ObamaCare - ER Visits Climb

The following editorial presents with just one the obscene facts regarding the Obamacare fiasco we the public, and professionals, are obligated to endure.

"Here's a survey that won't be posted at #BetterWithObamacare: Three-quarters of the nation's emergency room physicians say that visits to their ERs have gone up since implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

That's not what President Obama promised the American people when his vaunted health reform law was enacted five years ago. He was certain that ER visits would decrease once Americans started enrolling in Obamacare.

Well, some 6.7 million people were enrolled in Obamacare in 2014, according the Department of Health and Human Services. But not only did three in for ER doctors say the volume of emergency patients increased, one in for said the volume "increased greatly," according to a survey by the American College of Emergency Physicians.

There are myriad explanations for why the president's health care reform has failed to reduce ER visits. Not the least of the is that all too many primary care doctors refuse to accept Obamacare patients because of low reimbursement rates. Many of those patients wind up using the ER for primary care, which portends higher - rather than lower - overall health care costs.

Nowhere is that scenario more observable than here in the Golden State, where Covered California, the state's Obamacare health insurance exchange, is held out as a national model. a study published in the May issue of Health Affairs, found that health plans available through Covered California have narrower hospital networks than do commercial plans.

Blue Shield of California, which boasts some 3.4 million enrollees, provides a case in point. In 2014, its Covered California health plans included only 75 percent of the hospitals in its network and 60 percent of the doctors.

It's hard to imagine a higher participation rate inasmuch as hospitals and doctors that accept Covered California patients are reimbursed in some cased 30 percent less than those that do not.

That's why many Covered California patients are turning to the state's already overtaxed emergency rooms for such non-emergencies as coughs and colds, and cuts and burns that could b addressed at the local CVS or Walgreens.

We'd like to believe this unintended consequence of the Affordable Care Act eventually will be resolved, and that the nation's emergency rooms will become less, rather than more, crowded.

But, to date, almost every promise made about the Affordable Care Act - that if you liked you health care plan you could keep it, that the typical premium would be lowered by up to $2,500.00, etc. - has proven to be false."

Last week, my office received a check, made out to me, in the amount of $0.00 - nothing else need be said.

Moving Mountains

Have you ever heard it said that "faith can move mountains"? Have you ever attempted it? In most cases you are better off renting a bulldozer.

Faith, of course, is an enormous help. It is a figure of speech, but very important. You must have faith in yourself. You must believe in the task you are undertaking. You must have confidence in people and believe in the methods you are using. When these factors are employed, you can make your dreams come true.

First identify what your perceived problem might be. Is it one of debt? You cannot borrow yourself rich reaching out to family members, friends or even banks. There comes a time of reckoning and you must repay that debt with cash. A loan at best can only serve as a crutch to lean on in time of greater need, nothing more. Set a goal, develop a plan, work your plan, have faith in the outcome, and you can win when you try and try again. With faith in the laws of right and justice, all things prevail.

Perhaps your mountain is one of ill health. In many cases, you feel that you are somewhat overweight and wish to lose it quickly. Popping a drug that advertises "weight loss" is ignorant decision, and in my opinion, the lazy way to a problematic future outcome. Overcome the dis-ease and leave ease in its place. If you already are depending upon drugs and pills, please stop? These are a poor crutch to lean on because all too often they leave side effects worse than the original dis-ease. Even the doctors prescribing the drugs are puzzled and provide something different if the original "doesn't work". Bottom line - eat moderately and exercise .... it works!

It is somewhat like the woman who placed literal faith in moving mountains of personal problems. "Just as I expected", she moaned, "they are still there to devil me."

Faith is not merely a wish. You have to add will power and common sense to the equation. Sitting back and wishing does not change your fate. The Lord provides the fishing, you must dig the bait.

Health cannot be purchased in a bottle or by prescription to taken by the dose. Health comes from within outward when you are attuned to the laws of life, that nature has placed in every living soul.

Find yourself a good, old-fashion" chiropractor and turn your life around. This done, health is restored naturally from within outward making possible normal health and a more stress free life.

