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Business With Disease Deprives People of Optimum Health

The Democratic National Convention is in town this week and the media is out in full force. (Planet Chiropractic is located a block and a half from Pershing Square currently known as protester central.) Many are taking advantage of the opportunities available to have their voice be heard.

An example was seen in this Sunday’s Los Angeles Times. The Times featured a full page advertisement by Dr. Matthia Rath, M.D.

Dr. Rath says that we can “Save Millions of Lives and Billions of Health Care Dollars”

The issue is obviously with the pharmaceutical industry and Dr. Rath had this to say:
No one in America can remain indifferent when facing the sobering facts of the pharmaceutical industry’s “business with disease.”

The Ad asks:
Do you know these sobering facts about the pharmaceutical industry?

* More than 24,000 pharmaceutical drugs currently marketed by pharmaceutical companies and prescribed by doctors have no proven efficacy whatsoever. (source: AOK Health Insurance Company)

* The known harmful side-effects of prescription drugs taken by millions of Americans have become the 4th leading cause of death, surpassed only by heart attacks, cancer and stroke. (Source: JAMA April 15, 1998)

Comment: A recent commentary in JAMA dated July 26, 2000, stated that “225,000 deaths per year constitutes the third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer.”

* More than five hundred billion dollars in health insurance benefits, public health funds and taxpayer’s money are spent each year for largely ineffective and dangerous pharmaceutical drugs while effective and safe natural health therapies are not reimbursed.

The advertisement urges us to:

* Educate our fellow citizens about the nature of the pharmaceutical industry’s “business with disease.”

* Promote the dissemination of life-saving natural health information and natural health education in schools, communities and at all levels of society.

That sounds like spinal screenings, in-office health talks, and public health talks. That means visiting schools, businesses and surrounding communities, telling the truth about chiropractic and exposing our current healthcare system for what it is.

Be proud to be part of the world’s greatest healing profession. We are separate, distinct, and radically unique from anything else the world has to offer. Thank you for telling the story day after day. Thank you for being chiropractic!

Dr. Rath’s Website: Making Health A Human Right

planetc1.com-news @ 1:31 pm | Article ID: 966285093

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