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Healthcare System or Disease Industry?

August 2nd, 2009

Walter Goodpastor

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” - Adolf Hitler

Billions of dollars are pumped into the U.S. “healthcare” system annually, and therein lies the problem. According to Transparency International’s influential Global Corruption Report 2006- www.transparency.org/publications/gcr, medical care is one of the most corrupt industries in the world – precisely because such an enormous amount of public wealth is made available to those who profit from it.

A study conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute- http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/rp/healthcare/, calculated that the United States spends almost twice as much on health care each year as the average of other industrialized nations, to produce a level of equal or even inferior care. According to the McKinsey study:

  • The U.S. spends $477 billion more on healthcare yearly than 13 other highly industrialized nations, even after adjusting for factors such as wealth and different population health profiles. This is 3.6 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
  • U.S. medical doctors make a great deal more money than medical doctors in other developed countries, averaging $274,000 a year for specialists and $173,000 for general practitioners. This comes out to 6.6 and 4.2 times the income of their average patient, compared with 4 and 3.2 times in the other countries studied.
  • Overspending on medical doctors to the tune of $58 billion a year, is due to the fact that U.S. doctors see more patients and order more procedures than those in other countries.
  • Contrary to the illusion created by medical doctors, they are not forced to see more patients and prescribe more procedures in order to pay off their student loans. Medical doctors actually make more money relative to their debt at graduation than other professionals with advanced degrees.
  • Patients in the U.S. also pay higher prices for hospitals (four times more per day) and higher prices for drugs (60 to 70 percent more) than those in other industrialized countries. This overspending amounts to $281 billion annually.
  • In reality, the U.S. does not have a “healthcare” system. It has a national socialist (fascist) disease treatment industry whereby certain politically favored entities are awarded a monopoly over the medical services market by government and allowed to defeat their competitors through restrictive government regulations and licensing. This philosophy of private profits obtained through public funding is the defining characteristic of all fascist systems, and in such systems, such human values as health and wellbeing always take a back seat to private profiteering.

    This corrupt disease industry extracts, by a combination of deception and coercion, public funds in the form of taxes and insurance premiums from “we the people” and channels these funds into the private pockets of the disease industry cabal. This cabal consists of organized medicine, for-profit hospitals (these hospitals are anything but free-market entities), pharmaceutical corporations, biotech/medical equipment corporations, health insurance corporations, corporate executives and majority stockholders, and of course, an ever-growing horde of government bureaucrats. The cabal has control over the mass media; the ability to amass legions of lawyers and public relations experts to advance their interests; freedom from liability for their misdeeds and the right to amass unlimited property and financial resources. Because they are allowed to contribute to individual candidates, political parties and PACs and then deduct those contributions from taxable income, they are able to extend their control over democratic institutions. In addition, those who issue corporate stock often bribe politicians with insider information. In America, healthcare cost and risk are socialized, while healthcare profits are privatized.

    Although the American people obviously want health and wellness, as signaled by their willingness to fund the growth of alternative medicine to the tune of several billion dollars a year out of pocket, the cabal has no interest in health and wellness. Its business plan is based on maximizing profits by keeping Americans dependent, ignorant, and in a state of chronic disease while pushing drugs, surgery and other treatments that do nothing to address the root causes of poor health. They have no interest in disease prevention, and none of them has a plan for making Americans well.

    High profits are made through treating disease, not prevention. Therefore, “we-the-people” get toxic vaccines, toxic drugs, unnecessary mutilating surgeries, immune system destroying chemotherapy and radiation. Antibiotics, the only medications they offer that actually cure anything, have been overused to the point that they are becoming ineffective. When “we-the- people” ask about disease prevention, they change the subject to the obscenely profitable disease detection industry of diagnostic screening procedures designed to recruit us into the treatment meat grinder for further exploitation. For example, there is the false assertion that cancer screening (mammograms, PSA tests, colonoscopies) prolongs the life of cancer patients, when all these tests do is detect cancer at an earlier date, which makes it falsely appear cancer patients are living longer. Most cancer patients still die on the same calendar date regardless of screening or treatment. After spending hundreds of billions of dollars on the fraudulent War on Cancer, no cancer is curable today that was not curable in 1973. The cancer industry is simply a huge cash cow for vested interests in both government and the private sector… another uber fascist scam that has accomplished nothing but the transfer of hundreds of billions in public wealth into private pockets. This statement may seem counterintuitive, but by the ill-conceived throwing of unlimited wealth at the problem, we virtually guaranteed that it would take on a life of its own, become institutionalized, and never be solved.

    True healthcare reform is sorely needed, but the proposals now under consideration would do nothing to improve the health of the American people because they “reform” nothing. They simply increase the velocity and volume of flow of public money into the pockets of politically favored private entities. If the current “reform” proposals were to be enacted into law, the astounding estimated cost of 1.2 trillion dollars would be a de facto transfer of unprecedented public wealth into these private pockets.

    The only way any sanity and humanity may be restored to this situation is for individuals to take control of their own destiny by regaining control of their own healthcare dollars. The tax free Healthcare Savings Accounts (HSAs) established during the Bush administration are a step in the right direction. But these should be more strongly supported by allowing contributions to HSAs tax credit status instead of mere tax deduction status.

    Since a virtuous society cares for its needy members, those requiring assistance (including Medicare and Medicaid) should receive it in the form of publicly funded vouchers to spend on the healthcare services of their choosing in a truly free healthcare market. This would relieve most of the hordes of government and insurance corporation bureaucrats from their task of micromanaging healthcare decisions that are not theirs to manage, so they can seek more productive, useful employment elsewhere.

    In order to assure accountability to policyholders (there is none at present) insurance corporations should be restricted to the exclusive sale of reasonably priced individual policies to all comers that indemnify them against catastrophic financial loss. All benefit payments should be made directly to policyholders. Insurance companies should be prohibited from making any healthcare decisions. This would allow service providers to be paid directly by service recipients, and free them from the costs associated with insurance company interference in their practice.

    Sadly, the vast financial and political power of the disease industry cabal makes it unlikely that any of this will ever happen. But anyone reading this is also likely to be possessed of the knowledge and intelligence to realize that the best answer while Nero fiddles, is to reform our own personal healthcare by doing everything we can to avoid these people. This means living a healthy lifestyle, consuming a nutrient-dense, biogenetically appropriate diet of uncontaminated food, and seeking out qualified natural health and wellness advisors when needed. So don’t eat corporate food, don’t take corporate drugs, avoid unnecessary medical procedures, and try very hard to stay out of hospitals!

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    Walter Goodpastor, MBA, ND

    drwalter@ahealthierlifestyle.com

    www.ahealthierlifestyle.com

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