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"According to the medicare Board of Trustees, medicare spending will double over the next ten years. medicare costs will exceed those of Social Security, and by 2030, 75 percent of the federal budget will be allocated to medicare, Medicaid, and social security. The promised benefits under medicare and social security are projected to exceed scheduled income by $465 trillion over the next 75 years. The combined economic and social disruption from 375 supporting such a large, diseased population could be catastrophic. A program to prevent this crisis must become a national priority." - Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It (Get the book.)

"Why doesn't our government get to negotiate lower prices through medicare as is done through the Veterans Administration, for example? The simple answer is that landmark legislation—the medicare Bill Part D—was passed by Congress in 2003 to prevent this and to ensure that millions of taxpayer dollars would be spent on drugs." - 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.)

"Cataract surgery accounted for more than 12% of the medicare budget the last time this was evaluated in 1992 [10]. The occurrence of cataract will dramatically increase in the next 20 years as the aging U.S. population grows [9]. The large increase in cataract surgical procedures predicted for the U.S. population is expected to have a substantial effect on health care spending and, potentially, on the fiscal stability of the medicare system [11]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"According to the medicare Board of Trustees, medicare spending will double over the next ten years. medicare costs will exceed those of Social Security, and by 2030, 75 percent of the federal budget will be allocated to medicare, Medicaid, and social security. The promised benefits under medicare and social security are projected to exceed scheduled income by $465 trillion over the next 75 years. The combined economic and social disruption from 375 supporting such a large, diseased population could be catastrophic. A program to prevent this crisis must become a national priority." - Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It (Get the book.)

"So, when traveling abroad, be sure to pack your primary-care physician's telephone number. • medicare Shortfalls JL or seniors, crossing the border can be a risky endeavor. medicare plans, for all their wide coverage, don't cover expenses incurred from international illnesses or injuries. That's why buying travel health insurance is a good idea if you're over 65 and traveling overseas. (Some agents would say it's a "must have."" - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Persons served by medicare mushroomed from 7 million in 1967 to 27 million in 2002.67 Collectively, the entitlement programs of Social Security ($488 billion), Medicaid ($300 billion), and medicare ($176 billion) now make up almost half of the federal budget. Feeling entided to all this, we think we are also entided to happiness." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Some of our medicare patients simply don't have the resources for a full supplement program. They ask if we have a minimum effective program. If you have CVD and can't afford the entire program, at least take the following: Supplement Approximate Cost per Month Multivitamins/minerals with $2 5 B vitamins and antioxidants Fish oil $20 Magnesium $15 CoQIO $25-$40 Vitamin C $10 Total $95-$110 Too Far Gone? Some individuals with advanced atherosclerosis have plaque buildup considered too far gone for standard medicine." - 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.)

"These laboratories are usually CLIA certified by the Centers of Medicaid and medicare Services, which regulate all laboratory testing performed on humans in the United States. They are dedicated to providing tests to health care providers, and typically analyze feces, hair, liver function, urine, and blood to arrive at a comprehensive conclusion. (For more specifics on these tests, see the list on pages 15-16.) One such laboratory is Doctor's Data, Inc., based in Illinois." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The simple answer is that landmark legislation—the medicare Bill Part D—was passed by Congress in 2003 to prevent this and to ensure that millions of taxpayer dollars would be spent on drugs. The fact that this bill was passed in the early-morning hours (perhaps so C-SPAN viewers would not be watching), surrounded by hundreds of pharmaceutical lobbyists (who, according to some observers, wrote much of the bill), and that many of the major politicians and staffers who pushed the bill through the legislative process ended up working for the industry is a national disgrace." - 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.)

"Analysts at Fidelity Investments estimated that a couple retiring in 2006 would need a savings account of $200,000, enough in Iowa to buy an above-average home with a big yard, to cover their prescription copays and other medical costs not covered by medicare. This amount did not even include the cost of nursing-home care, which could mean hundreds of thousands more. The estimate was rising fast every year. A couple in their mid-forties in 2006 could expect to pay two or three times that amount. There was, however, one sector of Iowa's economy that was booming." - 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.)

