Guest guest Posted November 20, 2002 Report Share Posted November 20, 2002 This totally sucks.....I, for one, am ready to revolt against this huge system. Where is this path leading us to? In my sight, it is total desperation for many who can no longer afford insurance. We need answers, we need relief from this NOW!! Mercola.com Dr. ph Mercola All Health, No Hype FREE Weekly Health Newsletter Your Email Address: Previous Newsletters Issue 378 November 20, 2002 Drug Company Secrets Five Steps to Reduce Stress Health Insurance Holiday Gifts Cut Risk of Prostate Cancer Your Vitamin D is Falling High Stress Levels MMR Vaccine Cause Autism? Living Fuel SuperFood Health Resources Eating Plan Less Grains / Sugars More Omega 3 More Water Emotional Health Effective Sleep Home New Patients Recommended Products Health Insurance Will Likely Take a Healthy Cut of Next Year's Paycheck If health insurance is already taking a substantial portion of your paycheck, be prepared to make an even greater sacrifice come next year. Insurance premiums are expected to rise and most employers will be passing that increase on to their employees. An increased demand for hospital services and prescription drugs is blamed for the increase, which is expected to be as much as 15.4 percent to employers. Costs are rising fast -- faster than they have in a decade -- and experts are worried that the loss of income to workers will mean less money spent on goods and services. Reports suggest that many employers will raise monthly premiums by 10 to 30 percent, increase deductibles and set higher office-visit, hospital care, and prescription co-payments. It is even cited in the Federal Reserve’s “beige book” on economic conditions by an employer that a worker’s wage increase will likely be “eaten up” by higher health insurance costs. Insurance increases are meant to combat health care costs in the short-term, however there is no long-term solution for the rising costs. More than 41 million Americans are already without health insurance, and the number is expected to grow. Some companies are changing health care benefits in an attempt to keep premiums down, while some workers are threatening to strike if increases are confirmed. This raise comes at a time when many Americans are recouping from a slow economic market. This, coupled with an already shaky economy and job market, makes for an insecure new year. USAToday.com, November 3 2002 DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT: The current disease-oriented system is collapsing, and the current anemic economy is limiting families’ access to their perception of "health" care. This system is in desperate need of modification. Even if all of the uninsured received instant health care benefits, the problem would not be solved; the current paradigm needs to be transformed into one that focuses on health, not on disease. My journalist friend Nick Regush summarized the problem earlier this year in his article, The Death of Medicine: "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. Medicine, as we know it, is dying. It is entering a terminal phase. 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. 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." 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 that the existing medical establishment has foisted on you are not the solution to better health. They are 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 this: Retail pharmacies filled 3 billion prescriptions in the U.S. in 2000. We are currently spending 1.4 trillion dollars for healthcare in the U.S., or 14 percent of our current overall budget. That is projected to double in the next 8 years to 3 trillion dollars, a staggering 17 percent of our total national output. These figures are in trillions, not billions. Three trillion dollars is equal to 3,000 times a billion dollars. The effects of this increase are numerous. "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. 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. The sad tragedy is that even though we are spending all of this money on disease management (focused on drugs and surgery), our return on this investment is profoundly poor. And guess who is going to be paying this bill? As the above article shows -- YOU are. The country and its private industries cannot afford to continue to pick up this tab without seriously jeopardizing their future financial stability. Business Week comments further: "Perhaps one-third of all medical spending -- some $600 billion dollars -- may be unnecessary, out-of-date, or even dangerous treatments." The recent articles listed below, each of which discusses $3 billion wastes of your money, verify the above statement. We are not achieving the high levels of health that we could be. Increasing amounts of people do not have the energy they need to get through the day, while millions of others are suffering from painful, crippling diseases that could have been prevented by following basic health principles. Many of you know that my goal is to facilitate the transformation of the current system that is on the verge of collapse. The approaches I have described in over 20,000 pages, spanning the last five years, on Mercola.com offer the solution to this crisis. We can solve well over 90 percent of all chronic diseases with simple, inexpensive natural therapies. Following the eating plan and radically reducing grain and sugar intake while optimizing omega 6:3 fat ratio will likely reduce over 50 percent of the health problems Americans currently experience. I know this is true because I have successfully treated thousands of patients from all over