“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.”
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Please also see the page on new mental health paradigms:
“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.”
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We will post new perspectives in both conventional and complementary medicine and well as health care solutions here on this page.
Please send us your discoveries in the area of new health care paradigms:
submissions@awakeningplanet.com
.
Please also see the page on new mental health paradigms:
Health Statistics
Health Statistics
Who are the healthiest countries?
Who is living the longest?
What countries are providing the highest quality care at the least cost?
How are they doing this?
These are worthy questions to address if we are to successfully shift the paradigm of healthcare on the planet.
Who Lives The Longest?
How Much does the US Spend on Healthcare Compared with Other Countries?
50 U.S. Healthcare statistics (2011)
Why ObamaCare is not Enough
Who are the healthiest countries?
Who is living the longest?
What countries are providing the highest quality care at the least cost?
How are they doing this?
These are worthy questions to address if we are to successfully shift the paradigm of healthcare on the planet.
Who Lives The Longest?
How Much does the US Spend on Healthcare Compared with Other Countries?
50 U.S. Healthcare statistics (2011)
Why ObamaCare is not Enough
A Recalcitrant United States
A Recalcitrant United States
We in the United States have a vastly fragmented, inefficient, costly and disease centered health care system. While we spend more on healthcare, ($8,000 per capita), than any other developed country in the world (who spend under $3,000), the US healthcare outcomes are among the worst.
75% of our healthcare costs are spent on preventable diseases.
Our model in the US of utilizing third party for-profit healthcare insurance companies has created fragmentation and inequities in care. Among many other issues, under the current system, our ability to negotiate prices is limited creating overpriced pharmaceuticals and medical supplies.
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Change is needed.
Fortunately, solutions are at hand.
The 10 healthiest and the 10 least healthy states.
Escape Fire
A movie that examines the powerful forces maintaining the status quo in the US medical industry, an industry designed for quick fixes rather than prevention, for profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care.
We in the United States have a vastly fragmented, inefficient, costly and disease centered health care system. While we spend more on healthcare, ($8,000 per capita), than any other developed country in the world (who spend under $3,000), the US healthcare outcomes are among the worst.
75% of our healthcare costs are spent on preventable diseases.
Our model in the US of utilizing third party for-profit healthcare insurance companies has created fragmentation and inequities in care. Among many other issues, under the current system, our ability to negotiate prices is limited creating overpriced pharmaceuticals and medical supplies.
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Change is needed.
Fortunately, solutions are at hand.
The 10 healthiest and the 10 least healthy states.
Escape Fire
A movie that examines the powerful forces maintaining the status quo in the US medical industry, an industry designed for quick fixes rather than prevention, for profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care.
What’s New in
Conventional Medicine?
Hospital Food
Hospital food has a notorious reputation. Mostly for taste. Nutritional strength may be lacking as well. 40% of American hospitals have fast food restaurants on premises. Here is a hospital doing something different
Steven Glass CFO Cleavland Clinic
Here, Mr. Glass explains why U.S. healthcare has become so expensive today, what hospital leaders need to do to change that paradigm, how data can be utilized correctly and why environmental sustainability and international relations are key cogs to Cleveland Clinic’s growing success.
Cancer Treament
“As the anecdotes coalesce into data, there is a sense of paradigms shifting. Immunotherapy marks an entirely different way of treating cancer—by targeting the immune system, not the tumor itself. Oncologists, a grounded-in-reality bunch, say a corner has been turned and we won’t be going back.”
End of life
To look at end of life decisions from the perspective of medical professionals may help us as we attempt to navigate our current medical system and all the choices that we are often confronted with our loved ones and ourselves.
Hospital Food
Hospital food has a notorious reputation. Mostly for taste. Nutritional strength may be lacking as well. 40% of American hospitals have fast food restaurants on premises. Here is a hospital doing something different
Steven Glass CFO Cleavland Clinic
Here, Mr. Glass explains why U.S. healthcare has become so expensive today, what hospital leaders need to do to change that paradigm, how data can be utilized correctly and why environmental sustainability and international relations are key cogs to Cleveland Clinic’s growing success.
