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US healthcare is truly “sickcare”, where people are mostly encouraged to eat whatever they want, lead a sedentary lifestyle, abuse tobacco, drugs and alcohol – and then expect the system to fix or take care of them.Obesity and its friends of high blood pressure, diabetes, heart & lung disease don’t care if you have healthcare insurance or not – but you should. Hedge your healthcare program with SELF-CARE.
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“Each year in the United States about 30,000 babies are born with cystic fibrosis, a disease that causes severe lung and breathing problems (Kaiser, 2012). This inherited (genetic) disease occurs because an affected child inherits a defective gene from each parent. Modern medical treatments enable babies born with cystic fibrosis to survive to about age 40. Despite the improved care and therapies, there still is no cure.
In 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the health programs in Canada, the European Union, and other countries approved the drug Kalydeco (ivakator), which can restore lung function in a specific subtype of cystic fibrosis patients—about 4 of 100. Vertex Pharmaceuticals, the company that manufactures Kalydeco, charges $300,000 for a year’s supply of pills (taken twice daily). Most cystic fibrosis patients who respond to the drug will need to take it for decades to stay alive.
Many doctors, patients and their families, and insurers, including the U.S. government, which pays for the drug through Medicare Disability and Medicaid, object to the high cost. They point out that the scientific research that discovered the drug was paid for by taxpayers and that Vertex received considerable help from the Cystic Fibrosis Association and hence spent less than the typical $1 billion to $2 billion to develop the new drug. Without some adjustment in the price, as is being demanded by the U.S. and European governments, each patient receiving the drug will produce a multi-billion-dollar profit for Vertex. In the for-profit model of drug development and sale, Vertex is doing nothing illegal to price its product as it sees fit.
The cost of Kalydeco and other new drugs approved for serious diseases—especially cancer—which is almost always more than $100,000 per treatment or annually if the drug must be given continuously, is a pressing problem facing the healthcare system. With modern genetic technologies to help produce more drugs to treat small numbers of patients, industry and drug developers will be tempted to exploit their advantage financially. Detecting and treating genetic and other serious diseases are rife with ethical and economic concerns that will become critical in the coming years.”
References:
Edlin, G., & Golanty, E. (2019). Health & Wellness (13th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Should these products have been approved in the 1st place? I realize not everyone has health issues from these items, but who wants to test their luck? I guess if a product generates $XXXbillion, and lawsuits payout $Xbillion, it was a good business plan. Do your research, when it comes to your well-being. No one should care more about your health than you.
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Take care of yourself because no one else should care more about you than you. Eat better, move more, stress less, be nicer. Be well!
More people have been staying inside for months now, to avoid Covid19. As a consequence, people may now be suffering more from vitamin D3 deficiency (metabolism & bone issues), seasonal affective disorder (SAD) (depression), drug & alcohol overuse and overdoses, and many other issues relative to sitting far more than previously.
A vaccine or other medicines can’t fix someone if they are not living a healthy lifestyle to begin with.
Get out and get some fresh air, sunlight (not too much-avoid skin cancer!), physical activity and maybe something safe and fun!
Good information regarding the FDA, drug and food companies who are all contributing to chemicals allowed into the American diet, in spite of the health risks. Remember when we were taught that “you are what you eat” and thought it was ridiculous? Regardless, most people continue to trust those that willfully make us sick.
“In the 1990s, the FDA approved two drugs, Baytril and SaraFlox, that could be added routinely to poultry feed. These two drugs belong to a class of extremely effective antibiotics called fluoroquinolones; members of this family of drugs are used to treat the bacteria that cause anthrax and food borne infections. Scientists and the American Medical Association warned that such use in animal feed would lead to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains. After several years of use, this is exactly what happened, and the FDA tried to ban the use of the drugs in livestock. Drug companies fought the FDA, and it was years before the drugs were finally withdrawn from the market. But it was to late; resistance had already occurred. Fluoroquinolone drugs are now much less effective in treating staph infections.”
“In 2007, the FDA again succumbed to drug company pressures and approved the use of a powerful antibiotic, cefquinome, for use in animal feed. Again the American Medical Association and many other health organizations warned that adding this drug to animal feed would, within a few years, lead to antibiotic-resistant strains of pathogenic bacteria and render this powerful class of drugs much less effective. Despite the overwhelming evidence of the health peril from overuse of antibiotics in animals and people, the US. government still has not restricted the unnecessary use of antibiotics as most other countries have done (Woolhouse & Ward, 2013). Every year in the United States, drug companies sell thousands of tons of antibiotics for use in livestock and people. Time after time over the last several decades, the FDA has bowed to industry pressures and has failed to perform its primary mission to protect the health of Americans.”
References:
Edlin, G., & Golanty, E. (2019). Health & Wellness (13th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning, pg. 273
United Martial Arts Association 