Confessions of a Cancer Industry Insider

[TB: I'm reposting this because the original online article has zero social network sharing features and I believe this story needs to spread like wild fire.  It's time to awaken the public to the reality that the health care industry needs to be renamed the Disease Profit Industry.  These people have the means and the motive for murder, and that's exactly what you are letting them get away with every day. 

If we stand together and rise up we CAN change this!  I implore you to send this to everyone you know whose life has been affected by cancer, especially if they've lost a loved one to an unnecessary sickness.  Share, share, share!]

The original article can be found at http://www.henrymakow.com/by_geraldine_philips_henrymako.html

Confessions of a Cancer Industry Insider

Twenty Year Veteran:


"This is a multi-billion dollar per year industry and a "cure" would put a lot of people out of work."

by Geraldine Philips

(henrymakow.com)

I work for a "cancer research center" and I call it this only because that is in their actual name.

I have seen and read things that boggle the mind in the so-called treatment of folks over the years. The only explanation is that once the "C" word comes up, people become deaf and dumb to anything but how to rid themselves of this horrible plague.

Treatment is akin to using leaches...and worse...but at a far far far greater price. Walk in without insurance coverage and see how much "treatment" you get.

Cap out your existing coverage in the middle of treatment...and treatment ceases. Immediately. This is and probably always has been about money.

I keep telling people to stop giving money to the "cancer research" because no one is frigging looking for a cure (we have several and they have been carefully hidden away from public view)...this is a multi-billion dollar per year industry and a "cure" would put a lot of people out of work.

NO ONE is seriously looking for a cure...at least not "serious academics"...the fringe nut cases are but of course those are the people who went into medicine as a means to help humanity and not become richer than god by next Thursday so that is a completely separate issue.

I have worked in the medical field for over 20 years, most of which has been closely associated with cancer research and treatment...when I was personally diagnosed with breast cancer, about 7 years ago, I was living in Phoenix. So, of course, I was referred to CTC post haste. CTC has the state mandate to treat cancer patients, with or without insurance and to this end gets large sums of money from the state to treat indigents.

That does not happen. Indigents get turfed. Quickly. Also, at one point I became suspicious of some physicians at CTC and did my own research...I found Ph.D researchers doing hands on breast and pelvic exams...researchers with no clinical training or experience. Does that matter? Ask your wife or sister or mother if they mind if a non doctor researcher does that? Probably they will say yes.

There was also a very long list of physicians who were in the country (not as students) who had not passed medical boards as required for all practicing physicians. They had been practicing for years and had no medical license. There were American doctors who had not passed medical boards, i.e. were not licensed physicians who were also practicing at CTC...they were treating patients (NOT as a student with faculty overview, independently), they were dispensing drugs...if they are not licensed physicians they are also not licensed to dispense anything stronger than aspirin)...but they were writing prescriptions and ordering medications including chemotherapy medications for patients unsupervised.

There were even unlicensed physicians who were doing surgery. (not only at CTC either). Unlicensed physicians are also filing insurance claims and if they are not licensed, filing an insurance claim for services rendered is fraud of the highest magnitude. I did my research well and I had lists of names and dates and the newspaper blew me off and would not cover the story. The TV stations did likewise. CTC buys a lot of advertising time and no one was willing to rock the boat on those advertising dollars. What a shock.

Held hostage? YOU BET...and you have no idea the depth to which this extends. Personally, I chose to not have surgery, not have chemotherapy and not have radiation (what and lose my waist length hair? I do not think so!)...I used Essiac...to excellent response and still have all the associated body parts (and the hair).

CONCLUSION

When you talk about being held hostage by cancer, you need to back up to the original diagnosis. Do you...or most folks...have any means to know or understand a diagnosis that you are given?

NO? What a surprise. So...you are totally at the mercy of the hospital. When a doctor says cancer, you assume that he/she knows what they are talking about...a faulty assumption in some cases...and you assume that they know what is best to treat it...another faulty assumption.

The major industry that hospitals sell is not healing...it is education (or lack thereof) and blind faith in something you do not understand. This is true of lots of diagnoses besides cancer, it is just that cancer is the big money maker for most facilities...secondary to obesity which is coming up fast.

Hospitals are scary places for lots of reasons and mistakes are vastly more common than what you read or hear about. Everyone makes mistakes of course...doctors bury theirs...with the full knowledge and corporate cover up of the hospital administration. I can't wait to retire.

Cancers from Environment 'Grossly Underestimated'. Do You Care Yet?

"Environmental carcinogens are responsible for a far greater number of cancers than previously believed -- a fact that suggests eradicating these environmental threats should be a priority for President Obama -- according to the report of a presidential advisory panel.
"The Panel was particularly concerned to find that the true burden of environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated," wrote the authors of the report, "Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now."

"The panel urges you most strongly to use the power of your office to remove the carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water, and air that needlessly increase health care costs, cripple our Nation's productivity, and devastate American lives," the report's authors wrote in a letter to President Obama."

