US: Bankrupt Health System Persecutes Alternatives
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The pharmaceutically dominated health system in the US and other western countries is bankrupting whole economies with the costs of iatrogenic (doctor-induced) illness and exaggerated prices for pharmaceutical remedies. Yet, it is practitioners proposing alternatives to this failing system that are being attacked - such as biological dentist Rick Vander Heyden in Wisconsin, who has been charged with promoting his practice of "mercury free" dentistry.
Honestly, many people do prefer not to put a poisonous substance in their mouths, but for the guardians of medical orthodoxy, to say that you are refusing to use their failing "orthodox" treatment methods is tantamount to charlatanery.
Tim Bolen, who has been watching the antics of the US "Quackbusters" explains how the US health system is irredeemably sick and how it holds on to power tooth and claw - fighting progress in medicine in its own way ...
The American Medical System is Broken...
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This "Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter" is about the battle between "Health and Medicine" on Planet Earth.
Tim Bolen is an op/ed writer with extensive knowledge of the activities of a subversive organization calling itself the "quackbusters," and that organization's attempts to suppress, and discredit, any and all health modalities that compete with the allopathic (MD) paradigm for consumer health dollars.
The focus of the newsletter is on the ongoing activities, battles, politics, and the victories won by members of the "Health Freedom Movement" against the "quackbusters" It details "who the quackbusters are, what they are, where they are operating, when they appear, and how they operate - and how easy it is to beat them..."
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
Thursday, May 27th, 2004
Everybody knows that the US MEDICARE System will go belly-up in the year 2011. It's going to be, at that point, so costly that the United States simply won't be able to afford it anymore. Foreign owned "Big Pharma" is bleeding us to death.
American corporations, right this moment, are cutting back their health care offerings. No one can afford the skyrocketing costs. Foreign owned "Big Pharma" is bleeding us to death.
Health Insurance companies are desperately trying to reduce provider expenditure - and because of that, Americans are being offered a poorer, and poorer, quality of health care. Everything NEW is being banned. Foreign owned "Big Pharma" is bleeding us to death.
But, more shocking, is that the system itself is a deadly rip-off of gigantic proportion. A new study, a compilation of most recent studies, called "Death by Medicine," says:
"It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. The total number of iatrogenic deaths shown ... is 783,936. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate, 553,251."
The number of people having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR) to prescribed medicine is 2.2 million. Dr. Richard Besser, of the CDC, in 1995, said the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections was 20 million. Dr. Besser, in 2003, now refers to tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics.
The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million."
And that's only the "deaths." The Lazarou study on Hospital ADR also showed that, besides the 106,000 "deaths," twenty times that number of people had health problems caused by that same hospital Adverse Drug Reaction. There were an additional 2,200,000 health problems caused by Adverse Drug Reaction to drugs in hospitals. It would be reasonable to assume, then, that that factor of twenty times the number of deaths could be applied to all of the death statistics - meaning that in addition to the total 783,936 deaths there were 15,678,720 serious health problems caused by the American Medical System.
Shocked? It gets worse... Wait until you read how slovenly our system actually operates.
The top three causes of Unnecessary Deaths in the United States are related to our health care system...
... continue reading at quackpotwatch.org.
Wisconsin: The Vander Heyden Case...
A couple days ago I wrote an article called "The American Medical System is Broken..." The material for it, the original study called "Death by Medicine," sat on the corner of my desk for months. The material was so shocking, even for a skeptic of the medical system like me, that I simply needed to digest it. I needed to think about what it all meant - for the study makes it crystal clear that organized medicine is the number one killer of Americans.
And number two, and number three...
"Facts" are undeniable. They speak louder than simple words. The old adage "actions speak louder than words," is never more true, than in this indictment of the American Health Care System.
In legal jargon, what has happened with this report, is that the elusive, movable, medical definition of "Standard of Care," has been set in concrete - with facts. Simply, it is the "Standard of Care" in the United States to allow 115,000 American citizens to die, within the system, of "bedsores" every year. It is the "Standard of Care" in the United States to allow 108,800 American citizens to die, within the system, of "malnutrition" every year. It is the "Standard of Care" in the United States to allow 199,000 American citizens to die, within the system, of "outpatient adverse reaction to drugs" every year. It is the "Standard of Care" in the United States to allow 88,000 American citizens to die, within the system, of "infection" every year.
And so on...
How can I define the information in this comprehensive report (Death by Medicine) as the definition of "Standard of Care?" For four reasons: (1) These people all died within the system. These weren't people without access to medical care. These people had access to the American Medical System - and THAT is what killed them. (2) The problems described in the report range over many, many years. (3) The organized medical establishment has been aware of these issues for as many years. (4) Organized medicine has chosen to do NOTHING about the problems - therefore, they have accepted these problems as normal, and acceptable. Hence, the facts represented in "Death by Medicine" are, in fact, organized medicine's recognized "Standard of Care."
What does THIS definition of "Standard of Care" mean to "alternative" practitioners?
Everything...
Who, in their right mind would tell their patients that "I operate my practice according to acceptable 'Standard of Care' guidelines. I let 105,000 of my patients die of 'bedsores' every year..."
"Alternative" practitioners, meaning those offering "alternatives" to the deadly American Medical System, should, from this moment on declare loudly "I practice OUTSIDE of the accepted "Standard of Care.' None of my patients have adverse drug reactions, none of them die of malnutrition, none of them die from infections gotten from a hospital, none of my patients get unnecessary surgery or unnecessary procedures, and my patients have no idea what bedsores look like - they're all out playing golf."
Which Brings Me to Rick Vander Heyden's Case in Wisconsin...
This is the first case, of an "alternative" practitioner, brought under, and reviewed by, the NEW management team under Wisconsin Department of Regulation & Licensing (DRL) Secretary Donsia Strong Hill. Strong Hill, you will remember, has declared publicly that "alternative practitioners will not be singled out...". This case is NOT a leftover from the old management team - so the Wisconsin Health Freedom Movement is eager to see how it's handled.
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