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 "And worst of all, we the taxpayers, will be the ones supporting Merck, with our ever-increasing healthcare costs, which are already out of sight, (by far the highest in the entire world). Yet we have the poorest health of any of the developed nations in the world, (something is obviously wrong with that picture). Our federal government might soon be required to acquire a loan from Eli Lilly and Merck to help fund our escalating healthcare costs - something they would likely agree to, as they would just continue getting back a large percentage of our healthcare expenditures!"- Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) |
 "Given the purely symptom-oriented approaches to dealing with the most serious disorders today, as you would expect, healthcare costs are spiraling out of control. In fact, these ever-increasing health expenditures now pose the greatest threat to the survival of the economy. Even some of the largest corporations can no longer afford to pay for their sick employees' medical insurance while expanding their businesses at the same time. Just like the US at large, they borrow money to keep their companies afloat."- Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
| "How can we, as a nation, achieve better nutrition and avoid the healthcare costs and loss of quality of life that results from poor nutritional habits?
To do this, we have to look at a brief history of nutrition in the United States and Western culture. Historically, in the early part of the 20th century, disease was primarily caused by true malnutrition — or not having enough food. And it was a
K7 straightforward message for the USDA and government regulatory agencies to tell everybody to eat more. The food producers loved this message as well." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.) |
 "How do we reinvigorate our future generations with genuine health so that they can pursue life's greater ambitions—happiness and purpose, scientific advancement, artistic expression, spiritual development, and so on—without the burden of outrageous healthcare costs?
How do we stop the drug racket that's operating today? How do we put an end to the Big Pharma/FDA conspiracy that prevents us from learning the truth about natural health solutions that can prevent these chronic diseases?"- Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) |
 "Each year the United States spends more than $300 billion to cover the healthcare costs brought on by stress in the workplace. And occupational experts report that workers who admit they are stressed cost companies an average of $600 more per person than other employees. This is because they incur 46 percent higher healthcare costs.5
Some physicians estimate that stress and anxiety may be a contributing factor in 90 percent of all illnesses. Many psychiatrists believe that most back problems are related to stress."- KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.) |
| "The National Health Law Program offers *~ advice on how to control your healthcare costs at www.healthcarecoach.com.
Medicating the US: How Drug Companies Are Turning Us into Patients
Alan Cassels, drug policy researcher, University of Victoria, British Columbia, and coauthor of Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients. Nation.
How many pills did you and your family take today? It seems that there is a prescription drug for every condition now, no matter how benign.
In fact, the US has become the most medicated society in the world." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) |
 "A whole string of class-action lawsuits alleging that HMOs withheld medical services to boost profits expressed some of the mounting anget over healthcare costs in general and drug prices in particular
Insurers, via HMOs, also started contesting FDA decisions about safe, widely used drugs which they thought patients should pay for themselves in pharmacies rather than have prescribed at the insurers' expense."- Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "The stated aim is to reduce healthcare costs, including the unnecessary consumption of drugs, by encouraging people to get together and share knowledge about their condition. Again, it sounds gteat, and again, most of the evidence suggests expert patients take more drugs. A Norwegian study, which taught people with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) the principles of self-management, showed that only a third of patients collected their prescriptions at the start of the exercise. By the end that figure had doubled to 60%." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) |
 "The addition of 100 mg of niacinamide to the public diet would enormously reduce human suffering and have a major impact on the unnecessary escalation of healthcare costs. This additional niacinamide would probably nearly return the daily dietary intake to that experienced centuries ago before the advent of widespread artificial fertilizer use and food processing.
This public health strategy would not be new. During the Second World War, the United States government mandated the enrichment of flour with niacinamide. However, current dietary levels are still too low."- Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.) |
 "The study had two objectives: 1) to see if company employees with long-term, unresolved health problems would find relief through MSA techniques; and, 2) to observe if the company's healthcare costs could be cut by using MSA. ("Icon" has a self-funded medical plan.)
Each participating employee completed a symptom checklist (which weighted each symptom on a scale of 1 to 5) both before and after completing treatment."- Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.) |
 "But van der Vlies and her colleagues have been attempting to ascertain the entirety of real costs involved—including those that have been borne by society as a whole, such as the costs of cleaning up toxic pollution or the healthcare costs borne by the victims of chemical exposure for which producers historically have taken no responsibility. Suddenly, what looks cheap to the producer and individual consumer turns out to be expensive to society."- Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) |
 "He proposes that we "must improve the nutritional status of Canadians to lower our healthcare costs. Governments can demonstrate the effectiveness of nutrition by promoting better nutrition for our hospital patients. Governments could recognize nutrition therapy fees under 'medicare' and as income tax deductions. This would encourage doctors and patients to use nutrition instead of drugs. Governments on behalf of the people of Canada must take the initiative to finance studies to show the effectiveness of Nutritional Therapy and Nutrition as a method of disease prevention."- 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.) |
| "Of course, doing so will cost taxpayer dollars, but it will also serve as an investment and ultimately will save billions of dollars in long-term healthcare costs. Remember, investing in prevention is a good investment. It's money well spent at both the personal level and national level.
