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Health (Sickness?) Care USA
Health care in America is truly in a mess. We spend more per capita than any industrialized country on health care, yet we are the sickest country on earth, ranking 47th in overall health. We will spend 2 Trillion dollars in the year 2000 on health care in America, which is double the 1 trillion dollars we spent in 1995; that was double the 500 million dollars we spent in 1990. In America, prescription drugs have now become the third leading cause of death. As a people, we are tired of taking drugs; tired of having unnecessary surgeries; tired of spending so much on health care. We are tired of HMOs and PPOs, and we are tired of being told that there is no better way to live our lives than in a drug filled stupor. We are finally beginning to wake up to our sad state of affairs. We are beginning to demand natural ways to be well. We are beginning to realize that wellness is something we have been ignoring, but now we are seeking after it. We currently are living through an era of tremendous change, which is accompanied by both promise and danger. Promise in the sense that we live in an era when anything is possible, and the world is changing at a faster rate than ever conceived possible before. Danger in the sense that the old, established orders are now being threatened, and will do everything possible to survive and prevail, even if it means loss of freedom and the creation of new chains to bind us down. Healing used to be a simpler matter than it is now. Now we live in a world in which healing, which I believe is every persons birthright, has become hard to come by. It has become institutionalized and remote. Indeed, a veritable priesthood exists, into which you must be indoctrinated and initiated, to practice the healers art. The world in which we now live is very advanced in many ways, yet in other ways it is terribly backward. It is human nature to suppose that if we had lived in the time of Galileo or Copernicus, we would certainly have believed their weird, modern ideas. Their ideas, for which they were persecuted, are now accepted as fact. After Galileo was forced by the Pope to deny his discoveries of the earths motion, he muttered "And yet it moves". And so, in our enlightened day, those in power in our health care system deny all possibility of "other truths" which threaten the established order. Hence the persecution of people like Burzcinski, Naessons, Rife and others. In our modern sickness-oriented society, the pharmaceutical industry rules the day. Anything that may cure without drugs is branded as "unscientific". Anything that poses a threat to the drug monopoly must be harassed and destroyed if possible. The powerful Food and Drug Administration of the United States has become a tool of the pharmaceutical-industrial complex in this process, imposing its own kind of tyranny on a free people, in which we are made "offenders for a word". So much for free speech. Are you ready for a breath of fresh air? Bradley Nelson, D.C. Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~
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