Controlling the food is obviously a way to control the people, but health care is truly sheople control. In America people are so afraid of death, they will submit to all sorts of invasive procedures. Since pediatricians have been intimidating young mothers for three generations, the programming is now firmly entrenched . . .
The fact that this quote was in an article in the finance section of yahoo news, is troubling yet illuminating. I haven't yet gained the insight to know whether this is:
A. the back handed move for a single source of health insurance in the US.
B. a new choke hold on the insurance commission
C. the realization that this plan is completely underfunded
D. truly poor leadership
E. or really precise planning for calamity.
What I do know is, this public claiming of responsibility and acknowledging the citizen's loss of trust isn't really taking responsibility or earning any trust. From the time it became trendy to acknowledge a mea culpa, irresponsibility truly became socially acceptable and sadly, applauded.
>>>Obama, for his part, made clear he would continue to fight ongoing attempts to sink the whole program, saying, "I will not accept proposals that are just another brazen attempt to undermine or repeal the overall law and drag us back into a broken system."
For a fuller view of this debacle the link to the article is included. The President's statement just truly caught my attention in that he has no regard for the old broken system. For something to be broken, the implication is that it once functioned. Our President, on the other hand, is determined to build a new system that doesn't work from the beginning!
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/policy-cancellations-obama-allow-old-170751302.html
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Self Medicating
I'm really not sure why the term "self-medicate" is used so negatively. I realize it's associated with addiction problems, but there are a number of people addicted to prescriptions that are written for them, so why the derogatory inference? I self-medicate. I use legal substances, but I do self-medicate and I'm not ashamed of that.
I have herbal tinctures, topical analgesics, salves, oils, wine, and a couple of recipes containing alcohol, 1 for colds and 1 for pain. I don't use anything regularly, except red wine in the evening. Everything else is used temporarily for a specific injury or problem.
When I left "medicine" and no I wasn't a practitioner, I was a patient, a.k.a. guinea pig. Keep in mind, there is a lot of legislation in place to protect animals from laboratory tests. Not to mention, everything the FDA recalls or bans, it at one time approved. I understand there are class action lawsuits all the time over medication side effects. Yet I digress . . . When I left mainstream medical care, most people with my diagnosis were on at least 8 prescriptions. My last hospital stay, I was sent home with 13 prescriptions, and while four of them were acute medications, for the exacerbation; the rest were intended to be maintenance meds.
I realized then, I was at a cross roads, even if it wasn't a spiritual conviction! There is no cure for the disease I have and there was no functioning on that many medications! That's no life! Self-medicating is so much more manageable and the side effects are virtually non-existent. I will admit, however; enough alcohol to try kill the pain in my broken arm did leave me feeling a bit impaired, which is why I came up with CHINICREEN, a topical analgesic for pain that was bad to the bone . . . that was breaking through my skin. I don't want to go through life impaired, just comfortable when possible!
Since I don't medicate regularly, it doesn't take much in the way of natural remedies to positively affect my situation. I admit, that my legs don't work as well as they used to and MS spasms are miserable, so at the end of day, a couple of glasses of red wine do ease the spasms and I can continue working. I work at home, so driving is a non-issue. Our Creator gave each of us a body for which we are responsible. More addiction problems stem from chemical dependency than natural remedies. When considering the origin of the term self-medicating, it becomes self-explanatory. Perhaps it's time to take a different look at self-medicating, and consider when addiction is a psychiatric diagnosis of it's own, self-medicating may actually be the responsible choice.
I have herbal tinctures, topical analgesics, salves, oils, wine, and a couple of recipes containing alcohol, 1 for colds and 1 for pain. I don't use anything regularly, except red wine in the evening. Everything else is used temporarily for a specific injury or problem.
When I left "medicine" and no I wasn't a practitioner, I was a patient, a.k.a. guinea pig. Keep in mind, there is a lot of legislation in place to protect animals from laboratory tests. Not to mention, everything the FDA recalls or bans, it at one time approved. I understand there are class action lawsuits all the time over medication side effects. Yet I digress . . . When I left mainstream medical care, most people with my diagnosis were on at least 8 prescriptions. My last hospital stay, I was sent home with 13 prescriptions, and while four of them were acute medications, for the exacerbation; the rest were intended to be maintenance meds.
I realized then, I was at a cross roads, even if it wasn't a spiritual conviction! There is no cure for the disease I have and there was no functioning on that many medications! That's no life! Self-medicating is so much more manageable and the side effects are virtually non-existent. I will admit, however; enough alcohol to try kill the pain in my broken arm did leave me feeling a bit impaired, which is why I came up with CHINICREEN, a topical analgesic for pain that was bad to the bone . . . that was breaking through my skin. I don't want to go through life impaired, just comfortable when possible!