End corn and sugar subsidies
Moving on down the line here, another fantastic idea for improving the nutrition and health of our nation is to end the subsidies on corn and sugar. There's no sane reason why corn and sugar need to be subsidized in this country." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.) |
 "Detractors point out that indiscriminate use of self-monitoring is of questionable value and adds enormously to healthcare costs.101 The ADA acknowledges that accuracy of SMBG is instrument- and technique-dependent. Errors in technique and inadequate use of control procedures have been shown to lead to inaccurate test results.102 Nevertheless, it is likely that self-monitoring of blood glucose, if used properly, can have a positive effect by increasing patient involvement in overall diabetes care."- Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.) |
 "I added, "But let me comfort you: We did beat them all in one area! Our healthcare costs are twice as high as theirs. And our costs for individual drugs are sometimes twice as high, even ten times as high. The difference, between them and us, is that they all have affordable drugs."
It was time to lighten the somber mood that started to settle over the room: "Are we fools, unable to stop this madness? Abraham Lincoln said 'You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all of them all the time.' And Abraham Lincoln hadn't even read the February 2004 issue of Pharmaceutical Executive."- Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.) |
 "Because of the success of the seductive marketing strategies, and because of the mass consumption of the products mentioned here, we have a nation with a victim mentality, a dependence on unhealthy drugs that deplete nutrition and impair cognitive ability, skyrocketing disease-maintenance costs, out-of-control healthcare costs and enormous profits for drug companies. We have a shift of control to doctors, drug companies and the FDA, while at the same time we experience a vast dumbing down of the population."- Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) |
 "As these drugs are one of the most expensive and most profitable, we can easily see how our already tremendously inflated healthcare costs could easily spiral out of sight. This kind of irresponsibility and manipulation for the sake of profit, if allowed to continue, could quite easily bankrupt the nation. The longer we continue to overlook the problem and allow it to continue, the worse both the health and financial structure of our nation will become.
To make matters even worse, as of July 2004 "obesity" (which has become an epidemic) became classified as a "disease" by the surgeon general."- Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.) "Just one more reason our current healthcare costs are completely out of control, and unnecessarily so. Cayenne Tincture - An alternative to the cayenne capsules. Although swallowing a couple cayenne capsules with water will normally work, there is an even more effective delivery system. Cayenne is also available in a tincture (liquid) form. If water is not readily accessible, or you have eaten within the last couple hours, that can be a critical issue! The cayenne liquid tincture doesn't require water, and bypasses the digestive system." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.) |
| "Our federal government might soon be required to acquire a loan from Eli Lilly and Merck to help fund our escalating healthcare costs - something they would likely agree to, as they would just continue getting back a large percentage of our healthcare expenditures!
CHAPTER THREE
Prozac?And The Dangerous Fluoride Connection
We will first take a look at what Prozac?is chemically composed of. The generic name of Prozac?is Fluoxetine hydrochloride, which gives us a clue as to its true identity, or chemical make up. Dr. Sherry A. Rogers, M.D." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) |
| "Neither Canada nor the United States has been able to control the growth of healthcare costs. Brian Ferguson, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph, has shown that the healthcare system of both countries yield similar results if measured by the usual measures, such as infant mortality.
The planners did not foresee the impact on health of the major technological changes in our food supply. The rapid deterioration of the quality of our food is the major factor in causing our health crisis today." - 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.) |
 "Most experts forecast continuing rapid increases in healthcare costs. Most insurance plans will offer less coverage, and consumers will pay more out of pocket.14
It's likely that the number of uninsured will continue to rise. In fact, survey data indicate that the rapid rise in health-care costs from 1979 to 1995—much faster than personal income—accounted for almost all the decline in health insurance coverage.15 These trends suggest to us that, contrary to the rosy view, Americans really aren't convinced that rising health-care costs are worth it."- Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises (Get the book.) |
| "Therapy has been shown to decrease the number of sick days and to lower healthcare costs.
In turn, individuals with an effective social support network have also been shown to have stronger immune abilities.
Dietary Options and Supplements
One of the chief problems with the body's stress response has to do with the "auto-oxidation" of the very stress hormones that our bodies naturally release in order to help us deal with the stress." - KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.) "This is because they incur 46 percent higher healthcare costs.5 Some physicians estimate that stress and anxiety may be a contributing factor in 90 percent of all illnesses. Many psychiatrists believe that most back problems are related to stress. Accumulated stress can predispose patients to medical conditions such as hypertension, ulcers, and heart disease, but that's just the beginning. Here are just a few of the many links between stress and physiology: !!l!l!l!llil!lll!l!lllllllll!!l!IIH It is not stress that is harmful-it is dis-tress." - KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.) |
| "You're paying in the form of higher insurance premiums, higher Medicare taxes, more out-of-pocket healthcare costs, and higher prices for the consumer goods you buy. Employer-sponsored insurance premiums rose 14 percent in 2003, compared to an increase in gross domestic product of 2.7 percent. Experts forecast double-digit premium increases again for 2004.16 One way or another, those costs get passed on to us." - Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises (Get the book.) |
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