Glad we got that cleared up. I would love to see insurance companies accept everyone equally, but that is not financially feasible at this time. As I said, I am completely open to solutions to the healthcare crisis. I'm in sales. I can sell anything (as long as it's a good product) so it won't bother me if we get UHC. It's probably true that the CEOs of the ins. companies make a disproportionately high income, just like the CEOs of oil companies, and those in many other industries.
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That was a direct effect of stopping treatment abruptly.
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Key word here is 'abruptly.' That was completely irresponsible. All the alternative therapists I've known have always stressed that the patient should NOT abruptly quit conventional treatment.
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I have never seen a cancer patient that was "cured" when they sought alternative treatment.
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Then you must not be looking for them, because they most definitely are out there. Go to any health food store and you will find countless books telling their very moving stories. I'm not even a practitioner, but because I have been involved in the natural foods industry, I've met several dozen personally! (Who did NOT write books! Just told me their stories)
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Most lay people do not understand how strong the placebo effect is, and this accounts for most of the reports of beneficial effects from alternative therapy.
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I've always found this viewpoint hilarious. You will accept that people can cure themselves with only their minds, but you cannot accept that physical substances have any effect?
Placebo effect does not account for some supplements not working and then others worked. I have personal experience with searching many different supplements, each time believing it would work, and it didn't until I found the right one.
Again, respectfully, sir, you don't seem very up on the research in your own medical journals about the natural substances that HAVE been studied - like CoQ10 for heart ailments, blue-green algae activating the killer cells in the immune system, extracts of blue-green algae activating adult stem cells, graviola killing abnormal cells in vitro, etc. Not to mention the healing of various colon disorders by very specific forms of, yes, aloe vera. (I guess the poor guy's practitioner was misinformed - again, irresponsible. But that does not negate the very real evidence as to the efficacy of certain types of aloe vera in CERTAIN types of cases.)
Anyway, thank you for your concern about me saving $$, but I've already saved a bundle by choosing natural therapies over an expensive, invasive surgery.
Sorry, but you cannot take my experiences away from me. I invite you to consider that your mind is quite closed.
As for alternative treatments being useless, millions of people who have improved their lives would say you are, quite simply, wrong.
You can't take their experiences away from them, either.