By a Dr.: What Drives Up Cost Of Medical Care & Alternative Remedies

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=172

WELL worth the read! Here's a clip from it:

"Another factor driving up costs and contributing to poor quality care is the medical cartel. A cartel exists when one group works together to set prices and control all steps in the production and distribution of a commodity or service. Through licensing and other laws enacted in the early part of the 20th century, one group, the American Medical Association, controls how many medical schools exist, how many students enroll, what is taught in the schools, the availability of hospital residencies, and, indirectly through licensing laws, who will get jobs in medicine. It would be difficult to find an industry in America that is more tightly controlled by one group or union.

Alternative therapies and practitioners have been ruthlessly suppressed, their proponents often being run out of the country. Thousands of Americans flee each year to Mexico and Europe to obtain products and therapies banned in the United States but in use for as many as 50 years elsewhere.

The kingpin of the cartel is the restrictive state-medical licensing laws, passed in the early part of the 20th century. Previously, there were no licenses and the health-care system worked well. However, one group of physicians, the allopaths or drug doctors, felt they were not making enough money. The AMA, formed in 1847, was quite candid about its intentions. It sought vigorously to reduce the supply of doctors by eliminating the competition and controlling the number of medical graduates. With backing from the Carnegie Foundation and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the AMA was quite successful. Because of its efforts, the number of healing schools fell from 140 in 1900 to 77 in 1940.

The purpose of a cartel is to improve the income of its members. From this perspective, American health care is a resounding success. John C. Goodman and Gerald L. Musgrave, in their excellent book Patient Power, explain that "the AMA endorsed the idea of a medical cartel and made participation in it ethically mandatory."

Hurray for the First MD Brave Enough for TRUTH!

Last night Dr Andrew Weill came out on Larry King CNN and disagreed with all the union-song singing MD's about our Health-Care Reform! THANK YOU Dr Weill!

'Course--with 40 years in his profession and the huge success that his commitment to Natural Healing, his clinics, books, products, and affiliations have given him--unlike other MD's who need to stay good with their union--the AMA, he doesn't really have to worry about remaining in the AMA's good graces to make a living doing what he does.

How many other MD's wish they could be as honest but fear being censured or worse?

To read about his comments and the latest:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-weil-md/the-wrong-diagnosis_b_254227.html?show_comment_id=28942420#comment_28942420

For those of you who don't want to read the whole article--do anyway--it's important and good! But Dr Weill said in no uncertain terms that if we do not change the CONTENT of Health Care, we are headed for disaster. He again talked truth and said that "Physicians have no training in the low-tech, low-cost ALTERNATIVES to what we've been doing that has not worked."

As a union member--he held off on saying how many WELL-trained ALTERNATIVE Doctors and many other Alternative Health Pro's we have operating in the USA already! Pro's who have kept or returned many of us back to GOOD HEALTH and WELLNESS!

I have no affiliations with the AMA--beyond reading their news aloud to my Daddy the Doctor from a tender age, and my continuing to follow how the AMA and their co-conspirators, funders/suppliers Big Pharma have thought to grow rich off of creating a chronically diseased America.

It is more than time to end their monopoly over our Health and Wellness. Neither our government nor We-the-People can afford it any more!

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The Importance Of You

The other day I had the most interesting conversation with Zee, a very informed lady. We had both studied Joseph Cambell's writings. In his book. "The Power of Myth", he talks about the meaning of the Pyramid on the dollar bill.

It is a Masonic symbol which means that if one is on the North side of the Pyramid what he sees is true, but he can not see what is on the South side, which is also true. The all seeing eye at the top seeks to see and understand all sides.


There is a lot of discussion lately about many political issues. This is a new phenomenon in my life time because we have all been taught not to talk about such things with anyone who might disagree with us, or we might find ourselves in an unwanted argument. How sad that is because it is so polarizing. However I have recently discovered some very interesting things that unite us as Americans, as did Nine Eleven. We can discuss these things, and even disagree as long as we can listen and communicate respectfully. ..the all seeing eye at the top of the Pyramid. Not one of us is as smart as all of us.

The news leads us to believe that we have but two choices concerning health care...what we now have, or the Obama Plan. But we in fact have more choices. Please permit me to present the following to you:

• Obama gives Medicare and Medicaid as examples of socialized medical care. He makes a valid point...it is socialized medical care, and it is lousy. I know because my husband is on it, and so was my Mom whom I took care of. We have to purchase extra insurance so the thing won't bankrupt us or leave us without care for what it will not pay (donut hole as example). Plus it is due to go bankrupt itself. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/26/eveningnews/main1839288.shtml
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  What has the Federal Government run successfully so far other than e-verify which it wants to get rid of? Every bill passed in the last few administrations favors big business at the expense of the middle class (bail out money case in point). The Health Care bill will most likely be the same. How many times must we be fooled before we learn.
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  Government interference is what caused the problem in the first place. Lets remove the legislation that caused the problem, and watch how easily it is solved. One can read more about this at the two following links

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