Healthcare Bubble Next to Collapse? Answer: Four Steps to Free Market Healthcare

Here is a good plan, a solution:

A Four-Step Health-Care Solution
by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

It's true that the U.S. health care system is a mess, but this demonstrates not market but government failure. To cure the problem requires not different or more government regulations and bureaucracies, as self-serving politicians want us to believe, but the elimination of all existing government controls.

It's time to get serious about health care reform. Tax credits, vouchers, and privatization will go a long way toward decentralizing the system and removmg unnecessary burdens from business. But four additional steps must also be taken:

1. Eliminate all licensing requirements for medical schools, hospitals, pharmacies, and medical doctors and other health care personnel. Their supply would almost instantly increase, prices would fall, and a greater variety of health care services would appear on the market....

2. Eliminate all government restrictions on the production and sale of pharmaceutical products and medical devices. This means no more Food and Drug Administration, which presently hinders innovation and increases costs....

3. Deregulate the health insurance industry. Private enterprise can offer insurance against events over whose outcome the insured possesses no control. One cannot insure oneself against suicide or bankruptcy, for example, because it is in one's own hands to bring these events about....

4. Eliminate all subsidies to the sick or unhealthy. Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized. Subsidies for the ill and diseased breed illness and disease, and promote carelessness, indigence, and dependency. If we eliminate them, we would strengthen the will to live healthy lives and to work for a living. In the first instance, that means abolishing Medicare and Medicaid....

Only these four steps, although drastic, will restore a fully free market in medical provision. Until they are adopted, the industry will have serious problems, and so will we, its consumers. Read the entire article HERE.

If you are in the health care profession and know little about economics here is the place to start:

• Male circumcision lowers cervical cancer risk: stu...
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Male circumcision lowers cervical cancer risk: study

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three studies published on Wednesday add to evidence that circumcision can protect men from the deadly AIDS virus and the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. Click here to read the rest.

The Kanzius Machine: A Cancer Cure?

Inventor Tells 60 Minutes He Hopes To Live Long Enough To See Machine Cure Humans

FDA Reluctantly Admits Mercury Fillings Have Neurotoxic Effects on Children

"Gone, gone, gone are all of FDA's claims that no science exists that amalgam is unsafe,"...

Is Mental Illness a Myth?

Psychiatry as an Arm of the State

• Lew Rockwell interviews Dr. Thomas Szasz

  More from Thomas Szasz:

  The Thomas S. Szasz, M.D. Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility (Szasz.com)

  He wrote The Myth of Mental Illness.

  
  
  
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Alternative Therapies - Vitamin Treatment of Cancer

Next week, researchers from Stanford will publish the results of a study in mice in which intravenous Vitamin C is active against cancer. This new research is based off of a recognition that absorption of Vitamin C by the intestines is limited, and thus intravenous application is needed to get the dosage high enough to see an effect....Read more...

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Vitamin Treatment of Cancer

Taking History

Know the past, it will help you find a cure. Here is an interview on economics but it does apply.

Lew Rockwell interviews Dr. Ron Paul




A physician typically asks questions to obtain the following information about the patient:

* Identification and demographics: The name, age, height, weight.
* The "chief complaint (CC)" — the major health problem or concern, and its time course.
* History of present illless (HOPI) - details about the complaints enumerated in the CC.
* History of past illness (HPI)(including major illnesses, any previous surgery/operations, any current ongoing illness, eg diabetes)
* Review of systems(ROS) Systematic questioning about different organ systems
* Family diseases
* Childhood diseases
* Social history- including living arrangements, occupation, drug use (including tobacco, alcohol, other recreational drug use), recent foreign travel and exposure to environmental pathogens through recreational activities or pets.
* Regular medications (including those prescribed by doctors, and others obtained over the counter or alternative medicine)
* Allergies
* Sex life, obstetric/gynecological history and so on as appropriate.

History-taking may be comprehensive history taking (a fixed and extensive set of questions are asked, as practised only by medical students) or iterative hypothesis testing (questions are limited and adapted to rule in or out likely diagnoses based on information already obtained, as practised by busy clinicians). Computerised history-taking could be an integral part of clinical decision support systems. (wiki)

John McDougall on the brain damage caused by heart-bypass surgery.

