Unmasking The Real Cost Of Medical Care: Diminishing Returns

Today, our healthcare system is at a crossroads. We are overmedicated, excessively tested, and overly reliant on technology. While technology has undoubtedly revolutionized healthcare, we must remember that it is not a panacea. The adage, “the more, the merrier,” regarding our health is a dangerous oversimplification. The body operates within a delicate balance, and we must strive for a more nuanced approach to healthcare.

The COVID era brought out more of the medical establishment believing that if we injected humans multiple times, we could make things better; instead, it made a bad situation worse. This is based on the premise that if one vaccine is beneficial, more is even better. So we have the situation now where children grow up with 70-plus different vaccine doses, and we are told it’s to make them healthy. So how come, with all the vaccines and other medications on the market, we are so sick? Is there a point of diminishing returns?

Let’s look at the per capita cost of health care in U.S. dollars. In the first chart below, the graph shows the increase from 2000 to 2022

We see here that in just 22 years, the costs have gone from $4573 to $12,300. That is almost a tripling of costs. 

The chart below shows Australian data from 2000 to 2021.

Here, we discover that the cost has gone from $1636 to $7055, more than quadrupling in 21 years.

With the money spent, you would expect that a) people would be living significantly longer and b) people would be healthier. While people live longer than they were in 2000, the rate of increase is diminishing.  Macrotrends has the following data on the average increase in longevity per year:

United States:

1950 to 2000 - .16 per year

2000 to 2024 - .12 per year

Australia: 

1950 to 2000 - .22 per year

2000 to 2024 - .20 per year

We can see that the rate of increase has been slowing down since 2000, especially in the United States. There is a limit to how long humans can live, but modern medical science can indeed keep people alive who would have died. So some are dying at 60 but being buried at 80. Much has to do with technology and also general improvement in living standards. That, however, is offset by medical intervention. We saw this with Covid-19 and all the excess mortality in highly vaccinated countries.

Being kept alive by medication does not equate to health. So many assume that feeling fine means someone is healthy. How you are, not how you feel, dictates health. Many drugs are making people sick; we have more medicines given to more people today than even 20 years ago. Every year, drugs that were passed for human use are taken off the market because they are deemed to be dangerous. 

Here are just some of the drugs recently advertised in a medical journal in Australia.

Arexvy - an RSV vaccine

Comirnaty - Covid Omicron vaccine 

Imigran - for migraines 

Cartia - for blood clots

Slinda - contraceptive 

Estrogel - menopausal symptoms 

Aidvan - high blood pressure 

Exelon Parches - Alzheimer's 

Ultibro Inhaler - COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)

If you're ever in the U.S., you see a plethora of drug ads on TV. What do you think the rationale is for so many ads? Advertising works, so Big Pharma reaps huge profits from consumers.

Childhood chronic diseases are at record levels, including autism, ADHD, and autoimmune disorders. If we look at autism, from the CDC's own statistics as of 2020, one in 36 children is autistic. In 2000, the rate was one in 150. So, in 20 years, autism has increased by more than 400%. If we look back to 1970, the rate of increase has been horrendous. There is a definite link between the explosion of childhood vaccines and the exponential rise in autism.

The same holds true for autoimmune illnesses in children. These have been skyrocketing in both adults and children.

Drugs are being consumed by the bucketload. It's pretty incredible when we look at people over 70. Almost everyone over that age is taking medications daily. Some, as many as a dozen different types. Medicines for headaches, diabetes, anti-cholesterol, anti-inflammatory, antacids, and blood pressure lowering drugs are on the long list for many.

Statin drugs—probably the most widely used—function to lower cholesterol and are not without problems. I have seen patients complaining of joint pain caused by this class of drugs. Also, cholesterol is necessary for nerve and brain function. Some people believe there is a link to the increase in Alzheimer's from cholesterol-lowering medications. There lifestyle changes people can make to reduce the need for these drugs. However, regaining and maintaining health takes work, while popping a pill is easy.

Other drugs have been linked to an increased incidence of cancer. Drugs like Diethylstibesterol given to pregnant women resulted in cancers of their offspring in several cases. Some vaccines, including those for Covid-19, have increased the risk of cancer.

One must wonder how many politicians are on a cocktail of drugs. These are people making critically important decisions, often concerning life and death. Is Trump Derangement Syndrome caused by politicians consuming a cocktail of drugs? Out of the 400-plus members of Congress, there must be a number who have their judgment influenced by their state of health or by the distortion caused by mind-altering drugs. When I look at Adam Schiff with those eyes and his obsession with Trump, I think, what is he on? Maybe it's just exophthalmos, which is a feature of thyroid issues.

It's a similar situation with politicians in Australia. It would be a good idea, in the name of full disclosure, that they produce their medical history as part of the vetting process. The politicians are no different from you or me. Some should be precluded from serving if they are on certain drugs that can cloud decision-making.

So, society is sicker than ever from chronic disease, and there is a conflict of interest between governments, Big Pharma, and doctors. The primary approach is getting a prescription into the hands of a patient. The patient is the meat in the sandwich. It's not all doctors; while most follow a system protocol, some are conscientious and view the patient as an individual, not another number in the system.

In most cases, we are not paying for health care; it's disease treatment, and the costs have risen dramatically. We are getting less bang for the buck and also paying more in the form of illness. Do your due diligence. Refrain from accepting everything as fact. Your body is your temple, no one else's. It needs to be taken care preferably starting early in life.