Theoretically the healthcare industry is there to serve us. Sounds nice in theory but in practice it doesn't always work out that way. American business is built to make as much money as possible regardless of the human consequences. Although the Frontline people, doctors and nurses, may have the best of intentions, and i believe they do, the treatments and methodology they are trained in and the rules they are forced to follow are those leading to the greatest profits, not the greatest healing. Some would say they often do more harm than good.
As much as we would like to believe otherwise, the healthcare industry may not be any different from any other business-make as much money as possible, regardless of the human costs
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The most basic financial incentive
Prevention or Treatment?
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Ask yourself:
are the Financial incentives
A) to come up with one pill that you take one time and that takes care of the problem
or are the financial incentives
to get you hooked on expensive drugs which often have serious side effects and sometimes long term damage, that give you just enough relief of your symptoms to get you through to your next pill, and which often require more medications to counter their side effects
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Are the Financial incentives
B) To allow you access to cheap, safe and effective methods of treating problems that do not require you taking expensive medications or partaking of other expensive offerings from the Western Medical system
Or are the financial incentives to
1 not fund any research that would validate cheap safe and effective alternatives
2 to make sure that if any of that research does get done that it never gets published
3 and if it does get published to make sure that it gets suppressed or ridiculed
4 and to use the lobbying power of financial donations and medical organizations to make sure that governments all over the country make many of these alternatives illegal and inaccessible
5 and to make sure that anybody talking about any health issue is required by law to say "ask your doctor"
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Are the financial incentives to
C) explore some of the deeper causes of illness such as lifestyle, nutrition and emotions and encourage and empower people to take responsibility for these and give them extensive training in that
Or are the financial incentives to make sure that people are dependent on expensive drugs
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Are the financial incentives to
D) train doctors in medical schools to think for themselves and to explore all aspects of healing and all potential methods of healing
or are the financial incentives to
teach students that using anything other than pills and surgery is failing their patients and that anything other than accepted medical Theory is absolute fraud and should be rejected out of hand
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E) Are the financial incentives to
constantly expand the definitions of disease, including such things as ADD in children, so that children are medicated just because they fidgeted in class, with the end result of getting every man woman and child in America addicted to expensive drugs.
Or are the financial incentives to only give strong drugs when they are necessary.
F) are the financial incentives to
create an atmosphere of fear by constantly having ads everywhere telling people what illnesses they might have, and advertising drugs which the average person is totally unable to evaluate
Or are the Financial incentives to emphasize prevention so that people don't get sick in the first place.
G) are the financial incentives to address many of the environmental and social issues that cause so much of disease
Or are the financial incentives to have a society that is a factory for illness, physical, mental and emotional
H) are the financial incentives to mandate only certain vaccines and judiciously research their potentially harmful interactions and also research just how much a child's body can handle
Or are the financial incentives to mandate as many vaccines as possible without addressing any of that
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And two more very important considerations
I) Do the egos of people in the medical establishment keep them from accepting new evidence and treatments which disprove theories they have built their careers on?
J) of course no theory is ever perfect or complete and there are always new developments but:
Western medical theory basically views human beings as biological machines that can be viewed as a collection of organs and tissues, which can all be treated separately, without reference to the emotions and consciousness of the person.
Is that a fundamentally correct understanding or a fundamentally wrong view of how people really work and how they can be treated.
That is an extremely important question.
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Looked at objectively, it is quite clear that for a variety of business reasons the healthcare industry has many financial incentives to do things which are not in the best interest of the people coming to them for help.