"If you wish to move mountains tomorrow, you must start by lifting stones today."

Be On Time

One of the most important things in life is that of being on time. Time is life, thus use it well. Start at the beginning and be on time when the appointment or work schedule begins. In my day, 15 minutes early, was considered being on time. Bear in mind that the best in every achievement will be yours for the asking because you were there when you should be, a responsible act.

Be on time on every occasion because that is when the outline is presented and you in turn grasp the basic principle that determines the success or failure of the program in hand. But, there is another reason for the promptness. It is a good habit to form. By doing so, you will be pleased with yourself and others will be pleased with you also.

You may protest that circumstances alter occasions. Your transportation was late, the weather was bad, or other excuses came up at the last moment. Perhaps you ad a headache or others were off schedule and that upset everything.

There may have been various extenuating circumstances involved that weren't your fault. That may be true on occasion, but do not let this become a habit. Learn to be on time and time will by yours to command.

Ill health is one of the hardest problems to overcome, but it is a problem you need to watch and curb on most occasions. Beware of the drug habit. By that I mean the casual acceptance of the doctors prescription, or even Nsaids. Avoid learning to rely on pain killers, tranquilizers, and sleeping aids. By doing so you will eventually pay a sad price for so-called relief from disease.

Perceive this; disease is want of ease. When you try to obtain ease by some form of pain killer, it gets you upset and off schedule, and that can be hurtful.

Health is something more or less under your control. It may be a situation wherein you seek to create ease by taking something to numb the nerves at the expense of normal relief. Remember, health come from within outward when the nervous system is under control and free from the drug habit that you may have acquired in an unsuspected way.

Be on time on all occasions, whether in activities of daily living, or your health needs. Have your problems corrected naturally without drugs or surgery, thus making possible a more plentiful life.

 "Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your own way."

Double Vision

Do you sometimes have double vision? For example, do you sometimes see two bridges to cross, and should you have had a drink or two, thus, do you attempt to cross the wrong bridge? That may become disastrous.

Here is sage advice. Never try to drive a car when you have been to a party that serves alcohol. Never use your cell phone, by hand, while driving. Even better advice; restrain yourself from the use of strong drink and/or cell phone tasks, regardless of the occasion, or the bridge you may have to cross might prove fatal.

Double vision technically is a physical condition that may require skilled attention. Your eyes, normally, are focused to give you single vision to avoid confusion. Your eyes are designed so that you have a pair of ligaments that are focused together serving as a team. They pull together on the same load, or as two electric units serving as a separate unit. This is not double vision, but serves a single purpose.

In your physical body, many functions are arranged in pairs for better functional purposes. For instance, you have two eyes, tow ears, two hands, two feet. In contrast, you have only one nose and one tongue so that they can function better and not get into other people's business.

How wise was the Creator for all concerned! Have you ever given thought to what has been called God's masterpiece? Have you considered your own body and how it works for a single purpose?

There are two decidedly separate, yet important, elements that work together for the common good of all. These are the spinal column, formed of many separate elements. The spinal column has 24 movable vertebrae to which all major muscles and ligaments are attached. These vertebrae are separated by padding of cartilage called discs that act as shock absorbers besides giving flexibility to the spine.

The other separate element, yet vital structure, is the nervous system that stems from the brain and spinal cord. Through this medium sensation is flashed to the brain and responds with mental impulses directing all functions and activities of the body in what is termed a state of health.

Is this not a wonderful design? The spinal column is the key to the spinal nervous system which conveys an intelligent force that directs and controls all bodily functions and activities of this creation - God's masterpiece.

"Do not try to stand higher than other people; only try to stand higher than your past self."

 

Scared To Death

Are you scared to death about this kind of bug or that? Are you fearful of getting a bug or germ of some kind because someone sneezed in your presence without a handkerchief over their mouth or nose? Are you scared stiff because of germs of countless kinds? How miserable can you make yourself and others by needless fears? What should you do? The best thing to do is to get rid of your fears.

