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HEALTHCARE

The healthcare bubble is hopefully deflating in status, and clout. Evidence suggests that the once formidable giant works in conjunction with both the pharmaceutical giants and insurance industry. It both creates fortunes for those entities, while undermining our health.

With either a public or private option we will be working with an industry that does not acknowledge the truth. It is never what about the people, which should be the obvious and critical point. Today we see the phony nature of big business posing as an altruistic industry. Many have become disillusioned with the reckless speculative nature of pharmaceuticals. By allowing this to go on there is a mountain of money that is anticipated every time they roll out a drug.

DRUGS

Drugs are a potent force in the healthcare industry, and a formidable vehicle for investors. Institutional investments look for blockbuster drugs in the pipeline when considering a pharmaceutical company. We have to keep in mind that the manipulation of research can spur a buying spree by investors. The underlying story is that this kind of behavior by the drug cartel in not the exception.

BIG PHARMA

Big pharma is a complex problem, we look to pharmaceutical companies to be motivated by the potential good, not pass off a worthless or harmful drugs as a panacea. We have an unprecedented concentration of power that we never witnessed before, and it threatens to control our way of life. We have both the health and price issue, which suddenly can affect our physical and financial health. When seniors have to choose between medication or eating, the government forgets that they exist for our benefit.

GOVERNMENT

The pharmaceuticals are a commodity in the market, and this is why manipulation occurs. What the government agencies do when they witness abuse; launch another investigation. This is a thinly veiled attempt to look like they will not only check on something, but will do something. They themselves in short are in a complex relationship with this industry. We live with these realities, while the looming healthcare crisis is yet to happen.

The consequences of this will be a marked decline in our dollar, and our healthcare. Compassion is not the operative word here, it is a core belief that the nation depends on medical intervention. Here lies the problem good health is not the issue. Our healthcare is not about health, but it is accelerating disease. The catastrophe that is unfolding is now becoming obvious. Americans are in denial that their health is in their hands.

COST

The staggering cost of healthcare has not produced a healthier nation. We are in the mist of a health crisis, that is brought on in part by the very system that claims it helps us. The healthcare bubble has burst, and in a large measure it repudiates the claim that they are leading the nation to better health.

DEPRESSION

When depression is a sign of the times, and it may require a novel approach. The world’s extensive problems are recognized as part of the global platform that we travel. The emerging trend for the viewer is that the world is heading south. We are living in a very complicated world, and never before have the challenges covered the spectrum from bleak to dismal. Because the U.S. has been the epicenter of much of the world, both financially and politically, we are now seeing our power eroding. The ambiguity of our position as the world’s supper power has eroded confidence in our ability to endure.

WORLD

The world is creating new models and the rules are changing. What does the rest of the world think about our actions? They are not waiting for the upside, most are appalled at some of our policies. Americas’ attitude is becoming one of resigned acceptance, with prices climbing and limited job opportunities we are seeing a depressed economy.

Is there a reason to suggest that depression is a sign of the times? The indicators are there, the most frequent sentiment is a loss of confidence in both personal and domestic ability to navigate. Understanding the adverse conditions and loss of momentum from those at the helm and those at the bottom rungs lowers the expectations. The worst part of the economic downturn is the emerging trend of contraction rather than expansion.

CONTROL

Depression will occur when you are not in control of your life. Another way to look at it is eventually you have to start your engine; opening up the possibility of retreating is not an option. Control and action are all that remain, calling all self-directed people who want to avoid prescriptive solutions, to finally play the game right.

CORPORATE GREED

Part of the debacle of our great country was at the hands of both political and corporate giants. It is prudent to say that the healthcare crisis is a reflection of corporate greed. The excess expenditure, and price gauging of the pharmaceutical industry, and the greedy insurance companies have spawned an out of control rise in healthcare or what should be termed sick care.

ON YOUR TERMS

Navigating depression is a matter of not turning around the world, but leading your life on your terms. So far it has been following directives. Now, the issue is one of price for having been led astray. We are at a critical junction in time, where our institutions have been exposed, and we are debating where to go from here. In healthcare we are exploring trading one system for another, and yet both don’t give us the ability for a better life.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Health and wellness isn’t the focus of big pharma. This is an industry that distorts studies, uses scary tactics to get us to toe the line. The healthcare crisis should have made us smarter and wiser. What we have is turf wars. In the medical sector it is stiff regulations, about what we can or can’t consume. and treatments that are controlled by government agencies. Take note it is about the rate of return for both the pharmaceutical and insurance industries.

Do you know the odds of any of the test or treatments helping you without harming you?  For that matter how are the people that are utilizing other methods doing?  What you need to know is available and can be accessed from your computer. It would be a mistake to let others micromanage your health, especially if they are going in the wrong direction.

OUR MISSION

Our mission is about revitalizing our health using an open market system. Today, there is an opportunity to operate independent of the healthcare industry’s domination. There are enough people who are speaking out and pioneering new and innovative thinking backed by the tools to achieve a real health revolution. If depression is a sign of the times, than this is the hope and optimistic stimulus package we need.

Big Pharma 

We are a pharma nation and it is our way of life. Because, prescriptive drugs are so prevalent, it goes unnoticed by us except when see it abused by a younger generation.  We eagerly down pills for just about anything, from being anxious, sleepless, fat, high blood pressure, cholesterol, and sugar levels, almost all brought about by our lifestyle choices.  Prescription and over the counter potions to treat heartburn, constipation, aches and pains, headaches, erectile dysfunction, PMS, addictions, hair loss, and skin conditions are in most medicine cabins.  If there is anything we do not have a pill for it’s in the pipe line.

War on Only Half the Drug Problem

You can not have a war on drugs, and look the other way on the wholesale abuse of regular everyday pharmaceuticals.  The problem is they are considered normal and everyday when they have no right to be in that category.  The first thing that happens when a celebrity overdoses on an abuse of legal pharmaceuticals, the powers that be scours the place in the search of illegal substances.  Never mind, that they used a mix of different legal substances in large doses that can do collateral damage.  Remember, this generation is setting the example for the next.  We are saying if it comes from the pharmaceutical industry it is good, and we can solve problems with a pill.

Personal Responsibility

Personal responsibility is abrogated to a large medical industry, with you having little control over your own health.  This is the message we are sending to future generations.

Having given very little thought to why we are in this situation, and buying the profit making giants promises of a bright tomorrow, bliss is just a pill away.  Without a pharmaceutical industry we would be finding ways to alleviate our aches and pains and sleepless nights naturally.  Most of the children diagnosed with things called hyper-activity, and attention deficit, we would instead contribute to poor diet, lack of sleep, or lack of discipline.

Youth and Drugs

If we are drugging youngsters, and treating problems in that way, they now have a model of how things are done.  Also, it shortens the stretch to recreational drugs.  The difference isn’t that far except for the terms legal, and illegal, which does not hold that much weight to young people who see the hypocritical nature of the beast.  When children see adults with a pill, and a glass of water often enough it becomes a common place experience.  I really do not see how we can lead by example; in that case the words are empty.  Adults seem to need substances to function in today’s world, and the same seems to sadly hold true for our children.

Wake Up Call

The answer is to wake up from the pharmaceutical daze, and see clearly that this is not the direction to attain health. Then, and only then can we help ourselves and our children brake free of the addiction cycle.  It is somewhat easier than you think, just go to your pantry and refrigerator and see what is there.  There you will find the answer to the problem that lurks in your medicine cabinet.