More On Comparative

[Guest guest]

Dear group:

I took the following paragraph from the government website

http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/contacts/index.html using cut and paste:

The 15 member Council, named today in accordance with a Congressionally-mandate

timeline, will assist the agencies of the Federal government, including HHS and

the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense, as well as others, to

coordinate comparative effectiveness and related health services research. The

Recovery Act authorized $300 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and

Quality, $400 million for the National Institutes of Health, and $400 million

for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to support comparative

effectiveness research.

I see this move by the Obama team as being the first step to help us, and one

that is already passed into law.

Why not take advantage now of the 1.1 Billion already earmarked by Obama that is

being directed towards looking at change? What would be the point of waiting?

" Comparative effectiveness research " is looking at change... there is no other

way to read this, in my opinion. It appears that 400 million of the total 1.1

billion dollar effort reflected in the copy above is earmarked specifically for

this " comparative effectiveness research " .

It is a fact that alternative medicine has had a research budget of nearly zero

for decades. Even if only a small portion of the 400 million being spent is

directed at comparing " alternative medical treatment effectiveness " vs. " drug

intervention treatment effectiveness " for a similar illness this is a big win

for alternative medicine, if not a HUGE one.

Sure, the system has been totally corrupt for some time. And sure, this

corruption goes to the very top of the FDA, with their ridiculous law of " only a

drug can diagnose, prevent, cure, or treat " ANY disease.

The only way that the rampant corruption of the FDA can be stopped is from the

very top... from the President himself. This is because the President controls

the Executive Branch of our government, and the FDA is a agency of this

Executive Branch.

THE FDA IS NEVER GOING TO CHANGE ON ITS OWN, due to the fact that Big Pharma's

influence in this agency is far too deep. The FDA would ignore the wisdom of

alternative medicine forever, if it could. However, the FDA has to answer to

President Obama. It cannot ignore him, or what he has to say.

It is a fact that those doing the budgeting in our federal government know that

health care costs are breaking the back of this country, and that the projected

rise in health care costs is unsustainable. We are simply going broke supporting

Big Pharma's and Big Medicine's many lies... to say nothing of the damage to the

public's health. (I think this is why Obama has directed this 1.1 billion

towards looking at change.)

Conclusion

I think that the time to act is NOW, not later. Anyone whom has recovered using

alternative medical means, and has found these means more effective that

pharmaceutical drugs, has a chance to voice their opinion and to be heard.

There is power in numbers... the more persons that report their alternative

medical recovery stories, or put pro-alt-med comments on the website

http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/contacts/index.html the better. (This site asks for

either comments or recovery stories.)

I think that we should at least give Obama a chance to help us... and " silence

by us " at the current time is not giving him a chance.

Darman

http://my.opera.com/nutrientscure/blog/