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"This is a time in our healthcare system when we should be looking at spending less on a technology rather than more, given other outstanding health priorities. The question we must continue to ask is: Will continuing research into neuroimaging benefit patients or the researchers and their associated companies? What habits, then, might be seen as obstacles to wisdom?" - 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.)

"Isn't that what doctors and the healthcare system are supposed to be about? <^=^ Let us have a closer look at our western conventional medical care system and its history to understand how it developed into what it is today. 6 | CONVENTIONAL MEDICAL CARE If the doctors of today do not become the nutritionists of tomorrow;.... the nutritionists of today will become the doctors of tomorrow. Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research HEALTHCARE OR DISEASE CARE? Conventional medical care treats symptoms of disease. True healthcare works to correct the causes of disease." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"The current dilemma we face as a nation is not about the failures of our healthcare system, but rather about its success," David Brennan, a top executive at AstraZeneca, told the Detroit Economic Club in 2004. "Yes, its success—success in helping Americans live longer and healthier lives. In the past 25 years, especially in the past decade, there has been a revolution in medical breakthroughs. "We need to ask ourselves a key question," he continued. "Would we accept 1980's-era medicines in exchange for 1980s pricing?" - 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.)

"Gerberding added: "If we continue on this same path, the results will be devastating to both the health of the nation and to our healthcare system."16 Why we are overweight is a no-brainer. Americans at the beginning of the twenty-first century are consuming more food and several hundred more calories per person per day than did their counterparts in the late 1950s (when per capita calorie consumption was at the lowest level in the last century), or even in the 1970s. The U.S." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"It would also hire at least 60 full-time care managers for Medicaid (the state-funded healthcare system) patients with asthma, congestive heart failure, diabetes and hypertension, run a health literacy programme to help low-income residents understand their conditions and treatments - and save the state $33 million over the next two years." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"North America has the highest percentage of people who are obese, as well as the highest number of people who are succumbing to obesity-related illnesses. Our healthcare system is already strained by this epidemic, and the ability to sustain even basic healthcare in the years to come is in doubt if obesity continues to prevail as it does today. We all need to do our part in helping to reverse this worrisome trend. The best place to start is in our own homes and our own lives. Helping to face weight problems head-on and giving the tools to solve them is what this book is all about." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"My point was that most people think the American healthcare system is the best in the world, but that this isn't really true. It is certainly the best system for drug companies, which can charge the highest prices in the world to some U.S. consumers. And it is a pretty good system for hospitals, insurance companies, and others that deliver healthcare services. Americans spend about twice as much per person for healthcare as do Canadians, Japanese, or Europeans, according to the World Health Organization. But it's not a good system for American citizens. The U.S." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"This is due to their highly advanced "healthcare system." Similar to our bodies, plants have immune systems to ensure their own survival and health. They use prickly thorns, poison as in the case of the deadly nightshades, or they envelop themselves in a wax-covering that is impenetrable for microbes and insects such as lice, beetles, etc. If any of these predatoros somehow manage to enter the plant's interior, inborn defense mechanisms attempt to destroy the invaders, not dissimilar to our own defense responses." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"This is another dilemma we face in our current healthcare system. While living in Western society we are seldom subject to the malnutrition from starvation that our ancestors experienced or third-world societies still suffer, but we are prone to malnutrition from a deficiency of essential nutrients. We need a diet that not only supplies adequate calories over the course of the day, but also provides adequate vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and essential fatty acids. In a word, we need a nutrient-rich naturopathic diet for optimum health." - 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.) "Irresponsible Medicine Any healthcare system that ignores the profound effect of nutrition on health and disease is going to make little appreciable difference to the general health of the population. Modern medicine has gone about as far as it can with its present methodology and therapeutic measures, and there it will stay until nutrition is brought into the body of medicine, taught in medical schools and used by the profession. Dr D.C. Hemingway has recently examined the relationship of good nutrition to health costs." - 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.) "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. Twenty-five years ago the evidence connecting the quality of our food and health was not as well known." - 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.)

