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Health Insurance September 6, 2015

Medicare’s victims

Last month marked fifty years since Congress created the Medicare program. Medicare is often pointed to as proof that yes, Virginia, government can run a health care program that provides quality care to its beneficiaries. Even many of those who argue the program needs massive changes in order to avoid bankruptcy agree that the Medicare model is an effective way of guaranteeing health care to America’s seniors. But does Medicare really provide effective and compassionate care? Dr. David Hogberg’s, health care policy annalist for the National Center for Public Policy Research, new book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians answers this question. In case the title does not give it away, the answer is NO. Dr. Hogberg […] Read More

Medical September 6, 2015September 6, 2015

Good Medicine: Do As Much Nothing As Possible

”The delivery of good medical care is to do as much nothing as possible” ~ Samuel Shem, The House of God Medicine is undergoing an existential crisis today. Its core value proposition – to help and not hurt — is failing to manifest. Patients are suffering. Doctors are suffering. The only exuberant party on the battlefield against disease is the pharmaceutical industry. An industry whose annual causalities far exceed the death total from our two decade long involvement in the Vietnam war. The entire system is on the precipice of a collapse, if not for economic reasons alone, then certainly for ethical and intellectual ones. The irony is that the system has become so ineffective and dangerous that avoiding medical treatment (excluding perhaps emergency care) […] Read More

Vaccine Cover-up August 29, 2015August 29, 2015

HOW PLUMBING (NOT VACCINES) ERADICATED DISEASE

(Organiclifestyle) Vaccines get all the glory, but most plumbers will tell you that it was water infrastructure – sewage systems and clean water – that eradicated disease, and they’re right. Disease Before Plumbing After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europeans despised all things Roman, including bathing. There was a widespread belief that getting wet caused illness. This contempt and fear of bathing persisted through the Dark Ages. Some Europeans defied local customs by bathing, but this was usually done over great protest. When Queen Elizabeth bathed, her servants panicked, fearing she would become ill and die. This resistance to bathing was brought across the Atlantic to America, influencing habits all the way into the 1800s. In 1835, Philadelphia almost passed an ordinance forbidding wintertime […] Read More

Dental August 24, 2015

How to Remove Plaque Without Going to the Dentist

by healthyfoodstar We all know that when it comes to removing plaque, the dentist will do the job perfectly. However, there are many natural recipes through which you can get rid of plaque at home. 1st recipe: Ingredients needed: 30 grams of walnut husks Water Method of preparation: Put the walnut husks in a bowl, add the water and place the mixture on fire. Cook for 15 minutes. Soak your toothbrush in the resulting mixture and wash your teeth for 5 minutes. Repeat this procedure in the morning, afternoon and evening. 2nd recipe: Ingredients needed: 4 tablespoon of sunflower seeds 4 tablespoon of linden flower 1 liter of water Method of preparation: Put the ingredients in a bowl, cover them with water and place the […] Read More

Medical August 22, 2015September 2, 2015

First Human Head Transplant in 2017?

Money is pouring in to pay for the world’s first head transplant, says the man who is ready to make history by becoming a human guinea pig. Valery Spiridonov has confirmed major donations have started to arrive, allowing surgeon Sergio Canavero to continue planning the operation to remove his head and place it on another body. However, Spiridonov – who has a muscle wasting disease – refused to confirm reports that unnamed sponsors have pledged $100million (£64million) for the pioneering surgery, dubbed ‘reckless’ by other medical professionals. The 30-year-old said: ‘He [Canavero] received several offers, mainly those were people who contacted him through me, because I’m widely seen on the internet. ‘They first contacted me, and then reached out to him.’ The bizarre plan to […] Read More

Medical August 17, 2015August 17, 2015

FDA Approves Use of Oxycontin for Children

By Alec Cope The same federal agency (the FDA) that once raided peaceful Amish communities for selling raw milk, approved on August 13th the use of the highly addictive and potent drug Oxycontin for 11 year olds. Oxycontin is the most abused drug in the United States, and the Federal Drug Administration has approved its use in 11 year to 16 year olds. Unfortunately, what some boldly call mainstream “news” failed to mention, was that Purdue Pharma of Stamford, Connecticut; concluded in only one study that the drug is safe for children. This company also happens to be the manufacturer that creates Oxycontin. This clearly demonstrates a conflict of interest and deflates the study as the company clearly has, “a horse in the race” and […] Read More

Vaccine Cover-up August 6, 2015

Bombshell: CDC Destroyed Vaccine Documents… CDC Whistleblower Case is Back

“…the [CDC] co-authors scheduled a meeting to destroy documents related to the [MMR vaccine] study. The remaining four co-authors all met and brought a big garbage can into the meeting room and reviewed and went through all the hard copy documents that we had thought we should discard and put them in a huge garbage can.” (William Thompson, CDC researcher) On July 29, US Congressman Bill Posey made his last stand on the floor of the House. Granted five minutes to speak, he laid bare the lying of the CDC in a now-famous 2004 study that exonerated the MMR vaccine and claimed it had no connection to autism. “No connection to autism” was the lie. Congressman Posey read a statement from long-time CDC researcher William […] Read More

Health Insurance August 5, 2015August 5, 2015

Why Medicare-For-All Makes More Sense Now Than Ever

Private health insurance drives up costs for everyone. Medicare — signed into law fifty years ago, on July 30, 1965 — was supposed to be just the first step. For the fifty years before Medicare’s enactment, progressives had fought unsuccessfully for universal, government-provided health insurance. In 1912, President Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Party platform advocated universal, government-sponsored, health insurance, but he was defeated in his quest for another term as president. In 1917, the California legislature approved universal health insurance, and the governor supported it, but a 1918 ballot resolution defeated the measure after a massive, well-financed business and physician-fueled campaign against it. President Franklin Roosevelt seriously considered including national health insurance in his 1935 Social Security legislation, but decided against it out of fear that […] Read More

Vaccine Cover-up July 13, 2015

Herd Immunity vs. Viral Shedding: Who’s Infecting Whom?

Big Pharma and the Medical Establishment use the idea of herd immunity to induce fear and sell vaccines, yet viral shedding puts the notion on its head. Herd immunity, or community immunity as it is also known, is one of the main arguments that “pro-vaxxers” (those advocating vaccination) advance to persuade people to take vaccines. Herd immunity, so it is claimed, provides indirect protection to the unvaccinated. How? Here’s how the reasoning goes: if enough people get vaccinated, when a contagious disease hits a community, it spreads less quickly than if the majority were not vaccinated, since they are now protected. Thus, those unvaccinated few living among the vaccinated many can now enjoy some protection because the disease is finding it harder to spread and infect new individuals. This […] Read More