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10 LOCAL Causes to Work for in 2010
#3 - Universal Health Care
Including Naturopathy, Midwifery and Integrative Medicine
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Subject: Local Health Care Solutions
The insurance industry has sent 6,000 corporate lobbyists to Capitol Hill and spent nearly a billion dollars to influence Congress's health care legislation. The public supports universal, single-payer health care, but the health care legislation the insurance industry wrote is going to force each of us to buy insurance instead.
With the federal system so corrupted, we need to explore local health care solutions and acknowledge the fact that health care outcomes won't improve until we address these two issues:
- The food industry that's responsible for the three-quarters of health care spending that goes to treat food-related diseases; and
- The threat to health that the medical industry itself has become.
It won't do much good to provide universal access to a system where:
- "Adverse drug reaction" (better described as "pharmaceutical poisoning") is the third-leading cause of death; and
- Preventable mistakes kill as many as 98,000 people in hospitals every year, with another 300,000 people injured due to medical errors.
Local governments are in a unique position to get to the root of the problem by creating community health care systems that emphasize prevention and ensure access to the cost-saving and effective care provided by naturopaths, midwives and integrative physicians.
The silver-lining in Congress's health care reform bill is a big increase in funding for community health centers. The $14 billion in new funding will create health centers in an additional 10,000 communities. This means we could have a program in our community like the Coalition of Community Health Clinics in Portland, Oregon, that provides free and low-cost care, including naturopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and chiropractice.
I hope that you will help our community take advantage of this new opportunity to improve public health.
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- 02/04/10 - Yale Researchers say that Sludge Isn't Heated High Enough to Kill Pathogens
- 02/03/10 - Are You Eating a Livestock Drug Banned by 160 Nations?
- 02/03/10 - A Ban on Hormonal Meat is Three Decades Overdue
- 02/03/10 - Landmark Trial About Patenting Humans Begins Today
- 02/02/10 - Is There More to the Story on GMOs?
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- 02/01/10 - Cocaine, Spices, and Hormones Now Being Found in Drinking Water
- 02/01/10 - CPC & OCA Petition to the FDA: Imminent Hazards of Hormonal Meat
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Links
- Alliance for Natural Health
- Homeopathy Home
- Natural Herbs Guide
- Natural Medicine
- Holistic Moms
- Agenda for Shared Prosperity Healthcare Page
- The National Center for Homeopathy
- Environmental
Working Group - Natural News
- Flouride Action Network
- American Herbal
Products Association - ABC Homeopathy
- Center for Food Safety
- Consumers Union
- The Weston Price Foundation
- La Leche League
- LessCancer.org
- Mothering
- Mercola
- Citizens for Health
- Prevention Magazine
- American Association
for Health Freedom - HerbMed
- National Center for
Health Statistics - The Worlds Healthiest Foods
Swine & Bird Flu Info
Visit OCA's Flu Resource Center
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OCA Campaigns
Coming Clean Campaign:
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in Body Care
Appetite for a Change:
Children's Health Campaign
Mad Cow Disease:
Stop the Madness
News & Views on Mad Cow Disease
Nutri-Con: The
Truth About Vitamins and Supplements
Video
Mercury in Dental Fillings
Resources
- HerbMed
Invaluable tool for researching and discovering herbs and their applications. - The Alternative Health Reporter
In-depth books and reports on alternative medicine solutions to common problems.
Vaccines and Mercury?
Go to the FDA's website see which (surprisingly common) vaccines contain thimerosol, a mercury-containing compound linked to autism in children. Here is a direct link to the spreadsheet.
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