> It is very easy for the FTC to enforce this. They have a right to
> subpoena this information from the clinic and determine what they have
> done with it. If their records show it flowing out to a third party after
> they have said it would not, prosecution will follow with onerous fines.
> If they put in a regulation that you must disclose in a privacy statement
> and there is none, they will likewise fine forthwith.
This is more common than most think! And the really damnable thing
is, most doctors are beholden to the insurance companies, not to you! The
insurance companies will dictate which tests can be run, and which will
not be paid for. If your doctor does not follow those norms, or turns up
too many strange illnesses, he is removed from the list of approved
doctors, and no services are covered by insurance. (My allergist use to
be an orthopedic surgeon. His sin? Taking too much time (charging too
much) in office visits to teach his patients how to avoid the need for
surgery. Although the overall health care costs were markedly lower, his
office visits went beyond the norms, and so he was "disapproved", and
could no longer get patients!)
More often than not, certain diseases are not checked for, and those
with odd allergies are written off as crazy, when they really have
something like porphyria, which causes them to have reactions, often
bizarre neurological reactions, to solvents like alcohol and acetone (nail
polish, white board markers,) perfumes, and glue fumes such as those from
modern formaldehyde based glues, so often used in carpeting and even
printing.
> Ask one who has battled for adequate insurance coverage as a 15 year colon
> cancer survivor.
You want to see what is really happening? go read
http://www.mall-net.com/mcs/docprob.html
I had a friend who was an insurance agent. When the AIDS scare
became more rampant, the insurance company decided to refuse to insure
anyone who was self employed on the grounds that such people would have
more ability to engage in sexual activity, thus presenting a higher
insurance risk. My agent friend had, till then, specialized in signing up
entrepreneurs, store owners, and other self employed types. His insurance
career suddenly came to an end when this policy went in to effect. (I was
trying to get coverage at that time. I am not gay, but being an
entrepreneur and living in the SF Bay area, hotbed of gay activity, I
could not get insurance coverage.) Some years later, the state of
California made such discrimination illegal. Too late...
Most of my medical treatments, I pay for out of pocket because they
are termed "controversial". Nutrition medicine. Works better than some of
the pharmaceuticals! Cheaper, too! But... insurance companies don't pay
for it, and while nurses will gladly set up IV's with all kinds of drugs
having toxic side effects, they become very skittish around those
"unscientific" things called vitamins, which have nearly zero bad side
effects if used properly!
You think Billy Gates is not nice? He is a Piker compared to the
pharmaceutical industry! Billy is learning from them to fund a few
training centers and colleges to promote his products as solutions. The
Pharmaceutical industry funds a good part of most medical colleges, most
of the medical research, etc.
Modern pharmaceutical medicine treats symptoms, not causes; and
treats them by blocking biochemical pathways, not by enhancing them! That
is like throwing sand into a transmission to keep it from working too
fast! Orthomolecular medicine is the medicine of supplementing and
helping the biochemical pathways through non-patentable (and cheaper)
nutritional substances.
For a good medical system, we need both methods, and others. But
like Billy, the pharmaceuticals industry is doing its best to teach
doctors that vitamins are just witchcraft and old wives tales, and funding
research which shows very small and tightly controlled glimpses at the
truth so as to promote their drugs as superior to that nutritional stuff.
I've read their attempts to discredit chelation therapy, the research
papers clearly showing they were mixing enough "supplementary minerals" in
with the disodium EDTA solution to guarentee the EDTA was useless before
it entered the volunteers veins! But only someone with a good
understanding of the chemical functions would understand what was going
on; most doctors are not chemists! Or witness the last round of "vitamin
C causes genetic damage" crap! If the animals they used did not have
enough selenium to regenerate the vitamin C after it passed through the
nuclear membranes, where it has to become the (bad) spent form,
dehydroascorbic acid, to pass, then be regenerated again so it can work;
then yes, if it is not regenerated for lack of other nutrients, there
could be genetic damage. But if you fed that 500mg of vitamin C (body
weight equivalent,) to a monkey, the SPCA would be after you for
malnourishing the monkey! We do not eat the diet of fresh vitamin rich
food we evolved to eat.
We are living a lot longer because modern medicine has come up with a
lot of good ways of curing us of diseases and accidents. We need modern
medicine, both pharmaceutical, AND nutritional. Sad that like Able and
Cain, the pharmaceutical brother wants to kill the nutritional brother.
And sad that it is using the insurance industry to try to strangle
nutritional medicine's pocketbook so as to insure that it gets first crack
at profitably mistreating those who would do better under other treatment
regemens. We need balance!
Sorry for the rant. This is a particularly frustrating problem for
those with odd medical conditions. Don't bother archiving this post.
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