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Preamble:
Our nation
faces a healthcare cost crisis
that parallels the epidemics o f
chronic degenerative diseases
sweeping across our land and
undermining the health and
productivity of its citizens.
Experts tell us that by the year
2010 the cost of health care
will consume 28% of our GNP and
a significant portion of the
budget of each state. This
fiscal tumor must be lanced or
it will continue to contribute
to the bankruptcy of our federal
and state treasuries.
Today California, indeed the United States of America,
does not have a healthcare
system. In the area of the
treatment of chronic
degenerative diseases, where
most of our healthcare dollars
are spent, we have a disease
management system. Managing the
signs of chronic degenerative
diseases like cancer, heart
disease, diabetes, high blood
pressure, osteoporosis and
arthritis has become big
business. The focus of drug
medicine is not to cure or
reverse the causes of diseases
but to manage the signs and
symptoms – at a high cost - with
essentially poisonous drugs,
whose side effects are often
deleterious and require evenly
costlier management to the
detriment of the patient and the
treasury. It is a national
scandal. The interventionist
model of healthcare, dominated
by drug-medicine, presents a
clear and present danger to the
health of our nation and its
national security. While America has the
best trauma and infectious
disease medicine in the world,
epidemics of chronic
degenerative diseases are
sweeping the nation from cancer
and diabetes to obesity. These
epidemics are sapping the
strength of our citizens, our
work force and are significantly
adding to our mounting state and
federal deficits.
Because the
greater portion of our
healthcare dollars are spent on
managing the signs and symptoms
of medical conditions that are
primarily lifestyle diseases,
our state and national
treasuries can realize great
savings in healthcare costs if
medicine was redirected to
placing a greater emphasis on
preventing and reversing the
underlying causes of these
chronic degenerative diseases.
The proposed legislation goes to
the heart of the problem:
retraining doctors to shift
their emphasis from disease
management to preventing and
curing diseases, both in patient
care and patient education.
The problem must be addressed at
its origins.
Firstly,
medical schools must offer more
classes in preventive medicine
and nutritional therapy. Today
few of our medical schools offer
substantial courses in
nutritional medicine. The use
of drugs to manage the signs and
symptoms of disease over-rides
all other concerns.
Secondly,
the public must be re-educated:
doctors must educate their
patients and the general public
to take responsibility for their
health by adopting healthy
lifestyles and more nutritious
eating habits. Today the
average patient is conditioned
by media propaganda and drug
advertisements to expect a quick
fix of their largely
self-originating health
problems. The problem is one of
a self-perpetuating spiral – the
patient is conditioned to
disregard the laws of life and
health by promises of better
health by miracle drugs and the
doctor is expected to meet these
demands or lose the confidence
of the patient. The winner in
this bottomless spiral is the
drug companies – not the
patient, not the doctor and not
the state and national
treasuries.
Thirdly,
the standard for determining
what constitute proper medical
practice must be redefined to
open the door to nutritional
medicine which seeks to prevent
and reverse the causes of
lifestyle diseases. Today
nutritional physicians are
excluded from fully
participating in patient care.
They are often ostracized,
ridiculed or penalized for
removing the patient from a
dependency on a lifetime use of
palliative drugs. Yet they are
the very ones saving the state
and national treasuries
countless millions in healthcare
costs. Physicians practicing
nutritional therapy, judiciously
utilizing drugs in emergency
cases, must be given a seat at
the table. The playing field
must be leveled so that they can
compete in the market place of
healthcare.
Fourthly,
the definition of a medically
safe product or procedure must
be altered. It must be brought
into conformity with the
definition of other safe/unsafe
products. The general
definition of what constitutes
an unsafe product utilizes the
reasonably safe alternative
design model. For some
mysterious reason this
definition is excluded from
medical practice and medical
product manufacture - the result
is to create a monopoly for drug
medicine and the exclusion of
nutritional modalities in the
treatment of chronic
degenerative diseases.
Finally,
the public consumption of
harmful foods must be
addressed. While it may not be
proper to command behavior,
incentives may be devised to
influence behavior into the
right channels. Today health
science has identified the cause
of 80%+ of diseases people now
have – the ones that cost 80%+
of our medical dollars. This is
not a mystery that needs to be
researched or pondered. The
medical and scientific
literature identifies a major
cause of our chronic
degenerative diseases to be a
lack of whole foods in the diet
combined with the excessive
consumption of red meat,
poultry, dairy and junk foods,
whose main ingredients are
overly refined foods, including
white sugar, white flour and
pasta . The jury is not still
out on these issues. The facts
are clear and the evidence is
legion. What we have is a
failure of government to stand
up to the manufacturers of
harmful foods and regulate the
industry so that the health of
its citizens is protected.
Proposed
Bill:
1.
To amend the relevant sections
of the Education Code to make it
mandatory that our medical
schools teach substantial
classes in nutritional
medicine/therapy. Note:
Hippocrates, the Father of
Medicine stated that if a doctor
does not know the relation
between food and disease, how
can he ever hope to help his
patients? For a physician to
“first do no harm” he must be
properly educated so that he can
both medically help and educate
his patients.
2.
To amend the relevant sections
of the Education Code to provide
that a doctor shall take a
specified number of units of
continuing education in diet or
nutritional therapy to get
his/her license renewed.
Note: similar requirements are
in existence for elder care,
AIDS, cancer/hospice, pain
management etc.
3.