The American Public Health Association in New York shared publicly research regarding the control of communicable diseases. Here is what is said about pneumonia:

"1. Infectious Agent:  Defined as the various pathogenic bacteria commonly found in the nose, throat, and mouth, such as the pneumococcus, the bacillus of Friedlander, the influenza bacillus, etc.

2. Source of Infection:  The discharges from the mouth and nose of apparently healthy carriers, as well as of recognized infected individuals, and articles freshly soiled with such discharges.

3. Mode of Transmission: By direct contact with an infected person, or with articles freshly soiled with the discharges from the nose or throat of, and possibly from infected just of rooms occupied by, infected persons.

4. Incubation Period:  Short, usually two or three days.

5. Period of Communicability:  Unknown; presumably until the mouth and nasal discharges no longer carry the infectious agent in an abundant amount or in a virulent form.

6. Methods of Control: 
  A.  The Infected individual and their environment:
     1. Recognition of the disease, meaning the clinical symptoms. Specific infection organisms many                 be determined by serological and bacteriological tests early in the course of the disease.
     2. Isolation: Patient during clinical course of the disease.
     3. Immunization - None; vaccines are worthy of further careful trial.
     4. Quarantine - None.
     5. Concurrent disinfection - discharges from the nose and throat of the patient.
     6. Terminal disinfection - thorough cleaning, airing and sunning.

  B.  General Methods
        In institutions and social functions, when practicable, people in large numbers should not be congregated closely within doors. The general resistance should be conserved by good feeding, fresh air, temperance in the use of alcoholic beverages, and other hygienic measures.
"Note - The early reporting of pneumonia is highly desirable in view of its communicability."

Therein we have the medical attitude toward pneumonia and the germ theory; "much ado about nothing" as one of Shakespeare's plays is entitled. When you sum it all up, good common sense is of most importance in all diseases. Health comes from within outward and is determined largely through the nervous system that stems from the brain and spinal cord. Also, its numerous fibers that radiate from the spinal cord through openings provided between the vertebrae are for this purpose.

Sometimes, however, due to spinal shocks and strains one or more vertebrae are displaced to a degree so that nerves are "pinched", this in turn disturbs function, lowers resistance, and results in dis-ease determined to a great degree by the resistance of the body, the environment, and other factors.

Remember, health comes from within outward thus opening the way to a more abundant life, free from fear and the side effects of drugs.

"Fill your mind with forgiveness, faith, and love, and you will radiate blessing like the sky above."
       

Jesus, Historical and Medical Explanation of the Crucifixion

Crucifixion was invented by the Persians in 300 BC, and perfected by the Romans in 100 BC.

1. It is the most painful death ever invented by man and is where we get our term “excruciating.”

2. It was reserved primarily for the most vicious of male criminals. Jesus refused the anesthetic wine which was offered to Him by the Roman soldiers because of His promise in Matthew 26: 29, “But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”

3. Jesus was stripped naked and His clothing divided by the Roman guards. This was in fulfillment of Psalm 22:18, “They divide My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.”

4. The Crucifixion of Jesus guaranteed a horrific, slow, painful death.
Having been nailed the Cross, Jesus now had an impossible anatomical position to maintain.

5. Jesus’ knees were flexed at about 45 degrees, and He was forced to bear His weight with the muscles of His thigh, which is not an anatomical position which is possible to maintain for more than a few minutes without severe cramp in the muscles of the thigh and calf.

6. Jesus’ weight was borne on His feet, with nails driven through them. As the strength of the muscles of Jesus’ lower limbs tired, the weight of His body had to be transferred to His wrists, His arms, and His shoulders.

7. Within a few minutes of being placed on the Cross, Jesus’ shoulders were dislocated. Minutes later Jesus’ elbows and wrists became dislocated.

8. The result of these upper limb dislocations is that His arms were 9 inches longer than normal, as clearly shown on the Shroud.

