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Lessons from Jon Barron
Problems In The Health Care System
In this week's excerpt from Lessons from the Miracle Doctors, Jon Barron says problems in the health care system don't stop with the drug companies, medical doctors, and government regulators.
"There is no question but that the three biggest players in keeping the current system in place and ruthlessly suppressing any dissenting voices are the medical establishment, the FDA (and its international equivalents), and the pharmaceutical industry. Nevertheless, there are some supporting players worthy of honorable mention.
The Insurance Industry
Insurance carriers have forced some of the most financially counter-productive decisions. Their fear of "open-ended" procedures has led them to support high-cost and largely ineffective "closed-end" procedures. For example, insurance carriers for years were among the strongest resisters of chiropractic care. Why? Because chiropractic treatment didn't end in one visit; rather, it took multiple sessions. It was for this reason that insurance companies preferred to pay for one expensive back operation rather than for ten $50 trips to the chiropractor. Only now are insurance companies beginning to realize that a back operation costs them thousands (and in close to 80 percent of cases does not resolve the problem) whereas ten trips to a chiropractor will cost them only a few hundred dollars and is statistically more effective. Nevertheless, the insurance companies still "force" some 300,000 people a year into heart bypass operations rather than support the use of simple supplements such as proteolytic enzymes and omega-3 fatty acids that actually help eliminate the problem throughout the entire body.
The Processed Food Industry
Here's to the people who have brought us refined carbohydrates, massive amounts of sugar and caffeine, hydrogenated oils, petrochemical additives, xenoestrogens, pesticides, irradiated foods, animal growth hormones, and, of course, the omnipresent high-potency antibiotics. And then, without batting an eye, they jumped onto the low-fat bandwagon (pumping us with transfatty acids in the process) and, again without batting an eye, onto the lowcarb craze. What next?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
And special praise must go to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who, early in 1998, proposed changing the definition of "organic" to include foods that have been genetically modified, irradiated, injected with antibiotics, and grown with sewage sludge (with its incredibly high levels of toxic metals and waste) as fertilizer. It makes you wonder whose side these guys are on. Then again, maybe it doesn't."
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