S.O.S for health insurance

Are you sick of sick?  Okay, we'll rephrase that question. Are you sick of being unwell?  And sick of being endlessly 'treated' by traditional medical practitioners instead of being 'healed' of what ails you?  There's a big difference, you know.  Being treated only brings about relief from symptoms, so you can continue to function while you're ill.  Being healed means you're no longer ill ... that your body and/or mind has been restored to good health.  Since you're no longer sick, there are no more symptoms to treat.

Hmmm. If there are two distinctly different manners of approaching illness, then why are you being treated instead of being healed? Why, despite all the money you pour into consults, prescription drugs, procedures, lab tests, etc. are you still not well? You're compliant in following treatment recommendations to the letter, spending more and more money to do so, but there seems to be no end in sight. Ever.

We'll break it to you gently. The answer to those questions boils down to one word. Greed. Western medicine is mega-business, and they want your money. Not just what you're giving them now either, but always more. As much as they can get away with taking, in fact, until we finally refuse to participate, and begin to take matters into our own hands. Now don't misinterpret this to mean that your personal physician is intentionally keeping you ill, so he can make lots of money treating you. He's just a very small piece in a very large picture.  

We'll bet you didn't know this well-kept secret:  nowhere else in the world are drug companies able to gouge their customers with outrageous drug prices, like they do here in the U.S.  In fact, elsewhere in the world, drug manufacturers can't charge half as much as they charge us.  Prescription drug users in the U.S. can send for the same drug from Canada and often pay less than half of what they pay at the drug store down the street. Why?  Because the Canadian health plan won't pay pharmaceutical companies what U.S. customers pay.  Neither will any other industrialized nations.

Stay focused another minute.  Most progressive countries have at least basic national health care plans.  But their governments have very limited dollars to spend on health care.  Available national health plan dollars are collected from residents, in the form of taxes.  When the money runs out, people have to wait in line for health care.  In Canada, a plan member can suffer for 10 months awaiting gall bladder surgery because it's not considered an emergency.  More urgent procedures need health plan dollars immediately.

It stands to reason, then, that countries with national health plans are adamant about getting bargain prices from pharmaceutical companies.  If a drug company won't sell a drug at a reasonable price, the country refuses to include the drug under its health plan coverage at all.  It negotiates a price on a similar drug from a competitor.

National health care plans won't allow doctors to prescribe their patients blood pressure medications that cost $150 per month per patient, when a water pill produces the same results for $3-$4 per month. Many of the drugs we take in the United States aren't available in Canada because the Canadian health care plan won't cover them.

In non-industrialized parts of the world, developing nations, there are no national health care plans. There is very little health care at all. So pharmaceutical companies aren't able to rob the citizens of those countries. In South Africa, since there isn't enough money to even feed a large portion of the population, the government can't afford to pay drug companies upwards of $2,000 per month per patient for HIV cocktail drugs (which is what insurers are billed here in the U.S.) So pharmaceutical companies will supply a similar HIV cocktail to a South African patient for a fraction of the $2000 they charge us.

If you aren't outraged yet, you should be. But here in the U.S. there has been no outrage over getting ripped off royally by drug companies. Why? Because consumers have no idea what's going on. We're very foolish health care buyers in the U.S. And pharmaceutical companies love it, as do hospitals and, yes, even certain doctors. We're certainly partially to blame for our circumstances. We don't want anybody telling us we can't have the newest drug for rheumatoid arthritis, even though it costs $1500 per month. We don't want anybody dictating which doctor we can consult or which drugs we can take. If we lived in Canada, we wouldn't have access to that $1500 drug without an act of Congress. Period. But here in the U.S. we not only demand that our insurance company pay for it; we threaten to sue them if they don't. Then we have the audacity to wail loudly about the cost of health insurance, as though somehow the two aren't connected.

