The Global Healthcare Crisis Isn’t Due To Lack Of Funding, But To Ineffective Therapies

It is sometimes said that one definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. I was reminded of this just recently upon reading a report about the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) being unable to provide a seven-day-a-week service under its current funding and staffing levels. The world’s fifth largest employer with over 1.7 million staff and an annual budget of £116.4 billion (US$148 billion), the NHS is said to be on the brink of collapse. With its junior doctors having resorted to strikes and legal action over new contracts, and costs set to rise to £133.1 billion (US$169 billion) over the next 5 years, I couldn’t help but conclude that the continued reliance on synthetic drug-based treatments and failure to consider alternative health approaches borders on insanity.

Of the four countries whose healthcare systems make up the UK’s NHS (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), the figures show that England’s acute hospitals are in a particularly dire economic condition. Apparently, 80% of them are now in financial deficit. To address this, the main options under discussion involve cutting staff, bringing in charges (the NHS is currently publicly funded, with most services free at the point of use), or introducing “draconian rationing” of treatment.

Given that NHS appointment waiting times and delayed hospital discharges are at record levels, you might imagine that serious consideration would now be given to science-based preventive therapies. Tellingly, however, even for a country that has recently voted for Brexit in the biggest vote for change it has ever known, there is no sign that any serious reform of the types of health therapies on offer is being planned.

Daily use of supplements can reduce national healthcare costs

Of course, the UK is far from being the only country faced with skyrocketing healthcare costs. Throughout the world, governments are increasingly facing up to the reality that demands on their health systems are becoming unsustainable. Commonly cited reasons for this include ageing populations and the escalating costs of drugs. Mostly, however, little or no attention is being paid to the fact that our healthcare services are generally only designed to treat the symptoms of diseases. Contrary to the impression we are given by the pharma industry and its stakeholders, the root cause prevention of health problems is essentially being ignored.

Given the rising incidence of diseases in our societies today, the current approach to medicine basically amounts to doing the same thing repeatedly and keeping our fingers crossed hoping for a better result. In this respect, any politician or bureaucrat who claims the only options for avoiding the bankrupting of our healthcare systems involve cutting staff, raising charges, or rationing treatments either hasn’t examined the evidence or is deliberately misleading us.

For some years now, economic analyses have been showing that daily use of supplements can reduce national healthcare costs. To take one example, a study published in the American Journal of Managed Care in 2013 impressively examined 44 million adult inpatient episodes. The researchers found that supplement use reduced the average length of hospital stays by over 2 days and the average cost by more than US$4,700. Moreover, the likelihood of patients being readmitted to hospital was cut by almost 7%.

Research also shows that significant amounts of money could be saved even by something as simple as making sure a population gets adequate intakes of vitamin D. A review published in 2010 found that ensuring people in Germany get sufficient vitamin D could save that country over €37 billion (US$41 billion) a year in healthcare costs.

Real healthcare reform is about switching to natural preventive approaches

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Solving the global healthcare crisis does not depend simply on throwing increased amounts of money at the problem. Unless money is properly utilized and deliberately targeted towards addressing the primary cause of chronic diseases, our healthcare systems will inevitably remain trapped in an endless cycle of ineffectively treating symptoms at an ever-increasing cost.

Real healthcare reform involves recognizing the primary cause of chronic diseases and taking action to protect populations through the preventive use of science-based natural approaches. Let’s hope that somewhere, sooner or later, a government is elected that understands this.

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Paul Anthony Taylor

Executive Director of the Dr. Rath Health Foundation and one of the coauthors of our explosive book, “The Nazi Roots of the ‘Brussels EU'”, Paul is also our expert on the Codex Alimentarius Commission and has had eye-witness experience, as an official observer delegate, at its meetings.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Paul's background was in the music industry, where he worked as a keyboard player and programmer with artists including Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry, Bill Withers, the Verve, Texas, and Primal Scream.

He first became interested in natural health after falling ill with a chronic fatigue syndrome-related disorder in 1991 and subsequently making a full recovery through the use of natural health therapies. After meeting Dr. Rath and Dr. Niedzwiecki at an anti-Codex rally in Berlin in 2002, Paul was inspired to make a life-changing decision to leave the music industry to work for the Foundation and help defend the right of patients worldwide to have free access to natural health approaches.

You can find Paul on Twitter at @paulanthtaylor

Der Executive Director der Dr. Rath Health Foundation ist einer der Koautoren des explosiven Buchs „Die Nazi-Wurzeln der Brüsseler EU“. Paul ist auch unser Experte zum Thema „Codex Alimentarius-Kommission“ und hat Augenzeugenerfahrung als offizieller beobachtender Teilnehmer bei diesen Treffen.

Bevor er seine Arbeit bei der Stiftung antrat war Paul in der Musikindustrie aktiv. Er arbeitete als Keyboard-Spieler und Programmierer mit Künstlern wie Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry, Bill Withers, the Verve, Texas und Primal Scream.

Sein Interesse an natürlicher Gesundheit wuchs, als er 1991 an Störungen erkrankte, die aus einem chronischen Erschöpfungssyndrom resultierten. Durch natürliche Gesundheitstherapien wurde er schließlich vollständig geheilt. Ein Treffen 2002 mit Dr. Rath und Dr. Niedzwiecki bei einer Anti-Codex-Demonstration in Berlin inspirierte ihn zu einer lebensverändernden Entscheidung und er verließ die Musikindustrie um für die Stiftung zu arbeiten und das Recht der Patienten zu verteidigen, weltweit freien Zugang zu natürlichen Gesundheitsverfahren zu haben.

Auf Twitter ist Paul unter @paulanthtaylor zu finden.

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