Comments on: How to Cut the Cost of Healthcare http://hartkeisonline.com/natural-health/how-to-cut-the-cost-of-healthcare/ blog about homemaking, food and health Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:46:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: Linda http://hartkeisonline.com/natural-health/how-to-cut-the-cost-of-healthcare/#comment-7868 Linda Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:30:57 +0000 http://hartkeisonline.com/?p=3482#comment-7868 Uhhh...Jonathan - perhaps you are the one who needs to do a little more research. There is much information out there that will directly refute your statements and it is based upon independent scientific research - not from Monsanto's own inner sanctum. Uhhh…Jonathan – perhaps you are the one who needs to do a little more research. There is much information out there that will directly refute your statements and it is based upon independent scientific research – not from Monsanto’s own inner sanctum.

]]> By: Top Guest Blogs of 2009 on Hartke is Online! | Hartke Is Online! http://hartkeisonline.com/natural-health/how-to-cut-the-cost-of-healthcare/#comment-7862 Top Guest Blogs of 2009 on Hartke is Online! | Hartke Is Online! Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:34:58 +0000 http://hartkeisonline.com/?p=3482#comment-7862 [...] Janice Curtin’s, How to Cut the Cost of Healthcare should be required reading for all American’s, especially our [...] [...] Janice Curtin’s, How to Cut the Cost of Healthcare should be required reading for all American’s, especially our [...]

]]> By: Links of the Month « All Things Health http://hartkeisonline.com/natural-health/how-to-cut-the-cost-of-healthcare/#comment-6077 Links of the Month « All Things Health Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:30:33 +0000 http://hartkeisonline.com/?p=3482#comment-6077 [...] a topic near and dear to my heart – Healthcare – this author makes some very good [...] [...] a topic near and dear to my heart – Healthcare – this author makes some very good [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Holden http://hartkeisonline.com/natural-health/how-to-cut-the-cost-of-healthcare/#comment-5883 Jonathan Holden Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:38:37 +0000 http://hartkeisonline.com/?p=3482#comment-5883 Uhhhh... cathy GMO's are not harmful to your body as you suggest infact they are better for everyone bacuase it increased productivity, reduces pesticides used to make food... over all better for the environment as a whole and for humans... though it is more expencive for poor countries to buy initially which is a problem, it will lead to more and more productivity and less hunger as well as more health eating as more healthy food becomes available to people with strict budgets that do not allow for high priced food... before you say something you should reseach it and stop spreading fear of a perfectly good product and scientific advances. Uhhhh… cathy GMO’s are not harmful to your body as you suggest infact they are better for everyone bacuase it increased productivity, reduces pesticides used to make food… over all better for the environment as a whole and for humans… though it is more expencive for poor countries to buy initially which is a problem, it will lead to more and more productivity and less hunger as well as more health eating as more healthy food becomes available to people with strict budgets that do not allow for high priced food… before you say something you should reseach it and stop spreading fear of a perfectly good product and scientific advances.

]]> By: WEL http://hartkeisonline.com/natural-health/how-to-cut-the-cost-of-healthcare/#comment-5825 WEL Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:43:11 +0000 http://hartkeisonline.com/?p=3482#comment-5825 MAXIDEX DEXAMETHASONE WARNING I had eye surgery and in the post-op pack was MAXIDEX(dexamethasone) drops by ALCON ABS. Two days later I was BLIND Use Google and enter EPOCRATES MAXIDEX REACTION to verify Or call 800-757-9195 MAXIDEX DEXAMETHASONE WARNING

I had eye surgery and in the post-op pack was MAXIDEX(dexamethasone) drops by ALCON ABS.

