Health

Alright, so Congress can't figure out how to overhaul healthcare for some reason.  The best we keep hearing is to make it easier for everyone to get healthcare insurance.  In my opinion they are ignoring the main problem about healthcare in the United States.

It doesn't work.

Sure, if you need to go to the ER because you had an accident with a power tool, and they need to stitch you up so you won't bleed to death, that's one thing.

But cancer, diabetes, thyroid problems, heart disease, etc...

Do you see many of the friends and family members you know with these conditions making full 100% recoveries?

If I had to point my finger at one target, I would say the issue is that it is more viable for hospitals to keep their patients coming back in order for them to stay in business.  Because doctors/hospitals get paid by insurance companies no matter what, it becomes less important to ensure that the patients actually recover from their condition, and more important that doctors see as many patients as possible each day.  To complicate the matter pharmaceutical companies offer financial rewards to doctors who promote their drugs, even if the drugs will not necessarily help the patient at all.  There are many drugs that are being used that have harmful side effects.  These side effects offer additional opportunities to capitalize on the patients by prescribing additional drugs to counteract the side effects.  And the circle continues.

Doctors in the current U.S. medical system have a tendency to perform battlefield medicine.  What that means is as long as the patient no longer has the symptoms they are complaining about and can perform their daily business, the doctor is satisfied.  The problem with this idea is that treating a symptom usually does not cure the patient of a condition.  What typically occurs next is additional symptoms will show up as the patient's condition worsens.  These symptoms will in turn be "treated" while the actual issue is ignored, until the point when the body gives up and cancer or death occurs.

So....in my mind it is more important that we fix THIS issue in the U.S. healthcare system, more than ensuring that everyone can get insurance.   After all, what's the point of having health insurance if the healthcare you receive doesn't help you?

Here is what I propose to help fix the healthcare system in the United States:

Make doctors more accountable by withholding payment until a patient is truly well again.  If you are a doctor and you don't get paid after failing to properly treat your patient, perhaps you might start actually taking the time to listen to your patient, try to find the source of the problems, and not just give them some pharmaceuticals that will only make their symptoms go away.

Prevent insurance companies from paying doctors until a patient has determined to either a) have cooperated with the doctor's treatment plan and shown significant improvement or b) has been shown to not have complied with "doctor's orders".

Create an independent group that assesses whether patients have or have not been "cured" of their original condition enough so as to not continue to have issues with their health.  This group will also assess whether the patient actually followed the doctor's recommendations - in the event that the patient did not follow orders, payment will be sent by their insurance company to the doctor/hopsital anyway, and their insurance premiums will go up.

Forbid the practice of SPIFs or kickbacks to doctors who prescribe new medications being pushed by pharmaceutical companies.  Money from pharmaceutical companies should have absolutely NO impact in a doctor's decision making process when it comes time to treat a patient.  However, it might not be a bad idea to reward pharmaceutical companies when a particular drug works well for a patient in the form of a gratuity from the hospital/doctor who treated the patient in question.

Look...the current healthcare system is a mess because people are trying to make money, and they way they are going about it is all backwards.  Because of this priorities have gotten thrown out the window, aside from the priority of getting money.  Let me try to explain my line of reasoning.

A patient's health should be the first priority.  Anything else should come after.

A lot of people in the U.S. ignore their doctor's recommendations.  The best way to motivate them to "follow doctor's orders" would be to punish them by making their insurance premiums more expensive.  Don't punish people because they got sick in the first place - that's typically not something they can control.  Punish them when they refuse to do their part to get better.  Sadly - the possibility that their condition may get worse or they might die is typically not as much motivation as having to pay out more money each month, but hey - whatever works.

Insurance companies shouldn't have to pay a doctor if the doctor is not doing his or her job.  Nor should the patient.  If a patient sees a doctor several times and their health gets progressively worse each time, why is the doctor/hospital getting paid?  That makes no sense at all.  On the flip side, if a doctor is realizing hey - this isn't working and I'm not going to get paid until I change my approach and try harder - maybe then the patient will start getting the correct treatment for their condition.

