Comment on Class and Health

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From Alan Abrams (a.k.a. Alan_A at the hpscleansing.com/group community forums)

I just read Maggie Mahar's health blog after linking to it from an agonist.org blog on universal health care. I then read Maggie Mahar's blog [post] on "Class and Health."  thus this quote:

"And yet, and yet . . . Schroeder sees reason for "cautious optimism." Although we trail behind other countries, we are healthier than we once were. We have reduced smoking ratse, homicide rates and motor-vehicle accidents. Vaccines and cardiovascular drugs have improved medical care. But progress in other areas will require "political action," Schroeder declares, "starting with relentless measurement of and focus on actual health status and the actions that could improve it. Inaction means acceptance of America's poor health status."

Healthier than we once were? Really?  Are…smoking, homicide rates, and motor-vehicle accidents adequate measures of the overall improving general health of Americans?

What about these:

• 58 Million Overweight; 40 Million Obese; 3 Million morbidly Obese
• Eight out of 10 over 25's Overweight
• 78% of American's not meeting basic activity level recommendations
• 25% completely Sedentary
• 76% increase in Type II diabetes in adults 30-40 yrs old since 1990

And there is more—just scroll down the page. And besides overweightness and obesity, which by themselves are clear signs that Americans are NOT getting healthier, [consider also] heart and liver disease, arthritis…and of course cancer.  Check out what WHO has to say.Cancer, once established, is very often exacerbated by common drug and chemotherapy treatments.

This brings me to your quote of "vaccines and cardiovascular drugs have improved medical care." 
What is your definition of "improved”—is it merely preventing the person from dying?  Or is it getting the person back to where they were before their condition debilitated their health [so as to compromise their entire quality of life]?  Or is it completely rooting out what is really causing the problems and supporting a long term, sustainable approach to good health for a lifetime?

By claiming drugs and vaccines are improving medical care you are still supporting methods and programs that provide only assistance AFTER the person has illness.   You are still supporting [the] long-established and customarily ingrained habit of running to a doctor's office, getting tests, receiving pills, curing symptoms, without addressing the root beyond the symptoms, and without addressing the fundamental lifestyle habits of the ill people.  This type of medical care is more accurately described as Sick-care. It is not Health-care.

Health-care works from a foundation of already established health, and works daily, through practice, to prevent FUTURE illness with useful methods and the responsible commitment of each individual to their own personal health. Maintaining human health is a daily primary focus, requiring regular practice.  Most people in the world, and most Americans, do not realize this because they have grown up under the conventions and influences of Sick-care:  if you get ill, see a doctor, get your test, pay your money, get your pill, and go on your way.  Under this formula, maintaining health amounts simply to that process, which, admittedly, is convenient (though expensive) and quick, with little extra work needed. But the long term, cross-generational consequences are having debilitating effects on the health of humanity (as you can see by doing searches on increasing stats of disease and illness and lowering age of death).

There is also no evidence [in the post] about how important nutrition is to general health or of the threat [that] access to nutritional foods is under.  This threat is due to Codex Alimentarius. 

The USA does not need a healthcare plan that pushes people to continue buying insurance so that they continue buying pharmaceutically produced drugs that provide only surface relief for deeper root causes of illness.  The USA needs affordable and easy access to fresh unadulterated food, social support for the use of alternative and preventative medicines and therapies, and social support focusing on the need for people to take personal responsibility for their own health—instead of blindly handing it over to a doctor and a drug. 

Then people might start to see what myself and many others here at www.hpscleansing.com/group are seeing in their everyday lives:  that when your health is great, energetic, vibrant, and sustainable, all the other parts of life fall into place.

I just figure that Maggie Mahar, being in the know and having a large readership, might want to know or be reminded about some things that are of high priority regarding health.  It’s difficult for me and my friends at hps-online.com, and the community forum above, to sit back and watch so many people approach their health in a mistaken way.  I myself here have realized so many positive benefits that vibrate radiantly throughout my life due to a highly contrasting approach to health=self-responsibility health-care that prevents disease long before it arises.

Any questions and comments are delightedly welcome, peace.