Barry K. Weinhold
While the presidential candidates are promising health care reform that would cover more of the 47 million people who currently have no health insurance, the only true reform involves a shift from sickness and disease to wellness and prevention. Currently, as a nation we spend about 25% of our economy on treating diseases. Insurance companies also spend about $25 out of every $100 on paperwork, profits and executive pay and bonuses. In 2006, the last year that figures are available, 68 percent of all bankruptcies in the U. S. were caused by excessive medical expenses for people who actually had health insurance.
I had cancer and cured it without relying on radiation, chemotherapy or surgery. Cancer is one of the easiest degenerative diseases to cure because it is caused by stressful lifestyles and what we eat, not some mysterious virus. My cure involved a diet centered on organic fruits and vegetables, nutritional supplements and reduced stress in my life. It cost me next to nothing.
The traditional treatment of radiation, chemotherapy and surgery costs the average cancer patient over $500,000 and most of them die anyway. In fact, we have created a Disease Insurance Industry that only covers you when you get sick not to prevent illness and keep you well. Ninety-eight percent of all cancers and 100% of all Type II diabetes can be prevented and reversed without medical intervention. Vitamin D has been shown to prevent 80% of all breast, prostate, liver, colon, and pancreatic cancers. An alkaline diet, without sugar, and with immune boosters can prevent these diseases entirely. Also, candida and cancer often exist together and if you get rid of the candida, which is very easy to do, then you are also rid of the cancer.
Pharmaceutical corporations advertise their products on TV and magazines not to keep you healthy, but to make a profit by convincing you that you have some disease that they will cure. In the fine print, you will learn that their drugs will not cure you, only have extensive side effects and make you dependent on them.
How can we solve this health care crisis? We need our government to invest in public education to teach people how to stay healthy and prevent disease. We need to ban all drug and junk food advertising on television. Before 1997, drug advertising was only allowed in medical journals. Obesity, caused largely by eating junk foods, has become the number one health issue in this country. It can be prevented if we remove junk food ads and educate people on proper diet and exercise. We removed tobacco ads from the media because tobacco kills. We can do the same with drug and junk food ads that help keep us sick, dependent and fat.
If we educate the public on how to stay healthy and how to have healthy children we can cut health care costs by 90%. At present there is no incentive for the insurance industry or the medical profession to be advocates for prevention and wellness. We have to become our own advocates and insist that our government take the lead in reforming our current system that rewards illness and hold insurance companies and the medical profession to a higher standard. This fall vote smart; ask the candidates where they stand on public funding for prevention and wellness.
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