"Combined with the massive retail advertising done by the drug companies over the last few years to influence patients it's not surprising that our healthcare system is drug oriented. Democrats and Republicans may have very different views of the world but both are valid from their point of view. Doctors are trained to see the human body as a bag of chemicals which is why their solutions usually involve drugs. Practitioners of complementary and alternative therapies view the human body as a complete being of mind, body and spirit/energy so they treat holis-tically." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"The cost savings to the healthcare system are enormous. Modern psychiatry argues that once schizophrenics have been stabilized on antipsychotic drugs, they must continue them for life because of risk of relapse. This is a new principle in medicine. One does not keep a patient who has been treated with penicillin for pneumonia on the antibiotic forever, just to prevent a relapse sometime in the future. For schizophrenic patients, it is better to have been well for a long time with a slight risk of relapse than be subjected to continuous drug toxicity." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.)

"Insurance companies, government agencies, liability lawyers, and an ever-constraining healthcare system have battered them beyond endurance. Managed care and HMOs have destroyed the best of American medical care and have produced a nation of dispirited doctors. This affects you directly, since many doctors' primary aims are to retire early. They are terribly overworked, financially strapped, and afraid of their patients—and as a result want only to get through each day and go home." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"What we learned [at a hearing to explore how Vioxx could have been taken by so many for so long] illuminated a hidden corner of the healthcare system: the practices that pharmaceutical manufacturers use to promote their products to physicians.10 On 7 February 2001, when the FDA was discussing the VIGOR study, its arthritis advisory committee voted unanimously that physicians should be made aware of VIGOR'S cardiovascular results. According to Waxman, The next day, Merck sent a bulletin to its [Vioxx] sales force of more than 3,000." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "The NHS, like any healthcare system, works because there is some basis of trust that patients will do what doctors consider to be in their best interests. When that trust breaks down, for whatever reason, governments find they are not only paying mounting costs for drugs, but they are spending more than they should in other ways. A paper in the Pharmaceutical Journal, for example, says about half of all medicines prescribed in the UK are not taken.32 If you believe the UK pharma industry association, the ABPI, the figure is much higher, at around 80%." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "Naturally, they start doing what most people have long suspected and what Harvard Medical School professor Arnold Rehman articulates when he says their role has changed from 'developing the drugs that society really needs to trying to extract as much money as they possibly can from the healthcare system'.24 No new drugs The problem no one can get away from is the lack of effective new drugs. The significance of this is more apparent if one considers pharma innovation as a basic global utility where, instead of water or gas or oil, ideas circulate through the pipelines." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Reading my first book cover to cover is absolutely vital for you to get a total understanding of the healthcare system, why you get sick, and the most effective and powerful system to prevent and cure disease. 2. Do the things in Chapter 6 of Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About. The specific dos and don'ts listed do in fact prevent and cure disease. The specific cure for cancer, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, MS, and virtually every disease is doing the things in Chapter 6." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Another study conducted at the VA Greater Los Angeles healthcare system found that patients who had intermittent (as opposed to persistent) asthma accounted for nearly half of all asthma-related emergency department visits. Natural Relief for Allergies and Asthma Richard Firshein, DO, director of Firshein Center for Comprehensive Medicine, which specializes in treating allergies and asthma, New York City. An asthmatic himself, he is author of The Nutraceutical Revolution (River-head) and Reversing Asthma (Warner)." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) "Cole, PhD, neuroscientist, Greater Los Angeles VA healthcare system, and associate director, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. Archives ofNeurology online. Your mother probably told you that fish is brain food. Apparently, she was right. A new study has found that older people who regularly eat fish reduce the amount of cognitive decline they experience." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"The high costs of caring for these millions of demented elderly may wreak havoc on the healthcare system. This paradox has been called the "failure of success" because it was a major problem that was largely attributable to progress in medical care.5 As E.M. Gruenberg and his colleagues point out, "the old man's friend, pneumonia, is dead - a victim of medical progress."6 While this is an oversimplification, pneumonia is certainly less common than it used to be, as are many other diseases that were previously fatal to the elderly." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.)