Two days later I was BLIND

Use Google and enter EPOCRATES MAXIDEX REACTION to verify

Or call 800-757-9195

]]> By: janice Curtin http://hartkeisonline.com/natural-health/how-to-cut-the-cost-of-healthcare/#comment-5772 janice Curtin Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:33:22 +0000 http://hartkeisonline.com/?p=3482#comment-5772 Thank you all for your comments---very good ideas. I had a couple other thoughts recently: --Ban antibiotics in animal feed. There are bills introduced to do this. Antibiotics are used to help animals grow fast,but are causing antibiotic resistant bacteria in humans. The Wash. Post said this week that 70 % of antibiotics produced go to animals., so you know how far that will bill will go....nowhere, as it will cut Big Pharmas profits. --Enforce our clean water act. The New York Times last Sunday had a cover story on the rampant violations and severe health problems from the metals in water, including arsenic, lead, mercury.....They are destroying teeth, causing sores on the body, and pain in the skin...and I am sure much worse illness down the road. Children were suffering and having teeth capped. We have very expensive health insurance through my husbands firm, but rarely use it. We did need it once when he cut his hand badly and needed surgery. But we are never ill anymore since changing to alternative medicine. Drug type medicine just never worked or made things, such as allergies, worse. Now I am allergy free and never even get a oold. Janice Curtin Thank you all for your comments—very good ideas.
I had a couple other thoughts recently:
–Ban antibiotics in animal feed. There are bills introduced to do this. Antibiotics are used to help animals grow fast,but are causing antibiotic resistant bacteria in humans. The Wash. Post said this week that 70 % of antibiotics produced go to animals., so you know how far that will bill will go….nowhere, as it will cut Big Pharmas profits.
–Enforce our clean water act. The New York Times last Sunday had a cover story on the rampant violations and severe health problems from the metals in water, including arsenic, lead, mercury…..They are destroying teeth, causing sores on the body, and pain in the skin…and I am sure much worse illness down the road. Children were suffering and having teeth capped.

We have very expensive health insurance through my husbands firm, but rarely use it. We did need it once when he cut his hand badly and needed surgery. But we are never ill anymore since changing to alternative medicine. Drug type medicine just never worked or made things, such as allergies, worse.
Now I am allergy free and never even get a oold.
Janice Curtin

]]> By: Grocery Shopping Lynch Mob | Hartke Is Online! http://hartkeisonline.com/natural-health/how-to-cut-the-cost-of-healthcare/#comment-5663 Grocery Shopping Lynch Mob | Hartke Is Online! Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:38:14 +0000 http://hartkeisonline.com/?p=3482#comment-5663 [...] hear Dr. Weil echo Weston A. Price chapter leader, Janice Curtains #1 wish in her recent article, How to Cut the Cost of Health Care, that the U.S. should immediately end all television ads for pharma drugs.  We are the only nation [...] [...] hear Dr. Weil echo Weston A. Price chapter leader, Janice Curtains #1 wish in her recent article, How to Cut the Cost of Health Care, that the U.S. should immediately end all television ads for pharma drugs.  We are the only nation [...]