Cancer Treament
“As the anecdotes coalesce into data, there is a sense of paradigms shifting. Immunotherapy marks an entirely different way of treating cancer—by targeting the immune system, not the tumor itself. Oncologists, a grounded-in-reality bunch, say a corner has been turned and we won’t be going back.”
End of life
To look at end of life decisions from the perspective of medical professionals may help us as we attempt to navigate our current medical system and all the choices that we are often confronted with our loved ones and ourselves.
Complementary Medicine
Complementary Medicine
The doctor of the future will give no medicines, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the causes and prevention of disease. ~Thomas Edison
Craniosacral Therapy
CST uses a light touch to examine membranes and movement of fluids in and around the central nervous system. It ‘is a gentle hands-on treatment that may provide relief from a variety of symptoms including headaches, neck pain and side effects of cancer treatment among many others.
Structural Integration
Rolfing
‘Connective tissues surround, support and penetrate all of the muscles, bones, nerves and organs. Rolfing Structural Integration works on this web-like complex of connective tissues to release, realign and balance the whole body, thus potentially resolving discomfort, reducing compensations and alleviating pain. Rolfing SI aims to restore flexibility, revitalize your energy and leave you feeling more comfortable in your body’.
Chiropractic Treatment
A health care professional focused on the diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders, with an emphasis on treatment through manual adjustment and/or manipulation of the spine.
Massage
Massage benefits can include.. reducing stress and increasing relaxation, reducing pain and muscle soreness and tension, improving circulation, energy and alertness, lowering heart rate and blood pressure and improving immune function.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture involves the insertion of extremely thin needles through your skin at strategic points on your body. Traditional Chinese medicine explains acupuncture as a technique for balancing the flow of energy or life force — known as qi or chi (CHEE) — believed to flow through pathways (meridians) in your body. By inserting needles into specific points along these meridians, acupuncture practitioners believe that your energy flow will re-balance.
Yoga
‘Yoga is a mind and body practice. Various styles of yoga combine physical postures, breathing techniques, and meditation or relaxation. … It involves movement, meditation, and breathing techniques to promote mental and physical well-being. Yoga can improve strength, balance and flexibility as well as relieve back pain and arthritic symptoms. It can promote relaxation, help manage stress as well as increase energy.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/9-benefits-of-yoga
Naturopathic Doctor
‘Naturopathic doctors are educated and trained in accredited naturopathic medical colleges. They diagnose, prevent, and treat acute and chronic illness to restore and establish optimal health by supporting the person’s inherent self-healing process. Rather than just suppressing symptoms, naturopathic doctors work to identify underlying causes of illness, and develop personalized treatment plans to address them. Their Therapeutic Order™, identifies the natural order in which all therapies should be applied to provide the greatest benefit with the least potential for damage’.
Homeopathy
According to the The American Institute of Homeopathy, homeopathy is a holistic, natural, safe system of medicine that stimulates the person’s own healing power. It was developed in Germany over 200 years ago and it is practiced in countries all over the world. There are no interactions with conventional drugs and is recognized by the FDA.
Osteopathic Medicine
‘This system of hands-on techniques helps alleviate pain, restores motion, supports the body’s natural functions and influences the body’s structure to help it function more efficiently. They believe that structure influences function. Thus, if there is a problem in one part of the body’s structure, function in that area, and possibly in other areas, may be affected. They also believe in the body’s innate ability to heal itself. Many of osteopathic medicine’s manipulative techniques are aimed at reducing or eliminating the impediments to proper structure and function so the self-healing mechanism can assume its role in restoring a person to health’.
Biological Medicine
Diseases and symptoms are evaluated as processes of dysregulation involving toxicities, nutrient and immune deficiencies, biological terrain imbalances, stress, and disturbances that cause unhealthy cellular and organ regeneration. Diagnostics and therapies you can expect are European Regulation Thermography, Darkfield Microscopy, Heart Rate Variability, Biological Terrain Analysis (Redox Resistance), Bio-Energy Testing, Autonomic Response Testing and Heavy Metal Testing for example.