Since I don't medicate regularly, it doesn't take much in the way of natural remedies to positively affect my situation. I admit, that my legs don't work as well as they used to and MS spasms are miserable, so at the end of day, a couple of glasses of red wine do ease the spasms and I can continue working. I work at home, so driving is a non-issue. Our Creator gave each of us a body for which we are responsible. More addiction problems stem from chemical dependency than natural remedies. When considering the origin of the term self-medicating, it becomes self-explanatory. Perhaps it's time to take a different look at self-medicating, and consider when addiction is a psychiatric diagnosis of it's own, self-medicating may actually be the responsible choice.
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Insurance
Let's discuss insurance for just a moment. Health insurance isn't really that, at all. Health insurance is a good diet, exercise, rest, and following a health plan. The label health insurance is like life insurance, it doesn't pay until there is no health or there is no life and it never pays the one who is covered on the policy. Perhaps if we used the actual terms we'd get a better grasp. What our politicians are forcing on us is "sick insurance." While what we call life insurance is actually "death insurance."
With that insurance fact established, doesn't it seem that insurance, especially health insurance is really like a wager against being healthy? Doesn't it seem like a lack of faith? I realize we have mandated insurance on cars and mortgaged homes, but that's insurance on money and material possessions. Car insurance is just that, it's insurance to replace your car or one of some else. Mortgage insurance is to pay off a mortgage in the event the house is no longer livable, so you don't have to pay for something you can't live in. Most people do weigh out the value between full coverage and state requirement according to the age of their vehicle and the replacement cost. It's all figured on money. But health insurance doesn't replace health and life insurance sure won't keep you breathing.
Although health insurance is really just about money also, it shouldn't be. Health is about people. It truly seems to me that medicine has already lost or laid down it's power, ages ago. Medicine seems to serve two purposes now. It is an arm of control for the government and sales and distribution for Big Pharma. It is funded, however; by insurance.
With that insurance fact established, doesn't it seem that insurance, especially health insurance is really like a wager against being healthy? Doesn't it seem like a lack of faith? I realize we have mandated insurance on cars and mortgaged homes, but that's insurance on money and material possessions. Car insurance is just that, it's insurance to replace your car or one of some else. Mortgage insurance is to pay off a mortgage in the event the house is no longer livable, so you don't have to pay for something you can't live in. Most people do weigh out the value between full coverage and state requirement according to the age of their vehicle and the replacement cost. It's all figured on money. But health insurance doesn't replace health and life insurance sure won't keep you breathing.
Although health insurance is really just about money also, it shouldn't be. Health is about people. It truly seems to me that medicine has already lost or laid down it's power, ages ago. Medicine seems to serve two purposes now. It is an arm of control for the government and sales and distribution for Big Pharma. It is funded, however; by insurance.
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs?
I couldn't help but notice a similarity to two symbols that I find quite troubling. Obama's sign, and yes, he does have his own symbol and the Prison Health Care Corporation.
that is gaining contracts right and left. Here I thought it had been the Republicans who were making money off the privatized Prison Industry, but clearly I stand corrected. Corizon is headquartered in my state, and the way I discovered this troubling aspect of health care were of course the complaints. Even UPWORTHY, which is pure Progressive promotion had nothing good to say about this Corporation.
If the new health care plan for the rest of us is as wonderful as what I've heard about this Corporation, I'll be more than happy to pay the fine to avoid the whole mess.
The Prison Industry is big business in this country, and I now see why one of the allowable exemptions from Obamacare is incarceration. If I'm reading the signs correctly, "The Powers that Be" have you in or out!
So, at the risk of sounding like a Conspiracy Theorist, could this be the "O" in the New World Order?
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Not Tested on Animals
By now, we should all be aware of what this statement is truly saying. When new products are presented, especially in beauty products or health and pharmaceuticals, and the statement "not tested on animals" is on the label, that means it's tested on people . . .
For a time, folks could actually sell their bodies for testing, or I guess rent their bodies to a lab for certain studies, but it would seem as the economy tightens, the drug tests are becoming more lax, or the patients themselves are the guinea pigs. That has also been going on for some time with subsidies for new pharmaceuticals, but the patients were aware of the risk.
The following articles seem to indicate greater risk is being taken in the trials . . .
http://www.naturalnews.com/042492_cancer_drugs_clinical_trials_junk_science.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/042580_India_Big_Pharma_drug_trials.html
For a time, folks could actually sell their bodies for testing, or I guess rent their bodies to a lab for certain studies, but it would seem as the economy tightens, the drug tests are becoming more lax, or the patients themselves are the guinea pigs. That has also been going on for some time with subsidies for new pharmaceuticals, but the patients were aware of the risk.
The following articles seem to indicate greater risk is being taken in the trials . . .
http://www.naturalnews.com/042492_cancer_drugs_clinical_trials_junk_science.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/042580_India_Big_Pharma_drug_trials.html
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Speaking Out Against Wrong
The religious transplants have learned a new Hebrew word, and frankly, I'm sick of it. Since I use the term, "sick" seems the best place to write about it is here in medicine is not health care.