]]> By: cheryl hadden http://hartkeisonline.com/natural-health/how-to-cut-the-cost-of-healthcare/#comment-5597 cheryl hadden Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:54:56 +0000 http://hartkeisonline.com/?p=3482#comment-5597 Another good way to cut the cost of health care is to ban doctors from prescribing drugs that treat one disease and cause another to start. What kind of sense does it make to give someone something that is only going to cause more problems later? then prescribe more medication to fix the second problem that will also cause more problems? No drug should be used that causes more illness than it treats. If you listen to the drug commercials the side effects listed are usually worse than the disease the medication is supposed to treat! That is just not right or sane! You take a nasal spray to open your sinuses and that gives you pneumonia, sinus infections, stroke, and/or high blood pressure. Or a man takes Viagra and it makes him blind and deaf in one ear! You're given medication to calm your nerves and instead it makes you suicidal, homicidal, paranoid and subject to sudden death liver and kidney failure. Your pain killer will destroy your bladder, kidneys and make you an addict before it kills you! That ADHD drug wil stop your kid from being hyper but it stunts his growth, causes sudden heart failure and will have him addicted to a drug that is chemically the same as crystal meth! Think about it, doctors are allowed to give children medications recommended by his/her teacher that will cause a child to just SUDDENLY DROP DEAD! And parents and doctors are passing these out without testing to see if the child needs it or if there isn't another option! My favorite examples are cancer drugs which cause more cancer in other parts of the body, like the ones used for breast cancer. Truly situations where you'd be better off never being treated! This is insanity, pure and simple. And the patient pays for all of it, the good and the bad, insured or not insured. Pay for the doctor visit, pay for the prescriptions, then pay for the ER, pay for the hospital stay and pay for the following doctor visits and more prescriptions. And the cycle goes on and on. So many thousands of people are on pain killers that destroy the kidneys that the dialysis business is booming and they expect another 65,000 more patients next year and even larger numbers the year after. It should be a whole new disease category, Drug induced Diseases. Hundreds of new dialysis clinics are opening to meet the demand. They don't expect to catch up, so they are working on helping ERSD patients, (End Stage Renal Disease) to be able to have dialysis at home. Kidney transplants aren't being pushed because they don't expect to have many healthy kidneys in the future to transplant. Medications are supposed to help you, not harm you. It's supposed to treat a disease, not cause more disease. Another good way to cut the cost of health care is to ban doctors from prescribing drugs that treat one disease and cause another to start.
What kind of sense does it make to give someone something that is only going to cause more problems later? then prescribe more medication to fix the second problem that will also cause more problems?
No drug should be used that causes more illness than it treats.
If you listen to the drug commercials the side effects listed are usually worse than the disease the medication is supposed to treat!
That is just not right or sane!
You take a nasal spray to open your sinuses and that gives you pneumonia, sinus infections, stroke, and/or high blood pressure.
Or a man takes Viagra and it makes him blind and deaf in one ear!
You’re given medication to calm your nerves and instead it makes you suicidal, homicidal, paranoid and subject to sudden death liver and kidney failure.
Your pain killer will destroy your bladder, kidneys and make you an addict before it kills you!
That ADHD drug wil stop your kid from being hyper but it stunts his growth, causes sudden heart failure and will have him addicted to a drug that is chemically the same as crystal meth!
Think about it, doctors are allowed to give children medications recommended by his/her teacher that will cause a child to just SUDDENLY DROP DEAD!
And parents and doctors are passing these out without testing to see if the child needs it or if there isn’t another option!
My favorite examples are cancer drugs which cause more cancer in other parts of the body, like the ones used for breast cancer.
Truly situations where you’d be better off never being treated!
This is insanity, pure and simple. And the patient pays for all of it, the good and the bad, insured or not insured.
Pay for the doctor visit, pay for the prescriptions, then pay for the ER, pay for the hospital stay and pay for the following doctor visits and more prescriptions.
And the cycle goes on and on.
So many thousands of people are on pain killers that destroy the kidneys that the dialysis business is booming and they expect another 65,000 more patients next year and even larger numbers the year after.
It should be a whole new disease category, Drug induced Diseases.
Hundreds of new dialysis clinics are opening to meet the demand.
They don’t expect to catch up, so they are working on helping ERSD patients, (End Stage Renal Disease) to be able to have dialysis at home.
Kidney transplants aren’t being pushed because they don’t expect to have many healthy kidneys in the future to transplant.
Medications are supposed to help you, not harm you.
It’s supposed to treat a disease, not cause more disease.

]]> By: How to Cut the Cost of Healthcare | 3…quit subsidizing corn and wheat and soy beans, foods that make us fat and ill. It’s really just a subsidy to agribusiness anyway. « Economics Info http://hartkeisonline.com/natural-health/how-to-cut-the-cost-of-healthcare/#comment-5593 How to Cut the Cost of Healthcare | 3…quit subsidizing corn and wheat and soy beans, foods that make us fat and ill. It’s really just a subsidy to agribusiness anyway. « Economics Info Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:02:52 +0000 http://hartkeisonline.com/?p=3482#comment-5593 [...] Source [...] [...] Source [...]

]]> By: Kimberly Hartke http://hartkeisonline.com/natural-health/how-to-cut-the-cost-of-healthcare/#comment-5591 Kimberly Hartke Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:48:48 +0000 http://hartkeisonline.com/?p=3482#comment-5591 David, we have the same and love it. When I went to the health reform town hall not one mention was made of HSA and high deductible insurance. I did hear that they will take 2.5% of our income if we refuse the government plan. That will make our health care go up, if the gov't plan doesn't include HSA and high deductible insurance. Boy will that stink! David, we have the same and love it. When I went to the health reform town hall not one mention was made of HSA and high deductible insurance. I did hear that they will take 2.5% of our income if we refuse the government plan. That will make our health care go up, if the gov’t plan doesn’t include HSA and high deductible insurance. Boy will that stink!

]]>