The top three basic concerns in any society are security (which translates into peace), education and access to healthcare. The last is now attached to an attendent issue of toxic medication and getting a pharmaceutical benefit instead of a health benefit.
How does Jim DeMint plans to address these concerns of the people?
Republican senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina says he wants to "create pain" for his colleagues in the Senate and "break" President Obama by defeating health care reform (TPM, July 20, 2009).
In America, you work through the American democracy and your work must create value and benefit to the people of America. Working to create pain is unconstitutional, undemocratic and wasteful. It is a notion that is contrived in a very base heart. Jim is the first politician who has officialy and formally declared that he shall work to create pain. Jim has gone against the grain of good and divine love and against the good of democracy. Going by his statements, he represents a bad ferment and a bad fruit. If your mind runs away in disagreement thinking that is a bad ordor with a bad label, I will not dispute with you for in the final analysis, it puts American democracy and the working of American democracy in bad light.
What makes him think he has the power to create pain for Obama? God bless America. Who knows God might have some pain for him, rewarding him with a three week stay in hospital? Will I let him create pain for Obama? Will any man of peace let jim mint any pain for anyone?
Who is he working for anyway? The American people or the drug industry, is the question that might arise in many a sober mind.
The fundamental difference between a pharmaceutical benefit and a health benefit can be seen, say from the prescription of aspirin for "thinning" the blood. This achieved by the destruction of L-selectin, the adhesion molecules on the surface of red blood cells (RBC). The destruction of L-selectins on the surface of RBC prevents adhesion among themselves which prevents platellet aggregation and is presented to the public as a positive "blood-thinning" effect. In normal and healthy people who take adequate amounts of antioxidants through a diet rich in fresh fruits and vegetables, platelets do not aggregate unless when they are under heavy drug medication. Healthy blood cells acquire a negative charge on the surface by taking electrons from antioxidants from food sources. Negative force repels another negative force and nature has selected this mechanism to prevent platelet aggregation. Aspirin does not promote this phenomenon in order to prevent red blood cell aggregation but instead achieves it through its pharmaceutical effect by destroying the L-selectin molecules on the surface of these cells. This is not the desired health benefit that people look for if they really understood what drugs do in the L-form biochemistry of the mammalian biological system.
Aspirin is also destructive to other adhesion molecules that bind cells in other tisues and organs which explains its side effects including gastro-intestinal bleeding.
American studies also tend to show that taking an aspirin a day reduces the risk of stroke whereas a British study on 5000 doctors does not support that conclusion at all. Taking an aspirin a day comes with the problem of internal injuries as from an accident and the need for an unplanned surgery. That also points to the need to a radical change in health education to late teens and college students. Reducing insurance premiums for most people by "as much as $2,500 per family" may not be a solution as it would reduce insurance benefits as well for insurers work on a profit motive. Insurance is an indemnity and it is a business based on indemnity. Indemnity is the underlying principle in insurance business. Creating the means and the mechanisms to find a minimum premium of USD2,500.00 per family per annum may be a better idea to look at, at least.
Insurance companies do not deliberate to discriminate applicants for insurance within the commonly understood meaning of discrimination. They arrive at the premiums to be charged based on risks and potential payouts, ie liabilities and as they work out their acturial equations to determine the amount of premium to be charged and pooled into the insurance fund, it is based on the equitable principle such that the amount collected from each person and pooled represents an equitable contribution depending on his/her risk to that pool. This pool is organized in a manner such that it is not at risk but can meet its liabilities. Let us not didturb that fundamentally and risk collapse of the insurance industry.
In the end, we will have to face the "insurance company discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions" with a strategy that favors the American people. America came together as a government of the people, by the people and for the people. It must remain so. A government for the people must find ways to address the health and health concerns of the people. It must not become a government run by big pharma for the interests of the pharmaceutical industry. National health is a much bigger concern in terms of productivity dollars than the bottom line of the pharmaceutical industry. Also, drugs only gace toxicity, they never gave health.
With regard to insurance clauses on "pre-existing conditions" are obnoxious, especially those on diabetic complications as virtually most degenerative conditions that develop in diabetics are considered in medical science as diabetic complications. This and related issues on healthcare can be addressed through CHANGE by making the necessary paradigm shifts as follows:-
1. Build more government funded polyclinics and mini-hospitals across the country to provide access to the people as well as to keep costs low as private facilities are expensive and prohibitive. Private facilities tend to charge acording to the extent of your cover rather than the actual service plus treatment rendered and they tend to order unnecessary tests. Build government funded referral hospitals to take referrals from these polyclinics and mini-hospitals. Big hospitals are not as cost-effective. 2. Pay for more doctors to be trained in top institutions in India for a two year degree post-graduate program after completing the basic medical degree in the US . They will get a wider experience especially in tropical diseases and will tend to order fewer tests but these programs must get accreditation in the US. 3. Create the MEDICAL TRUST as follows;- Lower corporate tax by at least two percent. The company will then pay one percent of salary of the employee to the MEDICAL TRUST while the employee also contributes one percent of his/her salary to the MEDICAL TRUST. The MEDICAL TRUST will pay for all medical costs at government facilities and upto the limits specified.
4. Train more doctors and naturopaths in clinical nutrition. Educate the American people about the human biological system which is based on the L-form biochemistry. This biological system works optimally by supply it with a broad range of antioxidants and minerals from organic and food sources and edible herbs. This system that can be disrupted and destroyed by drugs and chemicals. Educate people on drug toxicities. Teach it in health science as a subject in schools and colleges.
5. Expose the mafia tactics of the drug industry. Look at Truehope, a company in Canada as an example. Look up the case of a Danish writer on antioxidants and vitamins who was arrested and charged in court for writing on these molecules and their role in health.
6. Fund research in clinical nutrition, antioxidant therapies and integrative medicine.
"The time has come to solve this problem, to cut health care costs for families and businesses, and provide affordable, accessible health insurance for every American," Obama said. The time is NOW.
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