What’s your vision for health care?
I remember once hearing a spokesperson for WHO (the World Health Organisation) being asked that question and he said his dream would be that every child in the world was vaccinated against every known disease at birth. I wondered what planet he was living on.
One vision is based on “mapping the genome”. When I heard the idea that one day we’ll all be given a map of all the diseases we might expect to suffer AND a predicted age of death, I had this image in my head of some 30 year old walking out of the laboratory clutching his gene certificate telling him he would live to 102, so engrossed with the result that he doesn’t notice the bus heading towards him as he steps out into the road……
The main vision for health care currently doesn’t involve much in the way of direct interventions to improve health, but rather, is about “managing” diseases – which means drugs, and more drugs.
One in ten of over 15 year olds in Scotland now take daily antidepressants, and look how the number of prescriptions over all is rising……
Is this the big idea? More drugs?
Heroes Not Zombies 
Hi Bob
Thanks for posting this and I think it’s really sad that more drugs is the Big Idea.
I’ve done quite a bit of background research on Bill Gates Foundation’s plan for mass vaccination across the globe. At a recent TED conference, he actually said that it would help reduce the population of the planet. This seems to be supported by the recent case of women and girls in the Philipines who were rendered infertile as a result of a WHO vaccination programme.
WHO is without in the control of the drug companies so why would their policies not be those described in your post.
Thanks Bob
Ann
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2010/07/mind-is-body-tumor-suppression-by.html
Perhaps when this type of research becomes more common and applied to people , how we live and where we live might be given more priority… Surely this is a better way to consider what health is and how to manage it?
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