Restructure mental and physical healthcare to heal people (Make Rockefeller Medicine the last resort)

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The problem:

  1. We already spend trillions on healthcare, but we are the sickest developed country in the world. This is unacceptable. 2/3 of Americans are in medical debt, financial stressors further exacerbate mental health. This problem was created by the incentive to keep people sick and dependent on medications based on petroleum products, produced by Rockefeller.
  2. General practitioners are prescribing psychotropics (mood altering drugs), even though they were not studied for long term use and can cause suicidality and psychosis (Medicating Normal documentary). They are monetarily incentivized to write these prescriptions even though they are not specialized in the brain, despite the fact that our healthcare system is otherwise siloed into distinct areas of the body.
  3. This is another issue in and of itself because the body is a holistic entity. One symptom can signal dysfunction in multiple areas of the body (i.e. acne is not necessarily going to be treated by a dermatologist prescribing an antibiotic. This will stop the symptom, but it is not treating the root cause, for example hormonal dysfunction caused by PCOS. In fact, antibiotics can cause other issues such as disrupting the gut microbiome which then creates new symptoms).
  4. New symptoms occur for people and they become hopeless to the point of suicidality. They are then prescribed new meds. On a macro level, more people are suffering from mental health disorders like depression and anxiety than ever before. This is a threat to our national security as less and less recruits are fit to serve.
  5. Psychiatrists are the only field to treat an organ they do not observe (Dr. Daniel Amen). Furthermore, the DSMV is an ambiguous, circuitous book (i.e. you go to the psychiatrist bc you have a decreased need for sleep and mood distrubances. The doctor tells you that you are experiencing mania. You ask “why am I experiencing mania?” the answer is “because you have bipolar”) based on symptoms instead of distinct biological processes or states of the brain.
  6. The cultural narrative, pushed by pharma and bad actors, is that depression and anxiety are genetic, which fuels powerlessness for people and resignation to drugs instead of empowering people to make lifestyle changes that would improve their mental states.

The solutions:

  1. We need to the NIH to study the clusters of symptoms and better identify what the objective bodily underpinnings are. Cut the fat in the regulatory agencies in order to save the money to fund these studies.
  2. Overhaul government insurance and private insurance to cover functional medicine (as well as acute emergency care; 2/3 of Americans are already in medical debt as it stands) which holistically treats the body by starting with comprehensive labs measuring hormones, insulin resistance, gut microbiome health (leaky gut, bad and good bacteria etc.), vitamin d levels, inflammation etc. We could go even further by paying for CGMs BEFORE someone has diabetes to educate people on their unique responses to food.
  3. Then rewrite the DSMV, tying it to food and natural remedies that will prevent and treat these conditions, before throwing meds at people that are not proven to work and unsafe for long term use.
  4. Have insurance begin to cover brain scans to precisely diagnose these conditions
  5. Do not allow GPs to prescribe (Dr. Roger McFillin). They should instead be looking at other factors which are already proven to contribute to things like depression and anxiety such as: inflammation, hormones and the gut microbiome. Therapists and Family therapists can work in conjunction with GPs to assist clients in altering lifestyle factors or relational dysfunction tied to their mental states. Then refer to a psychiatrist to give people meds that could boost their motivation towards these changes, but only for the recommended weeks then wean them off. Also, doctors should be required to read the black box labels, which would actually be adhering to the ethical mandate to “do no harm”
  6. We already have a shortage of doctors and they are among some of the most burnt out in our society. The govt should fund building schools to train these doctors, or fund these schools as well as the rewriting of curriculum at current training schools therefore purging those institutions of big pharma’s corrupting money. So many doctors go into the profession wanting to help people but become disillusioned by the sick care model we have. They only have 10 minutes per patient, forget time for a regular life/family which can counter burn out, or time for professional development/reading on current innovative research. We need more doctors and those doctors need more time with patients. Functional medicine doctors are able to spend more time with patients and conduct thorough labs to diagnose issues with hormones, inflammation etc. But insurance does not cover these services and they are expensive. Most people who pay out of pocket also have regular insurance to cover emergencies and acute care, which is just an added expense.
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  1. I have personally witnessed babies refused health saving measures due to financial insurance denials. This is absurd where babies are wanted and parents begged to have their babies saved and were refused because it would cost too much money to save their life.
  2. I have personally witnessed elderly being given treatment to shorten their life because alternatively they will be needing more health care for longer periods. e.g patients that are elderly and suffering from dementia intentionally being given fentanyl for minor back ache pain which created a downward spiral that was unrecoverable. Went into the hospital walking, talking and coherent two days later in hospice. Died 4 weeks later.
  3. Indiana hospital in Pennsylvania has been known for continuing making health care diagnosis for elderly and patients solely on financial decisions. The citizens here are too poor to fight them and they treat the wealthier citizens better, give them more solutions and more treatment options. Money talks here. But we can take tax dollars to pay off sexual misconduct of congress, and advancement of continuous wars but we can’t save the lives of our people. The measure of society is the disparity in which the rich and poor are treated. I never thought that I would see in this country the lives of our most vulnerable citizens treated by the dollar in which the insurance company feels they are worth.
  4. our health care system is based on controlling disease not keeping our citizens at optimum health. We can do better America. Let’s get people in public service who care about the American population rather than lining their own pockets thru criminal activity, insider trading, war mongering and conspiring with communist countries to sell out America.
  5. Hospitals charge arbitrarily way too much, insurance charges way too much each citizen pays exhorbitant amounts and still owes thousands in copays. That’s ridiculous!!! Let’s do better!
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