So if we've created such a mess of private health care and health insurance, then the solution must be a national health care plan ... right ? Well, that's the right answer only if you don't mind paying sixty percent income taxes like citizens of Switzerland do, or forty percent average income tax (plus another thirteen percent sales tax), like residents of Ontario, Canada do. If you want to give Uncle Sam another 20-30% of your income and let him ration your health care, then, by all means, write your congressmen today about a national health care plan.

If not, then it's time for some long overdue, desperately needed education in the U.S. And that's what S.O.S. is all about. We're here to educate our members about what they're not doing right, how they're intensifying the problem. And we teach them how to fix it.

So, to start you out on the right path, first you'll want to get your hands on some important reading material as soon as possible, as follows:

The Truth About the Drug Companies, by Marcia Angell, M.D. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, by Weston A. Price, DDS Food and Healing, by Annemarie Colbin, PhD The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women, by Barbara Seaman PDR Pocket Guide to Prescription Drugs The Live Food Factor:  The Comprehensive Guide by Susan Schenck

Several of these books are eye-openers that will give you a much better understanding of why our health care crisis has been able to gain so much momentum over two decades. 

The last book on the list is a fascinating, though somewhat scary read. If you peruse 'PDR Pocket Guide to Prescription Drugs' you might be horrified by the full-page lists of dreadful side effects you could experience as a result of taking almost any drug. In fact, you might vow never to put another pill in your mouth.

If you read some of these publications, you might come to the realization that you really don't want or need western medicine nearly as much as you thought you did. In fact, you might begin to see traditional medicine as a real obstacle to achieving and maintaining good health, not to mention to a healthy wallet. You might no longer be so concerned about having access to that $1500 drug when you find out what awful harm it can cause your body while it's covering up the symptoms of the illness you're living with.

So what now? What on earth are you supposed to do if drug companies have joined forces with hospitals and other care providers to keep you eternally ill so you're permanently in need of their services? How do you break free of the vicious cycle of illness and drugs? Drugs which cause side effects, which then creates the need for even more medical care. And then more drugs to alleviate symptoms of the side effects caused by the first drug ... and on and on.

Well, you might want to sit down because we're about to tell you one of the best kept secrets in the U.S. health care industry. Are you sitting ?  Alternative therapies are not only VERY effective.  They cost almost nothing when compared with traditional western medicine. Seriously, alternative treatments cost less than half, and in some cases only one tenth, of what western medicine costs.  If you seek the appropriate therapy for your health issue, you're likely to be pleasantly surprised at your results, and you might find yourself discontinuing use of those expensive drugs.  

So then why doesn't everybody know about these amazing, inexpensive alternative techniques ? Because western medicine doesn't want you to know ... that's why. The American Medical Association has some of the most powerful lobbyists in Washington. And they're always on the lookout for legislation which could threaten the amount of dollars pouring into the coffers of their members.

Are you aware that western medicine is such big business that their lobbies in Washington were actually successful in getting federal legislation introduced and enacted several years ago which makes it illegal for us to tell you on this website that nutritional supplement products 'cure' disease, even if they do ? Did you ever wonder why nutritional supplement websites seem so wishy-washy, when they offer such wonderful products ? Well now you know why. It's because western medicine has been successful at preventing any of them from making claims that their products cure or treat diseases. Sneaky and underhanded behavior ? We think so. But patients using nutritional products to treat illness means dollars flowing out of doctors' and hospitals' own coffers.

Pharmaceutical companies have equally powerful lobbies. They've made valiant attempts to get legislation enacted that would make nutritional supplement products illegal. Can you imagine ? making nutrition illegal ? Drug companies have tried, time and again, because if you're sick they make money. But they've been stopped in their tracks by individuals who are determined to be healthy, who refuse to be held captive by drug companies.