To amend the relevant sections
of the Medical Code to redefine
proper medical care: It should
be medical negligence for a
physician to only manage the
signs/symptoms of chronic
degenerative diseases, without
also attempting to cure or
arrest the underlying causes of
the diseases by means which
include nutritional
medicine/therapy, lifestyle
changes and change of poor
nutritional eating habits.
Note: The state and federal
treasury will greatly benefit,
if, while judiciously utilizing
conventional medicine to
stabilize and preserve the life
of the patient, the physician
explores nutritional means and
lifestyle changes to reverse or
arrest the underlying cause of
the chronic degenerative disease
he/she is treating. The
evidence is clear that
physicians are contributing to
the epidemic of chronic
degenerative diseases by their
disdain for nutritional therapy
while relying excessively on
drug medications which leave the
underlying disease intact, often
aggravate it, and often result
in the onset of new diseases to
be treated by yet more poisonous
drugs.
4.
To amend the relevant sections
of the Civil Code to redefine a
safe/unsafe medical product or
procedure as follows: a) A
medical product is defective in
design when the foreseeable
risks of harm posed by the
product could have been reduced
or avoided by the adoption of a
reasonable alternative design by
the seller or other distributor,
or a predecessor in the chain of
distribution, and the omission
of the alternative design or
procedure renders the product or
procedure not reasonably safe.
b) A medical procedure is
defective in implementation when
the foreseeable risks of harm
posed by the procedure could
have been reduced or avoided by
the adoption of a reasonable
alternative procedure or
practicing by the physician, and
the omission of the alternative
procedure or practice renders
the procedure not reasonably
safe. Note: The standard
for medical conduct must be
based on commonsense. If a
practice or procedure results in
death or more suffering that the
disease, it must be condemned
outright. Most importantly, the
opinions of the nutritional and
herbal physicians who base their
practice on sound empirical
principles which successfully
prevent or reverse chronic
degenerative diseases, must be
admitted as competent evidence
as to what constitutes proper
medical care.
5.
To amending the relevant
sections of the Consumer Code as
follows: It shall be unlawful
for a manufacturer or producer
of foods designed for sale or
distribution for profit to the
public, to put into the market
place products whose main
ingredients are either of the
following or combinations of
them: refined sugar, refined
flour, white rice, high-fats and
trans-fats. Note: Today
the fast foods and junk foods
industry have severed all
connection between food
production and nutrition.
America is being malnourished by
the failure of the FDA and the
several states to see that
wholesome foods are put into the
market place. When combined
with poor lifestyle choices, the
result is an exponential rise in
metabolic diseases such as
obesity, diabetes, heart disease
and cancer.
6.
To amend the relevant sections
of the Education Code to provide
that a) nutrition education from
grade school to higher education
shall utilize a food pyramid
that places greater emphases on
the consumption of whole foods,
fruits and vegetables, and less
on red meats, poultry, dairy and
junk foods; b) fast foods and
junk foods consisting primarily
of refined foods, high-fats and
trans-fat foods and refined
sugar shall not be sold in
public schools or by facilities
˝ mile from such schools.
Note: The evidence is clear
that refined foods are slow
poisons that result in poor
academic performance of school
children, while contributing to
obesity and other diseases.
Plan of
Action:
In order to
change the healthcare model in
every state of the Union from
one of intervention by means of
potentially dangerous drugs to
one of prevention and cure of
chronic degenerative diseases,
the author urges the reader to
take the following urgent
actions:
1.
E-mail a copy of this Healthcare
Cost-Reduction Act to your local
state and federal government
representative and urge them to
sponsor legislation to change
our healthcare model. Send this
e-mail also to your local
newspaper editor, radio and TV
talk show hosts to promote
publicity for the legislation.
A copy of the proposed bill can
be found at
www.Healthcarecostreductionact.org
2.
Purchase copies of Indicted!
and sent copies to your local
state and federal government
representatives urging them to
take action and also to your
local newspaper editor, radio
and TV talk show hosts to
generate publicity and backing
for this legislation.
3.
Send
a copy of Indicted! to
your friends and relatives who
are battling with or have
survived chronic degenerative
diseases by including herbal and
nutritional medicine in their
treatment, asking them to
support potential legislation in
their states to change our
healthcare model from
intervention to prevention and
cure. Ask them to purchase and
send a copy of Indicted!
to their treating physicians,
urging them to support the
inclusion of nutritional therapy
in the care of their
patients.
4.
Contact www.
healthcarereform.biz or email us
at healthcarereformact@gmail.com
and tells us of your stories of
victory over chronic
degenerative diseases by the
inclusion of nutritional and
herbal therapy in your
treatment. Your consent for us
to use this information in
publications and testimonials is
hereby given.
5.
Pre-order a copy of the author’s
follow-up book: The Whisper
of the Serpent: How a False
Theory of Knowledge Destroyed
Ancient Science and Medicine and
Threatens to Destroy Modern
Science and Medicine. The
Whisper is a panoramic
analysis of over 2,500 years of
civil war between nutritional
medicine and drug therapy.
www.whisperoftheserpent.com
6.
Send
a donation to CRCL, Inc. a
California non-profit
organization promoting
humanitarian and educational
work worldwide, including
Healthcare Reform, a medical and
dental clinic in Haiti and
schools in Haiti, India, and
among the Maya Indians of
Belize. Contact
www.crclinc.org
to donate by check, credit card,
or to make gifts of property by
wills or trust. Note: 50% of
the sales from Indicted!
go to the support our worldwide
humanitarian and educational
work.
7.
Organize a local Healthcare
Reform Chapter to promoting
legislation changing our
healthcare model from
intervention to prevention and
cure. |