the country by using these techniques. Mercola.com is already an outstanding health resource for you; but slated for completion at the end of the year, we will launch powerful new technology to further increase the usefulness of the site. It will offer you a simple, one-stop method of obtaining the knowledge and advice needed to solve nearly any health care problem without using expensive drugs, vitamin supplements or surgeries. My approach in providing you this solution is two-phased. The first phase involves establishing all the information necessary to solve your problems. This has been a massive undertaking that has stretched over several years, but we are rapidly nearing completion, and much of this expertise is already available to you on Mercola.com. Our refinements will include making all this wisdom even easier to access by literally putting the research and knowledge of many experts right at your fingertips. In the second phase, targeted for completion next year, Mercola.com will offer you a sophisticated database of natural medicine healthcare practitioners. You, the user community, will rate them so you can find outstanding practitioners close to your home. Even with all the right answers, many people need the guidance of such professionals to help them implement a successful health recovery or maintenance program. I am saddened that so many patients fly in to see me in my office because they don't know of anyone close to them who can help them with their health problems. This is essentially an information problem that the Internet can easily solve, and it is my aim to do just that. Related Articles: Nearly $3 Trillion Dollars in U.S. Health Spending is Projected Hypocrisy Oath -- The Great Divide Between Principal And Practice In Modern Medicine 3 Three Billion Dollar Hoaxes: 3 Billion Dollar Hoax Another 3 Billion Dollar Hoax Bombshell -- Major Premarin Trial Halted Return to Table of Contents #378 Privacy/Security Current Newsletter Contact Info ©Copyright 1997-2002 Dr. ph Mercola. . This content may be copied in full, with copyright; contact; creation; and information intact, without specific permission, when used only in a not-for-profit format. If any other use is desired, permission in writing from Dr. Mercola is required. Disclaimer - Newsletters are based upon the opinions of Dr. Mercola. They are not intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified health care professional and they are not intended as medical advice. They are intended as a sharing of knowledge and information from the research and experience of Dr. Mercola and his community. Dr. Mercola encourages you to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 22, 2002 Report Share Posted November 22, 2002 The answer is socialized medicine. Healthcare for all. It can't be any worse than what we currently have. e ----- Original Message ----- From: ~*Patty*~ Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 7:12 AM Subject: health_insurance This totally sucks.....I, for one, am ready to revolt against this huge system. Where is this path leading us to? In my sight, it is total desperation for many who can no longer afford insurance. We need answers, we need relief from this NOW!! Mercola.com Dr. ph Mercola All Health, No Hype FREE Weekly Health Newsletter Your Email Address: Previous Newsletters Issue 378 November 20, 2002 Drug Company Secrets Five Steps to Reduce Stress Health Insurance Holiday Gifts Cut Risk of Prostate Cancer Your Vitamin D is Falling High Stress Levels MMR Vaccine Cause Autism? Living Fuel SuperFood Health Resources Eating Plan Less Grains / Sugars More Omega 3 More Water Emotional Health Effective Sleep Home New Patients Recommended Products Health Insurance Will Likely Take a Healthy Cut of Next Year's Paycheck If health insurance is already taking a substantial portion of your paycheck, be prepared to make an even greater sacrifice come next year. Insurance premiums are expected to rise and most employers will be passing that increase on to their employees. An increased demand for hospital services and prescription drugs is blamed for the increase, which is expected to be as much as 15.4 percent to employers. Costs are rising fast -- faster than they have in a decade -- and experts are worried that the loss of income to workers will mean less money spent on goods and services. Reports suggest that many employers will raise monthly premiums by 10 to 30 percent, increase deductibles and set higher office-visit, hospital care, and prescription co-payments. It is even cited in the Federal Reserve’s “beige book” on economic conditions by an employer that a worker’s wage increase will likely be “eaten up” by higher health insurance costs. Insurance increases are meant to combat health care costs in the short-term, however there is no long-term solution for the rising costs. More than 41 million Americans are already without health insurance, and the number is expected to grow. Some companies are changing health care benefits in an attempt to keep premiums down, while some workers are threatening to strike if increases are confirmed. This raise comes at a time when many Americans are recouping from a slow economic market. This, coupled with an already shaky economy and job market, makes for an insecure new year. USAToday.com, November 3 2002 DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT: The current disease-oriented system is collapsing, and the current anemic economy is limiting families’ access to their perception of "health" care. This system is in desperate need of modification. Even if all of the uninsured received instant health care benefits, the problem would not be solved; the current paradigm needs to be transformed into one that focuses on health, not on disease. My journalist friend Nick Regush summarized the problem earlier this year in his article, The Death of Medicine: "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. Medicine, as we know it, is dying. It is entering a terminal phase. 