This is something every patient going into heart-bypass surgery should know:

One of the savviest politicians of our generation, known for his wit, charm, and calm under extreme pressure, Bill Clinton appears out of character in the speeches and interviews televised since his bypass surgery September 6, 2004—and his mental deterioration may be accelerating. Remember, this is the president who withstood public impeachment before the entire world for his relationship with Monica Lewinski without once losing control. Now, he is easily angered by hecklers, and makes factual mistakes and racial slurs while aggressively defending his wife’s campaign for presidency. Everyone sees his mental and emotional decline, yet to date, no medical professionals have spoken out about the cause or offered help.

Not a single one—not one bypass surgeon, cardiologist or psychiatrist—has stepped forward in his defense; even though all of them are trained to recognize “post bypass surgery cognitive dysfunction.” One of the best-kept secrets in medicine is the brain damage caused during bypass surgery. During my 40 years of medical practice I have never heard a doctor warn a patient before bypass surgery that an expected complication is memory loss. After surgery when the family complains of dad’s fits of anger, I have never heard a doctor admit that personality change is a common consequence of surgery. Yet these well-recognized side effects have been reported in medical journals since 1969.¹

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Venezuela to Provide Discounted Heating Oil and Free Eye Operations to U.S. Poor

by Bernardo Delgado - Venezuelanalysis.com

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Free Eye Operations

Chavez spent a large part of his Sunday talk show discussing new healthcare plans for Venezuela. Part of this discussion also involved the provision of free eye operations to people in all of the American continents, north and south. The operations Cuba would provide the bulk of the operations, with Venezuela providing the transportation.

Chavez said that of the six million operations that Cuba and Venezuela would want to organize over the next ten years, there would be slots for 150,000 U.S.-Americans per year. Each country will receive a quota. Chavez gave some examples, explaining that there would be 100,000 for Brazilians, 60,000 for Colombians, 12,000 for Panamanians, 30,000 for Ecuadorians, 20,000 for Bolivians, and 20,000 for inhabitants of the Caribbean. Chavez said that those interested in the eye operations should turn to the Venezuelan embassies in their respective countries.

The plan to provide free eye operations is part of the “Mission Miracle,” which is one of the many new social programs that Chavez government has instituted in the past two years in Venezuela. By the end of December, 150,000 Venezuelans will have received eye operations. These operations involved operations for cataracts, myopia, pigmentary retinosis, and many others.

Avoid Flu Shots, Take Vitamin D Instead

by Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
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Here is also a youtube:

The Murdering FDA: Big Business

The Lew Rockwell Show Podcast

Lew Rockwell interviews Bill Sardi

More from Bill Sardi:

He has an archive of LewRockwell.com articles.

He has a website at Natural Health Librarian.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) or median neuropathy at the wrist is a medical condition in which the median nerve is compressed at the wrist, leading to pain, paresthesias, and muscle weakness in the hand. True carpal tunnel only elicits symptoms in the thumb, index, and middle fingers, along the median nerve distribution, but some patients may experience symptoms in the palm as well.^[1] A form of compressive neuropathy, CTS is more common in women than it is in men and has a peak incidence around age 42, though it can occur at any age.^[2] The lifetime risk for CTS is around 10% of the adult population.^[3]

Read more HERE.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Repair Surgery

Diet and Exercise! #2

Evolutionary Fitness
The 5,000-year-old diet.

Bryan Appleyard thinks he has found a diet that really works: it took him three weeks to shed 14lb with healthy ease. But he had to go back 5,000 years.

Diet and Exercise! #1

Physical exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health. It is performed for many different reasons. These include: strengthening muscles and the cardiovascular system, honing athletic skills, and weight loss or maintenance in the overweight. Frequent and regular physical exercise boosts the immune system, and helps prevent diseases of affluence such as heart disease, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and obesity.^[1][2] It also improves mental health and helps prevent depression. (wikipedia)

Activity	Calories Burned Per Hours
Aerobic Class	500 Calories Per Hour
Bicycling	500 Calories Per Hour
Bowling	200 Calories Per Hour
Gardening	200 Calories Per Hour
Golfing	250 Calories Per Hour
Hand-ball	600 Calories Per Hour
Kick Boxing	600 Calories Per Hour
Rowing	550 Calories Per Hour
Running	560 Calories Per Hour
Skiing	500 Calories Per Hour
Stair Climbing	1,000 Calories Per Hour
Swimming	500 Calories Per Hour
Tennis	500 Calories Per Hour
Weight Training	500 Calories Per Hour
Walking	500 Calories Per Hour

Proper nutrition is at least as important to health as exercise. When exercising, it becomes even more important to have a good diet to ensure that the body has the correct ratio of macronutrients whilst providing ample micronutrients, in order to aid the body with the recovery process following strenuous exercise.^[23]

Proper rest and recovery are also as important to health as exercise; otherwise the body exists in a permanently injured state and will not improve or adapt adequately to the exercise. Hence, it is important to remember to allow adequate recovery between exercise sessions.

