Re: America's medical system near collapse

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> The American Medical System is Nearing Collapse

> 8/21/02

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> The American Medical System is Nearing

> Collapse

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> By Tommy G.

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> We are living in the most amazing era of

> medicine in human history. Yet as we all know too

> well, all is not well with American medicine. In

> point of fact, we are dealing with a system of

> healthcare delivery that is, at its root,

> dysfunctional.

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> The problem - the crisis - is the system

> by which care is delivered, which has simply not

> matured at the same pace as the technologies and

> treatments now available.

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> I've traveled all over the country. I've

> traveled to Spain and Germany. I've been to Canada.

> I've discussed healthcare with some of the leading

> policymakers and caregivers in the world. And sadly,

> I have to report that in Western society broadly,

> the various systems of care are eroding with

> ever-greater rapidity.

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> I've come to one central conclusion: The

> way we provide care is in jeopardy of collapse. It

> is clouded by regulatory burdens that are confusing,

> duplicative and extremely time-consuming. Physicians

> and nurses almost have to obtain advanced degrees in

> business administration, accounting and

> jurisprudence just to run their offices from day to

> day. Patients have to fill out endless forms; get

> transferred from place to place; worry about what

> insurance will pay for what treatment and at what

> cost.

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> We have to fundamentally change the

> current healthcare delivery system in our country.

> The myriad rules, regulations and restrictions that

> make obtaining good healthcare difficult, if not

> impossible, have to be reviewed carefully and, when

> necessary, jettisoned like useless ballast.

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> But there's another area of reform that

> must - I repeat, must - be among the highest

> priorities we can develop: malpractice reform.

> America is experiencing a medical malpractice

> insurance coverage crisis that is increasing the

> cost of healthcare, decreasing access to doctors and

> hospitals for many patients and lowering the overall

> quality of care provided to patients.

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> Tommy G. is U.S. secretary of

> health and human services. This is excerpted and

> condensed from his remarks July 18 in Chicago to the

> American Medical Association

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> DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:

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> I believe my journalist friend Nick

> Regush summarized the problem quite nicely earlier

> this year:

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> " There is no way to be nice about

> this. There is no point in raising false hopes.

> There is no treatment or vaccine in sight. There is

> no miracle breakthrough on the horizon.

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> Medicine, as we know it, is dying. It

> is entering a terminal phase.

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> What began as an acute illness reached

> the chronic stage about a decade ago and its

> progression towards death has been remarkably swift

> and well beyond anything anyone could have

> predicted.

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> The disease is caused by conflict of

> interest, tainted research, greed for big bucks,

> pretentious doctors and scientists, lying, cheating,

> invasion by the morally bankrupt marketing

> automatons of the drug industry, derelict

> politicians and federal and state regulators - all

> seasoned with huge doses of self-importance and foul

> odor. "

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> As the article above documents, and as

> many of us have predicted, the traditional system is

> ready to collapse.

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> I do not share this to be the purveyor

> of bad news, but to announce that a new day is

> dawning. As many of you are already aware, the drugs

> and surgery the existing medical establishment has

> foisted on you are not the solution to better

> health, but merely their methods of making more

> money off of you by treating only diseases -

> diseases their paradigm helped to foster in the

> first place. Consider that:

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> Retail pharmacies filled 3 billion

> prescriptions in the U.S. in 2000.

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> We are currently spending 1.4 trillion

> dollars for healthcare in the US, or 14% of our

> current overall budget. That is projected to double

> in the next 8 years to 3 trillion dollars, a

> staggering 17% of our total national output.

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> Folks, those are figures in trillions,

> not billions. Three trillion dollars is 3,000

> billion dollars.

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> " The consequences of this shift of

> resources will be enormous for companies, workers

> and the government. It will mean a massive transfer

> of the nation's income, including profits, wages and

> tax dollars, to disease-oriented traditional medical

> care.

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> " Employees will face an increasingly

> stark situation: the more money they receive in

> on-the-job benefits, the less they'll receive in

> wages, pensions, or vacation time. "

>

> - From Business Week August 26, 2002 p

> 144.

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> The sad tragedy is that we are spending

> all of this money on disease management focused on

> drugs and surgery and our return on this investment

> is profoundly poor.

>

> Business Week further comments:

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