Lashon hara is directly translated "evil tongue." It seems disagreeing with some folks is construed to be speaking evil and now we have gossip lumped in there, and even referenced to those who are posting some alternative news, as well. Who knew there'd be as much religious judgment on the web as the local gathering? The difference? It's 24/7. That's right even the Sabbath keepers have plenty of opinions to post. I've been guilty of sharing my opinion on Sabbath, myself, yet I digress.
Back to this "evil tongue" or "speaking evil."
Flu shots go in this category, as far as I'm concerned, well actually I include all vaccines, but that's an observation for another article. I want to address flu shots and our choice to listen to the statistics of choice, because I believe that is where the evil truly lies.
Statistically, over 6,000 Americans die daily. That is over twice the number that died on 9/11 . . . every day.
The CDC gives some interestingly vague flu statistics that really seem much more like lashon hara than prevention. But then, again, I'm an alternative news source and herbalist, not to mention religious fanatic!
According to the CDC only five to twenty percent of Americans contract the flu through the average flu season. I realize we have two schools of thought from here. There are those who say, without the flu shots, the numbers would be greater and those who say, the shots don't really change the stats, as the flu season is simply inevitable.
There is one set of stats, however that are chosen to be ignored and those are the stats regarding sudden death after receiving a flu shot. The article below actually states in no uncertain terms, that a fatal reaction to a flu shot is automatically considered so rare, it is not even considered.
http://vaxtruth.org/2012/01/death-by-flu-shot-7-year-old-receives-flu-vaccine-dies-4-days-later/
Ruling out potentially vital information is not lashon hara, I suppose, but calling attention to the fact that it is withheld, is not lashon hara, either.
Lashon hara is directly translated "evil tongue." It seems disagreeing with some folks is construed to be speaking evil and now we have gossip lumped in there, and even referenced to those who are posting some alternative news, as well. Who knew there'd be as much religious judgment on the web as the local gathering? The difference? It's 24/7. That's right even the Sabbath keepers have plenty of opinions to post. I've been guilty of sharing my opinion on Sabbath, myself, yet I digress.
Back to this "evil tongue" or "speaking evil."
Flu shots go in this category, as far as I'm concerned, well actually I include all vaccines, but that's an observation for another article. I want to address flu shots and our choice to listen to the statistics of choice, because I believe that is where the evil truly lies.
Statistically, over 6,000 Americans die daily. That is over twice the number that died on 9/11 . . . every day.
The CDC gives some interestingly vague flu statistics that really seem much more like lashon hara than prevention. But then, again, I'm an alternative news source and herbalist, not to mention religious fanatic!
According to the CDC only five to twenty percent of Americans contract the flu through the average flu season. I realize we have two schools of thought from here. There are those who say, without the flu shots, the numbers would be greater and those who say, the shots don't really change the stats, as the flu season is simply inevitable.
There is one set of stats, however that are chosen to be ignored and those are the stats regarding sudden death after receiving a flu shot. The article below actually states in no uncertain terms, that a fatal reaction to a flu shot is automatically considered so rare, it is not even considered.
http://vaxtruth.org/2012/01/death-by-flu-shot-7-year-old-receives-flu-vaccine-dies-4-days-later/
Ruling out potentially vital information is not lashon hara, I suppose, but calling attention to the fact that it is withheld, is not lashon hara, either.
Monday, October 7, 2013
A New Twist in the War on Drugs
Medicine is not health care, it's a part of law enforcement, here in my neck o' the woods. From what I understand, what used to be a simple over the counter cold symptom medication is a main ingredient of an illegal substance known as "meth." So, to address the illegal manufacturing and use of meth, the over the counter medication is regulated. I truly think a lot of the War on Drugs, is not so much about health or addiction as it is to reduce the competition for Big Pharma. I have definite doubts about any authority that places a concoction made of household cleaning chemicals and cough syrup in the same category as an herb.
http://www.newstalkkzrg.com/Pseudoephdrine-Law-Cutting-Meth-In-Joplin-/17437106
The federal laws were added to the USA Patriot Act when it was signed again at some point. Most states have laws to regulate this, as well, some quite stringent. Of course, there will always be one more way to make something that isn't good for you. As health care becomes more and more governmentally regulated through law enforcement and now the health care mandate, what happens to free will and choice about our own bodies?
I'm not suggesting that we ignore amateur chemists who harm themselves by cooking up poison to put in their bodies, but where do we draw the line? How much government control do we want to make sure everyone does the same thing, either by moral conviction or by coercive mandate?
http://www.newstalkkzrg.com/Pseudoephdrine-Law-Cutting-Meth-In-Joplin-/17437106
The federal laws were added to the USA Patriot Act when it was signed again at some point. Most states have laws to regulate this, as well, some quite stringent. Of course, there will always be one more way to make something that isn't good for you. As health care becomes more and more governmentally regulated through law enforcement and now the health care mandate, what happens to free will and choice about our own bodies?
I'm not suggesting that we ignore amateur chemists who harm themselves by cooking up poison to put in their bodies, but where do we draw the line? How much government control do we want to make sure everyone does the same thing, either by moral conviction or by coercive mandate?
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