9. In addition prophecy was fulfilled in Psalm 22:14, “I am poured out like water, and all My bones are out of joint.”

10. After Jesus’ wrists, elbows, and shoulders were dislocated, the weight of His body on his upper limbs caused traction forces on the Pectoralis Major muscles of His chest wall.

11. These traction forces caused His rib cage to be pulled upwards and outwards, in a most unnatural state. His chest wall was permanently in a position of maximal respiratory inspiration. In order to exhale, Jesus was physiologically required to force His body.

12. In order to breathe out, Jesus had to push down on the nails in His feet to raise His body, and allow His rib cage to move downwards and inwards to expire air from His lungs.

13. His lungs were in a resting position of constant maximum inspiration.
Crucifixion is a medical catastrophe.

14. The problem was that Jesus could not easily push down on the nails in His feet because the muscles of His legs, bent at 45 degrees, were extremely fatigued, in severe cramp, and in an anatomically compromised position.

15. Unlike all Hollywood movies about the Crucifixion, the victim was extremely active. The crucified victim was physiologically forced to move up and down the cross, a distance of about 12 inches, in order to breathe.

16. The process of respiration caused excruciating pain, mixed with the absolute terror of asphyxiation.

17. As the six hours of the Crucifixion wore on, Jesus was less and less able to bear His weight on His legs, as His thigh and calf muscles became increasingly exhausted. There was increasing dislocation of His wrists, elbows and shoulders, and further elevation of His chest wall, making His breathing more and more difficult. Within minutes of crucifixion Jesus became severely dyspnoeic (short of breath).

18. His movements up and down the Cross to breathe caused excruciating pain in His wrist, His feet, and His dislocated elbows and shoulders.

19. The movements became less frequent as Jesus became increasingly exhausted, but the terror of imminent death by asphyxiation forced Him to continue in His efforts to breathe.

20. Jesus’ lower limb muscles developed excruciating cramp from the effort of pushing down on His legs, to raise His body, so that He could breathe out, in their anatomically compromised position.

21. The pain from His two shattered median nerves in His wrists exploded with every movement.

22. Jesus was covered in blood and sweat.

23. The blood was a result of the Scourging that nearly killed Him, and the sweat as a result of His violent involuntary attempts to effort to expire air from His lungs. Throughout all this He was completely naked, and the leaders of the Jews, the crowds, and the thieves on both sides of Him were jeering, swearing and laughing at Him. In addition, Jesus’ own mother was watching.

24. Physiologically, Jesus’ body was undergoing a series of catastrophic and terminal events.

25. Because Jesus could not maintain adequate ventilation of His lungs, He was now in a state of hypo-ventilation (inadequate ventilation).

26. His blood oxygen level began to fall, and He developed Hypoxia (low blood oxygen). In addition, because of His restricted respiratory movements, His blood carbon dioxide (CO2) level began to rise, a condition known as Hypercritical.

27. This rising CO2 level stimulated His heart to beat faster in order to increase the delivery of oxygen, and the removal of CO2

28. The Respiratory Center in Jesus’ brain sent urgent messages to his lungs to breathe faster, and Jesus began to pant.

29. Jesus’ physiological reflexes demanded that He took deeper breaths, and He involuntarily moved up and down the Cross much faster, despite the excruciating pain. The agonizing movements spontaneously started several times a minute, to the delight of the crowd who jeered Him, the Roman soldiers, and the Sanhedrin.

30. However, due to the nailing of Jesus to the Cross and His increasing exhaustion, He was unable to provide more oxygen to His oxygen starved body.

31. The twin forces of Hypoxia (too little oxygen) and Hypercapnia (too much CO2) caused His heart to beat faster and faster, and Jesus developed Tachycardia.

32. Jesus’ heart beat faster and faster, and His pulse rate was probably about 220 beats/ minute, the maximum normally sustainable.

33. Jesus had drunk nothing for 15 hours, since 6 pm the previous evening. Jesus had endured a scourging which nearly killed Him.

34. He was bleeding from all over His body following the Scourging, the crown of thorns, the nails in His wrists and feet, and the lacerations following His beatings and falls.

