In a devastatingly insightful column in the Huffington Post, naturopath Anne Dunev writes about our broken healthcare system and what should be done to fix it. Dunev has practiced naturopathic medicine both in Britain and in the United States. She has experienced how both systems work.
Not surprisingly Dunev is not impressed with the President’s healthcare proposal. She thinks it does not go nearly far enough.
Dunev urges us to do away with insurance entirely, because it costs too much and contributes nothing to healthcare. In fact, she feels that insurance companies by their nature are counterproductive to healthcare.
She also takes aim at the bloated and cynical pharmaceutical industry, which spends more on advertising and promotion than on research and development. Properly prescribed prescription drugs now kill 2 1/2 times as many people as car wrecks ever year.
Not only that, properly prescribed prescription drugs kill three times a many people each year as illegal drugs. And the FDA, filled with former and future big pharma executives is the fox guarding the hen house.
In both insurance and pharmaceuticals, Dunev marshals the facts to show that the profit motive corrupts absolutely.
As Dunev says, “Most decent people cannot conceive that anyone would profit from knowingly harming others. That is the flaw in capitalism. And that is one reason that evil can exist.“
Read her column for yourself. It is concise, insightful, and based on factual evidence. It is also chilling! Read it and weep.
And then get busy and do something about fixing the problem!
Lobby your congresspersons, write to your newspaper. Become an online activist. For that matter, lobby your friends and neighbors to take action, too.
Taking action now could save your life or that of someone you love.
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