Diddy wrote:Socnorb11 wrote: The health care industry is the biggest fraud in America, by far. Someone needs to reel them in. I'd love it if my government at least tried to.
I'm not saying I disagree with you but why do you say that health care is the biggest fraud in America?
I'll give you an example. 10 years ago I wake up in a remarkable amount of pain in my left shoulder. I can't lift my arm without howling in pain. I go to the ER. Guy says I sprained my shoulder. I say but I haven't had any trauma to my shoulder. He says eh these things happen, here's a prescription for Vicodin just wait it out. This is a Saturday. Tuesday I follow up with my doc, I feel the same. Not even 1% better. He goes yeah probably a sprain here's a 'scrip for a refill on the Vicodin. A week later I'm still unable to lift my left arm. I'm hunching my neck. I'm a mess. Guy at work gives me the # to his chiropractor. I get in that day. This guy says ok, the 3rd vertebrae in your neck informs the left arm and you are unaligned there, goes to work on me, has me come in daily for a week then every other day for a week. I feel better after just a day, good after 3, normal after a week and a half. No drugs. Instead of having people throw drugs at me, I found someone interested in getting down to what was wrong and making me better.
I'll give you another. My father-in-law is 90 and has pulmonary fibrosis. It was bad early this year, we though he was done. Was walking around w/ an oxygen tank and was on a cocktail of pills, like 13 different things a day. Couldn't leave home, literally, for fear he'd have one of these incidents where he goes to sleep and can't be woken back up, which were getting frequent. Scary stuff. We get him into an alternative medicine guy who uses acupuncture to increase blood flow and oxygen delivery and gives him a big bag of roots and herbs to drink 3X/day as tea. Oxygen tank is gone. He drives, he goes out to dinner. He's not running the decathalon or anything, but instead of having someone toss pills at him and say "you're old, you're dying" he found someone who wanted to treat him and get him better.
Because of pharma, and the money involved in pharma, pharma controls too much of the medical industry and leads to doctors prescribing instead of treating and fixing. Got a problem where you can't get a boner for your Mrs? Don't examine what's wrong w/ your marriage and why you two have lost sexual chemistry, just take this pill. Trust us, it's ok, you'll bang like old times.
