Obamacare was designed to destroy the health care insurance business so people will demand a government takeover. Since its passage, health care has become more expensive and less available. When you can see a doctor (an actual doctor and not a PA) they spend all their time looking at the computer and checking off options via drop down menus. They then tell you what they are allowed to prescribe or recommend based on the computer’s diagnosis and the insurance/government’s permissions.
I go to the doctor as little as possible. Not a one has assisted me with a medical problem in the past 20 years. For almost every single visit lately, the PA’s recommendation has been the drug Neurontin — no matter what the problem may be. I’ve seen what that drug can do. My late sister was on so much of that drug that I swear it destroyed her brain.
Physicians are good for setting bones (most of the time) or stitching up a large cut. These days, that’s about all they are good for.
AND-—IF you die ‘early’—they do NOT have to pay your Soc Sec checks every month.
“Physicians are good for setting bones and stitching cuts..but that’s about all today.”
Anyone with a computer these days who does not immediately Google “nutrition and supplements to help condition XXX” after a diagnosis is missing important help. Three years ago doctors said my cataracts must have surgery as no treatment existed. I discovered at Google there were indeed several supplements I was not yet taking that could help. After 3 years my vision is 70 to 80% better. The glare of headlights no longer bothers my night driving except for those high brightness bluish headlights that everyone hates.
Even if you just think you have a health problem do the Google search. Then when you go to get a confirmed diagnosis you will have some pointed questions to ask. Unfortunately, you will discover that most doctors know almost nothing about nutrition, not even what can help or hurt in their specialty should you happen to be directed to a specialist by your GP or Internal Medicine practitioner.
As we have discovered, almost all the $6 billion a year that Dr. Fauci controlled was directed to drug research, very little to prevention or nutritional related treatments. As of late spring 2020 he said Vitamins C and D were not helpful for Covid. By Nov. that year he had to reluctantly admit he might be wrong based on a lot more information about Covid infections.
Neurontin is so in need of a class-action suit to bring it to an end, it boggles the mind.
In the next decade people will look back and regard it the way we regard thorazine dumped into nursing homes in the 70s and 80s.