So...not only is all our man-made pollution destroying ecosystems and effecting climate change (Yes, I meant to use the word "effecting" and not "affecting". You can't out-grammar nazi a grammar nazi.), but it's making us all sick. Creating disease in our bodies, more than we knew. That adds up to health care costs. Oh - that's your money! Do you care yet?

Read more...

It's Okay If You Die. I Made Money.

I've often made the argument recently that profit should not be the motivating factor in caring for the health of our society. Case in point: Insurance giant WellPoint made a policy of dropping customers who were unfortunate enough to come down with breast cancer.

The largest health insurance company in the United States used a computer algorithm to target premium-paying customers who were diagnosed with breast cancer, immediately starting a fraud investigation even with no cause to suspect fraud - looking for any reason whatsoever to drop these customers so the company didn't have to actually pay for their health care.

Who could blame them? WellPoint's purpose isn't to care for people's well-being. The raison d'etre of a health insurance company is to make as much money as possible. A corporation can't do that if it's shelling out to pay exhorbitant amounts on cancer treatment.

This is why for-profit companies have zero business being in the business of caring for the health of our society. The ONLY reason to keep profit-seeking corporations involved in caring for our well-being would be if we switched the profit trigger to fire when people are well. Scratch that. People would still have to pay out the ass on premiums for good health care.

Profit has NO place in health care. Zero. Zilch.

We should completely drop the current system in favor of a single-payer system that promotes wellness and prevention. The government - that we're all paying for - would then have incentive to push us all to stay healthy and treat those of us who aren't so as to save money.

The current system isn't flawed. It's fucked. We should completely scrap it and start over.

One Senator's Socialized Knee

I live in Kansas, which means there's NOTHING either of my senators want to hear from me. I'm about as far from a Republican as one can get. So when I got to calling senators before the health care bill vote (that's right, I actually CALLED), I didn't even bother with Brownback or Roberts.

Now this. Pat Roberts is recovering from knee surgery. Knee surgery paid for by taxpayers. Because he has a wonderful SOCIALIZED health plan.

It's a shame they couldn't do something to fix his cold heart. A heart so cold it voted to deny his brothers and sisters across the nation the same level of care he enjoys.

He must deserve it more than we do.

Compromising the Compromised Compromise

So there's a Democrat in the White House and both houses of Congress have Democratic majorities. Right? I could SWEAR that's where things stood last time I checked. So why do these people continue to whittle down health care reform?

Health care costs too much. Businesses can't afford to provide it for their employees. State governments are having a hard time providing it to their employees. Stand alone citizens are having a difficult time providing it for themselves. The people who can't afford it, just don't have it and have to hope they don't need it. Ever.

But the companies in the health care game are raking it in.

In my view, health care should not be a business. There should not be a health care "market". As a species, I feel we owe it to ourselves to provide for ourselves the best care for the health and survival of the body so that we can experience life. I think we should make it a human RIGHT.

Easiest way to do that? Single payer system. We pay taxes, taxes pay for health care. For ALL. Just because.

But of course the real world requires a compromise. Enter the Public Option. Compromise #1. Allow citizens to opt in to a government-run option to compete with insurance companies to help bring the cost of health care down. Because THAT's the problem, you'll remember. It looked like we were going to get the public option when the reform package left the House of Representatives.

But it got scrapped in the Senate. Apparently The Club thought it would be too popular and successful and their Owners would lose too much money. They say it's an unwanted intrusion into the health care system. Unwanted by whom? If it's unwanted, it won't get used and is therefor not a problem. The problem is it IS wanted! A Survey USA poll shows up to 77% of Americans WANT THE PUBLIC OPTION!

So they decided instead of a public option, they'd at least open up Medicare to younger citizens and help cover a FEW more people than today. Not even close to substantial reform, but it's something. Compromise #2.

But TODAY there's talk that Dems are scrapping THAT, too! They're apparently afraid they won't get the package passed before Christmas. They're more worried about getting it done before an arguably arbitrary date than they are giving the American people what they want and deserve! Compromise #3.

So I'm confused. After this, where is the reform in health care reform? What's going to substantially change, at all, let alone reduce the cost of providing health care to companies and individuals in this supposed greatest nation on the planet with the supposedly best health care system?

There's no reform left. It's all been compromised away by a bunch of frightened little schmucks who have the power to do real good for the people of this country but are too scared of how it hurts their shot at reelection. Or perhaps they're worried about losing the GREAT HEALTH CARE that comes with being a legislator at the federal level?!

Where is there an incumbent (after all, they're ALL incumbents) who will put the good of her/his constituency above their personal political ambitions? One could say it's incumbent upon them.

I swear if substantial health care isn't passed because this group of bastards sold us all out, I will be a VERY loud voice for firing every one of them. Every last one, regardless of party - because as you know the American Deviant is an independent voter. Emphasis on voter.

They're failing us.