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Health InsuranceWhy Our Aid System Isn't Healthy
by:
Deb Bromley
Most folk are well aware that an calculable
45 million Americans presently
do not have healthcare, but is the crisis just the lack of health insurance or even as the cost of health insurance? Is there a bigger underlying problem at the root of our aid system? Tho'
the U.S. claims to have the most advanced medicine in the world, government health statistics and peer-reviewed journals are painting a several image -- that medical care
medicine often causes more harm than good.
People in general have always felt they could trust doctors and the medical profession, but according to the Journal of the American Medical Association in Gregorian calendar month
2000, induced
death, as well best-known as death from doc error or death from medical treatment, was the third leading cause of death in America and rising, responsible for at least 250,000 deaths per year. Those statistics are considered conservative by many, as the reportable amount only include in-hospital deaths, not injury or disability, and do not include external induced
deaths such as those ensuant from nursing house and different private facility treatments, and adverse effects of prescriptions. One recent study calculable
the total extra deaths from induced
causes at around 800,000 per year at a cost of $282 billion per year, which would-be do death from American medicine the leading cause of death in our country.
Currently, at least 2 out of 3 Americans use medications, 32 million Americans are taking three or more medications daily, and commercials and advertisements for pharmaceutical drugs have saturated the marketplace. Tho'
our population is aging, usuriously
costly drugs are being marketed and distributed
to younger and younger patients, including many a children who years ago would-be ne'er
have been given or necessary medication, for everything from Add to bronchial asthma to bipolar malady and diabetes. Clearly, the state of health in this country is not rising
even as tho'
there are an increasing number of medications and treatments. Between 2003 and 2010, the number of prescriptions are expected to increase considerably
by 47%. In recent years, many
drugs antecedently
deemed safe by the FDA have been recalled because of their toxicity, after the innovational drug approvals were really funded by the endowed
pharmaceutical companies themselves.
According to the media, thanks to advances in U.S. drugs and medical procedures, Americans are living longer statistically, but they are living longer sicker, with a lower quality of life, and often dependent on multiple costly synthetic medications that do not cure or address the underlying causes, but only suppress symptoms, often with a embarrassment of dangerous side effects to the tune of billions of dollars for the drug industry. Considering that the U.S. is supposed to have the most advanced technology in the earth and the better health care system, it is at odds that we spend the most on healthcare, yet are the most fat and most afflicted with health problem outside of the AIDS epidemic in several third earth countries.
Unless you have an acute emergency that requires emergency room care, being admitted to a hospital environment may as well be more dangerous to your health than staying out. In 2003, epidemiologists reportable in the New European nation
Journal of Medicine that hospital-acquired infections have up
steady
in recent decades, with blood and tissue infections best-known as infection
all but multiplication
from 1979 to 2000. Nearly two million patients in the U.S. get an infection patch in the hospital each year, and of those patients over 90,000 die per year, up dramatically from just 13,300 in 1992. Statistics show that around 56% of the population has been unnecessarily treated, or mistreated, by the medical industry.
Additionally, as a result of the overuse of pharmaceutical drugs and antibiotics in our bodies and environment, our immune systems have become importantly
weakened, allowing antibiotic-resistant strains of disease-causing microorganism
to proliferate, deed us more susceptible to further disease. Not surprisingly, incidences of diseases have been growing at epidemic levels according to the CDC. Now diseases once thought conquered, such as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, malaria, and childhood ear infections are more harder to with success
treat than they were decades ago. Drugs do not cure. They only suppress the symptoms that your body necessarily to express, patch they ignore the underlying root cause. Side effects of synthetic and chemical drugs, which even as if they are part
derived from nature have been perverted to do them patentable and profitable, are not healthy or natural, and commonly cause more harm than any perceived benefit of the medication.
Where "physician errors" are concerned, these may not be entirely the fault of the doctors, as they are forced to operate inside
the constraints of their profession or risk losing their license, but doctors have become pawns and spokesmen for the drug companies, and the better interest of the patient has become secondary. In the name of profit, physicians are as well under great pressure from hospitals to service patients as quickly as possible, like an assembly line, increasing the odds of error.
In conclusion, increases in aid price are not just the result of dizzy law suits, but are primarily the result of a profit-oriented industry that encourages practices that lead to extra and harmful procedures being performed, fatal
adverse drug reactions, infections, costly legitimate lawsuits, in-hospital and doc errors, antibiotic resistance due to overprescribing of antibiotics and drugs, and the hundreds of thousands of ensuant extra deaths and injuries. Many a folk do not realize that there are healthier natural options, and thing
unnatural or invasive we are exposed to is likely to cause either immediate or additive
damage over time.
For more information on how to help your body heal itself naturally without chemicals, information on drug side effects, and harmful disease-causing chemicals in the foods you eat and your environment and how to avoid them, please visit the NatureGem web site at http://www.naturegem.com
Just about the author:
Deb Bromley is a science and technology investigator and the President of NatureGem Nontoxic Living, an organization devoted to promoting awareness of toxins in our food and environment that can cause disease, and providing access to nutrition information, natural remedies, and alternative health resources. Please visit http://www.naturegem.comfor more information.
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