"This is a prime example of the major price gouging going on, leading to the dramatic increase in the cost of our over-inflated healthcare system, reflected in the constantly increasing insurance rates. Now let's take a moment and evaluate what we just learned. One doctor has become extremely wealthy by promoting the use of a slightly modified version of Taxol (which now sells for only $150 a dose for the generic version). Although the new drug, Abraxane, now sells for an outrageous price of $4,200 a dose! If my math is correct, "that's 280 times as much!" - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)

"For decades, our healthcare system has become totally corrupted by the pharmaceutical giants, with the aid of their tremendous financial resources. As their income continues to increase, our national debt will increase accordingly. The current trend is unsustainable. Due to their insatiable greed, the pharmaceutical giants will be responsible for their own demise. You mark my words, in the not-too-distant future, they will finally be exposed for what they are, and their deception unveiled, for all to see." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) "When you look at the odds, and the potential risks involved, how can we possibly subject young girls to that kind of risk, while also greatly increasing the cost of our already overburdened healthcare system in the process, especially with no real proven benefit, (except for Merck, of course)! MERCK'S GARDASIL VACCINE NOT PROVEN SAFE FOR LITTLE GIRLS National Vaccine Information Center Criticizes FDA for Fast Tracking Licensure Washington, D.C." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) "I totally agree with the author, unfortunately, as long as the pharmaceutical industry remains "in charge of our healthcare system", that will likely never happen. Even inexpensive prenatal vitamins that could help prevent unnecessary birth defects are not covered! That basically places the poor, who are just struggling to make ends meet, and thus can't afford them, at the greatest risk of all. Although the thousands of dollars necessary to repair the resultant birth defects would of course be covered." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) "As you can see, although the natural solution is often very simple, it is seldom considered, and as usual with our broken healthcare system, the child is instead placed on dangerous drugs, and often left on them for years. With Proper Diagnosing Psychiatric Drugs Can Be Avoided -Our Children Are Worth The Effort! Following are just three examples of modern medicine's willingness to turn to dangerous medications, instead of searching for the true underlying cause of the problem (found at http://www.fightforkids.Org/a call to moms." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"The primary problem: They had "excellent insurance coverage," which as usual, conveniently excluded complimentary medicine (natural therapies) - the basic flaw in our current healthcare system. I can't help but wonder just how many in the nation are actually dying prematurely, just by following their doctor's orders. 18. Hypothyroidism. According to local retired professor Dr. Ray Peat, Ph.D." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.) "An article published on October 1, 2006 in the New York Times, shows just how corrupt and out of control our healthcare system has become. It's titled "Hope, at $4,200 A Dose," (incidentally, that's not a misprint!) We're actually talking about a modified version of the old chemotherapy drug Taxol? as follows: Cfiarging $4,200 a dose for a new version of an old cancer drug tias tielped make Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong a billionaire. The drug, Abraxane, does not help patients live longer than the older treatment, though it does shrink tumors in more patients, according to clinical trials." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)

"Due to the urgency of the healthcare situation in America the federal government should create a new office of CAM to facilitate the integration of these therapies into the country's healthcare system. However, at this time the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has become the center for the federal government's policies on CAM. As one of the 27 institutes of the National Institutes of Health this gives the established medical community much greater influence over government policies on CAM, to the detriment of everyone interested in alternative health options." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"CHAPTER TWO WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR CURRENT healthcare system? For far too long, we the public have somehow allowed the very powerful and extremely profitable pharmaceutical giants, with their crafty commercials, to basically insult our intelligence, and attempt to treat us as a bunch of adolescents rather than rational adults. They somehow manage to turn symptoms into a disease with a label (i.e. "acid reflux disease"- often the result of poor dietary habits)." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)

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