Dr. Mercola October 23 2008 18,679 views
The best way to cut health care costs is to learn how to cure yourself. I've done it a thousand times...
My favorite example is how I cured myself of Stage 4 cancer. It cost me about $10 at the time, some ten years ago, with stuff you can buy in the grocery store. Today it would cost about $25.
If I'd sought treatment, after $100,000 of expense or more, I would have died. I cured myself in two weeks, instead.
The total US bill for cancer is $160 billion annually, not counting lost time from work. So we might be talking $300 to $400 billion.
I've put the recipe on a free hubpage.
A few others have tried my method. Here's what happened:
itsnotjustforsex.blogspot.com/.../she-said-my-knife-piercing-pain-is.html
This would probably help cure a lot of other things, too, which can save you a bundle.
The best to you.
Kelley Eidem
Together we can cure cancer -one person at a time!
Dr. Ron:
Yes stay out of the system all together, with what they say about Doctors being the 3rd leading cause of death in America today, I personally think they should be moved to number 1. We no longer teach basic health in our schools, and physial education is but a memory. So we as parents must take over the local school boards, that is parents who have children in the system, and make health, and academic postive changes, and not leave this work to someone just looking for a career.
Ah - thanks for the opportunity to vent here. Most people reading this "taking care your health" article do not depend on hospitalization insurance, health care, whatever you want to call it.
When I found out that $400 a month was being spent on health insurance for my husband and I (both in our late 40's), my jaw dropped. Why are we paying for this? It will never, ever benefit us, as we do not use doctors or take drugs. "If you want drugs, go down to the street corner, get whatever you want, it'll be cheaper than $400 a month" I told my husband.
He piped back that if something ever happened, it would come in useful. What can happen? Get hit by a car? Isn't that what auto insurance is for? Have the sniffles? Oh, please. What awful disease can a doctor cure that a natural, healthy diet along with some supplements when needed can't? No answer for that.
If we did go to the doctor, as he has, two or three times in the past five years, insurance didn't cover a dime (in order to get an hmo with a $30 co-payment we'd have to pay well over $1000 a month), and he wasn't treated for the kidney stone, or whatever it was. Spent two or three minutes with a "doctor" who wrote out a scribble on a notebook, which he took to the pharmacy, total cost $3500. The $400 a month premium didn't cover one lousy dime of that.
We are going to spent our extra $400 on better food and a healthier lifestyle - it's much more fun, satisfying, and delicious.
I am in complete agreement with you, dempoolguy! I wouldn't go to a medical doctor even if I had cancer. I watched them slowly kill my dad. He was a healthy guy until he was told he had diabetes. They put him on pills. It wasn't soon after that he needed another pill, then another, then another. I feel his diabetes pills gave him his prostrate cancer, heart failure and host of other health issues he had. At one point he was on 18 perscription drugs that he took each day!!
When he went into respiratory arrest...ghee I wonder why....the doctor got this bright idea that maybe he was on too many meds!!!
They removed all meds from him and slowly put him back on them to see if any one was causing his problems. Over the course of a few days, they did some trial and error and figured he could "safely" live off 6 of them.
That bought him 6 mths then back he went to the ER with respiratory failure. He spent 1 week in the ICU ward. After that he we was put in a rehab center because he was bedridden too long and could no longer walk (he was 72 at the time). He was just too weak to even get himself to a commode.
Finally, he had enough and went home to die. He died 3 mths ago. Up to the very end of his life, he refused to go back the the hospital. I held his hand as he took his last breath.
After watching doctor after doctor "practice medicine" on my dear dad, I will never trust them with my dogs life, let alone my families.
Dempoolguy:
Absolutely, basically what we do in these plans is pay for the few unhealthy, and it is tied down with conventionial medicine, and no medical choice whatever. Their way or not at all.
Hi, I am from the UK. From here it looks like America looks more and more divided between the 'have's and 'have nots'.
The richest country in the world has some of the poorest people with who are illiterate and no health care. Don't you care about your fellow men? How can you not have a system for all people like the UK and Europe?
Everyone is seen as a 'loser', 'geek', etc if you are not pretty or not rich. Why?
I just don't understand. What happened to 'personality' and 'character'?
The attitude seems to reflect on health care too. There is none! - unless you can afford it. Insurance companies fleecing people and making a huge profit. It is unthinkable that there is such a 'tight-fisted' system. No wonder the place is so divided - Rich and Poor.
Even the developing countries have better systems for their countries welfare in health care.
Kathy, yes, even Cuba - not a wealthy country - has FREE health and dental care. Mind you, their docs aren't paid very much. It all comes down to a question of priorities. What do you consider most important?
I am so glad I live in Australia - if I had an accident or sudden need for hospitalisation,I would be taken care of at no cost. I am a pensioner, but this doesn't make any difference.
Nice idear, but why do so many Brits come to France for treatment & surgery? The system in France is superb in every respect, espercially as in England old people are frequently considered not worth the medical effort, or NICE denies the appropriate drugs. French doctors seem to have some very strange idears, such as their task is to cure people, not rack up the cash for their next Mercedes. The nurses are incredibly hard working and kind, and the hospitals are very clean, which many English hospitals are not. And in most you can have a little glass of red wine with lunch.
Hi! I am from Canada (Québec province, english is not my mother tongue, sorry for the errors).
Compared to Americans, we have huge taxes...and I don't mind paying them. Our health care system is not perfect, but everyone can be quite sure she or he will get the the treatment she or he needs. Of course I get mad to see someone who never cared of his heatlh having his artery deblocked at the expense of the system, knowing this operation would cost 50 000$ otherwise. But then, I think of one of my friends, 24 year old brilliant young man, never smoked, never drinked that much, fighting against cancer for 5 years. The chemo treatments he received ( wich left him crippled and please don't tell me he searched for it or he should have tried something else) costed at least 150 000 Can$. Should his parents payfor it, we would have another family on the street. Who put this amount of money in a just-in-case account in Canada? No one! And if we didn't have our health care system, would we put our extra money in an account just-in-case? Obviously not. Our system is far from perfection, there is some huge waiting lists in non-urgent surgery for exemple, but I prefer a governmental system than a private system run by insurance companies. the doors opened for privatisation, but we already don't have enough doctors and nurses, so it will make things worse for middle-class and poor families. The Canadian and Québécois governments are doing an effort for education to good health, but it is still not suffcient. I choose have the luxury to gather information and make better decisions for my health, that's my responsability, but depriving people who didn't take this responsibility from the health care they need would be, in my opinion, a step towards dictatorship. I am paying taxes with a smile, and ride a bycicle until mega snow falls, not because I can't afford a car, but to keep the doctor away...until I get bumped by a %$##?%$ car. My responsibility is to be careful.