Came across this video on Facebook today (thanks, Kelly), and it got me wondering. Give it a look (it’s over an hour long, so pour yourself a cuppa first!):
Cancer: the Forbidden Cures - Full Documentary from Jason Greenwood on Vimeo.
What it has me wondering is what outfits like the American Medical Association / Canadian Medical Association and the like are thinking is their purpose in the grand scheme of things. If the above documentary is to believed (and I have to admit that I am at least partially inclined to do so), my health is by no means on the forefront of their agendas by any means… they exist to support the business models of hospitals and pharmaceutical companies.
This is a truly frightening prospect. It means, basically, that I as a cancer patient am not first and foremost an individual to be cured, but rather one to be maintained… my being and remaining sick (alive, but sick) is a profit point.
Where this becomes a source of confusion to me is how that above prospect lines up with Medicare-based health delivery, wherein “in-and-out” at the lowest cost and most efficacious manner would surely be the over-riding desire of the system, as we all share the cost of medical procurement and want that to be as efficient as possible, right? Right? I mean, OHIP and it’s brethren across Canada, the UK, Australia and elsewhere, who pay the bills for our medical establishment, would surely be willing and able to influence the medical regulatory systems in our jurisdictions to be otherwise inclined than the business model employed by the US, would they not? Why pay $3, 4, 5,000 a month or more for pharma, and hundreds of thousands for procedures, when the possibility exists that something like “carrot juice and lemons, with a sprinkling of clover” can cure me for a fraction of a fraction of the cost and with no negative side effects?
There’s got to be more to this story. Surely it’s not all about the Almighty Dollar, once again. Surely not!
