Healthcare Gone Wild

Book excerpt: We are being screwed over by our health-care system, and it’s all our fault! Did you know? - High blood pressure did not exist as a medical diagnosis until pharmaceutical companies invented medicines that can lower it and convinced physicians to sell it to their patients. - There are two kinds of breast cancer: one that will kill you no matter what you do and one that won’t. Yet a breast cancer diagnosis will have your physicians ready to cut you open, radiate you, and pump chemicals into your body—all so they can “save” you. - The health-care industry, aka the medical industrial complex, is the largest industry in the US and is doing everything they can to make you a lifelong customer. And they are in bed with big government to stay no. 1. How did America get itself into this mess? Well, we, the people, are partly to blame!- We don’t question our physicians, consuming their “cures” to make us live longer and fix all our problems with a simple pill or procedure. - We buy into the media’s reinforcement of the above solutions. - And we allow our politicians to take money from the medical industrial complex to get reelected while making the healthcare industry the fourth largest economy on earth! Do you want to live the life you deserve—enjoying your friends, family, and hobbies? Or do you want to deplete your emotional and financial capital and your time bank worrying about every little thing that the media, the government, and your physicians say can kill you? If you answered yes to the former question, read Healthcare Gone Wild. (If you answered yes to the latter, you should read Healthcare Gone Wild immediately; stop living in fear and depriving yourself of happiness now!)