The World is a Goliath Meat Grinder and Healthcare Mirrors it.

in #healthcare5 years ago

And at the foundation is money

Just got back from the doctors office for the first time in years. It was interesting to get front row seats to the circus that is healthcare. They tried to push a flu shot on me, then a tetanus shot, then a chiropractor, then metal health facilities, etc.

Over the last few years, I've become much more sensitive and paranoid about the intentions of the people around me when money is involved. Doctors now sound like salesmen to me.

That being said. I'm glad my primary care provider is a woman, as male doctors are insufferable walking talking God complexes in my experience.

I took the bloodwork, as that actually might give me some indication of the issues I've been having. It's a weird feeling: hoping a test will show that something is wrong with you rather than coming back normal. At the same time one has to hope that the issue is treatable, and not some heinous aliment like cancer.

Speaking of treatments, what a coincidence that they are all so expensive. When we're not getting fleeced by central banking and corporations we're getting tag-teamed by the trifecta of doctors, pharmaceuticals, and insurance. Personally, I think this is even more of a problem than being exploited by central bankers and incorporated entities. There are ways to opt out of those systems. It's not so easy to opt out of your own well-being.

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Diet and Exercise

The only advice doctors seem to give that doesn't involve wealth transference is this. Across the board, all doctors agree that proper diet and exercise is one of the best ways to ensure one's lasting health over time. What does this tell us? That doctors, despite their overwhelming knowledge and education, actually know very little about the human body in the grand scheme of things.

The main solution of preventing illness and staying healthy is to treat your body right so it can regulate itself. Therefore, why aren't we leaning more into that? Why are we coming up with expensive artificial solutions when we could be trying to strengthen the defenses that already exist?

The ultimate example is chemotherapy. The strategy here is to pump your body full of toxins and hope that the cancer dies and the patient doesn't. In 100 years humanity will look back at our barbaric methods in disgust. Don't forgot to put some leeches on them as well.

If diet is so important then why is hospital food on par with prison food? Honestly, I've never eaten hospital food, but I've seen it a few times. That combined with the testimonials is all I need. Seriously, it's gross. At least when you're in prison you can pay to get higher quality food.

This all ties into the hypocritical themes of healthcare.
Even the mantra of doctors is the Hippocratic Oath.
"Do no harm."

How fitting.

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Hypocrisy of Hippocrates

The problem here is, and always has been, money. These Goliath industries need to be monetized in order to scale and support themselves. This creates a slew of problems.

Studies done to determine what is and isn't healthy for us are manipulated according to who's in control of the study and how they benefit from a certain outcome.

An entire branch of the medical field is ignored because it can't be monetized. There are thousands of holistic medicinal treatments; most of them considered quackery by mainstream doctors and thus by mainstream society itself. If I'm being honest, a lot of it is quackery, but at the same time a lot of it is not.

Holistic medicine is a form of healing that considers the whole person -- body, mind, spirit, and emotions -- in the quest for optimal health and wellness. ... A holistic doctor may use all forms of health care, from conventional medication to alternative therapies, to treat a patient.

No one is spending the money to figure out what works and what doesn't because there's no money to be made by making those distinctions. In addition, by definition, holistic medicine is contrary to Occam's Razor which makes it extremely difficult to isolate variables and determine the effectiveness of particular treatments.

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Placebo Effect and Mind-Over-Matter

In short, the Placebo Effect is quite definitive proof that the human body can be manipulated into healing itself with tactics that we do not understand. The act of taking a sugar pill can give one positive results. In traditional studies, a placebo group is formed with the express intent of isolating that variable and removing it from the experiment.

I say again, instead of learning as much as we can about our body's own defenses, we willfully ignore and cancel out these variables in traditional studies in order to prove the efficacy of artificial solutions manufactured by a multi-billion dollar industry. If only there were some way to monetize all the medical science that we throw out the window on a daily basis.