35. Jesus was already very dehydrated, and His blood pressure fell alarmingly.

36. His blood pressure was probably about 80/50.

37. He was in First Degree Shock, with Hypovolaemia (low blood volume), Tachycardia (excessively fast Heart Rate), Tachypnoea (excessively fast Respiratory Rate), and Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating).

38. By about noon Jesus’ heart probably began to fail.

39. Jesus’ lungs probably began to fill up with Pulmonary Oedema.

40. This only served to exacerbate His breathing, which was already severely compromised.

41. Jesus was in Heart Failure and Respiratory Failure.

42. Jesus said, “I thirst” because His body was crying out for fluids.

43. Jesus was in desperate need of an intravenous infusion of blood and plasma to save His life

44. Jesus could not breathe properly and was slowly suffocating to death.

45. At this stage Jesus probably developed a Haemopericardium.

46. Plasma and blood gathered in the space around His heart, called the Pericardium.

47. This fluid around His heart caused Cardiac Tamponade (fluid around His heart, which prevented Jesus’ heart from beating properly).

48. Because of the increasing physiological demands on Jesus’ heart, and the advanced state of Haemopericardium, Jesus probably eventually sustained Cardiac Rupture. His heart literally burst. This was probably the cause of His death.

49. To slow the process of death the soldiers put a small wooden seat on the Cross, which would allow Jesus the “privilege” of bearing His weight on his sacrum.

50. The effect of this was that it could take up to nine days to die on a Cross.

51. When the Romans wanted to expedite death they would simply break the legs of the victim, causing the victim to suffocate in a matter of minutes. This was called Crucifragrum.

52. At three o’clock in the afternoon Jesus said, “Tetelastai,” meaning, “It is finished.” At that moment, He gave up His Spirit, and He died.

53. When the soldiers came to Jesus to break His legs, He was already dead. Not a bone of His body was broken, in fulfillment of prophecy (above).

54. Jesus died after six hours of the most excruciating and terrifying torture ever invented.

This is what Easter is truly about!

Bad Breath - Perhaps an Ileocecal Valve Syndrome

The ileocecal valve (ICV) is an extremely important valve which is located between the small intestine and the large intestine. It is supposed to work as a shunt valve opening and closing as designed. However, in many individuals, much to their detriment, it operates improperly by opening and closing without purpose.

The primary concern of the ileocecal valve us to disallow waste products that have been stored in the large intestine (better known as the garbage area), to regurgitate back into the small intestine, or "kitchen" area. The valve therefore acts like a garbage can cover. When the valve operates normally, food that has been utilized in the "kitchen area" of the bowel (small intestine) is then shunted into the "garbage" area of the bowel for eventual removal. But when the valve does not function properly, or loses the tonicity required to remain tightly closed, waste products from the large intestine are allowed to re-enter the small intestine. As these products of waste are now toxic to the body, and as the small intestine is an area of rich blood supply, these toxic wastes are absorbed into the blood stream very readily, thus creating a condition of the blood known as toxemia.

These toxins then circulate through the body, and very often will present themselves at areas of muscle stress, such as sudden pain in the lower back region when the patient is bending or lifting. Or, the patient who has worked the upper extremities and suddenly is subjected with intense shoulder pain. Some of the other symptoms displayed can be halitosis (bad breath), heart fluttering, and even chest pain. When examined by their doctor, the symptoms do not prove to be at all related to their heart. Morning headaches, which are evident upon arising, seem to go away. But there is another, even more disastrous effect of this syndrome. the insidious destruction of the organs of the body that filter the toxins out of the bloodstream. In other words, the liver, spleen, and kidneys are always working to filter these poisons out of our bloodstream, and the intermittent accumulation of these toxins in these organs eventually damages them severely.

Therefore, it can now be more easily seen why the ileocecal valve must work properly. I review with my patients a simple procedure that should, after my initial treatment, allow the valve to work properly - a bit of at home therapy if you will.

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
-Marcus Aurelius