Parasympathetic Nervous System Deficiency
The doctor of the future will give no medicines, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the causes and prevention of disease. ~Thomas Edison
Craniosacral Therapy
CST uses a light touch to examine membranes and movement of fluids in and around the central nervous system. It ‘is a gentle hands-on treatment that may provide relief from a variety of symptoms including headaches, neck pain and side effects of cancer treatment among many others.
Structural Integration
Rolfing
‘Connective tissues surround, support and penetrate all of the muscles, bones, nerves and organs. Rolfing Structural Integration works on this web-like complex of connective tissues to release, realign and balance the whole body, thus potentially resolving discomfort, reducing compensations and alleviating pain. Rolfing SI aims to restore flexibility, revitalize your energy and leave you feeling more comfortable in your body’.
Chiropractic Treatment
A health care professional focused on the diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders, with an emphasis on treatment through manual adjustment and/or manipulation of the spine.
Massage
Massage benefits can include.. reducing stress and increasing relaxation, reducing pain and muscle soreness and tension, improving circulation, energy and alertness, lowering heart rate and blood pressure and improving immune function.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture involves the insertion of extremely thin needles through your skin at strategic points on your body. Traditional Chinese medicine explains acupuncture as a technique for balancing the flow of energy or life force — known as qi or chi (CHEE) — believed to flow through pathways (meridians) in your body. By inserting needles into specific points along these meridians, acupuncture practitioners believe that your energy flow will re-balance.
Yoga
‘Yoga is a mind and body practice. Various styles of yoga combine physical postures, breathing techniques, and meditation or relaxation. … It involves movement, meditation, and breathing techniques to promote mental and physical well-being. Yoga can improve strength, balance and flexibility as well as relieve back pain and arthritic symptoms. It can promote relaxation, help manage stress as well as increase energy.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/9-benefits-of-yoga
Naturopathic Doctor
‘Naturopathic doctors are educated and trained in accredited naturopathic medical colleges. They diagnose, prevent, and treat acute and chronic illness to restore and establish optimal health by supporting the person’s inherent self-healing process. Rather than just suppressing symptoms, naturopathic doctors work to identify underlying causes of illness, and develop personalized treatment plans to address them. Their Therapeutic Order™, identifies the natural order in which all therapies should be applied to provide the greatest benefit with the least potential for damage’.
Homeopathy
According to the The American Institute of Homeopathy, homeopathy is a holistic, natural, safe system of medicine that stimulates the person’s own healing power. It was developed in Germany over 200 years ago and it is practiced in countries all over the world. There are no interactions with conventional drugs and is recognized by the FDA.
Osteopathic Medicine
‘This system of hands-on techniques helps alleviate pain, restores motion, supports the body’s natural functions and influences the body’s structure to help it function more efficiently. They believe that structure influences function. Thus, if there is a problem in one part of the body’s structure, function in that area, and possibly in other areas, may be affected. They also believe in the body’s innate ability to heal itself. Many of osteopathic medicine’s manipulative techniques are aimed at reducing or eliminating the impediments to proper structure and function so the self-healing mechanism can assume its role in restoring a person to health’.
Biological Medicine
Diseases and symptoms are evaluated as processes of dysregulation involving toxicities, nutrient and immune deficiencies, biological terrain imbalances, stress, and disturbances that cause unhealthy cellular and organ regeneration. Diagnostics and therapies you can expect are European Regulation Thermography, Darkfield Microscopy, Heart Rate Variability, Biological Terrain Analysis (Redox Resistance), Bio-Energy Testing, Autonomic Response Testing and Heavy Metal Testing for example.
Parasympathetic Nervous System Deficiency
Patients often turn to complementary healing modalities when mainstream medicine has not been effective for their issue, or when side effects related to those types of treatments outweigh the benefits in their view.