The above two factors can be compromised by psychological compulsions (eating disorders such as exercise bulimia, anorexia, and other bulimias), misinformation, a lack of organization, or a lack of motivation. These all lead to a decreased state of health. (wikipedia)

Foods you should eat instead of junk food:

Vegetables

asparagus
beet
broccoli
cabbage (green)
carrot
cauliflower
celeriac (celery root)
celery chicory
Chile peppers (hot)
cucumber
dandelion
endive
garden cress
garlic
green beans
lamb's lettuce
lettuce
onion
papaya
radishes
spinach
turnip
zucchini

apple (eat the core/seeds as well - B17 fights cancer)
cranberries
grapefruit
lemon
mango
orange
pineapple

raspberries
strawberries
tangerine

Deodorant Allergy?

How to Make Your Own Deodorant

Things You’ll Need:

• A container
• Baking Soda
• Corn Starch
• Mint or Bay Leaves
• Rubbing Alcohol
• Essential oil or fragrance

Dry Deodorant #1
Plain baking soda works wonders because it neutralizes odors. If it can neutralize the odor of a cat litter box, imagine what it will do for your underarms.

Fill a small shaker container or tin and just sprinkle a light covering of baking soda onto a damp washcloth. Pat on. Don’t rinse. For a fragranced deodorant powder, add a few mint or bay leaves to the tin.

Dry Deodorant #2
Combine the following in a plastic zipper bag,
1/2 cup baking soda
1/2 cup cornstarch
a few mint or bay leaves
Shake well and pour into a tin with a lid.

To use: apply with dry washcloth & dust on. Alternately reuse an empty spice jar and sprinkle onto damp armpit. For unscented deodorant, omit the bay or mint leaves.

Liquid Deodorant #1
1/4 cup witch hazel extract
1/4 cup aloe vera gel
1/4 cup water
1 teaspoon vegetable glycerin
a few drops essential oils, if you prefer fragranced deodorant.
Combine all in a spray bottle, shake well. Will keep almost forever

Liquid Deodorant #2
1 cup rubbing alcohol
1 cup baking soda
Mix thoroughly and keep in a spray bottle. Apply as you would any spray or pump deodorant

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Heart disease: Chelation Therapy

Heart disease

Some alternative medicine practitioners administer chelating agents, usually EDTA, to patients with hardening of the arteries. The use of EDTA chelation therapy as a treatment for coronary artery disease has not been shown to be effective and is not approved by the FDA.[14] Several possible mechanisms have been proposed, though none have been scientifically validated. The procedure might leech calcium directly from the fatty plaques that block the arteries; stimulate the release of a hormone that removes deposited calcium or lowers cholesterol levels; or reduce oxidative stress on the blood vessel walls.[2] The US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine is currently conducting a trial of efficacy, expected to complete around July 2009.[15]

The American Heart Association states that there is currently "no scientific evidence to demonstrate any benefit from this form of therapy" and that the "United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American College of Cardiology all agree with the American Heart Association" that "there have been no adequate, controlled, published scientific studies using currently approved scientific methodology to support this therapy for cardiovascular disease."[14] Atwood et al. consider that methodological flaws and lack of prior probability make this trial "unethical, dangerous, pointless, and wasteful."[13]

Go HERE for another article. This therapy is worth looking into carefully.

How often should you get a blood pressure test?

High blood pressure is insidious. You won’t know that you have it unless you get it checked. This means you need to get checked regularly — at least annually, and more often depending on your history and risk factors.

The following are standard guidelines for assessing blood pressure (the healthy range has been lowered in recent years).

Standard Blood Pressure Guidelines / mmHg (millimeters of mercury)

Low less than 89/ less than 50

Normal less than 120 / less than 80

Prehypertension 120–139 / 80–89

Hypertension

Mild 140–159 / 90–99

Moderate 160–179 / 100–109

Severe >180 / >110

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