Ultimate Hypocrisy

And so, when doctors acknowledge that diet, exercise, stress, depression, and a slew of other variables has a huge affect on health, yet continue to deny alternate forms of healthcare that can't be monopolized, it's pretty easy to guess that something fishy is going on.

Conclusion

There's profit to be made in poisoning the air.
There's profit to be made in poisoning the water.
There's profit to be made in poisoning the land.
There's profit to be made in taking care of the sick who are surrounded by poison.

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That's pretty much the size of it. As a kid I was availed of a small town doctor that elected to provide service on an island in Alaska. They didn't do that to get rich, at least not in money. Not being on that island any more, I have noted the dramatic difference in service providers hereabouts, and I do not approve.

I'll mention that seeking doctors in public clinics can deliver providers not focused on money, but it's a crap shoot, because not all clinicians are there despite their magnificent qualifications. Do keep that in mind. What I do is read copiously and be up to breast on the issues affecting me, so that I can tell the doctors what to do. When I use their jargon, they realize their primary wall of bullshit ain't gonna work, so thereafter they generally comply with what I actually need, whether it pays them best or not.

Insurance agents are actually even more mercenary than doctors, if you can believe that. Chain your wallet to your ass in either's establishments.

Thanks!

On this, i would recommend Clif High's latest videos on recovering from cancer treatments.

The number one thing he says is more Vitamin C. We don't have anywhere near enough Vitamin C in our diets to deal with all the stressors in our environment. (EM radiation, pollution...)

I can tell you, from inside knowledge that our current cancer treatments to do not cure cancer. They do everything to a person to kill them... and some of them survive.

On the other hand, there are many alternative cancer treatment centers that are having great results. And instead of studying them, they call it "unscientific" and send hit squad out to suicide the leader.

Remember, our current medical system was started by a snake oil salesman.

Having now had adventures in healthcare in Australia and the US, the US really ought to be ashamed of itself. Australia isn't perfect by any means, but it was honestly shocking to go to the doctors in America. I've now seen a few different medical professionals here, and the upsell culture is absolutely huge. I've been going to the dentist every six months for decades, and my first visit in the US I suddenly needed a filling. The optometrist tried to upsell me a glaucoma procedure, the sports doctor took an XRay before he even saw me, and getting an MRI was a ton of random costs. The main difference is that Australia has public and private health insurance that isn't linked to your job at all. The private health insurance companies don't go crazy because they are ultimately competing with the public system... drugs are literally a fraction of the cost in Australia. The private health insurance gives you tax breaks, and means your visits are inexpensive until you hit an amount (say 12 visits) and then you have to start paying a lot more. In the US, it seems to be the other way... pay a lot for your visits initially, and then once you hit a threshold then they get cheaper. Even the acupuncturist I saw would charge like $50 without insurance or $150 with insurance... and there seems to be lots of mystery medical bills in the US, you get a letter months later for something that you thought you totally paid for.

I honestly don't know much about cannabis, but it seems odd that it's classed as an illegal A1 substance (no possible medical benefits) and yet there are pharmaceutical synthetic drugs made from the same chemicals that are legal... and cannibis being illegal means that no medical research can be conducted to see if it actually has medicinal benefits.

As you said... it's all driven by money... which is not how these things are supposed to work. Governments are supposed to look after all the things that the free market has no means of making a profit from.

There's profit to be made in okkultic knowledge.

Especially if you share this hidden knowledge via blockchain! ;)

Healthcare will be the downfall of the US as it will make the Ponzi of debt market fall as they will no longer be able to provide support to retirees in the future as more live longer. The rate of growth of costs are crazy and it is often better to save up for future expenses rather than pay for insurance which does not allow use to transfer our risk which is poor management. Next 15-20 years will be telling as baby boomers get deeper into life expectancies.

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I also have a reasonable distrust of those in the medical field. I hope everything comes back ok, although anymore when I see others go it comes across like the oil change business that comes back with lots of problems that should be fixed that have nothing to do with the oil.

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