Double blind testing was developed to take away the subjective and sometime superstitious way we approached healing in the past. But, this is not foolproof. Our understanding is continually expanding, and what is currently accepted as standard medical practice most likely will change with time.
Insulin shock therapy, Bloodletting with leeches, radiating ones water for health (Radium), children’s cough syrups with Heroin, other healing syrups utilizing Cocaine, the use of mercury to help cure just about anything, lobotomies, tobacco smoke enemas for healing, tapeworm diets for weight loss, the use of arsenic and mercury to treat Syphilis before the advent of Penicillin are all examples of what was once believed to be helpful. And, remember, MDs even promoted cigarette smoking at one time.
We are always evolving our understanding.
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Mainstream medicine has been very helpful and saved many lives: Acute MI, Strokes, the treatment of trauma, some surgical interventions, severe infections are examples. Complementary modalities are often beneficial in supporting deeper healing. They often work “with” the body and explore root causes. Some assist the body to heal itself by providing the support necessary to do so.
Supporting more double blind testing of alternative healing modalities may help to move them more quickly to the conventional realm.
“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”
Patients often turn to complementary healing modalities when mainstream medicine has not been effective for their issue, or when side effects related to those types of treatments outweigh the benefits in their view.
Double blind testing was developed to take away the subjective and sometime superstitious way we approached healing in the past. But, this is not foolproof. Our understanding is continually expanding, and what is currently accepted as standard medical practice most likely will change with time.
Insulin shock therapy, Bloodletting with leeches, radiating ones water for health (Radium), children’s cough syrups with Heroin, other healing syrups utilizing Cocaine, the use of mercury to help cure just about anything, lobotomies, tobacco smoke enemas for healing, tapeworm diets for weight loss, the use of arsenic and mercury to treat Syphilis before the advent of Penicillin are all examples of what was once believed to be helpful. And, remember, MDs even promoted cigarette smoking at one time.
We are always evolving our understanding.
.
Mainstream medicine has been very helpful and saved many lives: Acute MI, Strokes, the treatment of trauma, some surgical interventions, severe infections are examples. Complementary modalities are often beneficial in supporting deeper healing. They often work “with” the body and explore root causes. Some assist the body to heal itself by providing the support necessary to do so.
Supporting more double blind testing of alternative healing modalities may help to move them more quickly to the conventional realm.
“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”
Pharmageddon
“The prospect of a world in which medicines and medicine produce more ill-health than health, and when medical progress does more harm than good.”
Dr Mercola
Pharmageddon
“The prospect of a world in which medicines and medicine produce more ill-health than health, and when medical progress does more harm than good.”
Dr Mercola
US: How Did We Get Here?
In the 1930’s President Roosevelt explored the possibility of creating a national health insurance insurance program while it was designing the social security system. President Truman again revisited this idea in 1945, but it was opposed by the AMA and AHA. Thus we had the beginning of private insurance in Blue Cross and by 1958, 75% of Americans had some form of private insurance. The ‘Health Care’ industry was born.
By 1965 however, only half of seniors had health care insurance and their rates were 3x what a young persons were at a time in life when their income was less. Lyndon B. Johnson instituted our current Medicare/Mediaid programs. These programs dramatically reduced poverty for seniors while containing costs compared with the private sector. Currently Medicare spends approximately 3% on administrative costs compared with up to 30% for private insurance proving that government can be more efficient than the private sector.
Private insurances were all too willing to allow government to take the elderly as they were the most costly. Most of our health care dollar is spent in the final years of life. The process of cherry picking ‘customers’, taking only the healthiest of the population began ensuring their profit centric businesses were maintained.
By the time the Affordable Health Care was enacted in Jan. 2014, 16% of our population went without health care insurance because it was either being denied due to medical conditions or for many, it became too unaffordable. Many delayed care until it was unavoidable at which point patients used emergency rooms for care. The costs of treatment were absorbed by the hospitals but returned to all of us in increased costs.
Not only has this made bad business sense, it has cost America its health and well being. For example, In 2007, GM and Ford spent $1500 for every car they made on healthcare costs while BMW spent $450 and Honda $150.