We need an independent entity who's sole purpose is to assess patients after they have been treated is a necessary checks & balances system.  The people who are in this organization should have no direct ties to hospitals, doctors, insurance companies or pharmaceutical companies - they should be completely autonomous and independent.  It should be fairly obvious with most patients as to whether they are making progress or not, or whether the patient has been following doctor's orders - when I was a computer repair tech it was fairly easy to tell when someone was lying to me about what they were doing with their computer, and I suspect people lying about their eating/exercise habits would be about the same.  Based on these assessments (and they would need to take place over the span of a few years to insure that everything is as it should be) this organization would make one of the following recommendations:

1) Patient is cured, pay the doctor/hospital

2) Patient has made no progress, do not pay the doctor/hospital

3) Patient's health has significantly worsened - the doctor/hospital must pay the patient the amount of money that would have been paid to the doctor/hospital for the treatment to compensate them for their loss of time and worsening condition

4) Patient has made no progress because he/she has ignored doctor's orders - pay the doctor/hospital

Oh hey - did I mention the necessity of this independent entity performing assessments would create a ton of new jobs?

I'm sure there's more to this picture that I'm missing, and I expect everyone will have their own opinions on this, but in general I think these ideas would go a fairly long way toward restoring health to Americans, as opposed to just perpetuating the problems with the current Healthcare Reform Bill.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1139624/Boy-baffling-illness-r...

I have long held the belief that the modern medical industry is made up of a large number of greedy and self-centered individuals who are not worthy of being called a doctor (based on personal experiences and stories too numerous to count).  Since I am not a doctor myself I cannot guarantee that this is the actual root of the problem, but clearly there is a problem that has grown worse, not better, over time, at least in the United States.  The above article is a clear example of this problem.

I believe many people with chronic illnesses should be seeing nutritionists, not doctors, and listen to them.  Or at the very least, a nutritionist should be consulted along with doctors.  But what do I know? After all, I'm not someone carrying a PhD around.

I've been meaning to post about clay for some time now.  It wasn't until I read Matty's article about the thirteen year old UK girl suffering from Lyme disease that I decided to get back into my clay ingesting habits.  I'm actually going to order some more in a few moments.  However for the time being let me tell you all a little bit about clay.

A few weeks ago I was troubled with my own little annoying bull's eye shaped rash/bite on my upper right thigh. Originally it started as a little pimplish type bump and I blew it off as some sort of insect bite that would later go away on it's own. It just so happened that as i was sitting on the toilet one day getting ready to grab a national geographic magazine that I noticed there was a ring growing outwards around this bite.  It troubled me, as I can be somewhat of a hypochondriac..okay who am I kidding? SOMEWHAT is an understatement.  Look I was raised by a nurse, I can't help it! 

So, I ended up showing matty my bite with the ring around it and he made a face.  A face like that does not look good.  So my inner guidence suggested that I should go into the bathroom squeaze the center of the wound until it popped open, dab some peroxide onto it and then go into the kitchen find my montmorillite clay wet it and put it on my little wound. I did this and then applied a bandaid over it and went to sleep.  The next day the area looked fabulous, I'd say 100 percent healthier.  I decided to go ahead and re-apply the mixture and again place another band aid over said spot.  The following day the area was even better than before. 

When I use clay either internally or externally I'm often reminded of

John 9:6 When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay.

“In the beginning Creator gave to every people a cup of clay, and from this cup they drank their life.”
---- Native American Proverb

Clay is the most versatile, profoundly effective, cheap, mysterious, underrated, covered-up health treatment available.  It is homeostatic. This means that if you and I take the same clay at the same time we might get different results, based on what our bodies need. Homeostasis is the "tendency toward a stable state of equilibrium," so you may need some minerals I don’t and I may need some detoxification you don’t, and clay can do all of that.

http://www.eytonsearth.org/healing-clay-archives.html

(NaturalNews) Researchers have discovered that a clay made from volcanic ash in France has powerful antibiotic properties and is capable of killing even antibiotic-resistant superbugs such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

The clay has a similar effect on other deadly bacteria tested, including salmonella, E. coli, and a flesh-eating disease called buruli, a relative of leprosy which disfigures children across central and western Africa.

If you'd like to learn about clay just google for healing clay's and read away.

Now I just went to the wiki site for this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_palsy and well let me explain something.  I was diagnosed with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spastic_diplegia HOWEVER, as I read through the different types of C.P.

