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The government's annual bill for
healthcare spending -- $3,925 per person -- significantly exceeds that of
other nations, because physicians' salaries and hospital costs are higher,
and medical technology is more widely used.
The transfer of funds among federal and state Medicare and Medicaid programs
is another important component of national healthcare spending. The American
healthcare system is at once the most expensive and the most inadequate
system in the developed world.
The New England Journal of Medicine January 7, 1999;340:48, 70-76.
What do we get for the most expensive
health care in the world? Not as much as you might think. The medical system
is the best system in the entire world for treating acute surgical
emergencies.
Beyond that, the medical system fails miserably at treating chronic illness.
Traditional medicine clearly kills more people than it saves. Prescribed
drugs are the fourth leading cause of death and the first three, heart
attacks, cancer and strokes and are facilitated by physician ignorance of
other more effective ways of treating illness.
In the next ten years you're going to see a shift in health care like you've
never seen before. Drugs will be out and other, more effective ways such as
chiropractic and nutrition will be "in". Not in the fad sense of the word
either. It will be the "in" thing to do because is works. The public will
demand it and when the politics of medicine and food become more ethical,
only the methods that actually work and are the most cost effective will
win. Mark my word; in the next 10 years you will see a 180 degree change in
the methods with which people take care of their health.
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