Stewart Stremler wrote:
begin quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 10:54:02AM -0700:
Lan Barnes wrote:
The correct answer is to emulate the Canadian health care system, the
best in the world, far cheaper than ours, and no burden on industry.
Go ask the Canadian doctors that come to the US so they can practice
medicine instead of a government sponsored HMO.
Can't get filthy rich in an HMO 'less your the CEO of the HMO. Gotta
come down to the US in order to fleece the richer populace.
Don't have enough regulation and litigation? You get quacks.
Get enough litigation to reduce the number of quacks? You get sky-high
malpractice insurance (which gets passed on to the customers).
Got enough regulation to reduce the number of quacks? You're now
letting the government interfere with private industry.
Let private industry "solve the problem"? Well, the problem they solve
is how to part people from their money, not how to keep 'em from getting
sick.
Make it a government enterprise? That's a monopoly, and all the "we
don't care we don't have to" problems that come with that.
There are no good solutions. Only a selection of barely acceptable
ones, and a whole slew of sucky ones.
Well, one of the problems here is that this is a straw man. Hospitals
and doctors have very little to do with health. Don't get me wrong,
they are great for testing, diagnosis, and emergency intervention
(usually surgery). But if you want health, study nutrition.
Most ailments are caused by nutritional deficiencies. Scurvy is little
more than a lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of PMS are usually reduced, if
not eliminated, by calcium. Depression and sleep disorders often can
also be reduced by calcium. Cancer cannot exist in a body that is not
acidic. Certain types of heart attack can be completely prevented by
selenium.
There's not a great deal of money spent on surgery for animals.
Veteranarians have long ago figured out the causes for most ailments.
And most of them were due to some nutritional deficiency. Ulcers are
not caused by stress (though they *can* be agitated by it), but rather
by a lack of bismuth (the trace mineral from which Pepto-Bismol derives
its name) and the presence of a bacteria called Heliobactorpylori.
Ulcers can be *cured* with bismuth and tetracycline. This was known for
over 50 years by veteranarians, but only recently was published in
medical journals for humans.
When you have an ailment, go to the doctor for testing and diagnosis,
but for treatment (unless you need immediate surgery), go to various
vitamin stores, ask lots of questions about that ailment, and determine
if supplements can help. Most likely they will. And I'm not just
saying that this is what vitamin salesmen will tell you. Take the
supplements and find out for yourself.
All drugs have side effects for most people. But *few* supplements have
adverse side effects unless taken in excess. Medicines are chemicals
that alleviate a target symptom while often creating other seemingly
unrelated symptoms and ailments for which other medicines must then be
taken. Medicines only silence the alarm. Supplements go straight to
the source and dissipate the cause.
Doctors *do* make people feel better and even cure them, sometimes
through surgery, sometimes through medicine. But surgery and medicine
often make the problem worse too. Talk to people who have had surgery
for carpal tunnel or had lumbar surgically fused. You'll find rave
reviews, but almost as many horror stories. And it is scary how many
people are actually killed in hospitals by mistakes, both in surgery and
in medication.
I was starting to have carpal tunnel. I investigated surgery, expensive
and risky. I had almost a 50% chance that surgery would make it better
and almost as good odds that it would make it worse. One day when I was
at the chiroprator's office, I asked if he ever works on extremities
(not just the spine). He asked, and I told him my symptoms. He told me
to bend my wrist to its limit and hold it there. He started poking
around on my forearm until he hit a spot that sent me to my knees! All
he did was press that spot and I immediately had almost full range
restored in that direction, but not the other. We repeated the process
for the other direction and he sent me to my knees again! This time
also, just one poke and I had almost full range completely restored. It
wasn't until three weeks later that the range went back to former
limits. So I started poking around and found the same spots. My poking
didn't have the same effect. Who knows why. But I started massaging
these spots any time I felt tightness and the massaging would *always*
reduced the problem. I kept doing it and kept doing it. Now, it is
very rare that I ever feel it. And a little massaging here or there is
all it takes to eliminate it completely within a day or so. It now
recurs so rarely that I have relief from it for many months at a time,
sometimes years.
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