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. 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." 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 that the existing medical establishment has foisted on you are not the solution to better health. They are 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 this: Retail pharmacies filled 3 billion prescriptions in the U.S. in 2000. We are currently spending 1.4 trillion dollars for healthcare in the U.S., or 14 percent of our current overall budget. That is projected to double in the next 8 years to 3 trillion dollars, a staggering 17 percent of our total national output. These figures are in trillions, not billions. Three trillion dollars is equal to 3,000 times a billion dollars. The effects of this increase are numerous. "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. 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. The sad tragedy is that even though we are spending all of this money on disease management (focused on drugs and surgery), our return on this investment is profoundly poor. And guess who is going to be paying this bill? As the above article shows -- YOU are. The country and its private industries cannot afford to continue to pick up this tab without seriously jeopardizing their future financial stability. Business Week comments further: "Perhaps one-third of all medical spending -- some $600 billion dollars -- may be unnecessary, out-of-date, or even dangerous treatments." The recent articles listed below, each of which discusses $3 billion wastes of your money, verify the above statement. We are not achieving the high levels of health that we could be. Increasing amounts of people do not have the energy they need to get through the day, while millions of others are suffering from painful, crippling diseases that could have been prevented by following basic health principles. Many of you know that my goal is to facilitate the transformation of the current system that is on the verge of collapse. The approaches I have described in over 20,000 pages, spanning the last five years, on Mercola.com offer the solution to this crisis. We can solve well over 90 percent of all chronic diseases with simple, inexpensive natural therapies. Following the eating plan and radically reducing grain and sugar intake while optimizing omega 6:3 fat ratio will likely reduce over 50 percent of the health problems Americans currently experience. I know this is true because I have successfully treated thousands of patients from all over the country by using these techniques. Mercola.com is already an outstanding health resource for you; but slated for completion at the end of the year, we will launch powerful new technology to further increase the usefulness of the site. It will offer you a simple, one-stop method of obtaining the knowledge and advice needed to solve nearly any health care problem without using expensive drugs, vitamin supplements or surgeries. My approach in providing you this solution is two-phased. The first phase involves establishing all the information necessary to solve your problems. This has been a massive undertaking that has stretched over several years, but we are rapidly nearing completion, and much of this expertise is already available to you on Mercola.com. Our refinements will include making all this wisdom even easier to access by literally putting the research and knowledge of many experts right at your fingertips. In the second phase, targeted for completion next year, Mercola.com will offer you a sophisticated database of natural medicine healthcare practitioners. You, the user community, will rate them so you can find outstanding practitioners close to your home. Even with all the right answers, many people need the guidance of such professionals to help them implement a successful health recovery or maintenance program. I am saddened that so many patients fly in to see me in my office because they don't know of anyone close to them who can help them with their health problems. This is essentially an information problem that the Internet can easily solve, and it is my aim to do just that. Related Articles: Nearly $3 Trillion Dollars in U.S. Health Spending is Projected Hypocrisy Oath -- The Great Divide Between Principal And Practice In Modern Medicine 3 Three Billion Dollar Hoaxes: 3 Billion Dollar Hoax Another 3 Billion Dollar Hoax Bombshell -- Major Premarin Trial Halted Return to Table of Contents #378 Privacy/Security Current Newsletter Contact Info ©Copyright 1997-2002 Dr. ph Mercola. . This content may be copied in full, with copyright; contact; creation; and information intact, without specific permission, when used only in a not-for-profit format. If any other use is desired, permission in writing from Dr. Mercola is required. Disclaimer - Newsletters are based upon the opinions of Dr. Mercola. They are not intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified health care professional and they are not intended as medical advice. They are intended as a sharing of knowledge and information from the research and experience of Dr. Mercola and his community. Dr. Mercola encourages you to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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