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I wrote this article on July 5th, 2007 to the Des Moines Register in response to the business editor's efforts to bring on a helath insurance executive to critisize the movie "Sicko". The newspaper article starts like this ...
"Health insurance executive Cliff Gold and I saw Michael Moore’s new movie “Sicko” recently and came away with the same conclusion: It’s good entertainment, but unlikely to impact the nation’s health care debate.
The reason: Despite Moore’s vivid depiction of real people who can no longer afford decent health care, he never gets below the surface to deal with the real issues of cost and who will pay for it"...more
Here is my response:
Mr Elbert,
I might add that Michael Moore did indeed not offer a solution in his movie "Sicko" as to who should deal with the issues of cost of health care for all and who will pay for it. However, I might add, that in Cliff Gold, you interviewed the wrong person.
Mr. Gold won't tell you that there are alternative therapies that are very effective, costs pennies on the dollar compared to drugs, and have virtually no side effects for treating or preventing most major diseases. Among these are ozone and oxygen therapies, ionization, hydrogen peroxide, far infrared ray waves and ultrasonic bubble cavitation.
As you might imagine, these kind of therapies cost very little so it matters not who pays for them because it would be affordable for either business or government to bear. As for effectiveness, there are virtually hundreds of peer-reviewed studies and medical journal research articles across the world to prove the effectiveness of these therapies. But virtually none in the United States, thanks to Big Pharma and Big Insurance, who would not profiteer from them. Every one of these studies show how superior the therapies are to pharmaceutical drugs. As for side effects, ozone therapies, for example, have been performed on 5.5 million German citizens alone, with a side effect rate of .000007%, and four deaths. Compare that to 296 deaths every single day in the US alone resulting from correctly prescribed drugs.
My conclusion is that the United States could easily have the best health care system in the world, a healthy populace, productive workplaces and it would cost a very small amount of money. If you disagree, please prove it, otherwise your newspaper will be held liable for continuing to spread the misinformed lie that America cannot bare the cost of effective, inexpensive, low side-effect health care for all.
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Michael Grady
Owner, Atlantispa
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