On Healthcare Reform

Obama’s Pharma Care Debacle

Posted on 26 March 2010 by Curt Linderman Sr. ATO Opinion Press

It’s absolutely puzzling to me that there are those in this country that actually believe that Obama’s Health Care Reform is a good thing for this country. While there is little doubt among any semi-intelligent American that health care is desperately in need of reform, I simply cannot believe that anyone with even a bit of intelligence could stand by and support this specific reform. I honestly don’t believe that any of our elected officials, Democrat or Republican, have the capability of true reform.

As the Health Care debate began in earnest more than a year ago, did it escape all of the main stream media’s attention that the first concessions were made to the pharmaceutical industry? This “oversight” was the main stream media following orders from their masters, their advertisers: the Pharmaceutical companies. On the very next day after Congress passed HR 3200 (Health Care Reform) this was the response from a pharmaceutical insider group: “The reform package will extend insurance coverage to some 32 million more Americans, adding millions more paying customers into the health care system. That’s expected to be a big bonus for drugmakers: Goodbye to postponed refills and never filled prescriptions. Hello to better treatment and higher drug sales—for the newly insured.” Fierce Pharma. (Underlined text is from the original document…not this author).

While there are some incredibly idiotic citizens within the United States that might actually believe that increased access to drugs is a good thing, this is the farthest thing from the truth. How can there possibly be true health care reform when there is not one mention in this Bill regarding nutrition? While physicians no longer learn a damn thing about nutrition in med school, there is absolutely no doubt that nutrition, GOOD NUTRITION, is the cornerstone to true health. Meanwhile, President Obama and the Democrats are signing deals with an ecstatic drug industry that can’t wait for all of their newly signed on victims.

Drug makers have recently been in the news regarding the researchers that they pay-off to sign ghost written studies that are fabrications, or better yet, outright lies. Johnson & Johnson, one of the thoroughly happy pharma giants chomping at the bit to reap the rewards of Obama’s “health care reform”, is in the news for paying off pharmacy benefits managers to prescribe their drugs over others. These are the companies that we are entrusting our health to? Can we trust a government that cuts deals with pharma?

The natural health community was recently involved in a battle over a little known Bill proposed, wrongly named “The Mother’s Act”. Politicians in this country are well known for naming Bills that make Americans totally unaware of their true agenda, take “The Patriot Act” for example. Totally unpatriotic yet sounds like something that any American would expect their elected official to vote for. The Mother’s Act is no different. This horrific Act is simply a way for psychiatrists to gain access to every new mother through mental screening. As we all know, a new mother’s hormones are completely out of whack and I can’t think of one mom that wouldn’t qualify for a prescription for depression or mood swings, given the ridiculous and blatantly non-medical guidelines of psychiatry. With Obama’s Health Care reform, this Act is alive and well and now law. Pharmaceutical companies once again have won with the passage of this Bill. Upon scrutinizing the so-called “mother’s groups” out there that have supported The Mother’s Act, we find payoffs from Eli lilly, Phizer, and the other oharma giants. Now that’s reform!

Health Care reform means a boom for big pharma, simple as that. More Americans will gain access to statins that are poison, high blood pressure medications that are useless and uncalled for, by-pass surgeries that can be fixed with chelation (yes, a medicine) and psychotropic medications for all Americans that can’t seem to realize that life simply has its ups and downs. What will happen as more Americans become drugged into submission or violence? Consider all of the school shootings over the past two decades: name me one child shooter that wasn’t on medication or recently taken off. Name me one mother that has killed her children that wasn’t on a psychotropic drug. This will happen on a far grander scale ow that pharma has access to 32 million more Americans. Prepare for pharmageddon!

Compounding pharmacies that actually personalize medications for those that need them will be affected by this new Health Care Bill as well, with strict and unnecessary regulations. This issue is something that had been thought to be rectified within the legislature but then reborn with this atrocious Bill. Why does everything pertaining to more money for pharma and insurance companies mean true health for Americans?

We are in for a world of hurt with this “reform”. Americans must unite and demand true reform, taking action that tells our politicians and the medical establishment that we refuse their allegiance to those that will poison us and keep us sick for their profit margins. We must demand true health reform that looks at the core issues of natural health. Drop your processed foods and your addiction to “just taking a pill for your ills”. Grow up and demand action or suffer the consequences of a president and Congress that has sold you out.


