American Healthcare Crisis

OUR DAILY MEDS by Melody Petersen

2009-05-11T12:24:00.000-07:00

How the Pharmaceutical Companies transformed themselves into slick marketing machines and hooked the nation on prescription drugs.
www.ourdailymedsbook.com

In Our Daily Meds, Melody Petersen connects the dots to show for the first time how corporate salesmanship has triupmphed over science inside the biggest pharmaceutical companies and, in turn, how this promotion driven industry has taken over the practice of medicine and is changing American life.

In the last thirty years, the big pharmaceutical companies have transformed themselves into marketing machines, selling dangerous medicines as if they were Coca Cola or Cadillacs..

They pitch drugs with video games and soft cuddly toys for children, publicize them in churches and subways, at NASCAR races and state fairs.

They've become experts at promoting fear of disease, just so they can sell us hope.

No question...drugs can save lives. But the relentless marketing that has enriched corporative executives and sent stock prices soaring has come with frightening hidden costs.

Prescription pills taken as directed by physcians are estimated to kill one American every five minutes. And that figure doesn't reflect the damage done as the overmedicated take to the roads.

NATURAL CURES by Kevin Trudeau

2009-05-08T13:23:00.000-07:00

Natural Cures "they" dont want you to know about. www.naturalcures.com

Are you aware that the overwhelming majority of what you eat everyday is poisoning you.

Did you know that the medical profession, in partnership with the pharmaceutical industry, has a huge interest in keeping you sick rather than healing you?

Do you realize that the Federal Government is doing everything in its power and some things well beyond its stated power...to keep all of this a secret?

Kevin Trudeau blows the lid off a nest of deception and double-standards concerning general and individual health in his explosive new book Natural Cures
THEY dont want you to know about. Kevin has risked government prosecution
to bring you the full story of an intricate conspiracy. From the retail supermarket
outlets of huge, publicly traded corporations comes processed, manipulated, engineered "food products" ....produced by other wings of the same corporation. These artificial, toxic treats are then sold with the blessings of the Federal Trade Commission and Food and Drug Administration...government organizations charged with safeguarding the public good.....laying the foundations for future disease and chronic ill-health for the consumer, and a guaranteed source of revenue for the medical and pharmaceutical sectors,

Kevin also reveals the shocking truth of how drugs.....which are being advertised directly to the consumer, pushing their use to an all-time high......are actually the cause of illness and disease climbing to near epidemic levels.

The Hundred Year Lie by Randall Fitzgerald

2009-05-07T12:28:00.000-07:00

How food and medicine are destroying your Health. www.hundredyearlie.com

One Hundred years ago, the promise of "better living through chemistry" was given to consumers, setting us on a slippery slope that introduced thousands of man-made chemicals into our food, water, medicine, and environment.

In the "the Hundred Year Lie", investigative journalist Randall Fitzgerald shatters dozens of myths being perpetuated by the chemical, pharmaceutical, and processed foods industries. He shows how early advances let to a buildup of industry, and how the profit motive then led companies and ever our own government to ignore troubling signs of widespread illness and disease.

Are we paying too high a price in our rush for progress? What happens when we blindly rely on the government to keep us safe? What does the future hold if we continue down this path?

With a firm grasp on the latest scientific findings, Fitzgerald offers a clear eyed view of a building crisis in public health.

Like SILENT SPRING and FAST FOOD NATION, this is a book that demands change. Fitzgerald not onlyu sheds light on the problems we face from this unprecedented chemical onslaught, he tells us how we can turn the tide.

EVIDENCE of Harm by David Kirby

2009-05-04T11:18:00.000-07:00

Mercury in vaccines and the autism epidemic a medical controversy.

In the 1990s reported autism cases among American children began spiking, from about 1 in 10,000 in 1987 to a shocking 1 in 166 today.

This trend coincided with the addition of several new shots to the nation's already crowded vaccination schedule, grouped together and given soon after birth or in the early months of infancy.