"Professional Organizations Centers for medicare & Medicaid Services 7500 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21244 www.cms.hhs.gov Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 1600 Clifton Rd.,N.E. Atlanta, GA 30333 404-639-3311/ 800-CDC-INFO or 800-232-4636 Public inquiries: 404-639-3534 www.cdc.gov/a bout Commonweal PO Box 316 Bolinas, CA 94924 415-868-0970 commonweal@commonweal.org Environmental Working Group Headquarters 1436 U St., N.W., Suite 100 Washington, DC 20009 202-667-6982 California Office 1904 Franklin St., Suite 703 Oakland, CA94612 510-444-0973 www.ewg.org www." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Changing the institutions without changing the flawed thinking behind them results only in hastening their collapse, as was evident in the medicare prescription drug benefit passed by Congress in 2004; it brought forward the date of Medicare's insolvency by eight years.13 Asking how to get the uninsured into the system—which is as far as most policymakers thinlc—is like asking how to cram more passengers onto a train that is already jammed, has some cars that are falling to pieces while others are trimmed with diamonds, is about to crash, and is heading in the wrong direction anyway." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"Just the bill for the prescription drugs used by the elderly covered by medicare, a benefit that began in 2006, was expected to rise so fast that it would account for 5 percent of the federal budget in 2020. In all, federal, state, and local governments paid for more than 45 percent of the nation's health care in 2005. 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." - 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.)

"In 2006, 2,258 medicare recipients in Manhattan not diagnosed with a form of dementia were evaluated over a fourteen-year period. After adjusting for potential confounding factors (age, sex, ethnicity, education, genetic risk factor), the third who were most faithful to the diet were 39 to 40 percent less likely to develop AD than the third who were least faithful, while the third who were moderately compliant were 15 to 21 percent less likely to develop AD." - 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.)

"Families should request an autopsy if they wonder about the true cause of a loved one's death. medicare pays for an autopsy when someone over the age of sixty-five dies. The cost is built into the overall rates that the government pays the hospital to care for patients. Even though hospitals no longer do autopsies, they still get this money but spend it on something else. Doctors must be trained to determine the actual cause of a person's death. They should be required to look specifically at whether a drug may have caused the death or had a part in it." - 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.)

"You can't rely on medicare to take care of you. You have to spend some personal resources now to avoid spending huge dollars in the future. If you were to take five or so drugs, you might spend $250 a month, anyway. Not only do you bear the cost but also the potential of side effects. Why not spend some money now to get healthier—and you may not have to deal with serious crises in the future. We've treated many patients who thought they were going to be taken care of by their insurance companies and weren't. So you need to do all you can to become healthier and not get sick." - 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.)