The worst thing that could happen to pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and western medicine practitioners is for millions of patients to find out that proper nutrition, not drugs, restores health.  And that drugs only "treat" illness.  And that nutrition costs a fraction of the cost of drugs.  Do you know of any drug, besides antibiotics, that you can actually stop taking because it restored you to such good health that you no longer needed it?  Of the hundreds of drugs on the market, we'll bet you can't come up with a dozen that you can ever discontinue using without having your symptoms return with full force.  And antibiotics don't make you well either.  They simply kill invading bacteria (along with all of your body's good bacteria.)  If you don't also correct the nutritional deficiency that made you susceptible to that bacteria in the first place, you'll just become sick again.    

But let us give you a few examples of nutrition actually restoring health, based on personal experiences.  First, you probably didn't know that the mineral zinc, which costs about $7 for a 130-day supply, is as effective at preventing cold sores as the prescription drug Zovirax (which costs about $100 per month) or Valtrex (which costs about $150 per month.)  But there's a bonus derived from using zinc.  Zinc is an immune system enhancer, which will enable your body to fend off cold and flu viruses when everybody else gets sick. Zovirax and Valtrex won't do that for you.

Let's stop right here and clarify one statement from that last paragraph. When we mentioned zinc, we should have included the words 'high quality.' You can not purchase zinc in the pharmacy department at the super market and think it will contain one iota of health benefit. Nutraceuticals are now a ninety billion dollar business in this country, and everyone wants a piece of the pie, including retail giants like Wal-Mart and Walgreen's. Hundreds of copy-cat nutritional products flood the market, which confuses unsuspecting consumers. We're here to tell you that 75% of those products provide no benefit whatsoever, and you will only waste your money buying them. In order to derive any health benefit from a nutritional supplement, it MUST be manufactured with only the very best quality ingredients and then meticulously processed to preserve the nutritional value. This is why our alternative care plan covers only certain brands of nutrition products.  But we'll get into that in more detail later.

Do you find it hard to believe that using zinc will prevent your getting colds and flu ? This writer can verify that information by reporting two facts: 1) diligent use of zinc personally for decades, and 2) the last cold or flu virus suffered personally was in March 1991. Still not convinced ? Do a Google search on zinc and enhanced immunity and see the results ... more than 1000 pages of information. And this is just the tiniest tidbit out of the wealth of information available on the connection between nutrition and good health. Have we piqued your interest ? We thought so. Want more tips on how to restore your health through nutrition instead of drugs ? Then, here's some more 'food' for thought ? click here

S.O.S. is dedicated to providing our members with every available tool needed to achieve some important goals. Our most important objective is to help you regain and retain good health. The ONLY effective way to gently restore health is by cleansing the body of toxins that cause illness and then reintroducing proper nutrition. Our bodies are very capable of healing themselves if we'll just give them the means to do so.

To accomplish this goal, you need information. Information that your doctors aren't giving you. And that's part of our job - to be sure you get reliable information. Your S.O.S. membership gains you access to live webcasts featuring alternative care providers. You also have access to free monthly e-letters from reputable nutritional product manufacturers and alternative care providers. And, as an extremely important part of your S.O.S. membership, we're very pleased to provide you with a book that we consider to be as important to nutrition as the Bible is to religion. By using this book, you can look up almost any medical malady and learn how to deal with it, by steering clear of what causes the illness and by adding some missing nutrition to your diet. The book contains over 700 pages of information, including possible causes, symptoms, how western medicine approaches the illness, and which specific nutritional products will put you back on the path to good health.

Our second objective is to help restore your wallets to good health, after they became far less robust while you were forced to pay ever increasing costs for traditional medicine and traditional health insurance premiums. By becoming a member of S.O.S. you gain access to the ONLY plan which pays for dozens of alternative care modalities and nutrition supplements. By enrolling in our plan, we're confident that you'll not only pay less for your health plan AND for for your health care, but that you also be healthier in the long run.

So let's get started. To become a member of S.O.S. for one year, complete the following information. Have your credit card and banking information available to remit the $50 annual membership fee.

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