Most of these shots contained a little known preservative called thimerosal, which includes a quantity of the toxin mercury.

Evidence of Harm explores the heated controversy over what many parents, physicians, public officials and educators have called an "epidemic" of afflicted children.

David Kirby traces their struggle to answer how and why their once healthy kids rapidly descended into silence or disturbed behavior, often accompanied by severe physical illness.

Alarmed by the levels of mercury in the vaccine schedule, these families sought answers from their doctors, from science, from pharmaceutical companies that manufacture vaccines, and finally from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration...to no avail.

A Problem with Typical Treatments

2008-05-07T15:35:00.000-07:00

What would be the typical treatment of cardiovascular disease?

First they check the cholesterol.

To treat high cholesterol (over 200) they put you on cholesterol lowering drugs, which shut off your CoQ10.

What does CoQ10 do? It is involved in the energy production and protection of little energy furnaces in every cell, so energy production goes way down.

A common side effect of people who are on all these HMG co-enzyme reductase inhibitors is that their arms feel heavy. Well, the heart is a muscle too, and it's going to feel heavy too.

One of the best treatments for a weak heart is CoQ10 (for congestive heart failure). But doctors have no trouble shutting CoQ10 production off so that they can treat a number.

The common therapy for osteoporosis is drugs, and the common therapy for calaudication is surgery. For cancer reduction there is nothing.

But all of these have a common cause--the same cause as three major avenues of research in aging, one of which is called caloric restriction.

DIABETES Solution

2008-05-06T13:26:00.000-07:00

Is the complete guide to achieving normal blood sugars.

Dr Richard Bernstein's groundbreaking approach to diabetes care enables you to take control of the disease by regulating your blood sugars.

Dr Berstein himself is living proof of the success of his methods.

Diagnosed with diabetes at age twelve, he was successful business executive and engineer when he happended to discover a way to normalize his blood sugars, which in turn reversed many of the complications he had suffered from for years.

At the age of 45, he enered medical school in order to publish his findings and eventually treat other diabetics.

Taking Back Healthcare for Future Generations

2008-04-19T12:32:00.000-07:00

"Is our healthcare system really in crisis?"

Thats a question Hank McKinnell, Chairman & CEO, PFIZER Inc., one of the world's most influential corporate leaders, encounters every day.

McKinnell agrees that there is a crisis, he doesn't think the problem is with "healthcare"......rather, he asserts the crisis is in "sick-care."

Healthcare systems around the world.

McKinnell argues, are focused on sickness and its management, rather than health.

As a result, dialogue about how to sustain health now takes a back seat to arguments about cost....containing it, avoiding it, or shifting it to someone else.

A near-universal belief that healthcare is becoming unaffordable, fragmented, and impersonal.

"Focusing only on the cost of care is looking at the healthcare problem though the wrong end of the telescope," says McKinnell, the chairman and CEO of Pfizer.

"The real focus shoud be on the horrific cost of disease."

In America, the "sick-care" system delivers the world's most sophisticated procedures, while skimping on vaccines, hapering the fight against AIDS, and intruding into one of life's most personal relationships.....doctor and patient.

Shocking Facts about the Pharmaceutical Industry

2008-04-19T12:15:00.000-07:00

Big drug companies have been accused of putting profits above patients, spinning false PR campaigns and more.

Here are some of the most shocking facts about the pharmaceutical industry.

The price of drugs is increasing faster than anything else a patient pays for: The prices of the most heavily prescribed drugs are routinely jacked up, sometimes several times a year.

Some medications have a mark-up of 1,000 percent over the cost of their ingredients.

Your doctor may have an ulterior motive behind your prescription: Drug reps often give gifts to convince doctors to prescribe the medications that they represent.

These drug reps usually have no medical or science education.

Pharmaceutical companies spend more on marketing than research: Almost twice as much!

Guilty of Medicare fraud: Pharmaceutical companies are being tried in federal courts as a result of their exploitation of Medicare.