"Use of eye care and associated charges among the medicare population: 1991-1998. Arch. Ophthalmol. 120, 804-811. 12. Kupfer, C. (1985). Bowman lecture. The conquest of cataract: a global challenge. Trans. Ophthalmol. Soc. UK 104(Pt 1), 1-10. 13. Klein, B. E., Klein, R., and Linton, K. L. (1992). Prevalence of age-related lens opacities in a population: the Beaver Dam Eye Study. Ophthalmology 99, 546-552. 14. Klein, B. E., Klein, R., and Lee, K. E. (2002). Incidence of age-related cataract over a 10-year interval: the Beaver Dam Eye Study. Ophthalmology 109, 2052-2057. 15. West, S." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"This outpatient, negligible risk therapy is covered by medicare and most insurers. There are more than a thousand medical clinics using this technology. Dr. Roberts has treated more than eight hundred patients with EECP during the past eight years. For more information on this method, visit his Web site at www.heartfixer.com. For patients even too far gone for EECP, Dr. Roberts and a group of colleagues are researching the use of magnetic molecular energizer (MME) therapy. In MME, a powerful static magnetic field is applied to the heart." - 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 authors conclude that health policymakers should "be concerned with potential overuse of drug therapy by medicare beneficiaries once the benefit is implemented." Surely the use of expensive drugs by senior citizens will skyrocket—regardless of their proven value—unless measures are taken to base prescription drug use on the real scientific evidence. If the crisis in American medicine were simply due to the rising cost of ever more effective care, there would be no choice but to cobble together the least noxious combination of increased spending and rationing." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Focus groups of people without insurance coverage for drugs (like many senior citizens covered by medicare alone) were convened. Edelman found that people were not fazed by the illegality of importing drugs. But Edelman was successful in finding an issue that did get people's attention: "fear and accountability 'move the needle' of consumer perceptions." Edelman's report, according to Hensley, suggested that PhRMA could create doubts about the wisdom of saving money by importing drugs if they focused on the "safety and effectiveness" of drugs bought from foreign sources." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "This is unlikely, as we learn from a study published in NEJM that capitalized on the "natural experiment" created by the difference in post-heart attack care between Texas and New York state. medicare patients in Texas were 50 percent more likely than similar patients in New York to have a cardiac catheterization within 90 days after a heart attack. Surprisingly, patient outcomes in Texas were actually worse over the following two years: The death rate was significantly higher in Texas (15 percent)." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Nor will medicare. Another problem is that patients sometimes develop irritated veins from the repeated procedure. So it is unsatisfactory for quite a few people. Recently, however, a significant oral chelation formula has been developed that works well: DetoxMaxPlus. We described it at length in chapter 6, under the section on phosphatidylcholine. DetoxMaxPlus contains EDTA, which binds and removes toxic metals, along with the arterial nourishing effects of phosphatidylcholine in a combined formula. This is chelation in a more convenient and less expensive form." - 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 scam is orchestrated by the pharmaceutical companies, which through powerful lobbying in the American Congress, helped pass a prescription drug bill that prevents medicare from buying prescription drugs at a discounted rate for their members. Other institutions, such as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), negotiate the price for prescription drugs directly with the pharmaceutical companies and pay merely 10 percent of the amount that medicare has to pay for the top 10 prescription drugs." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"To make up the difference, Smetters and Gokhale have warned that Social Security and medicare payroll taxes would "need to double immediately," according to the Christian Science Monitor. The problems will grow even more intractable if health care spending exceeds the nearly 10 percent annual increases of recent decades, or if Washington adds other entitlement programs, such as the medicare prescription benefit, which alone contributed more than $8 trillion to the total." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"This crazy system was largely created because of the insurance companies and the Medicare/Medicaid system. medicare pays about forty cents on the dollar and Medicaid about twenty cents. The paperwork necessary for these payer systems costs the doctor a large share of his income. I have dug ditches, tarred roofs, laid concrete, worked digging holes to plant telephone poles in the scorching Louisiana summer heat, and worked as a carpenter's helper in a sweltering attic, but nothing is as stressful, physically demanding, and exhausting as performing surgery." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"Medicare Tell us if you or a family member is enrolled in medicare Part A or B. medicare will determine who is responsible for paying for medical services and we will coordinate the payments. On occasion, you may need to file a medicare claim form. 3. Double Coverage When anyone has coverage with us and with another group health plan, it is called double coverage. You must tell us if you or a family member has double coverage. You must also send us documents about other insurance if we ask for them. When you have double coverage, one plan is the primary payer; it pays benefits first." - Rhonda D. Orin, Making Them Pay: How to Get the Most from Health Insurance and Managed Care (Get the book.)

"I do not want to sound "age-ist" in any way; however, my medicare population seems much happier when I lecture to them in two parts. Here is an excerpt of a letter from one medicare patient who liked this approach: I attended your lectures last summer [note: she wrote this one year after treatment] and took copious notes that I have read and reread. I identify with one thought after another. The book and the notes fit me like a glove. My sciatica is gone and I am back to swimming, golfing, and more (and I am eighty-nine years of age!). While Dr." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

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