• Spastic
• Athetoid/Dyskinetic
• Ataxic
• Mixed

I seem to have a little bit of each going on.  First, my left side seems more affected than my right side. Though both sides are affected.  It wasn't until sometime in 2000 when I was talking to my dad that i realized I also had this problem in my upper extremities to a degree.  As a child I had numerous surgeries performed on my lower extremities but as I grew older I wondered why at times my left hand would seem to "gimp" up on me feeling similar to my legs stiffness but not nearly as bad.  Holding a toothbrush is not easy for me.  I drop coffee mugs quite often if I do not concentrate hard on the fact that i have one in my hand. I can't do something with one hand and then do an opposite action with the other hand, my mind has a hard time deciphering which hand for example is holding the coffee mug and which hand is picking up a child's toy off the floor. I don't think I ever expressed this to my parents but I have to my husband.  This might also explain why it takes me so darn long to sketch and work with pastels.  My left arm and hand constantly feels like my legs.  I would like to point out that the surgeries must have been purely cosmetic and also to prohibit my self from tripping over my feet and falling every five steps.  As for as the surgeries "fixing" the c.p. they can never do that.  I feel just as stiff tight and contracted as when I was a child.  I still suffer from spasms that are quite painful.

I've long since theorized that all of my digestive problems and bowel problems are due to c.p.  and by just reading wiki now i realize that I'm correct.  These also are no minor issue as you all know that in 2001 I was in the emergency room for what the cardio doctors speculated was a heart attack yet I came into the E.R. Almost 12 hours later if not more so they claim the blood work up would not show it.  This All goes back to the c.p. if you read the wiki page.  I also tend to retain fluid especially when on my feet doing house hold chores for extended periods of time.  I never knew that this had to do with the c.p.  until just now.  

My shoulders and stiff tight neck muscles I just attributed lightly to my scoliosis, yet i understand it better from reading this wiki page.  Perhaps Matty thinks I'm just being a wimp when i complain about my neck and shoulders, but they truly get so painful and stiff especially if I have to use my armsfor simple tasks.  For example, if I am kneeling and trying to work with something witth my hands, inevitably I fall continuously due to the fact that my balance lies in my upper body.  then my arms have to work harder to not only try to keep my balance but also to focus on the task at hand.  

 How the military was going to allow me into their army airborne unit back in 98 is beyond me, but they gave me the green light.  I had determination.  I ALWAYS have determination.  And if it were not for my Dad and my brothers I might be a helpless gimp today.  NO! Who am I kidding I'm a fighter it's in my blood on the de Lamotte side!No seriously though, my dad would never let me quit and my brothers, well wow they would wrestle with me and I truly believe that helped me to work with my c.p. Wrestling with them taught me how to be strong and develop strength and balance in different ways. I wish they would still wrestle with me when I see them at family get togethers. I miss that!

Some people don't and wont understand cerebral palsy unless they have it.  Others might try to imagine, for instance if they've ever had their feet fall asleep and had to concentrate hard to walk on them.  That heavy lead feeling is not unlike c.p.  If you've ever gotten a charlie horse in your leg or foot it feels exactly the same as a horrible muscle contraction spasm in C.P. If you've ever been intoxicated and your gait was funny when you walked, it's that same feeling with c.p. when trying hard to focus on walking like a "normal" person.  The same is true for any of you that have tried to drive under the influence, for some of us with c.p. we have a hard time judging the distance of things like the length and width of the car we are driving, the space between cars on the road, etc, it's a depth perception issue and it sucks.  Hence why I have backed up into trees, hit three cars etc.

For those of you who have never experienced charlie horses or drinking alcohol well if you read through the wiki and you understand the mechanisms of how are neuromuscular system is set up as well as physiology of our nervous system than you can get a grasp on exactly how ugly this little disorder is.  

There has got to be a way though, a way to reverse it! For the love of god with all of these scientists working on stem cells and this and that with c.p. being the most common and the most unknown about you'd think they would want to play god and help us here!  Because I tell you I can imagine a day when I don't have to think and concentrate hard on every step I take in order to just walk down the driveway or down the street. I know there will be a day when my feet don't feel as though they are curled and rolled back all the way up to my knees.  Because that's another screwed up thing here with this disorder.  My legs and feet feel like they are in different positions then what they are in.  If i close my eyes and I think I know where my legs and feet are 9 times out of 10 I'm wrong. They will be far off from where I thought they were planted when my eyes are open.

