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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Mad Cow Disease
  • Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:21:47 EST



> No, but people with insurance go for screening in fairly large numbers.
>

And treatment. A good half a score of people I know died in the past five or
six years from aggressive treatment for this or that illness. Now, in almost
every case they were going to die of the malady for which they were being
treated, but not right away. One contracted lung cancer from smoking and had
a
lobectomy. But believing in the efficacy of medicine (being as he was, a
pharmacist) he opted for a ghastly dose of radiation therapy which induced
clinical
phemanitis and he died a few weeks after the treatment. His prognosis
without it was five to seven years IF the cancer returned, which it probably
would
have.

Another friend and former business partner got prostrate cancer and when he
went for treatment of the cancer, they said his BP and choleserol were way
too
high and put him on so many pills he rattled when he walked. He got very
sick
and he and his wife both attributed it to the medicine. While switching
around and adjucting doses of the calcium channel blockers, he died of
massive
heart failure.

In these and many more cases, the person had enough insurance that they could
afford all sorts of invasive treatement which killed them more quickly than
the disease for which they were being treated.

Too much insurance is dangerous to your health.




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