AstraZeneca had to pay more than $340 million in penalties for coaching doctors to cheat Medicare.

The combined wealth of the top 5 pharmaceutical companies outweigh GNP of sub-Saharan Africa: In fact, the combined worth of the world’s top five drug companies is twice the combined GNP of that entire region.

Americans pay more for prescription meds than anyone else in the world: $200 billion in 2002 alone.

"New" Drugs aren't really new: Two-thirds of “new” prescription drugs are identical to existing drugs or modified versions of them.

Drug companies are taking advantage of underdeveloped countries to perform clinical trials: In developing countries, government oversight is more lax.

For more shocking facts, click the link below.
Sources:
Nursing Online Education Database March 27, 2008

Assuring Health Care Coverage for All by AAFP

2008-04-18T20:38:00.000-07:00

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) advocates adoption of a plan to assure health care for everyone.

The plan that AAFP proposes for consideration would cover everyone who resides within the U.S. borders and would guarantee basic services and payment of catastrophic health care costs.

Since the 1980s, the AAFP has called for fundamental reform of the US health care system.

People without coverage do not receive health care in a timely manner or in the right setting. As a result, they suffer poorer health outcomes.

Family physicians believe this country must make a deliberate investment in assuring basic health care coverage for everyone.

They believe that a system guaranteeing care would result in a healthier and more productive society.

click on link to their website............http://www.aafp.org

High Performance Health System

2008-04-18T20:28:00.000-07:00

To those who participate in the U.S. health care system—providers, consumers, purchasers, plans, and policymakers—it's clear that there's an urgent need for transformation.

The Commonwealth Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System seeks to move the U.S. toward a health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for those who are most vulnerable.

Research confirms what many observe firsthand: the system is fragmented and fraught with inefficiency.

While our pluralistic public-private "system" has many strengths, misaligned incentives among key stakeholders make reform a great challenge.

The United States spends well over twice the per-capita average of industrialized countries, but high spending on health care has not translated into better care or better outcomes.

Americans do not live as long as citizens of several other countries, and there are widespread disparities based on insurance status, income, race, and ethnicity.

Physicians for a National Health Program

2008-04-18T20:21:00.000-07:00

Physicians for a National Health Program is a single issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health program. PNHP has more than 15,000 members and chapters across the United States.

Since 1987, they have advocated for reform in the U.S. health care system. They educate physicians and other health professionals about the benefits of a single-payer system--including fewer administrative costs and affording health insurance for the 46 million Americans who have none.

Their members and physician activists work toward a single-payer national health program in their communities.

PNHP performs ground breaking research on the health crisis and the need for fundamental reform, coordinates speakers and forums, participates in town hall meetings and debates, contributes scholarly articles to peer-reviewed medical journals, and appears regularly on national television and news programs advocating for a single-payer system.

What is Syndrome-X ?

2008-04-18T14:29:00.000-07:00

It's a resistance to insulin.........the hormone needed to burn food for energy......combined with high cholesterol or triglycerides, high blood pressure, or too much body fat.

Syndrome X ages you prematurely and significantly increases your risk of heart disease, hypertension, obesity, eye disease, nervous system disorders, diabetes, Alzheimers, cancer and other age related diseases.

Syndrome X is the first book to tell you how to fight the epidemic disorder that is derailing the health of nearly a third of North Americans.

It outlines a complete three step program......including easy to follow diets, light physical activity, and readily available vitamins and nutritional supplements......that will safeguard you against developing Syndrome-X or reverse it if you already have it.

link to book........http://www.syndrome-x.com for more info

Healthcare Meltdown

2008-04-18T13:59:00.000-07:00

It is no secret that healthcare in the United States is managed to a confusing welter of institutions, regulations, corporations and government agencies.

Paperwork is rampant at every level and much time and money are wasted while millions of people go without needed medical attention.

For this"system" the U.S. spends about twice as much per capita as most developed countries.

Despite this levle of expense, over 45,000,000 people in our country have no health insurance.