I need to finish this up though there is so much more that I want to type about.  On an end note I'm a fighter and I don't give up easily.  I love to lift weights because I feel it liberates me from the burden of cement like legs.  I love to be stretched though it feels like my muscles are ripping apart and it burns like fire.  My legs are very strong so are my arms, just in the most screwed up backwards way. Most things that a normal person can do like kick a ball ... well, I kick with all my guso and the ball moves as if an infant that hasn't learned to walk yet kicked it.  I will learn someday, to kick a ball and watch that sucker fly!  Though where most people would give and become weak with there legs as for example airplane rides, (you know where someone is up on your legs and you have to support their weight) well I could do that indefinitely.  Do you see what I'm saying.  There are other examples but I don't know how to explain them in terms of writing as opposed to just physically showing you.

I wanted to touch down on diet here as well, as now I know that my theorizing is correct.  I must be very careful with what ever it is I put into my mouth in order for my digestive tract to function properly and for my bowels to expel waste.  Otherwise I will bloat out horribly like a pregnant woman and I can go for as far as up to seven days with no bowel movement if I'm not careful.  If you read the entire wiki article you will understand the role c.p. plays in this!

The one question I am often asked though is this. " do you think you would still be such a good person if you didn't have c.p.?"  I always answer I dunno.  But you know what, only science will be able to help me determine that!  So come on guys bring on something so that I can actually use my GABA.  All my multivitamins alive superfoods contain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_amino_butyric_acid So I would love if my nervous system could actually use it! Or oh how I wish that I had my cord blood.  Here's a question for you...i i had another child and saved his or her cord blood could it work for me like the boy who was cured of C.. by using cord blood.

I have to get Elish some food but I just wanted to type this up after finding the green tea article.  Any comments would be appreciated.

 Oh also one last thing I loath this: " 

Misconceptions

A common misconception about those born with Cerebral Palsy is that they are less intelligent than those born without it. Cerebral Palsy is defined as damage to the part of the brain that controls movement; areas of the brain that define a persons intelligence are not affected by CP.

Spastic Cerebral Palsy, the most common form of CP, causes the muscles to be tense, rigid and movements are slow and difficult. This can be misinterpreted as cognitive delay due to difficulty of communication. Individuals with cerebral palsy can have learning difficulties, but sometimes it is the sheer magnitude of problems caused by the underlying brain injury that prevents the individual from expressing what cognitive abilities they do possess.^[48]

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Some of you may already be aware that it has been determined that cancer is caused by a fungus, specifically candida albicans.  You may also know that this fungus thrives in an acidic environment, so the treatment is to convert the environment to alkaline, semi-famously through the use of ordinary baking soda.  If you followed the story, you know that the problem can lie in delivering the agent to the affected area.  Baking soda by itself is effective only where it can be easily applied.

Well, hold on to your butts, people.  Another open-minded genius applied some thought to the problem, and it turns out that ANOTHER very ordinary substance can help get the baking soda to its target -- MAPLE SYRUP!

http://www.beating-cancer-gently.com/nl118.htm

Yes, there are other remedies that have been reputed to have the ability to cure cancer, silver among them.  Silver has been proven effective against many viruses and bacteria as well as fungi, so it makes sense.  But, somehow when I learned candida albicans was the cause of cancer and baking soda could deal with it, that news gave me hope -- even though delivery to some systems was a problem.  Part of me knew the problem would be solved.  What I wasn't prepared for was that the solution would come so quickly, and involve another readily available product.

Now all we need is to put an end to all the cancer-related charity drives, so people can stop throwing their time and money at a problem that has met its solution.

Don't get me started about why honeybees have become endangered.  Raw honey?  A great remedy in and of itself, and likely much preferable to maple syrup as a medium with which to deliver the baking soda...

        - fil
 

 Humans can be so ignorant!  Pesticides are DEATH, yet thousands of stupid clueless homeowners for the sake of conformity and a scewed veiw of vanity continue to harm every living thing around them including themselves and the future unborn.  Unborn humans, unborn, birds, unborn fish, unborn moles, unborn deer and the list goes on.  Why? Because, as smart as humans claim to think they are, the majority of CIVILIZED humans are so far out of touch as to why Creator put us here in the first place that they keep f*cking up, losing heart,  losing togetherness with all relations, and losing the true logic and reason for their existence here on this Earth.  I'd type up more but I need to go teach Willow and Autumn.

http://www.naturalnews.com/023211.html