Let's Get Fiscal About
The Cost of Health Care
ONE TRILLION DOLLARS is the annual price tag for
health care in the U.S.
Americans are not that healthy
for all the money spent on their health every year. According to the World Health Organization,
in the 1930's the U.S. was ranked as the third healthiest population;
but by the 1990's, we've dropped down way below that. Cancer
is now affecting nearly 1 out of ever 2 Americans. As cases
of congestive heart failure have doubled in the last decade and now
cost $40 billion a year, heart failure has become the number one
drain on Medicare.
The National Cancer Institute
(NCI) spends about $2 billion of American taxpayers money every
year to look
for "cures" as long
as they don't come from alternative medicine, even though all the
breakthrough discoveries in healing chronic disease are coming from
this source. Think about it: The NCI has a $2 billion a year
expense account, but after 40 years, mainstream cancer researchers
are no closer to a cancer cure than NASA is to colonizing the moon.
Out of $12 billion allocated every year by Congress to the National
Institute of Health, only spare change about $5.4 million goes to
the Office of Alternative Medicine to look into the claims of some
50 therapies. Meanwhile, almost everybody knows by now that about
1/3 of Americans visit an alternative physician at least once a year
and spend nearly $12 billion of their own money, not insurance company
reimbursements doing it.
Research shows that an ounce
of prevention is worth a pound of cure. For
every $1 we spend on prevention today, we'll save $30 on treatment
tomorrow. Heart disease, for example, is one of the most preventable
chronic degenerative disease, yet we're still spending $9 billion
for 300,000 coronary artery bypass surgeries every year.
Chiropractic care is SAFE
and NATURAL, as well as, being very EFFECTIVE in improving your
overall health. Stay healthy with REGULAR
Chiropractic adjustments. Always remember...it is easier to
stay well than to get well.
Source: Citizens for Health, P.O. Box
1195, Tacoma, WA 98401; tel: 800-357-2211 |