All Along The Watchtower -or- Which Health Insurance Crisis???

[MichaelLWagner]

Go Figure:

60% Employer-Paid-Insurance,
27% Govt. Care,
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87% of Americans have Health Insurance...


Here Consider:

20% of the uninsured aren't US citizens!!!

27 million uninsured made more than $50,000!!!

14 million uninsured qualify for govt. programs but never enrolled!!!
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11 million are children now covered under CHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program)
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Obama & Co REFORM = Increased Rates, Longer Waits!!!

Meanwhile, virtually all other Developed Countries have Single-Payer Health Insurance!!!

Single-Payer with $50 deductible (about $1 per month for 5 years) after annual check-up is just what the Doctor Ordered!!!

--OR--

"... Massachusetts ... require all residents to buy health insurance."

"Just a year after ... The New York Times reported, state insurers were already jacking up rates to twice the national average."
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"... rather than creating a utopia of high-quality affordable health care, the result has been the exact opposite — skyrocketing costs, worsened access, and lower quality health care."
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* Risk pools for the medically uninsurable ( http://www.healthinsurance.org/risk_pools/ )

**The Myth of the 46 Million / American Spectator ( http://spectator.org/archives/2009/03/20/the-myth-of-the-46-million )

*** Obama signs bill insuring more children / SF Chronicle ( http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/05/MNAS15NE9A.DTL

****Universal coverage? First, look at the disaster in Massachusetts / Washington Examiner
( http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Universal_coverage_First_look_at_the_disaster_in_M assachusetts_011109.html )

*****Mandating health care coverage is a costly mistake / Denver Post ( http://www.denverpost.com/guestcommentary/ci_8854133 )

[MichaelLWagner]

On the subject of Nationalizing the Drug Industry, consider the criminality:

"Chemotherapy and radiation can increase the risk of developing a second cancer by up to 100 times, according to Dr. Samuel S. Epstein," Congressional Record, Sept. 9, 1987.

"...as a chemist trained to interpret data, it is incomprehensible to me that physicians can ignore the clear evidence that CHEMOTHERAPY DOES MUCH, MUCH MORE HARM THAN GOOD," Alan C. Nixon, former president of American Chemical Society.

"Many medical oncologists recommend chemotherapy for virtually any tumor, with a hopefulness undiscouraged by almost invariable failure. MOST CANCER PATIENTS IN THIS COUNTRY DIE OF CHEMOTHERAPY. Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade, yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors," Albert Braverman MD, 1991 Lancet 1991 337 p 901, "Medical Oncology in the 90's."

“After analysing cancer survival statistics for several decades, Dr Hardin Jones, Professor at the University of California, concluded “...patients are as well, or better off untreated."

Professor Charles Mathe declared: “If I contracted cancer, I would never go to a standard cancer treatment centre. Cancer victims who live far from such centres have a chance.”

“Despite widespread use of chemotherapies, breast cancer mortality has not changed in the last 70 years,” Thomas Dao, MD NEJM Mar 1975 292 p 707.

"Except for two forms of cancer, chemotherapy does not cure. It tortures and may shorten life--no one can tell from the available data," Dr. Candace Pert, Georgetown University School of Medicine.

"Chemotherapy is basically ineffective in the vast majority of cases in which it is given, the exceptions being acute lymphocytic leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, nonseminomateous testicular cancer, as well as a very few rare forms of cancer, including choriocarcinoma, Wilm's tumor, and retinoblastoma," Ralph Moss, PhD, former director of Information for Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Center.

A Dull Weapon: Chemotherapy Almost Useless in Treating Advanced Organic Cancer—Provocative Theses at the Hamburg Cancer Congress
( http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/fraud/able.htm )

"A University of Michigan study has found that women with lower levels of education and/or income tend to get lower levels of something else—chemotherapy." (Chemotherapy by Numbers / Mother Jones)

"When President Reagan had his colon cancer successfully removed by surgery, his health was reported daily as he recovered. On his return to work, a spokesperson appeared, proclaimed him cured, and that was that.

"However, very nearly every patient who undergoes surgery for colon cancer gets put on chemotherapy afterwards. Why not Present Reagan?"

"Frank told us of Dr Charles Simone, who today handles cancers with diet and lifestyle changes was hired on as the president’s personal oncologist. The public never learned of this because the good doctor, was stuffed into a grocery truck and made his entrance into the white house through the backdoor where deliveries are made."

"Irwin Bross, a biostatistician for the National Cancer Institute, discovered that many cancers that are benign (though thought to be malignant) and will not metastasize until they are hit with chemotherapy. In other words, he's found that many people who've been diagnosed with metastatic cancer did not have metastatic cancer until they got their chemotherapy."


Excellent Alternative Medicine Book - Healing Ourselves / Dr. Muromoto

"Error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it," Thomas Jefferson.

[MichaelLWagner]

...So, what's the bottomline here...???

Consider:

+ Blatant Medicare fraud costs taxpayers billions / MSNBC:

"... $60 billion dollars a year — a staggering cost borne by American taxpayers."

Meanwhile, there's a paltry $1,000 reward for Medicare Fraud; by comparison one state has a $500,000 reward for Medicaid fraud.

"If the information you provide makes you eligible for a reward, you will be mailed a letter AFTER ALL MEDICARE FUNDS HAVE BEEN RECOVERED. Please be aware that investigations take a long time to complete; some take several months or years. The amount of the reward you may receive wiil not be more than 10 percent of the Medicare funds RECOVERED in the case, OR $1,000, WHICHEVER IS LESS.

http://www.medicare.gov/Publications/Pubs/pdf/rmf.pdf

[MichaelLWagner]

In his 1961 farewell address, Eisenhower warned about wrong influences having a bearing on world affairs...

