insurance in the United States. They appealed to employers because of their promise of holding down insurance costs, which were increasing between 10 percent and 18 percent per year in the late 1980s and early 1990s. And they were attractive to patients because, unlike indemnity insurance, HMOs covered most medical services and drugs with relatively small co-pays—similar to the very expensive Cadillac indemnity plans." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"The benefits of acupuncture have been so established that more and more health insurance providers are including acupuncture among the tretments that they cover. You may have already seen acupuncture in practice or, given its prevalence, tried it yourself at some point. It involves the insertion of very fine needles into specific points on the body. The needles are so thin that they produce no more than a small prick when inserted, and the site of insertion does not produce blood when the needle is removed." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Roberts asked his health insurance company to cover the fee because of the risk for a heart attack. The company turned down the request. Soon afterward, the patient suffered a nonfatal heart attack. His ferritin level had remained high, producing excessive free radical damage, and his coronary artery disease had progressed. Five days in the hospital, a coronary angiogram, and the seven weeks of additional treatment required to stabilize his symptoms cost about $25,000. A few blood-removal sessions at $50 each probably would have prevented this unfortunate event. • Cut iron consumption." - 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.)

"A study of antidepressant use in private health insurance plans found that a majority of those prescribed antidepressants received no psychiatric diagnosis or any mental health care beyond the prescription of the drug.1 We know, first of all, that she is female: twice as many psychiatric drugs are prescribed for women as men.2 Remarkably, in 2002, more than one in three doctor's office visits by women involved the prescription of an antidepressant, either for a new prescription or the maintenance of an existing one." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"In other cases, health insurance is regulated principally by the fifty states, usually through their Insurance Departments or Departments of Corporations. This is consistent with a federal statute called the McCarran-Ferguson Act, which dates back to 1945. In the McCarran-Ferguson Act, Congress decided that the insurance industry would be exempt from federal regulation—including even the federal antitrust laws. The act established that, in most cases, the responsibility to regulate the business of insurance is solely with the states." - Rhonda D. Orin, Making Them Pay: How to Get the Most from health insurance and Managed Care (Get the book.) "The second lesson is about government regulation of health insurance in general. In short, regulatory authority is scattered among various departments in federal and state government, and the results are very confusing. Owing to ERISA, for example, employee benefits are regulated by the U.S. Department of Labor. This means that health plans provided by private employers are regulated in large part by the Labor Department instead of, say, the Department of Health and Human Services." - Rhonda D. Orin, Making Them Pay: How to Get the Most from health insurance and Managed Care (Get the book.) "The name doesn't have anything to do with health insurance but, unfortunately, the substance does. ERISA was developed to govern benefit plans that are set up by private employers for their employees. It applied only to private employers, not to employers such as federal, state, and local governments, and religious institutions. The principal focus of ERISA was financial plans, such as employee retirement plans. The overriding goal appeared to be making sure that funds set aside in these financial plans were protected from misuse by the employers, and were managed properly." - Rhonda D. Orin, Making Them Pay: How to Get the Most from health insurance and Managed Care (Get the book.) "Start Laughing—or You'll Start Crying So you've decided to take charge of your health insurance problems. You've looked over your plan and found that you really can't tell whether it covers something you happen to care about. You've decided to telephone your insurer and ask for an explanation, instead of just sighing and sticking the plan back under the TV. What do you do first? Get a cup of coffee. I'm serious. And don't stop there. Before you dial, you should also do the following. Put together some reading material, or paperwork, or whatever you care to do. Make a trip to the bathroom." - Rhonda D. Orin, Making Them Pay: How to Get the Most from health insurance and Managed Care (Get the book.)

"More and more companies are encouraging their employees to take advantage of in-house gyms or health club memberships, and some health insurance companies reimburse clients for club fees. Their generosity is informed by studies showing that exercise reduces stress and makes for more productive employees. In 2004 researchers at Leeds Metropolitan University in England found that workers who used their company's gym were more productive and felt better able to handle their workloads." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "The results should be taught in medical school and driven home with health insurance companies and posted on the bulletin boards of every nursing home in the country, where nearly a fifth of the residents have depression. If everyone knew that exercise worked as well as Zoloft, I think we could put a real dent in the disease. Reading between the lines of the SMILE study gets at the complex issues that have kept exercise from being accepted as a medical treatment." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

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