"Look at who is doing the assessment. That should give you your first clue."
no other organization provides any assessment, as a matter of fact the sheer volume of information and data required prevents the assessment from occurring on an annual basis, that's why the last one was done in 2000. it matters not as the US has not made any substantial gains in their standing since then.
the housing crisis and the majority of home foreclosures in this country are being driven by skyrocketing health care costs. to put it simply, homeowners are being bankrupted by medical costs and losing their homes.
The American dream has a perverse ending these days: Diagnoses of chronic diseases, long-term treatment with expensive drugs, pain, misery, bankruptcy and death without dignity.
Almost half of all Americans will be diagnosed with cancer during their lives; nearly all of them will die slowly and painfully of cancer after being subjected to years of expensive chemo therapy drugs, radiation treatments and surgeries.
Those who escape cancer will succumb to heart disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's or some other chronic disease.
Reuters recently reported that a report published in the journal Health Affairs found that half of all bankruptcies are filed by Americans drowning in medical bills.
Most of the nearly 800,000 medical bill-induced bankruptcies were average Americans and their dependents WITH MEDICAL INSURANCE who happened to get sick. "Our study is frightening. Unless you are Bill Gates, you're just one serious illness away from bankruptcy," commented study director Dr. David Himmelstein of the Harvard Medical School.
To help organized medicine collect, Congress passed a bankruptcy reform bill in March, 2005, exempting medical bills from bankruptcy protection.
Statistically, you will be diagnosed with a chronic illness, you will seek treatment from doctors who will prescribe drugs and surgeries, you will suffer economic hardship from treatments that never cure the illness and you will die sick and penniless... ...unless you learn about the true nature of disease and why bodies develop chronic symptoms.
"health care" in its current form is unsustainable, regardless of how it's paid for and who's administering it. until we get the government, insurance companies and big pharma out of it, no one who actually knows what constitutes real health wants any part of it.
in the meantime, the American medical system is itself the leading cause of death and injury in the U.S..
1993-2003: Medical mistakes took 7.8 million lives... Organized medicine killed more Americans in last decade than all U.S. wars combined....
The most comprehensive report on the state of U.S. healthcare ever conducted shows that organized medicine has killed 7,841,360 Americans in the last 10 years. "Our estimated 10-year total of 7.8 million iatrogenic [doctor-induced] deaths is more than all the casualties from all the wars fought by the U.S. throughout its entire history," commented the Nutrition Institute of America (NIA), in its report, "Death By Medicine" (Oct., 2003).
The concept of the report was prompted by the fact that, while conventional medicine kills hundreds of thousands of Americans each year, government regulators attempt to ban and restrict the use of vitamins and herbs that kill no one.
Incidentally, the report, which resulted from the compilation and analysis of 94 U.S. hospitals and hundreds of medical journal articles, determined that medical error causes an astounding 783,936 deaths per year (and growing). "It is evident that the American medical system is itself the leading cause of death and injury in the U.S.," the authors observed.
The purpose of the report was to memorialize the total failure of the American medical system and to "provide the basis for competent and compassionate medical professionals to recognize the inadequacies of today's system and at least attempt to institute meaningful reforms," wrote the editors of Life Extension magazine.
Life Extension has posted the entirety of the NIA report at its website. This report should be read by everyone who has been or is currently hospitalized or being treated with "conventional" medicine. As more people become aware of the magnitude of the problem, they will become more empowered to take charge of their own healthcare.
we don't need to figure out how to pay for health care, we need to replace it with something that works first. once that is accomplished then the costs will plummet. since the orders being given to the current administration are to run this county into the ground, that's not going to happen in the foreseeable future. you either take responsibility for your own health or continue to face the very real prospect of winding up penniless and in the streets with nowhere to live and ultimately you end up dead.
if you believe any of the following statements to be true then you don't know anything about living a healthy life in the first place.
* Germs cause Disease
* Pharmaceuticals restore health
* Vaccination brings immunity
* The cure for cancer is just around the corner
* Menopause is a disease condition
* When a child is sick, he needs immediate antibiotics
* When a child has a fever he needs Tylenol
* Hospitals are safe and clean.
* America has the best health care in the world.
* Americans have the best health in the world.
* Milk is a good source of calcium.
* You never outgrow your need for milk.
* Vitamin C is ascorbic acid.
* Aspirin prevents heart attacks.
* Heart drugs improve the heart.
* Back and neck pain are the only reasons for spinal adjustment.
* No child can get into school without being vaccinated.
* The FDA thoroughly tests all drugs before they go on the market.
* Pregnancy is a serious medical condition
* Chemotherapy and radiation are effective cures for cancer
* When your child is diagnosed with an ear infection, antibiotics should be given
* immediately ‘just in case’ Ear tubes are for the good of the child.
* Estrogen drugs prevent osteoporosis after menopause.
* Pediatricians are the most highly trained of all medical specialists.
* The purpose of the health care industry is health.
* HIV is the cause of AIDS.
* AZT is the cure.
* Without vaccines, infectious diseases will return
* Fluoride in the city water protects your teeth
* Flu shots prevent the flu.
* Vaccines are thoroughly tested before being placed on the Mandated Schedule.
* Doctors are certain that the benefits of vaccines far outweigh any possible risks.
* There is a power shortage in California.
* There is a meningitis epidemic in California.
* The NASDAQ is a natural market controlled only by supply and demand.
* Chronic pain is a natural consequence of aging.
* Soy is your healthiest source of protein.
* Insulin shots cure diabetes.
* After we take out your gall bladder you can eat anything you want
* Allergy medicine will cure allergies.
there are only two kinds of people in the world, those who recognize the truth and those who don't. all of the above statements are false. they want you sick, they want you consuming their pharmaceutical drugs, antibiotics and paying for unnessessary surgeries, they want all of your assets and they want you dead.
the only question that needs to be answered on an individual basis is this. do you care more about your health than they do?