It's funny..., I've performed breathing exercises (Yoga & Shaolin Kung Fu) in morning fresh air for years and years...

Here I just needed to explain how Mochi is a health-food concoction found in most health food stores--it's good for building blood, convalescents... (bake in oven, microwaves don't work)

Winter squash is great (Yin), and garlic is now commonly accepted as good for cancer (Yang), this where the organic germanium is the "active ingredient".

Yin foods = big size with short growing cycle, Yang is the opposite

Finally, I've read some bad things about pesticides in our food...

In fact, I futilely sued in Federal Court (DC Circuit- Michael L. Wagner v. US Attorney) because some banned pesticides are approved anyway, for reasons such as economic/farmers, and the US EPA Website used to come right out and say this. There it said how grocers are supposed to inform you..., and Safeway used to have a sign in Produce that stated the names of the banned pesticides. Evidently Safeway (the one near me...) felt there wasn't any interest... ...You and I were expected to know that the names of these chemcials were displayed with the intention of leading you and I (and other interested persons) to ask which produce...

My concern was more with baby food--I felt that EVERY ITEM SHOULD CARRY A PROPER WARNING AS REQUIRED BY LAW--like a tiny sticker on produce... That's the thing--Congress ordered farmers to use a tenth of the pesticides they were using--because small kids were suffering...

I also sued for a Grand Jury investigation of the 1980 Presidential Election results. The US Commission on Civil Rights Report advised the US DOJ to file charges...--instead the DOJ ignored the report and instead investigated the approx. two-dozen complaints addressed directly to that agency..., this where The Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 allows "access" to a Federal Grand Jury... In fact, Hon. Urbina, cited a case that explicitly decided against his decision, namely "The Executive Branch has exclusive authority and absolute discretion to decide whether to prosecute," US v. Nixon. Of course, Moore v. Valder controls here, by explaining the difference between investigative (police-type) and organizational (prosecutorial-type) duties.

My point here is that The UN accepts these types of complaints, only there has to be a significant amount of complaints sent to: CP@ohchr.org

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/1503.htm

[MichaelLWagner]

The new Bill isn't reform--it's a giveaway to Insurers and Drug Makers!!!


Here Read:



+ Obama delivers change industry can believe in / Washington Examiner:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama-delivers-change-industry-can-believe-in-8640788-78812067.html

"... health care 'reform' as corporate welfare benefiting health insurers and drug makers rather than a populist assault on a greedy industry."




+ Health Insurance Industry Fudges Data To Downplay Its Astronomical Profits / Think Progress:

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/08/05/are-health-insurers-making-too-much-money/

"... insurers skim off 15-20 percent of premium dollars for administrative costs and profits."

"...'insurers in the individual market ... retaining 40% of premium dollars for administration, marketing and profit.'"

"The top five earning insurance companies averaged profits of $1.56 billion in 2008 ..."




+ The Truth About Drug Companies / Mother Jones:

http://motherjones.com/politics/2004/09/truth-about-drug-companies

The top 10 drug companies make more profits than the rest of the Fortune 500 COMBINED!!!



Now Here Read:



+ No Big Cost Rise in U.S. Premiums Is Seen in Study / NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/health/policy/01health.html?_r=1

"... unsubsidized premiums in the individual insurance market ... would rise an average of 10 percent to 13 percent."

"'For large and small employers ... with skyrocketing health insurance premiums ... this bill will do little, if anything ...'"



Yet the Public Option has been scraped, so..., adding High-Risk Patients to the mix = soaring premiums!!!




+ TESTING, TESTING / The New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/12/14/091214fa_fact_gawande

The first page of this article is compelling, however, it's written by a Doctor and the rest is all about finding ways to increase costs:

"There are places like the Mayo Clinic, in Minnesota ... that reliably deliver higher quality for lower costs than elsewhere. ... We don’t yet know how to replicate what they do."



Yet Here Read:



+ VA: High-Quality Health Care At Low Cost / CBS News:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/08/eveningnews/main2243606.shtml

"High-Tech Agency Earns Highest Ratings In U.S., And It's A Boon For Taxpayers, Too"



+ Health Care Abroad: Taiwan / NY Times:

http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health-care-abroad-taiwan/

"Every patient has a Smart Card. When you go in for services, the physician puts the card into his computer. You give him the code to access your records, which are all stored on the card — what medications you’ve taken, what tests, along with the results, the last time you saw another physician. With a single, unified electronic system, it improves treatment and it also vastly reduces claims processing. Hospitals and doctors get paid in a week or two. It’s a paperless system. That’s why it keeps administrative costs down to 2.3 percent of the total premium."



+ Universal coverage? First, look at the disaster in Massachusetts / Washington Examiner:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Universal_coverage_First_look_at_the_disaster_in_M assachusetts_011109.html

"... in 2006, Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to require all residents to buy health insurance."

"A new state health insurance clearinghouse was created, with taxpayers subsidizing those who couldn’t afford to buy coverage."

"Just a year after ... The New York Times reported, state insurers were already jacking up rates to twice the national average."

"... 43 mandatory benefits — including those that many people did not want or need, such as invitro fertilization — raised the costs of coverage for Massachusetts residents by as much as 56 percent, depending upon an individual’s income status."