One in every five patients readmitted to the hospital within a year of an inpatient treatment ends up there because of an adverse drug reaction. Our pharmaceutical dominate on conventional medical system. Now, they have taken to our airwaves. There are two countries in the world that allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise directly to consumers, the US and New Zealand.
The proliferation in the use of atypical antipsychotic drugs for anxiety and insomnia that carry potentially serious side effects is an example of a system that could very well be making us sicker.
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US: How Did We Get Here?
In the 1930’s President Roosevelt explored the possibility of creating a national health insurance insurance program while it was designing the social security system. President Truman again revisited this idea in 1945, but it was opposed by the AMA and AHA. Thus we had the beginning of private insurance in Blue Cross and by 1958, 75% of Americans had some form of private insurance. The ‘Health Care’ industry was born.
By 1965 however, only half of seniors had health care insurance and their rates were 3x what a young persons were at a time in life when their income was less. Lyndon B. Johnson instituted our current Medicare/Mediaid programs. These programs dramatically reduced poverty for seniors while containing costs compared with the private sector. Currently Medicare spends approximately 3% on administrative costs compared with up to 30% for private insurance proving that government can be more efficient than the private sector.
Private insurances were all too willing to allow government to take the elderly as they were the most costly. Most of our health care dollar is spent in the final years of life. The process of cherry picking ‘customers’, taking only the healthiest of the population began ensuring their profit centric businesses were maintained.
By the time the Affordable Health Care was enacted in Jan. 2014, 16% of our population went without health care insurance because it was either being denied due to medical conditions or for many, it became too unaffordable. Many delayed care until it was unavoidable at which point patients used emergency rooms for care. The costs of treatment were absorbed by the hospitals but returned to all of us in increased costs.
Not only has this made bad business sense, it has cost America its health and well being. For example, In 2007, GM and Ford spent $1500 for every car they made on healthcare costs while BMW spent $450 and Honda $150.
One in every five patients readmitted to the hospital within a year of an inpatient treatment ends up there because of an adverse drug reaction. Our pharmaceutical dominate on conventional medical system. Now, they have taken to our airwaves. There are two countries in the world that allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise directly to consumers, the US and New Zealand.
The proliferation in the use of atypical antipsychotic drugs for anxiety and insomnia that carry potentially serious side effects is an example of a system that could very well be making us sicker.
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Healthcare Solutions
Healthcare Solutions
A Single Payer System
Everyone in….No One Left Out
What is a Single Payer System, and why is it beneficial?
Through pooling of our resources, costs of administration, pharmaceutical and durable medical equipment are all lowered significantly. Single Payer would emphasize preventative health care further reducing costs and place our attention on staying healthy rather than our current system of managing disease processes which is costly. This is a system that includes everyone while lowering our overall costs. It eliminates “for profit” companies from controlling our health care and returns our resources back to providing health care for more individuals.
A Single Payer System
Everyone in….No One Left Out
What is a Single Payer System, and why is it beneficial?
Through pooling of our resources, costs of administration, pharmaceutical and durable medical equipment are all lowered significantly. Single Payer would emphasize preventative health care further reducing costs and place our attention on staying healthy rather than our current system of managing disease processes which is costly. This is a system that includes everyone while lowering our overall costs. It eliminates “for profit” companies from controlling our health care and returns our resources back to providing health care for more individuals.
California
A grassroots movement for the establishment of a single-payer health care financing system in California (CA) has been building since the 1990s. For more information, including what has been accomplished so far, click on the following links
Click Here or Here
For more information
Call: 888-442-4255
Carol Cassella, MD, author of Oxygen and Healer
Please just give us a Single Payer Program Already
California
A grassroots movement for the establishment of a single-payer health care financing system in California (CA) has been building since the 1990s. For more information, including what has been accomplished so far, click on the following links
Click Here or Here
For more information
Call: 888-442-4255
Carol Cassella, MD, author of Oxygen and Healer
Please just give us a Single Payer Program Already