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MORE ON THE MOTHER'S ACT:

http://www.feingold.org/enews/mothersact.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1909628,00.html

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-dangerous-and-invasive-mothers-act/

More Evidence that Big Government Owns Your Parental Rights

Arrest ordered for mom of boy, 13, resisting chemo

By AMY FORLITI, Associated Press Writer Amy Forliti, Associated Press Writer 44 mins ago

NEW ULM, Minn. – Authorities sought to arrest the mother of a 13-year-old boy with cancer who refuses chemotherapy after she fled with her son and missed a court hearing Tuesday on his welfare. A judge issued an arrest warrant and ordered that Daniel Hauser be placed in a foster home and be sent for an immediate examination by a pediatric oncologist so he can get treated for Hodgkins lymphoma.

"The court's priority at this point is to try to get Daniel Hauser and get him the care he needs," Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg said.

The cancer is considered highly curable with chemotherapy and radiation, but Daniel quit chemo after a single treatment. With his parents, he opted instead for "alternative medicines," citing religious beliefs. That led authorities to seek custody. Rodenberg last week ruled that Daniel's parents, Colleen and Anthony Hauser, were medically neglecting their son.

The Hausers are Roman Catholic and also believe in the "do no harm" philosophy of the Nemenhah Band, a Missouri-based religious group that believes in natural healing methods advocated by some American Indians.

Colleen Hauser testified earlier that she had been treating his cancer with herbal supplements, vitamins, ionized water and other natural alternatives.

The family was due in court Tuesday to report the results of a chest X-ray and their arrangements for an oncologist. But only Daniel's father appeared. He told Rodenberg he last saw his wife Monday evening.

"She said she was going to leave," Hauser testified. "She said, `That's all you need to know.' And that's all I know."

He said Colleen Hauser left her cell phone at their home in the southern Minnesota town of Sleepy Eye.

Anthony Hauser now agrees that Daniel needs to be taken back to a doctor for re-evaluation for the best treatment, said Calvin Johnson, an attorney for the parents.

The founder of Nemenhah, Philip Cloudpiler Landis, said it was a bad idea for Colleen Hauser to flee with her son.

"She should have gone to court," Landis said. "It's how we work these things out. You don't solve anything by disregarding the order of the judge."

The arrest warrant has been distributed nationwide and a crime alert was being issued to businesses around the country, Brown County Sheriff Rich Hoffman said. He said investigators were following some leads, but declined to elaborate.

The family's doctor, James Joyce, testified by telephone that Daniel's tumor has grown and he needs immediate assessment by a specialist.

Joyce said he examined Daniel on Monday, and an X-ray showed that his tumor had grown to the size it was when he was first diagnosed.

"He had basically gotten back all the trouble he had in January," the doctor said.

Daniel said he had pain on the right side of his chest, which he rated a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10, Joyce said.

Joyce said the pain was around the port that was inserted into Daniel's chest to administer chemotherapy. He attributed the pain to the growing tumor, which is pushing the port out of place.

He said Daniel was at risk of substantial physical harm if no action is taken.

Daniel was accompanied to the appointment with Joyce by his mother and Susan Daya, a California attorney.

Joyce testified that he offered to make appointments for Daniel with oncologists, but the Hausers declined. He also said he tried to give Daniel more information about lymphoma but that the three left in a rush.

"Under Susan Daya's urging, they indicated they had other places to go," Joyce said.

Daya did not immediately return a page left on her cell phone Tuesday by The Associated Press. Her voice mailbox was full. The court also tried to reach her during the hearing, but got no answer.

In his ruling last week, Rodenberg wrote that he would not order chemotherapy if Daniel's prognosis was poor. But if the outlook was good, it appeared chemotherapy and possibly radiation would be in the boy's best interest, he wrote.

Daniel's lymphoma was diagnosed in January, and six rounds of chemotherapy were recommended. Daniel underwent one round in February but stopped after that single treatment. He and his parents sought other opinions, but the doctors agreed with the initial assessment.

State statutes require parents to provide necessary medical care for a child, Rodenberg wrote. The statutes say alternative and complementary health care methods aren't enough.

He also wrote that Daniel, who has a learning disability and cannot read, did not understand the risks and benefits of chemotherapy and didn't believe he was ill.

Daniel testified that he believed the chemo would kill him and told the judge in private testimony unsealed later that if anyone tried to force him to take it, "I'd fight it. I'd punch them and I'd kick them."

Here's a videos of the news story (Can't embed from shitty news source):

Dangerous Chemo Forced Onto Helpless Child