Saturday, 29. May 2010
You or a loved one suffers from the ’silent killer’ of High Blood Pressure or Hypertension. Unfortunately, you are dealing with a very deadly disease that kills almost 60,000 Americans every year. Fortunately, you know that you (or a loved one) have High Blood Pressure and you are doing something about it! Information is one of the most important tools you have for not allowing High Blood Pressure to take your life!
Before you begin treating your high blood pressure with hypertension medication, it is important you know what you might be getting from the medication. And like some things, high blood pressure prescription drugs have their good and their bad! What Prescription Drug Companies Don’t Want You To Know…
1. Diuretics: Though diuretics relieve your body of water and sodium (decreasing blood pressure), did you know diuretics will literally drain your body of precious nutrients that keep the body healthy. ISN’T THERE A BETTER OPTION?
2. Beta Blockers: Beta Blockers create a slowing of the heart thus relieving pressure. However, common side-effects include: fatigue, cold hands/feet (poor circulation), dizziness, dryness of mouth/eyes/skin and asthma like symptoms. NO THANK YOU!
3. ACE Inhibitors: ACE Inhibitors inhibit the formation of angiotensin II which relaxes the arteries thus lower the blood pressure. Unfortunately, common side-effects include loss of taste, skin rash, raspy cough, and sometimes kidney failure. NEXT!
4. Alpha Blockers: Alpha Blockers relax muscles and keep blood pressure down. But get this, Alpha blockers’s common side-effects are headaches (migraines), nausea, fatigue, weight gain, pounding heartbeat, and raise bad cholesterol and in some cases cause of heart failure. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
5. Vasodilators: Vasodilators are usually a last-resort medication and have severe side-effects. Side-effects include: chest pain, rapid heartbeat, heart palpitations, fluid retention (edema), nausea, vomiting, dizziness, flushing, headache, nasal congestion and excessive hair growth. WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WANTS THAT?
6. The Cost: Did you know that millions of people spend hundreds to thousands of dollars alone on these medications? That is why health care is a multi-billion dollar industry! IS THERE SOME CHEAPER?Thousands of People Cure Hypertension Naturally and Permanently
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Wednesday, 12. May 2010
http://www.burtonreport.com/InfHealthCare/BritNatHealthServ.htm
The British National Health Service
There exists in England today a sometimes uncaring, often unresponsive and typically disrespectful health care system. This system, as well as other global socialized systems, not created in regard to the patient’s best interest, continue to be considered as worthy of emulation by many in the United States government. This continues to be a very much ill-advised initiative. The latest “buzz” in health care is “evidence-based medical practice.” Well, let’s examine the evidence:
There is little question but that the American health care system is inordinately expensive. Perhaps value is being received because longevity and quality of life have progressively increased and patient satisfaction remains high. There is also little doubt, however, but that we could do a much better job of improving service and decreasing overall cost by replacing HMOs with MSAs (Medical Savings Accounts) and getting serious about a paradigm shift to a truly preventive mode.
Before rushing to adapt another failed system the United States needs to carefully assess what we have now. “Queuing-up” has been part of the British persona for many decades. It’s not, however, part of the American mind-set. Standing patiently in line for rationed goods and maintaining a “stiff upper lip” have been an unenviable “badge of courage” which has been the signature of our British cousins in the past. There is also an almost unique phenomenon in Britain which relates to the remarkable degree of trust automatically given (traditionally) to all professionals (government, law and medicine). In health care this explains a long-time supercilious attitude toward patients not counteracted by appropriate medical oversight. The really tough question for the new millennium is: how long will England continue to tolerate the chronic disrespectful behavior and continually declining quality and service of its “Health Service”?
The British prescription for health care continues to be typified by the phrase “Take A Seat.” There is a remarkable complacency among a population which readily accepts the notorious British National Health Service (HNS) waiting lists for necessary hospital treatment. As the 20th century ended there were 1.12 million ever-suffering souls patiently waiting for needed hospitalization. This appears to be the price for “free care. One usually gets what one pays for. There is no doubt but that disabled Americans would be a great deal more impatient regarding their desire for prompt quality service than our British cousins.
The British Health Service continues to announce that the official list of those waiting for care is shrinking. This is simply not so; what has happened is that waiting lists to get on waiting lists have been created. After waiting to be seen by a family physician a British patient incapacitated with a spine problem may have to linger for more than a year to see a specialist. It is up to the specialist to determine the urgency of the case and to order any specialized tests. After the wait for the tests and the results (often a process of months) the next wait, of about a year, for surgery begins. Are things getting better? As of May, 2001 all indications were that the British National Health Service continued to “languish from bureaucracy, demoralization and capricious medical fads” (clearly not a formula for success). ( Lawlor S: Britian’s Nationalized Medicine Needs Doctoring, The Wall Street Journal Europe, May 3, 2001).
Are things better in Canada? A 1998 study by the Fraser Institute located in Vancouver suggests not. Fortunately our Canadian neighbors have the opportunity to opt-out and “escape” their Federal Health Program by bolting across the border. On August 30, 2001 the Wall Street Journal reported that the British National Health Service had nearly one million patients waiting for treatment (40,000 of these waiting for surgery for over a year) and they have officially announced that henceforth the NHS will start paying patients to travel across the English channel for treatment in the European Union countries.
Socialized health care systems typically address the best interests of the state rather than the individual. The urge by these political entities to cling to unworkable and discredited policies is the stuff of legend. Tight financial controls in Japan have kept their medical costs to about 7% of their Gross National Product (GNP). The Japanese, however, also only get what they pay for. In the United States in 1996 26,200 patients were treated with defibrillators as a life-saving device. Japan (with half of the United States’ population) treated only 100 such patients because such devices are rare in Japan. Many other important medical devices such as cardiac stents and other sophisticated implants are also not usually available. Because of artificially low, government mandated, physician
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